Re: WBUR's Special Coverage

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:21:28 -0500 Richard Chonak
<rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us> writes:
> 
> 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

Nope, WBUR originates 5 programs that are distributed by NPR, I don't
think PRI distributes anything from WBUR any longer.
df