Re: CBS & The Pops

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

I haven't had time to post until now but I worked crew Friday night and 
then had to be in the Bronx 12 hours later.

 From a pure production point the overall feed was far superior than 
anything WCVB did the past 15 years  BUT

The program was changed bigtime where the 1812 became the intermission 
instead of the leadin to fireworks. As far as audio concerned, once 4 
went to network you were dealing with a second bird hop which wasn't in 
play until 9 58.

This was a David Mugar production pure and simple, his contract with CBS 
and by extension TV4 was to deliver the program (audio and video)

Now the question I can not get answered, why did Mugar keep the 
production at WCVB all the years he owned WNEV/WHDH????





On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 7:55PM -0500, Dave Faneuf wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 19:11:18 -0400 Paul Anderson
> <paulranderson@charter.net> writes:
>>  On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 11:46  PM, Dave Faneuf wrote:
>>
>>  > Yup, CBS/Viacom/Infinite  et al  found a way to  $%#&  it  up.
>>  > Congratulations boys.
>>
>>  If you're referring to the complete change of tone after CBS joined
>>  the
>>  affair, I couldn't agree more.  After the 1812 Overture we had to
>>  see
>>  some female pop star sing "the new hit song" from Legally Blonde II?
>>
>>  Gag!  And it all seemed timed for the commercials.
>>
>>  I didn't mind the locals from WBZ bragging constantly about the fact
>>
>>  they were bringing it to us for the first time.  But once that host
>>
>>  from The Early Show came on, it disintegrated into a cheap variety
>>  show.
>>
>>  Are the fireworks always on so late?  CBS must have insisted the
>>  twenty-one minutes of fireworks happened at the end of their hour to
>>
>>  maximize the audience.
>>
>>  Paul
>
>
> I am indeed, as I posted off list because my response to questions last
> night didn't get posted, everything from the Radio audio going out of
> sync with the TV video changed when the network took it over, to stop
> sets that were excessive....even a major stop set during the fireworks
> (as did BZ radio).  When did the 1812 Overture STOP being the prelude 
> to
> the fireworks, and the Washington Post March kick off the fireworks
> instead of being the finale after the display?  I know CBS said it was
> reluctant to play the "slower" portions of the overture but to change 
> the
> program that dramatically?  I say BS to C-BS over that!    I actually 
> had
> praise BZ for their local coverage until I went into work today and one
> of my co-workers who was there told me that it was like being at a
> Channel 4 event.  TV video and audio was blaring all over the place to
> the point where he couldn't have a conversation with the person next to
> him.  Even Keith Lockhart was not interacting with the crowd because of
> the TV disruption.  I understand that BZ got a number of complaints 
> about
> the coverage on the radio talk show following the event.  I certainly
> hope they (BZ & C-BS) are paying attention because if the next 4 years
> are like this one I won't be tuning in until someone else gets the
> contract.
> df