WBZ cuts Leveille, Cuddy, Dyett, poss. Desmarais

[Howard Glazer]

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> The WBZ site also says all news will end at 6pm on Saturday's. A financial
> show will air 6-8p on Saturday's.
>
>

Associated Press shuts down its Hartford bureau around that time on
weekends. This past weekend, former Hartford Mayor Mike Peters died. TV had
it on the 11 o'clock news. I even heard about it on WDRC-FM around then (the
DJ must've been watching TV in the studio). Yet AP -- with Connecticut being
served by the Boston bureau overnight, not Hartford -- moved nothing over
its wire until it picked up the Hartford Courant's story on Peters around 5
a.m. the next day.

AP's sole business is news, but corner-cutting is going on there, too, and
it's affecting the product. A shame.

Howard