WBZ should hang its head in shame

[Kevin Vahey]

I admit I am a dinosaur.

I remember a time when Boston EVENING newspapers had a shock value -
one afternoon I woke up late to see headline  - MYSTIC BRIDGE
COLLAPSES

When was the last time I woke up to a newspaper headline that shocked
me.......it has been a long time.

Let us been honest here..before 1972 after 1 AM radio was the ONLY
overnight option in Boston and which is why we remember Dick Summer,
Norm Nathan, Jack Lazare and Larry Glick and after 1967 the WRKO
overnight jock,

The best example of this was on late Sunday/ early Monday the audience
Ken Mayer had on WBOS/WUNR.  It was Ken or Norm (WHDH) - and if you
are over 50 and say to a Bostonian WO9-8989 of that age group, many
will remember. There was nothing else on.

The bottom line is that decades ago we had limited options......that
is no longer the case.

There was a time when radio/TV could unify the nation at the same
exact second..... i.e. the end of a sporting event over telco lines.
Today - people watching or listening could be 25-40 seconds behind the
actual moment because of the way signals are decoded. Sadly today the
'instant' moment is on twitter.














On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Chris Hall <chris2526@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Kevin, you are forgetting KNX, WBBM AM/FM and KCBS AM/FM they are all news 24/7. The question is how much longer will WBZ be the place to go
> when something happens, in frightening number the population now turns to their smart phone. I’m not sure of your age but in conversations of the past
> I suspect we are in the same age bracket. We are dinosaurs, the demographics that no longer matter. The 38 state audience has zero value I’m sad to say, ask Dave Edurado (Gleeson)The listeners revolted to losing live and local to another out of market syndicated show. If you listen to many of the overnight callers many are elderly shut ins. WBZ’s audience of very top end demos is dying off faster than the lower end CHR and Urban demos are to Pandora and the like.  It seems many people on this board feel how dare you criticize WBZ, much in the way many go ballistic if you have the audacity to criticize the anointed one in the White House.
> Chris
>
> From: Kevin Vahey
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:15 PM
> To: Ron Bello
> Cc: Don ; boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org ; Chris Hall
> Subject: Re: WBZ should hang its head in shame
>
> WBZ has one thing that NO other Boston station has - if something happens that is where you are going to go.
>
> Westinghouse decided years ago that it WBZ would never be 24 hour news - they did put value into the 38 state night signal.
>
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> The only pure Westinghouse news outlets left are WINS and KYW.
>
> CBS/Westinghouse did react when they faced listener revolt when they tried to eliminate local programming at BZ overnight. Let us be thankful for that.
>