RE: Gene Simmons, KISS, WBUR, Fresh Air

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

At 03:29 PM 12/30/2002, Pete Ferrand wrote:
>I've noticed that since the last, oh maybe five years or so, Terry seems
>to be less engaged with the show in general and mostly going through the
>motions on the air. Not hard to see why, interviews always have a
>certain sameness about them and there's only so far you can go with a
>format like Fresh Air's.
>
>-Pete
>Enfield, NH


I've been told WBUR has been doing well in fundraisers but overall has been 
in a real cash crunch ("over-expansion" in Rhode Island coupled with a big 
loss in underwriting due to the dot-bomb bubble bursting....at least that's 
my theory).

Anyways, I presume that was the chief reason why WBUR elected to not air 
the evening repeat of Fresh Air at 11pm anymore, choosing instead to help 
put us to sleep with an extra hour of the Beeb.  :-)  The BBC is very cheap 
(free in at least some cases) to rebroadcast...whereas I'd assume the right 
to air Fresh Air twice daily was significantly more expensive than only 
once daily.   Am I correct in that assumption?

But...any guesses as to whether it was as much Fresh Air feeling Not So 
Fresh (sorry, couldn't resist) as it was a financial question?


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