A look back to 1991

A. Joseph Ross lawyer@attorneyross.com
Mon Jul 12 23:36:33 EDT 2004


On 12 Jul 2004 at 22:54, Donna Halper wrote:

> WBZ evolved in gradual stages toward all-News.  They began cutting back on
> music in the mid 1980s, expanding afternoon drive into a news magazine in
> December of 1985 with the team of Anthony Silva and Diane Stern.  Brudnoy
> came over to WBZ in 1986.  I believe the final time the station played
> music at all was in 1991, because in January of 1992 WBZ announced to the
> local newspapers and other media that they were in the process of
> officially becoming an all-news station, a process they completed in late
> September of 1992.

Except that they recently carried the 'Let It Be -- Naked" debut, along with various other 
Infinity stations.

Didn't WBZ go all-news on weekdays only for awhile?  I seem to remember they missed 
covering Princess Di's death because they weren't doing news on weekends yet.

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