Steve Leveille Leaving: was equal time controversy

[Dan.Strassberg]

Is WTKK still carrying Overnight America? I believe that they began to
run it only a few months ago. Three years ago, when WBZ dropped
LeVeille to carry Overnight America, it was made clear that the
decision to drop the local program and replace it with a program
syndicated by CBS had been made by network execs who may never even
have heard WBZ at any point in their lifetimes. Supposedly, these
people are responsible for replacing a lot of WBZ's weekend
programming with paid advertorials. Somehow, WBZ's Peter Casey (is he
the Program Director?) was able to prevail upon these execs to reverse
their Overnight America decision. Why should we believe assurances
from WBZ's about-to-retire overnight host that local programming will
continue overnight?

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Currier" <pbencurrier@hotmail.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Steve Leveille Leaving: was equal time controversy


> On both overnights, Steve Leveille has said many times that they are
> staying local.  They will use the subs - Bradley, Dean, and Morgan
> until they make a decision - much like the 5AM newscast hiring.
>
> Paul C
> Sandwich
>