Newspaper survival (was: Can Citadel Broadcasting survive?)

[Doug Drown]

Think of it: When I was growing up in the '50s, Boston had seven daily 
newspapers (that I can remember) and maybe eight:  The Morning Globe, the 
Evening Globe, the Daily Record, the Herald, the Traveler, the American, 
and, until 1956, the Post.  I can't recall whether the Post had both morning 
and evening editions (Anyone --?).  I guess you could throw in the Christian 
Science Monitor, too, which you could buy on the newsstands back then.

And what's left? . . .

At the same time, the city had only a relative handful of radio stations, 
all doing live, in-house broadcasting:  WEEI, WNAC, WTAO, WHDH, WORL, WBZ, 
WCOP, WEZE, WMEX, and WBOS --- plus, within a few miles around the 
periphery, WJDA, WCRB and WHIL.  All of them broadcast news on a regular 
basis, most of them hourly.  Several were network affiliates.  FM was barely 
a blip in the public consciousness:  WGBH was around, along with WXHR and 
WBCN; most other FMs that I recall simulcast their AM counterparts.

Boy, how the world has changed.

-Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
To: "boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: Newspaper survival (was: Can Citadel Broadcasting survive?)



>>It used to be so simple. You would wake up with a newspaper and then
12 hours later Uncle Walter would update you.<<

Reverse that, and you understand why most afternoon newspapers were out of 
business (or switched to mornings) by the time the 1970s were half-finished.




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