Re: WBUR's Special Coverage

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 10:21 PM 2/4/2002 -0500, Richard Chonak wrote:

>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

Does this mean that (finally!) we might see the end of the Connection 
rebroadcast at 9pm (formerly at 8pm)?  Since that DOES kinda compete with 
"On Point"?   **BRING BACK MARKETPLACE !!**  :-)


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