RE: WCVB News Messes Up Boston Radio Call Letters and Welcomes Harvey Leonard

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

I think the WTAO (did 96.9 ever have WTAO-FM calls) and WXHR fans will be
correcting you...

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Ron
> Bello
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 12:35 PM
> To: Mark Watson; Boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WCVB News Messes Up Boston Radio Call Letters and Welcomes
> Harvey Leonard
>
>
>
> Not quite.
>
> WZLX - 100.7 was WBZ-FM then WCOP-FM (1948)
> then WTTK in 1973 thru 1978 on to WHUE,
> WKKT (The Kat) and ending as ZLX in 1985.
>
> WTTK - 96.9 was WJIB starting in 1967 until 1990 playing  Beautiful Music.
> It then turned to Smooth Jazz as WCDJ.
> In 1993 96.9 went Country as WBCS until 1997
> and back to Smooth Jazz this time as WSJZ.
> WTTK started in August 1999.
>
> WJIB and WHUE both were Beautiful Music from 1979 to 1984.
>
>
> At 11:40 AM 8/17/02 -0400, Mark Watson wrote:
> >    Saw on yesterday's WCVB (Channel 5 Boston) 5PM news a story about
> >Massachusetts State Treasurer and candidate for Governor Shannon O'Brien
> >appearing as a guest on a talk show on FM Talk 96.9. Channel 5 anchor Liz
> >Brunner reported that O'Brien made comments on a talk show on
> Boston radio
> >station "WTTK". Didn't they become WZLX several years ago?
> Either an error
> >on Liz Brunners' part or on the part of whoever typed up the
> script for the
> >teleprompter.
> >
> >    While on the subject of Channel 5, has anyone else noted or
> kept count of
> >how many "Harvey Leonard's Here" promos they're running during their
> >newscasts? Saw 2 during the 5PM segment last night, and 2 during the 11PM
> >news Thursday night. I was in Old Orchard Beach, Maine for a
> couple of days,
> >and WCVB is carried on the Time Warner Cable system in OOB, as are WBZ-TV
> >(Channel 4) and WHDH (Channel 7). Thus I was able to see Dick
> Albert welcome
> >Harvey Leonard aboard on Thursday.
> >
> >     I also noticed that WCVB has redone their news intros, looks like
> >they're trying to look a little more flashy, and they are now
> joining in on
> >having the co-anchors stray away from the desk and standing up
> every now and
> >then in front of the "blue screen" while the graphics or video
> are showing
> >behind the anchor. Channel 7 started this practice in the Boston
> market, and
> >Channels 4 and 56 (WLVI) are still keeping the anchors seated
> for the entire
> >newscast. WFXT (Channel 25) is the only Boston station that
> features "stand
> >up news", the anchors standing up for the entire hour. Hope
> their shoes are
> >comfortable!!
> >
> >Mark Watson
>
>