Re: WBUR's Special Coverage

[Richard Chonak <rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us>]

Dave Faneuf wrote:

> Just FYI, WBUR's Special Coverage has expanded beyond the events of 9/11 
> and becomes a permanent part of WBUR's/WRNI's programming.  The name 
> has also been changed to "On Point".  Special Coverage was created at the 
> request of NPR and was carried by up to 75 stations between 7 and 9pm.  I 
> don't know how many are still carrying it but according to WBUR's PD there is a 
> need for live radio at night on WBUR, in the first quarter attracting 120,900 
> weekly listeners in Boston alone.



So now WBUR distributes one daily two-hour talk show through NPR
and another through the International House of Radio -- I mean, 
PRI.   :-) 

But I presume that the shows don't tend to compete against each 
other, since their live airing times are so far apart.

--RC



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