Re: tv on radio

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:42:02 -0500 anastasi@javanet.com writes:
> 
> "Dave Faneuf" <Dfaneuf@WBUR.BU.EDU>
> wrote on Monday, January 21, 2002 11:49 PM
> 
> > I was just surfing through Mark's Boston Radio Watch where he 
> reports
> > Infinity/CBS/Viacom etc etc is having their radio stations 
> (news/talkers)
> > broadcast the audio from 60 Minutes and he says KRLD in Dallas is 
> now
> > broadcasting the audio from the TV's 6pm news....."as you can see 
> on the
> map
> > behind me"......."if the camera pans to the right you will be able 
> to see
> the
> > gapping hole....."   yeah, that works.
> >
> > df
> >
> WNNZ, 640 AM in Westfield (the only 50,000 watt radio station out 
> here in
> western Mass.) carried the audio for either the Channel 22 or 
> Channel 40
> evening news for about a year back around 1987, IIRC.
> 

So what is the thinking behind a move like that?  Especially for a big
news/talk station, they certainly are not going to skip paying their help
for an hour or an hour and a half while the TV news is on....
df