Re: BUR-GBH

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 14:08:20 -0400 "Aaron [Bishop] Read"
<aread@speakeasy.net> 
> 
> Well there's also the BBC (World Update and The World on WGBH, 
> overnights 
> at WBUR) albeit not at the same time. 

WBUR doesn't carry "The World" thats a BBC/GBH production from what I
understand.  WBUR carries BBC World Service overnights, I thought GBH did
jazz at night and overnights?

 What really throws me is 
> hearing 
> former WBUR ATC host Jordan Weinstein in the mornings on WGBH now.  
> :-)

 Who occasionally still says WBUR from what I am told ;-))  Too bad BUR
let him get away, he's very very talented.


> Speaking of public radio cloning each other...anyone noticed how 
> weekdays  (and even weekends to some degree) NHPR and WBUR are
virtually 
> identical?  In style of programming (i.e. call-in talk at X hour, 
> straight  news at Y hour) if not literally (Here & Now, TOTN, etc) 
Must be a 
> bummer for folks in southern NH, although obviously for the rest of the

> state it  doesn't matter one way or the other.

Here & Now is produced at WBUR as you know and is offered nationally. We
recently got an email from George Boosey (WBUR's PD) that H&N scored the
highest ratings ever for the noon to 1 spot for WHYY in Philly

df