WBZ cuts Leveille, Cuddy, Dyett, poss. Desmarais

[Donna Halper]

At 08:49 PM 1/2/2009, Don A wrote:

>WINS news anchors have read live copy for as long as I 
>remember...preceeded by the line:  "And now this commercial 
>announcement..."     And followed by: "WINS Newtime______."

There was a time when the late great David Brudnoy would not do 
commercials.  And some of the old-school news anchors didn't believe 
they should do them either-- the theory back then was there should be 
a strict separation between sales and news.  But these days... not so much.