Re: Commercial facility names on non-commercial stations

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:38:02 -0500 "Dan Billings"
<billings@suscom-maine.net> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Smyth" <ssmyth@suscom.net>
> To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>;
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Commercial facility names on non-commercial stations
> 
> 
> >> Yes, the Denver Post refused to mention the Broncos' new stadium 
> by its
> > sponsored name, "Invesco Field at Mile High." Instead, they call 
> it The
> > Stadium at Mile High, or something like that.
> 
> When I produced the morning show on WGAN, the Portland Press Herald 
> would
> occasionally mention how a local issue was a big topic on the local 
> morning
> talk show, but they almost never mentioned the station's call 
> letters or the
> name of the show.  As a result, Jim Crocker would not allow any 
> mention of
> the Press Herald on the air.  He would refer to "the local daily 
> newspaper"
> or the ldn for short.  I think he still does it, more than a decade 
> later.
> 
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine


There is a pretty long standing tradition between local papers and radio
outlets like that. I know that usually the Lowell Sun (owned by the
Denver Post) refers to WCAP as the local radio station, unless the story
is about a select few personalities on the station, then they credit the
calls...I know once when I was investigating a story that the paper later
got wind of, they referenced their story as "when media outlets began
asking questions"  WCAP was the only media outlet asking questions but no
one knew that except the police, WCAP and the paper so I believe they
worded it that way to try to give the reader the idea that a Boston
outlet was on to the story.....As much as it cause friction between the
parties I always thought it was a good thing,  it showed me that the
paper did respect what we did and was concerned enough not to want to
give us credit. Competition is good.
df