CBS Sports Hub proliferation

[Paul Hopfgarten]

Didn't Ch 5 (WCVB) once have an ad campaign that included "After Boston 
there's only Heavan"?

-Paul Hopfgarten
Concord NH

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From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 10:21 PM
To: "Boston Radio" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>; "Howard 
Glazer" <hmglaz@att.net>
Subject: Re: CBS Sports Hub proliferation

> Yeah, but when you think about it, how many cities would have the hubris 
> to call themselves "The Hub of the Universe"?  (Personally, as a native 
> Bay Stater, I love it.)   -Doug
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> Quoting Howard Glazer <hmglaz@att.net>:
>> Roger Kirk wrote:
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>> >   According to an article by Corey Dietz (radio.about.com) KMOX 
>> > NewsRadio
>> 1120 is launching an evening
>> >sports talk show (9:00pm to Midnight) called the Sports Hub.
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>> >Has CBS trademarked the name?
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>> This makes me wonder how far afield the association of "Hub" with Boston 
>> goes. Here in Connecticut, I neither hear nor see it. If Boston is 
>> referred to by
>> nickname at all, the nickname used is "Beantown," which, of course, is 
>> never
>> used by Bostonians or the Boston media. Down South, where I spent three 
>> years a
>> few decades back, "Beantown" was apparently the only nickname they knew.
>> Curious, though, that CBS Radio, which must have known of the association 
>> when
>> it branded 98.5 that way, now is using it to describe general sports
>> programming. Although who knows, WBZ-FM's name might have been thought up 
>> by
>> someone in New York who only knows Boston as Beantown.
>> Howard
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