Re: Anne McGrath

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

Good for her, I wish her well.  I remember the days of Hynes and Henning
as among the best in Boston Broadcast Journalism and she was a part of
that.
df


On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:24:23 -0500 "Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>
writes:
> Anne McGrath is now a senior editor at US News
> 
> She was ripped when she was replaced along with Jack Hynes on the 6 
> and 
> 11 to make room for Tom and Nat  she was on at noon for awhile then 
> sent 
> to mornings with Jim Boyd
> 
> When Mary Richardson left for awhile she was passed over and she 
> quit 
> the biz.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 6:18PM -0500, Dave Faneuf wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:27:07 -0500 Aaron Read 
> <aread@speakeasy.net>
> > writes:
> >>  At 08:10 PM 2/20/2003 +0000, dan.strassberg@att.net wrote:
> >>  >You mean WXLO 104.5 Fitchburg (-Worcester)?
> >>  >
> >>  >Sixteen--THAT's impressive. Must have taken them into New
> >>  Hampshire. When
> >>  >they
> >>  >named a community in New Hampshire, did they say (for example)
> >>  Brookline New
> >>  >Hampshire (or just Brookline--to do double duty with Brookline 
> MA)?
> >>  >--
> >>
> >>  Well, it's not quite the same, but a lot of NPR stations have 
> pretty
> >>
> >>  lengthy ID's...what about WBUR's?  While each call letter has 
> only
> >>  one
> >>  town, there are four stations and four towns listed EVERY hour 
> in
> >>  the
> >>  ID.   I imagine Vermont P.R., NHPR and MPR are all worse than 
> that.
> >
> > Actually, as I believe I have mentioned before,  WBUR's Legal ID 
> is 
> > only
> > for WBUR-FM, the other stations are for informational purposes 
> only.
> > The cape stations cut away to do their own ID.   WRNI and WXNI are
> > "manned" during the day and handle their own programming, at night 
> and
> > weekends the RI stations have seperate programming sources from 
> WBUR 
> > and
> > do their own thing including IDs.
> > The only exception to this is when we need to simulcast because of 
> a
> > program impairment or special program, then Boston and RI IDs are 
> done 
> > in
> > Boston, the Cape still cuts away to do their own legal IDs unless 
> we
> > manually override the Cape automation, in which case Boston does 
> the
> > legal ID for all the stations in the group.
> > So, the usual WBUR ID is for Boston but also mentions West 
> Yarmouth,
> > Sandwich and Harwich, if simulcasting add Providence and Westerly 
> to 
> > the
> > mix.
> > Any questions?  LOL
> > df
>