WBUR lashes out at WGBH

[Dan.Strassberg]

But the article made clear that WBUR-FM's audience is still several
times as large as WGBH-FM's--even, I believe, if you add WCRB to
WGBH-FM's numbers. The only way that I think you could prove the
opposite (and this was NOT in the article) would be to add the viewers
of Channel 2 and 44 to WGBH's FM totals. The Globe article also
mentioned that WBUR's recent fund-raiser took in $1.25 million, which,
I believe, was WBUR's largest total for any single fund-raiser in its
history. So the Globe article could not (and in my opinion, does not)
support the assertion that WGBH-FM's format flip has materially harmed
WBUR or WBUR's franchise. My gripe with the original post in this
thread is that it led with the idea that, because of the format flip,
WGBH-FM's sudience has overtaken WBUR's and WBUR is crying foul. I
still maintain that, at no point, did the Globe article say, or even
suggest, that WGBH-FM's audience is now larger than WBUR's. In fact, I
think the Globe story took great pains to leave the impression that,
notwithstanding WGBH-FMs audience gains since the flip, some of which,
I admit, did come at WBUR's expense, WBUR had not been materially
harmed. I took the original post in this thread to mean exactly the
opposite. I suppose that could just be my problem, but I don't think
so.

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To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Bob DeMattia"
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Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: WBUR lashes out at WGBH


> At 11:05 PM 4/16/2011, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
>>If you read the article on which this thread is allegedly based, I
>>think you will find that WBUR's new GM (what's his name--Kravitz?)
>>didn't say (at least, didn't say to the reporter) what the posters
>>here are saying he said. Somebody on this list misquoted him and,
>>from
>>there, what should have been a non-story seems to have acquired a
>>life
>>of its own.
>
> Actually, yes he did say it, and I was present when he said it.  He
> spoke at a panel discussion at the National Conference on Media
> Reform last Friday in Boston, regarding the state of Boston media.
> He was on a panel with various representatives of Boston stations,
> including Callie Crossley of WGBH, and it was to her that he
> addressed the remarks, which I found rather surprising, to be honest
> with you.  And I assume he has said them at other times as well,
> since Johnny Diaz of the Globe seemed familiar with the comments.
>