From kvahey@gmail.com Sun Apr 1 00:50:52 2018 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 00:50:52 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: <1627eb625dc-c87-43b3@webjas-vaa009.srv.aolmail.net> References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <1627eb625dc-c87-43b3@webjas-vaa009.srv.aolmail.net> Message-ID: This has been an ongoing problem at WBZ-AM for decades. Larry Glick had millions of listeners in the 70's but Westinghouse could not find advertisers as no rating service could prove it. 50 years the all night show at WABC was heavily sponsored by a clothing store in a strip mall in Union, New Jersey who paid the whopping amount of $700 a week.and people drove hundreds of miles to go to that store. David Brudnoy had a huge following on WBZ but was preempted by Bruins radio and station execs admitted the Bruins were a huge profit center for them. 6 years ago we saw CBS Radio blow up WODS which had a loyal following from 1987 until 2012 but they couldn't sell it because of demographics. Nobody at iHeart in San Antonio cares about the legacy of WBZ - they just see it as one of 4 AM stations in Boston that they now own. https://www.iheartmedia.com/iheartmedia/stations?city=Boston When Entercom bought CBS Radio they decided that WBZ-AM was expendable over other properties they had but none of us saw the swap with iHeart coming. On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > Can someone speak to the economic benefit or lack there of, of laying off > Dan Rae and Bradley Jay. Does saving a few hundred thousand (at most) > really benefit Iheart? Between advertising dollars and bad will, doesn't > cost more money not having them on? > > Thank you, > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary's Ice Cream > To: 'Donna Halper' ; 'Kevin Vahey' > Cc: 'Boston Radio Group' > Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 10:50 am > Subject: RE: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? > > Sources within WBZ say that the rumor in house is that Dan Rea and Bradley > J will be the next on the chopping block....with syndicated programming > running from 7pm til 5am. > > Gary Francis > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest- > bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org > ] On Behalf Of > Donna Halper > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 1:10 AM > To: Kevin Vahey > Cc: Boston Radio Group > Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired > > On 3/30/2018 6:43 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > Here is the memo > > > > Hi- > > > > We want to make you aware of a change here in the newsroom. Rod Fritz > > is moving on and will no longer anchor here at WBZ. > > > > > > I think it's outrageous the way it was handled. Given his many years > there, you'd think the memo would have been a little warmer & more > courteous, but I guess iHeart doesn't care about longevity, am I right? > > > From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 06:44:48 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 06:44:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Feds raid pirate radio stations In-Reply-To: <7dc2287a-6109-4905-fa5e-6f02ef0f2409@attorneyross.com> References: <7dc2287a-6109-4905-fa5e-6f02ef0f2409@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: Oh, good, they finally shut down "B87.7". I know some people who are going to be very happy. Rob On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, A Joseph Ross wrote: > From MASSter List: > > Feds seize equipment from two pirate radio stations > > > From David Harris at the BBJ: ?Federal authorities seized radio transmission > equipment from two Boston radio stations earlier this week they say had been > operating without a license. According to court documents unsealed on > Wednesday, one station called ?Big City? broadcasted at times on 100.3 FM, > 105.3 FM, and 101.3 FM, from Dorchester, with a studio in Roxbury. The other, > called ?B87.7 FM,? operated on 87.7 FM from Dorchester. Authorities say both > were operating without a license from the Federal Communications Commission, > despite multiple warnings to the operators.? > > BBJ > > > > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 > 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com > From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 07:27:03 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 07:27:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Rod Fritz is fired In-Reply-To: <8b5cf2f3-770b-498e-96fc-a81bdf51107b@getmailbird.com> References: <0428d0d5-1fa7-bf50-7f02-65632829318a@donnahalper.com> <8b5cf2f3-770b-498e-96fc-a81bdf51107b@getmailbird.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Ted Larsen wrote: > Thanks Donna. That's how all big businesses treat loyal employees these > days. They fired him by MEMO! And always on a Friday. >From Eyeheart's point of view he'd been working for them less than a year. I'm sure his long time loyalty to CBS, the previous owner, didn't matter at all. Eyeheart is evil. At least they didn't fire him by Twitter. Rob From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 07:36:31 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 07:36:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Sadly it is all about billable hours and it is AM to boot. > WBZ's cume is shrinking as their core audience has either left for > retirement homes or left the planet. There's nothing stopping Eyeheart from switching one of their FM's (WKAF?) to simulcast 1030. Rob From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 07:41:58 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 07:41:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Larry Weil wrote: >> On Mar 31, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >> Sadly it is all about billable hours and it is AM to boot. >> WBZ's cume is shrinking as their core audience has either left for >> retirement homes or left the planet. > Also a lot have left for Public Radio. I wonder if we will see WGBH-FM move to a WBZ-style news format. Rob From ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu Mon Apr 2 07:43:49 2018 From: ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu (Sean Smyth) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 11:43:49 +0000 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: Based on the reaction from the moves CBS tried to make 10 years ago, the answer is no. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:24 PM adamnw--- via Boston-Radio-Interest < boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org> wrote: > Can someone speak to the economic benefit or lack there of, of laying off > Dan Rae and Bradley Jay. Does saving a few hundred thousand (at most) > really benefit Iheart? Between advertising dollars and bad will, doesn't > cost more money not having them on? > > > Thank you, > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary's Ice Cream > To: 'Donna Halper' ; 'Kevin Vahey' > Cc: 'Boston Radio Group' > Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 10:50 am > Subject: RE: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? > > Sources within WBZ say that the rumor in house is that Dan Rea and Bradley > J will be the next on the chopping block....with syndicated programming > running from 7pm til 5am. > > Gary Francis > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto: > boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Donna > Halper > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 1:10 AM > To: Kevin Vahey > Cc: Boston Radio Group > Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired > > On 3/30/2018 6:43 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > Here is the memo > > > > Hi- > > > > We want to make you aware of a change here in the newsroom. Rod Fritz > > is moving on and will no longer anchor here at WBZ. > > > > > > I think it's outrageous the way it was handled. Given his many years > there, you'd think the memo would have been a little warmer & more > courteous, but I guess iHeart doesn't care about longevity, am I right? > > > > -- Sent from my iPhone From gary@garysicecream.com Mon Apr 2 09:36:44 2018 From: gary@garysicecream.com (Gary's Ice Cream) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 09:36:44 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> But CBS cared (a little), iHeart doesn?t give a flying you know what Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA From: Sean Smyth [mailto:ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2018 7:44 AM To: adamnw@aol.com Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org; dlh@donnahalper.com; gary@garysicecream.com; kvahey@gmail.com Subject: Re: Based on the reaction from the moves CBS tried to make 10 years ago, the answer is no. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:24 PM adamnw--- via Boston-Radio-Interest wrote: Can someone speak to the economic benefit or lack there of, of laying off Dan Rae and Bradley Jay. Does saving a few hundred thousand (at most) really benefit Iheart? Between advertising dollars and bad will, doesn't cost more money not having them on? Thank you, -----Original Message----- From: Gary's Ice Cream To: 'Donna Halper' ; 'Kevin Vahey' Cc: 'Boston Radio Group' Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 10:50 am Subject: RE: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? Sources within WBZ say that the rumor in house is that Dan Rea and Bradley J will be the next on the chopping block....with syndicated programming running from 7pm til 5am. Gary Francis -----Original Message----- From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Donna Halper Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 1:10 AM To: Kevin Vahey Cc: Boston Radio Group Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired On 3/30/2018 6:43 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Here is the memo > > Hi- > > We want to make you aware of a change here in the newsroom. Rod Fritz > is moving on and will no longer anchor here at WBZ. > > I think it's outrageous the way it was handled. Given his many years there, you'd think the memo would have been a little warmer & more courteous, but I guess iHeart doesn't care about longevity, am I right? -- Sent from my iPhone From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 09:41:08 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 09:41:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Gary's Ice Cream wrote: > But CBS cared (a little), iHeart doesn?t give a flying you know what Alas, CBS didn't care enough to keep the station. Because WBZ Radio was so intertwined with WBZ-TV, I'm a little surprised they didn't keep it. As a news operation the two stations complemented each other nicely. Rob From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 11:53:19 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:53:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Ron Bello wrote: > CBS got out of radio all together > They don't believe it is a growth area (true) nor a good use of their > capital (?) The question in my mind is how well did WBZ(AM) help promote WBZ-TV viewership. Eveidently CBS decided it didn't matter. > WBZ radio is no less intertwined than WCBS, WBBM.......... > Local markets / operations were not the primary consideration If you own local TV stations, then local markets have to matter; otherwise, CBS should sell them all and just run a network. But hey, I'm a radio guy not a TV guy. Rob From rbello@belloassoc.com Mon Apr 2 11:19:39 2018 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 11:19:39 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: CBS got out of radio all together They don't believe it is a growth area (true) nor a good use of their capital (?) WBZ radio is no less intertwined than WCBS, WBBM.......... Local markets / operations were not the primary consideration --------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Gary's Ice Cream wrote: > > But CBS cared (a little), iHeart doesn?t give a flying you know what >> > > Alas, CBS didn't care enough to keep the station. > > Because WBZ Radio was so intertwined with WBZ-TV, I'm a little surprised > they didn't keep it. As a news operation the two stations complemented each > other nicely. > > > Rob > From dcassell@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 10:12:09 2018 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:12:09 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: I am curious if there are public radio stations that do a WBZ style format, specifically the frequent weather/traffic. Any that do helicopter traffic reports? I'm a commuter, and I flip between WBUR/WGBH/WBZ. BUR for David Epstein's weather and local news, BZ for traffic (even though I also use Waze), and GBH for longer local programming. Sometimes I take a trip over to Sirius for CNN coverage of breaking news. A station that did it all would keep me in one place. On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Larry Weil wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >>> >> > Sadly it is all about billable hours and it is AM to boot. >>> >> > WBZ's cume is shrinking as their core audience has either left for >>> retirement homes or left the planet. >>> >> > Also a lot have left for Public Radio. >> > > I wonder if we will see WGBH-FM move to a WBZ-style news format. > > > Rob > From astelle.donald@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 12:48:24 2018 From: astelle.donald@gmail.com (Don) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:48:24 -0400 Subject: WBZ AM/TV References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: I know people keep talking about the pricekes "synery" withint WBZ-TV/Radio....I really don't see it. Same call letters, same service area....some occaisional shared resources. But I feel for the past 10 years or so that they were totally programmed separately, and didn't hear much "intertwined". But that's me.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Landry" <011010001@interpring.com> > Because WBZ Radio was so intertwined with WBZ-TV, I'm a little surprised > they didn't keep it. As a news operation the two stations complemented > each other nicely. From kc1ih@mac.com Mon Apr 2 12:31:02 2018 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:31:02 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: > On Apr 2, 2018, at 7:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Larry Weil wrote: > >> Also a lot have left for Public Radio. > > I wonder if we will see WGBH-FM move to a WBZ-style news format. > I doubt it. That?s just not typical for any public station. Also, they are doing very well with their current programming, so why fix something that isn?t broken? Larry Weil Hudson, FL From kvahey@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 13:31:25 2018 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:31:25 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: CBS knew how to do local radio and where 24 hours news would work - NY, Chicago, LA, SF, Dallas and Philly and where it was better to have talk at night Boston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis. Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to iHeart. CBS Radio was excellent at local news in almost all markets, CBS Television has not done well with local news. Peter Casey was able to fight with CBS Radio to leave WBZ fully local - so the first person iHeart fired was him. On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Ron Bello wrote: > > CBS got out of radio all together >> They don't believe it is a growth area (true) nor a good use of their >> capital (?) >> > > The question in my mind is how well did WBZ(AM) help promote WBZ-TV > viewership. Eveidently CBS decided it didn't matter. > > WBZ radio is no less intertwined than WCBS, WBBM.......... >> Local markets / operations were not the primary consideration >> > > If you own local TV stations, then local markets have to matter; > otherwise, CBS should sell them all and just run a network. > > But hey, I'm a radio guy not a TV guy. > > > Rob > From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 13:36:58 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:36:58 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On 4/2/2018 1:31 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > CBS knew how to do local radio and where 24 hours news would work - NY, > Chicago, LA, SF, Dallas and Philly and where it was better to have talk at > night Boston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis. > > Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to > iHeart. More correctly, it was the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, that forced the trade. Entercom would gladly have kept WBZ(AM) along with the rest of the Boston cluster if it had been allowed to do so, but DOJ had antitrust concerns about the concentration of revenue that Entercom would have retained. I'm not sure there was anything else in the cluster that Entercom could have unloaded instead that would have satisfied DOJ. From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 15:09:39 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:09:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: WBZ AM/TV In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Don wrote: > I know people keep talking about the pricekes "synery" withint > WBZ-TV/Radio....I really don't see it. I thought they had a common newsroom. But it's probably been twenty years since I last visited WBZ, and I don't watch TV, so my understanding may be woefully out of date. Rob From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 15:10:28 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to > iHeart.? Can someone explain to me why they gave up 1030 but kept 850? Rob From 011010001@interpring.com Mon Apr 2 15:12:17 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:12:17 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Larry Weil wrote: > I doubt it. That?s just not typical for any public station. Also, they > are doing very well with their current programming, so why fix something > that isn?t broken? Because in the end there can be only one NPR news station in Boston. One station will win, and the other will lose, and be looking for another niche to fill. That's the nature of business. Rob From raccoonradio@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 15:31:36 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:31:36 +0000 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: A place for overflow sports play by play, and they get paid to run ESPN I believe. So if Red Sox game is on at same time as college basketball championship, latter goes to 850...which actual has a pretty decent signal by day at least and was the home of "SportsRadio WEEI" for years.They had to go to FM to compete against Sports Hub. They get low ratings and probably make little money. WBZ AM a big earner but expensive to run and there's that whole domination of market revenue thing. Entercom had to spin off Sports Hub to Beasley but got Magic for it. On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 3:11 PM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > > Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to > > iHeart. > > Can someone explain to me why they gave up 1030 but kept 850? > > > Rob > From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 15:38:57 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:38:57 -0400 Subject: WBZ AM/TV In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: On 4/2/2018 3:09 PM, Rob Landry wrote: > I thought they had a common newsroom. But it's probably been twenty > years since I last visited WBZ, and I don't watch TV, so my > understanding may be woefully out of date. The 1996 renovation moved the radio and TV staff into a common space (the old TV newsroom on the east side of the building, expanded with a new addition along the east wall). But the staff themselves remained completely separate. From billohno@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 14:34:26 2018 From: billohno@gmail.com (billohno@gmail.com) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:34:26 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <17B2F273-180A-4909-873D-1AA53E7803E2@gmail.com> Revenue from WBZ radio. Let that sink in for a minute. That?s ironic. The victor is depleting the spoils of a dominant voice so robust that you have to intentionally silence. Bill O?Neill > On Apr 2, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Scott Fybush wrote: > >> On 4/2/2018 1:31 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >> CBS knew how to do local radio and where 24 hours news would work - NY, >> Chicago, LA, SF, Dallas and Philly and where it was better to have talk at >> night Boston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis. >> Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to >> iHeart. > > More correctly, it was the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, that forced the trade. Entercom would gladly have kept WBZ(AM) along with the rest of the Boston cluster if it had been allowed to do so, but DOJ had antitrust concerns about the concentration of revenue that Entercom would have retained. I'm not sure there was anything else in the cluster that Entercom could have unloaded instead that would have satisfied DOJ. From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 15:33:39 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:33:39 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <2b2d4b72-e66a-ff4a-e659-3b89bf056aff@fybush.com> On 4/2/2018 3:12 PM, Rob Landry wrote: > Because in the end there can be only one NPR news station in Boston. One > station will win, and the other will lose, and be looking for another > niche to fill. That's the nature of business. With all due respect, I disagree - and I think the ratings and revenue figures for the last few years back me up. WBUR and WGBH have each found distinct flavors for themselves within the larger "public radio news" format hole. WBUR is the more traditional approach - a little more staid in their delivery, a little more serious in their talk content, a little more tightly tied to the network. (They produce Here & Now for NPR, after all.) WGBH has a flavor to it that's more like commercial radio, which makes sense when you look at who's running it (Phil Redo, ex-Greater Media). Aside from the lack of commercials, "Boston Public Radio" in middays sounds very much like what commercial talk radio sounded like 15 or 20 years ago - which, again, makes sense considering who's hosting. Especially during morning drive, there's a huge amount of flexibility in the network clock to localize the NPR newsmagazines, to the point where there's probably barely 50% of the hour devoted to network content. (That huge flexibility actually causes headaches for those of us at smaller stations, because it creates big windows for us to try to fill with local content and far fewer resources than GBH or BUR can throw at it.) The marketplace seems to be saying that there are distinct audiences for both approaches - and that they're both growing at the expense not of each other but of the listenership that would have gone to WRKO, WHDH or WBZ a generation ago. From elipolo881@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 14:11:12 2018 From: elipolo881@gmail.com (Eli Polonsky) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:11:12 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? Message-ID: > > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 07:36:31 -0400 (EDT) > From: Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> > Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? > > ?> ? > There's nothing stopping Eyeheart from switching one of their FM's (WKAF?) > to simulcast 1030. > ?If they do that, it may not be WKAF because WKAF has been trending up in the ratings ?since it flipped to its adult Urban AC/Classic R&B format. It even bested their much more powerful younger-skewing Rhythmic CHR WJMN (Jammin' 94.5) in the 6+ in the last two books, and is now only .1 behind much more powerful Rhythmic AC competition WBQT "Hot 96.9". I've read that WJMN still bills well among a desired young demographic though, so I doubt they'd blow that up for a 1030 simulcast either. 1030 is simulcast on the HD2 of "Kiss 108", and "Kiss" is still top-rated, so it's not going anywhere. From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 13:34:07 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:34:07 -0400 Subject: WBZ AM/TV In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: "Synergy" between TV and radio at WBZ has always been fraught. When I started there in 1992, there might as well have been a wall down the middle of the building. One of the first unwritten rules I learned was that we radio news people didn't go over to the TV newsroom unless we had a very good reason to be there. And even when we did (they had news audio we needed, for instance), we went in, got what we needed and got right back out. That melted a little in later years, especially after 1996 when we all moved into one big newsroom (remember when LaPierre co-anchored the noon show on TV for a little while?), but it was never a very tight working relationship when I was there. I know later on there was more sharing of news sound, weather forecasts, etc., but radio and TV are still separate universes. And in most other CBS markets, the radio news operations had long since been moved to separate physical locations before the stations were sold off. In LA, Chicago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and NYC, radio was in completely different buildings; in San Francisco, it was the same building but different locations within the building. I remember visiting KCBS in the early 2010s and asking if we could go downstairs and have a peek at KPIX-TV.... nope, completely different staffs, door fobs, etc. (That was even the case in NYC when WCBS AM was at the Broadcast Center - its fiefdom up on the 8th floor had a door with access available only to WCBS AM staffers; nobody else in the building could get in automatically.) Aside from WBZ, KYW in Philadelphia ended up as the last exception...it moved back in with KYW-TV a few years ago and its spaces were all integrated with the TV station, which will now have to be undone. On 4/2/2018 12:48 PM, Don wrote: > I know people keep talking about the pricekes "synery" withint > WBZ-TV/Radio....I really don't see it. > > Same call letters, same service area....some occaisional shared resources. > > But I feel for the past 10 years or so that they were totally programmed > separately, and didn't hear much "intertwined". > > But that's me.... > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Landry" <011010001@interpring.com> > >> Because WBZ Radio was so intertwined with WBZ-TV, I'm a little >> surprised they didn't keep it. As a news operation the two stations >> complemented each other nicely. > > From rbello@belloassoc.com Mon Apr 2 16:34:42 2018 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 16:34:42 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: You can thank the FCC and anti-trust rules 1 company can only bill so much of the marketplace Why did Beasley swap WMJX for WBZ-FM aka The Sports Hub ? Also, by swapping properties a company can avoid a capital gains tax bill This alone gave Entercom few partners to deal with for WBZ --------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to >> iHeart. >> > > Can someone explain to me why they gave up 1030 but kept 850? > > > Rob From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 15:36:10 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 15:36:10 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <7868fdb4-a942-c194-855f-b01e2d7a38b9@fybush.com> On 4/2/2018 3:10 PM, Rob Landry wrote: > Can someone explain to me why they gave up 1030 but kept 850? Because DOJ said they couldn't keep 1030 and still get antitrust approval for the whole transaction; 850, with close to zero revenue or ratings, wasn't much of a factor in the antitrust evaluation, and presumably being run in concert with 93.7 at almost zero expense still makes it net profitable for Entercom to keep, if only as an overflow destination for WEEI programming. If there had been any desire by another buyer to pay money for the 850 signal, it could just as easily have been spun - but who'd want it as a standalone? s From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 16:55:11 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 16:55:11 -0400 Subject: WBZ AM/TV In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: All true - but it was only the FM stations (WZLX, WODS, WBMX and WBZ-FM) that consolidated at Birmingham Parkway; WBZ AM remained at Soldiers Field Road and is still there for now. Here's a look at Birmingham Parkway a few years back... https://www.fybush.com/site-20131213/ On 4/2/2018 4:39 PM, Anthony Abruzzese wrote: > I thought that I read somewhere, possibly here, that when TV-38 became > part of the CBS Boston family, the TV operations were consolidated to > Soldiers Field Road and the old TV-38 studios on Birmingham Parkway were > renovated to accommodate the CBS radio cluster. > > -- > > ============================== > > Tony Abruzzese > > Educational Technologist > > Healthcare Emergency Management > > Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology > > Boston University School of Medicine > > 650 Albany Street, Rm. 140 > > Boston, MA 02118 > > v: 617-638-5092 > > email:tony.abruzzese@gmail.com > > ============================== > > *From: *Boston-Radio-Interest > on behalf of Scott > Fybush > *Date: *Monday, April 2, 2018 at 4:04 PM > *To: *"boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org" > > *Subject: *Re: WBZ AM/TV > > On 4/2/2018 3:09 PM, Rob Landry wrote: > > I thought they had a common newsroom. But it's probably been twenty > > years since I last visited WBZ, and I don't watch TV, so my > > understanding may be woefully out of date. > > The 1996 renovation moved the radio and TV staff into a common space > > (the old TV newsroom on the east side of the building, expanded with a > > new addition along the east wall). But the staff themselves remained > > completely separate. > From aerie.ma@comcast.net Mon Apr 2 17:27:58 2018 From: aerie.ma@comcast.net (Jim Hall) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 17:27:58 -0400 Subject: You can thank the FCC and anti-trust rules Message-ID: <00d901d3cac9$79e62700$6db27500$@comcast.net> This is probably a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. So when a group of stations is sold, the market must adjust to prevent one company from claiming too large a percentage of the revenue in the market. Now suppose a company is at its ownership limit of stations, and decides to promote the heck out of one or more of its stations, so that the ratings shoot up and the stations can bill more. Do they then have to sell a station? Most of you remember when Congressman Heftel of Hawaii purchased sleepy little WWEL-FM (I always wondered if the WWEL stood for its location) and changed it from music even elevators didn't want to hear anymore into KISS-108. He promoted the heck out of the station (contests galore) and within a few months it was at or near the top of the pack. Now I realize none of the big corporate owners today is going to go to that extreme, but suppose Entercom decided to wake up 850? Would they have to sell something else if the ratings improved dramatically? You can thank the FCC and anti-trust rules 1 company can only bill so much of the marketplace Why did Beasley swap WMJX for WBZ-FM aka The Sports Hub ? Also, by swapping properties a company can avoid a capital gains tax bill This alone gave Entercom few partners to deal with for WBZ From scott@fybush.com Mon Apr 2 18:03:50 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 18:03:50 -0400 Subject: You can thank the FCC and anti-trust rules In-Reply-To: <00d901d3cac9$79e62700$6db27500$@comcast.net> References: <00d901d3cac9$79e62700$6db27500$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <8a5a8bdb-fba3-5cc1-983c-46f21b032363@fybush.com> No. Ownership is grandfathered as long as it doesn't change. If iHeart somehow tweaked its station lineup so that it's getting 80% of revenue and 90% of the ratings, there's no mechanism by which it can be forced to sell any of those stations. It's only when a company decides to sell (or in some cases, is forced to do so by an involuntary bankruptcy) that DOJ comes in and plays its role. On 4/2/2018 5:27 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. > > So when a group of stations is sold, the market must adjust to prevent one company from claiming too large a percentage of the revenue in the market. > > Now suppose a company is at its ownership limit of stations, and decides to promote the heck out of one or more of its stations, so that the ratings shoot up and the stations can bill more. Do they then have to sell a station? Most of you remember when Congressman Heftel of Hawaii purchased sleepy little WWEL-FM (I always wondered if the WWEL stood for its location) and changed it from music even elevators didn't want to hear anymore into KISS-108. He promoted the heck out of the station (contests galore) and within a few months it was at or near the top of the pack. Now I realize none of the big corporate owners today is going to go to that extreme, but suppose Entercom decided to wake up 850? Would they have to sell something else if the ratings improved dramatically? > > > You can thank the FCC and anti-trust rules > > 1 company can only bill so much of the marketplace Why did Beasley swap WMJX for WBZ-FM aka The Sports Hub ? > > Also, by swapping properties a company can avoid a capital gains tax bill This alone gave Entercom few partners to deal with for WBZ > > > > From stuff@struff.com Mon Apr 2 16:55:27 2018 From: stuff@struff.com (David Struffolino) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:55:27 +0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: No, there are no other Boston area radio stations that do helicopter traffic reports. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Damon Cassell > To: Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> > Cc: Larry Weil , Boston Radio Group < > boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org> > Bcc: > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:12:09 -0400 > Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? > I am curious if there are public radio stations that do a WBZ style format, > specifically the frequent weather/traffic. Any that do helicopter traffic > reports? I'm a commuter, and I flip between WBUR/WGBH/WBZ. BUR for David > Epstein's weather and local news, BZ for traffic (even though I also use > Waze), and GBH for longer local programming. Sometimes I take a trip over > to Sirius for CNN coverage of breaking news. A station that did it all > would keep me in one place. > From rbello@belloassoc.com Mon Apr 2 14:36:05 2018 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:36:05 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: Not so sure 24 / 7 news works even in NY Listen to WCBS at 1 - 2am Commercial load is light and far from top tier advertisers Given how expensive it is to do all news, really doubt 1 to 5am is not a money pit --------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > CBS knew how to do local radio and where 24 hours news would work - NY, > Chicago, LA, SF, Dallas and Philly and where it was better to have talk at > night Boston, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Louis. > > Keep in mind it was Entercom that decided to make the swap of WBZ to > iHeart. > > CBS Radio was excellent at local news in almost all markets, CBS > Television has not done well with local news. > > Peter Casey was able to fight with CBS Radio to leave WBZ fully local - so > the first person iHeart fired was him. > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Ron Bello wrote: >> >> CBS got out of radio all together >>> They don't believe it is a growth area (true) nor a good use of their >>> capital (?) >>> >> >> The question in my mind is how well did WBZ(AM) help promote WBZ-TV >> viewership. Eveidently CBS decided it didn't matter. >> >> WBZ radio is no less intertwined than WCBS, WBBM.......... >>> Local markets / operations were not the primary consideration >>> >> >> If you own local TV stations, then local markets have to matter; >> otherwise, CBS should sell them all and just run a network. >> >> But hey, I'm a radio guy not a TV guy. >> >> >> Rob >> > > From tony.abruzzese@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 16:39:43 2018 From: tony.abruzzese@gmail.com (Anthony Abruzzese) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:39:43 -0400 Subject: WBZ AM/TV In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: I thought that I read somewhere, possibly here, that when TV-38 became part of the CBS Boston family, the TV operations were consolidated to Soldiers Field Road and the old TV-38 studios on Birmingham Parkway were renovated to accommodate the CBS radio cluster. -- ============================== Tony Abruzzese Educational Technologist Healthcare Emergency Management Dept of Anatomy & Neurobiology Boston University School of Medicine 650 Albany Street, Rm. 140 Boston, MA 02118 v: 617-638-5092 email:tony.abruzzese@gmail.com ============================== From: Boston-Radio-Interest on behalf of Scott Fybush Date: Monday, April 2, 2018 at 4:04 PM To: "boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org" Subject: Re: WBZ AM/TV On 4/2/2018 3:09 PM, Rob Landry wrote: I thought they had a common newsroom. But it's probably been twenty years since I last visited WBZ, and I don't watch TV, so my understanding may be woefully out of date. The 1996 renovation moved the radio and TV staff into a common space (the old TV newsroom on the east side of the building, expanded with a new addition along the east wall). But the staff themselves remained completely separate. From joe@attorneyross.com Mon Apr 2 20:05:30 2018 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 20:05:30 -0400 Subject: Feds raid pirate radio stations In-Reply-To: References: <7dc2287a-6109-4905-fa5e-6f02ef0f2409@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <8e14d2bd-48a3-4039-1278-c75ef3b466d1@attorneyross.com> Isn't 87.7 below the FM band?? How many radios actually could receive it? On 4/2/2018 6:44 AM, Rob Landry wrote: > > Oh, good, they finally shut down "B87.7". > > I know some people who are going to be very happy. > > > Rob > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, A Joseph Ross wrote: > >> From MASSter List: >> >> Feds seize equipment from two pirate radio stations >> >> >> From David Harris at the BBJ: ?Federal authorities seized radio >> transmission equipment from two Boston radio stations earlier this >> week they say had been operating without a license. According to >> court documents unsealed on Wednesday, one station called ?Big City? >> broadcasted at times on 100.3 FM, 105.3 FM, and 101.3 FM, from >> Dorchester, with a studio in Roxbury. The other, called ?B87.7 FM,? >> operated on 87.7 FM from Dorchester. Authorities say both were >> operating without a license from the Federal Communications >> Commission, despite multiple warnings to the operators.? >> >> BBJ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 >> 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com >> -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Mon Apr 2 20:07:51 2018 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 20:07:51 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <7932ec17-5fc9-1abf-8e95-5e6d81ffbba5@attorneyross.com> William Paley is spinning in his grave. On 4/2/2018 11:19 AM, Ron Bello wrote: > CBS got out of radio all together > They don't believe it is a growth area (true) nor a good use of their > capital (?) > > WBZ radio is no less intertwined than WCBS, WBBM.......... > Local markets / operations were not the primary consideration > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, Gary's Ice Cream wrote: >> >> But CBS cared (a little), iHeart doesn?t give a flying you know what >> Alas, CBS didn't care enough to keep the station. >> >> Because WBZ Radio was so intertwined with WBZ-TV, I'm a little surprised >> they didn't keep it. As a news operation the two stations complemented each >> other nicely. >> >> >> Rob >> -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From wollman@bimajority.org Mon Apr 2 21:23:41 2018 From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 21:23:41 -0400 Subject: WBZ AM/TV In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <23234.55197.587154.100900@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> < said: > And in most other CBS markets, the radio news operations had long since > been moved to separate physical locations before the stations were sold > off. For financial reporting, radio and TV are frequently considered separate "segments", and when reporting segment results to Wall Street, the services provided by one business segment to another have to be accounted for -- as if radio was paying rent to TV, or both were paying rent to some real-estate business. At that point, the management of each segment might well feel that they don't get much benefit out of physical consolidation, and maybe they can get better prices from another landlord/tenant. For the full company results, these "intra-company transfers" are eliminated, but that's not how the managers of each business are evaluated come bonus time. -GAWollman From tgordo49@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 13:58:35 2018 From: tgordo49@gmail.com (Tim Gordon) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 13:58:35 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: I've found local weather and GOOD detailed local greater-Boston traffic on Bloomberg's Boston feed, which keeps moving around but is currently best for me in metrowest on 94.5HD2. They keep saying they're on 106.1 and 1300 I think it is, but those don't come in for me. --Tim (A newbie here) On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Damon Cassell wrote: > I am curious if there are public radio stations that do a WBZ style format, > specifically the frequent weather/traffic. Any that do helicopter traffic > reports? I'm a commuter, and I flip between WBUR/WGBH/WBZ. BUR for David > Epstein's weather and local news, BZ for traffic (even though I also use > Waze), and GBH for longer local programming. Sometimes I take a trip over > to Sirius for CNN coverage of breaking news. A station that did it all > would keep me in one place. > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Larry Weil wrote: > > > > On Mar 31, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > >>> > >> > > Sadly it is all about billable hours and it is AM to boot. > >>> > >> > > WBZ's cume is shrinking as their core audience has either left for > >>> retirement homes or left the planet. > >>> > >> > > Also a lot have left for Public Radio. > >> > > > > I wonder if we will see WGBH-FM move to a WBZ-style news format. > > > > > > Rob > > > From wollman@bimajority.org Mon Apr 2 21:28:40 2018 From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 21:28:40 -0400 Subject: All-news in the overnights In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: <23234.55496.350352.471331@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> < said: > Not so sure 24 / 7 news works even in NY > Listen to WCBS at 1 - 2am > Commercial load is light and far from top tier advertisers > Given how expensive it is to do all news, really doubt 1 to 5am is not a > money pit The value for WCBS isn't really in the overnight inventory (which is basically gravy) but in keeping those radios tuned to 880 the rest of the day. Breaking format is always a risk. (Also why so few NPR stations still split time between news-talk and classical.) -GAWollman From kc1ih@mac.com Mon Apr 2 22:38:55 2018 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:38:55 -0400 Subject: All-news in the overnights In-Reply-To: <23234.55496.350352.471331@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> <10b301d3ca87$a4b94f80$ee2bee80$@garysicecream.com> <23234.55496.350352.471331@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Message-ID: > On Apr 2, 2018, at 9:28 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > The value for WCBS isn't really in the overnight inventory (which is > basically gravy) but in keeping those radios tuned to 880 the rest of > the day. Breaking format is always a risk. (Also why so few NPR > stations still split time between news-talk and classical.) > WUSF in Tampa is news-talk by day, and Jazz at night. They refer to the Jazz slot as ?the other 9 to 5? (9 PM to 5 AM). Larry Weil Hudson, FL From raccoonradio@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 21:44:53 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:44:53 +0000 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: Actually Bloomberg is on Beasley's WBOS 92.9 HD2. It had been on WJMN 94.5 HD2 but when the contract ended, iHeart changed the HD2 to conservative talk from WXKS 1200. On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 9:26 PM Tim Gordon wrote: > I've found local weather and GOOD detailed local greater-Boston traffic on > Bloomberg's Boston feed, which keeps moving around but is currently best > for me in metrowest on 94.5HD2. They keep saying they're on 106.1 and 1300 > I think it is, but those don't come in for me. > --Tim > (A newbie here) > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Damon Cassell wrote: > > > I am curious if there are public radio stations that do a WBZ style > format, > > specifically the frequent weather/traffic. Any that do helicopter traffic > > reports? I'm a commuter, and I flip between WBUR/WGBH/WBZ. BUR for David > > Epstein's weather and local news, BZ for traffic (even though I also use > > Waze), and GBH for longer local programming. Sometimes I take a trip over > > to Sirius for CNN coverage of breaking news. A station that did it all > > would keep me in one place. > > > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Larry Weil wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 31, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > >>> > > >> > > > Sadly it is all about billable hours and it is AM to boot. > > >>> > > >> > > > WBZ's cume is shrinking as their core audience has either left for > > >>> retirement homes or left the planet. > > >>> > > >> > > > Also a lot have left for Public Radio. > > >> > > > > > > I wonder if we will see WGBH-FM move to a WBZ-style news format. > > > > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > From raccoonradio@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 21:14:57 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:14:57 +0000 Subject: Feds raid pirate radio stations In-Reply-To: <8e14d2bd-48a3-4039-1278-c75ef3b466d1@attorneyross.com> References: <7dc2287a-6109-4905-fa5e-6f02ef0f2409@attorneyross.com> <8e14d2bd-48a3-4039-1278-c75ef3b466d1@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: Quite a few radios can get 87.7. FCC noted that there was no license granted for a TV Channel 6 with audio around 87.75 MHz in that location.I know there have been some "Franken-FMs" out there..also pirates can throw spurious signals out, right? On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 8:39 PM A Joseph Ross wrote: > Isn't 87.7 below the FM band? How many radios actually could receive it? > > On 4/2/2018 6:44 AM, Rob Landry wrote: > > > > Oh, good, they finally shut down "B87.7". > > > > I know some people who are going to be very happy. > > > > > > Rob > > > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, A Joseph Ross wrote: > > > >> From MASSter List: > >> > >> Feds seize equipment from two pirate radio stations > >> > >> > >> From David Harris at the BBJ: ?Federal authorities seized radio > >> transmission equipment from two Boston radio stations earlier this > >> week they say had been operating without a license. According to > >> court documents unsealed on Wednesday, one station called ?Big City? > >> broadcasted at times on 100.3 FM, 105.3 FM, and 101.3 FM, from > >> Dorchester, with a studio in Roxbury. The other, called ?B87.7 FM,? > >> operated on 87.7 FM from Dorchester. Authorities say both were > >> operating without a license from the Federal Communications > >> Commission, despite multiple warnings to the operators.? > >> > >> BBJ > >> < > http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001XHgfpYsKFQLlZFktDAc8vMYkPjzFecshR3B2zmrmLR904YpimrxFSatpMVdTRaAD2ePeSOTfw6j49DKhw175lhg-bPp5e0ptD9HAUo_29YKTFiuiiVvx_vT_R54arcBB5sXvnqJZx-cWWOwXOyHBhUyRw4B956FvLFSzhrfDexmGkFP9szCLQduTlibXIMdmFHsGU8FSPVKydH9k9QE7xSd0ucfmIScrI3lGfNG6nM3GOXcrIa54oXd5tZTH10XugbKEkr42XNugNbTywZdTwquQ0-QaUfwI&c=K9JPiIRdR53S84tO6VNpway8AXpnj2YHR9go2nJwVNYIDiGajfhz0Q==&ch=wHL5w_pkUtPy5iGvySvX71ZN2h_Wf3LUo2trdCfSUFMph0zO6bgjVA== > > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 > >> 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com > >> > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 > 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com > From tgordo49@gmail.com Mon Apr 2 22:36:29 2018 From: tgordo49@gmail.com (Tim Gordon) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:36:29 -0400 Subject: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? In-Reply-To: References: <0ce701d3c8f1$9fcb2300$df616900$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: Oops! Thanks for catching that. I just realized my error and came back in from my truck to correct that. In my own defense, they kept popping around the dial in February, and I guess I'm still confused. I hope the Boston area's game of "musical radio stations" settles down soon! --Tim On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: > Actually Bloomberg is on Beasley's WBOS 92.9 HD2. It had been on WJMN 94.5 > HD2 but when the contract ended, iHeart changed the HD2 to conservative > talk from WXKS 1200. > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 9:26 PM Tim Gordon wrote: > >> I've found local weather and GOOD detailed local greater-Boston traffic on >> Bloomberg's Boston feed, which keeps moving around but is currently best >> for me in metrowest on 94.5HD2. They keep saying they're on 106.1 and 1300 >> I think it is, but those don't come in for me. >> --Tim >> (A newbie here) >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Damon Cassell >> wrote: >> >> > I am curious if there are public radio stations that do a WBZ style >> format, >> > specifically the frequent weather/traffic. Any that do helicopter >> traffic >> > reports? I'm a commuter, and I flip between WBUR/WGBH/WBZ. BUR for David >> > Epstein's weather and local news, BZ for traffic (even though I also use >> > Waze), and GBH for longer local programming. Sometimes I take a trip >> over >> > to Sirius for CNN coverage of breaking news. A station that did it all >> > would keep me in one place. >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Larry Weil wrote: >> > > >> > > On Mar 31, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >> > >>> >> > >> >> > > Sadly it is all about billable hours and it is AM to boot. >> > >>> >> > >> >> > > WBZ's cume is shrinking as their core audience has either left for >> > >>> retirement homes or left the planet. >> > >>> >> > >> >> > > Also a lot have left for Public Radio. >> > >> >> > > >> > > I wonder if we will see WGBH-FM move to a WBZ-style news format. >> > > >> > > >> > > Rob >> > > >> > >> > From wollman@bimajority.org Mon Apr 2 22:57:29 2018 From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 22:57:29 -0400 Subject: Feds raid pirate radio stations In-Reply-To: References: <7dc2287a-6109-4905-fa5e-6f02ef0f2409@attorneyross.com> <8e14d2bd-48a3-4039-1278-c75ef3b466d1@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <23234.60825.890269.995688@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> < said: > Quite a few radios can get 87.7. FCC noted that there was no license > granted for a TV Channel 6 with audio around 87.75 MHz in that location.I > know there have been some "Franken-FMs" out there..also pirates can throw > spurious signals out, right? 87.7 MHz is part of the broadcast band in Europe, so most radios can tune that low and transmitters are readily available. -GAWollman From richard@chonak.com Tue Apr 3 01:15:38 2018 From: richard@chonak.com (Richard Chonak) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 01:15:38 -0400 Subject: WMFP secondary channels down? Message-ID: <990a24ea-cb0d-377a-7353-b5579b1967fc@chonak.com> The secondary digital channels of WMFP (RF ch 18) seem to be out of order today, with a black screen on channels 62.3, 62.4, and also 60.5 (NBC).? Channel 62.1 (SonLife network) is on the air as usual. Is WMFP starting to shut down its transmission operations? --RC From kvahey@gmail.com Tue Apr 3 03:22:28 2018 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 03:22:28 -0400 Subject: WMFP secondary channels down? In-Reply-To: <990a24ea-cb0d-377a-7353-b5579b1967fc@chonak.com> References: <990a24ea-cb0d-377a-7353-b5579b1967fc@chonak.com> Message-ID: WMFP stand-alone went dark on April 1 and is now repacked on WWDP NBC is now 8.1, 15.1 or 60.2 On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Richard Chonak wrote: > The secondary digital channels of WMFP (RF ch 18) seem to be out of order > today, with a black screen on channels 62.3, 62.4, and also 60.5 (NBC). > Channel 62.1 (SonLife network) is on the air as usual. > > Is WMFP starting to shut down its transmission operations? > > --RC > > From richard@chonak.com Tue Apr 3 04:28:58 2018 From: richard@chonak.com (Richard Chonak) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 04:28:58 -0400 Subject: WMFP secondary channels down? In-Reply-To: References: <990a24ea-cb0d-377a-7353-b5579b1967fc@chonak.com> Message-ID: Curiously, a channel scan still leads my sets to list 60.5, 62.3, and 62.4 as channels, and the set displays program information for 60.5 at least.? I am not sure that WWDP has started broadcasting WMFP 62.1, because from where I live (north of Boston) it is not possible yet to pick up WWDP 46.?? Or am I missing something? --RC On 04/03/2018 03:22 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > WMFP stand-alone went dark on April 1 and is now repacked on WWDP > > NBC is now 8.1, 15.1 or 60.2 > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Richard Chonak wrote: >> The secondary digital channels of WMFP (RF ch 18) seem to be out of order >> today, with a black screen on channels 62.3, 62.4, and also 60.5 (NBC). >> Channel 62.1 (SonLife network) is on the air as usual. >> >> Is WMFP starting to shut down its transmission operations? >> >> --RC >> >> From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Apr 3 06:54:57 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 10:54:57 +0000 Subject: WCCM 1570/105.3 to syndie oldies Message-ID: WCCM 1570 Methuen (to be WUBG?) was heard simulcasting sister station WMVX Salem NH with oldies for a few days but now is apparently running syndicated oldies from Westwood One. New calls sound like WUBG and a nickname of Big 105.3...their FM translator is on 105.3, licensed to Methuen but broadcasting from Medford. AM 1570 is 50 kW by day. FM 105.3 pushes NW, N, and NE. Heard 105.3 on 128 last night in Reading and Lynnfield but by Peabody it started to give way to the Shark from Kittery. Wonder if the WCCM calls go back to 800 in Lawrence, currently WNNW? 800 in Roman numerals is CCM. 60s and 70s oldies.On the FM it sounds like one channel isolated but bridged onto both.On Beatles Hello Goodbye, one hears violin but not Ringo's drums. From dcassell@gmail.com Tue Apr 3 08:51:15 2018 From: dcassell@gmail.com (Damon Cassell) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 08:51:15 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry, my question was really if there was a model for a WBZ style public radio station somewhere in the country. Damon On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:55 PM, David Struffolino wrote: > No, there are no other Boston area radio stations that do helicopter > traffic reports. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Damon Cassell > > To: Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> > > Cc: Larry Weil , Boston Radio Group < > > boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org> > > Bcc: > > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:12:09 -0400 > > Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next? > > I am curious if there are public radio stations that do a WBZ style > format, > > specifically the frequent weather/traffic. Any that do helicopter traffic > > reports? I'm a commuter, and I flip between WBUR/WGBH/WBZ. BUR for David > > Epstein's weather and local news, BZ for traffic (even though I also use > > Waze), and GBH for longer local programming. Sometimes I take a trip over > > to Sirius for CNN coverage of breaking news. A station that did it all > > would keep me in one place. > > > From 011010001@interpring.com Tue Apr 3 11:24:18 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:24:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Feds raid pirate radio stations In-Reply-To: <8e14d2bd-48a3-4039-1278-c75ef3b466d1@attorneyross.com> References: <7dc2287a-6109-4905-fa5e-6f02ef0f2409@attorneyross.com> <8e14d2bd-48a3-4039-1278-c75ef3b466d1@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 2 Apr 2018, A Joseph Ross wrote: > Isn't 87.7 below the FM band?? How many radios actually could receive it? It is, but all of my FM radios will tune down there. Rob From 011010001@interpring.com Tue Apr 3 11:31:15 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:31:15 -0400 (EDT) Subject: WCCM 1570/105.3 to syndie oldies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Bob Nelson wrote: > Heard 105.3 on 128 last night in Reading and Lynnfield but by Peabody it > started to give way to the Shark from Kittery. > Wonder if the WCCM calls go back to 800 in Lawrence, currently WNNW? 800 in > Roman numerals is CCM. While 'CCM' in Roman numerals subtracts to 800, it's technically incorrect; 'DCCC' is the correct numeral. Rob From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Apr 3 11:25:52 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:25:52 -0400 Subject: WCCM 1570/105.3 to syndie oldies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Top of the hour ID says WUBG Methuen, the biggest hits of the 60s and 70s--Big 105.3 (also on 1570 which is much more powerful by day...) The 105.3 is an FM translator in Medford On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, Bob Nelson wrote: > WCCM 1570 Methuen (to be WUBG?) was heard simulcasting sister station WMVX > Salem NH with oldies for a few days but now is apparently running > syndicated oldies from Westwood One. > New calls sound like WUBG and a nickname of Big 105.3...their FM > translator is on 105.3, licensed to Methuen but broadcasting from Medford. > AM 1570 is 50 kW by day. FM 105.3 pushes NW, N, and NE. > > Heard 105.3 on 128 last night in Reading and Lynnfield but by Peabody it > started to give way to the Shark from Kittery. > Wonder if the WCCM calls go back to 800 in Lawrence, currently WNNW? 800 > in Roman numerals is CCM. > > 60s and 70s oldies.On the FM it sounds like one channel isolated but > bridged onto both.On Beatles Hello Goodbye, one hears violin but not > Ringo's drums. > From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Apr 3 11:37:29 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:37:29 -0400 Subject: WCCM 1570/105.3 to syndie oldies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes, I noticed the Wikipedia entry for the station said the call letter meaning was an _attempt_ to render 800 in Roman Numerals... On Tue, Apr 3, 2018, 11:31 AM Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Bob Nelson wrote: > > > Heard 105.3 on 128 last night in Reading and Lynnfield but by Peabody it > > started to give way to the Shark from Kittery. > > Wonder if the WCCM calls go back to 800 in Lawrence, currently WNNW? 800 > in > > Roman numerals is CCM. > > While 'CCM' in Roman numerals subtracts to 800, it's technically > incorrect; 'DCCC' is the correct numeral. > > > Rob > From richard@chonak.com Tue Apr 3 23:36:04 2018 From: richard@chonak.com (Richard Chonak) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 23:36:04 -0400 Subject: WMFP secondary channels down? In-Reply-To: References: <990a24ea-cb0d-377a-7353-b5579b1967fc@chonak.com> Message-ID: <9275339d-29eb-a896-9238-e524f349e416@chonak.com> Today the secondary channels for WMFP no longer appear in a channel scan. --RC On 04/03/2018 04:28 AM, Richard Chonak wrote: > Curiously, a channel scan still leads my sets to list 60.5, 62.3, and > 62.4 as channels, and the set displays program information for 60.5 at > least.? I am not sure that WWDP has started broadcasting WMFP 62.1, > because from where I live (north of Boston) it is not possible yet to > pick up WWDP 46.?? Or am I missing something? > > --RC > > > > On 04/03/2018 03:22 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: >> WMFP stand-alone went dark on April 1 and is now repacked on WWDP >> >> NBC is now? 8.1, 15.1 or 60.2 >> >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Richard Chonak >> wrote: >>> The secondary digital channels of WMFP (RF ch 18) seem to be out of >>> order >>> today, with a black screen on channels 62.3, 62.4, and also 60.5 (NBC). >>> Channel 62.1 (SonLife network) is on the air as usual. >>> >>> Is WMFP starting to shut down its transmission operations? >>> >>> --RC >>> >>> > From astelle.donald@gmail.com Fri Apr 6 14:26:47 2018 From: astelle.donald@gmail.com (Don) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 14:26:47 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? Message-ID: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right next to Haverhill). Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the AM it is intended to help. How is this OK? Thanks for your thoughts... D From walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com Fri Apr 6 16:52:36 2018 From: walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com (Paul B. Walker, Jr.) Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:52:36 +0000 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: Simple. Translators don?t have city or license coverage requirements Paul. On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don wrote: > Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? > > This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen > > https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX > > Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right next to > Haverhill). > > Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the AM it > is intended to help. > > How is this OK? > > Thanks for your thoughts... > > D > > > > > > > From dave@skywaves.net Fri Apr 6 18:56:17 2018 From: dave@skywaves.net (Dave Doherty) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 18:56:17 -0400 Subject: [Possible Spam(mid)]-Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: <001401d3cdfa$78fe5bd0$6afb1370$@skywaves.net> Technically, a translator doesn't have a city of license, because - unlike a full service station - there is no requirement to serve a particular community. It would be perfectly legal to have a translator that actually serves Worcester to be licensed to Pittsfield! Under the current FCC rules, as long as the translator 60 dBu contour falls entirely within the greater of the AM 2 mV/m contour or 25 miles from the AM transmitter site, it's fine. Many AM operators are using this rule to extend service to communities outside their normal coverage areas. -d -----Original Message----- From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 2:27 PM To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org Subject: [Possible Spam(mid)]-Translators far away? Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right next to Haverhill). Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the AM it is intended to help. How is this OK? Thanks for your thoughts... D From gary@garysicecream.com Fri Apr 6 19:20:29 2018 From: gary@garysicecream.com (Gary's Ice Cream) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 19:20:29 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA -----Original Message----- From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Walker, Jr. Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 4:53 PM To: Don Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org Subject: Re: Translators far away? Simple. Translators don?t have city or license coverage requirements Paul. On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don wrote: > Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? > > This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen > > https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX > > Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right > next to Haverhill). > > Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the > AM it is intended to help. > > How is this OK? > > Thanks for your thoughts... > > D > > > > > > > From raccoonradio@gmail.com Fri Apr 6 17:51:14 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:51:14 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: I thought there was a 25 mi requirement between antenna and city of license.That may be in play here, as they (105.3) and 1570 are each licensed to Methuen. But yes, Medford, home of the translatorbin reality, isn't exactly Merrimack Valley. Wikipedia entry for 1570:"Broadcast area--Greater Boston" I think WUBG 1570 Methuen is 50 kW by day and is designed to serve Greater Boston somehow even if the AM barely reaches Boston (days).(Their website shows a Boston skyline.The AM antenna is in Andover.) On Fri, Apr 6, 2018, 4:51 PM Don wrote: > Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? > > This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen > > https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX > > Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right next to > Haverhill). > > Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the AM it > is intended to help. > > How is this OK? > > Thanks for your thoughts... > > D > > > > > > > From jjlehmann@comcast.net Fri Apr 6 20:29:25 2018 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:29:25 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: Unfortunately with the AM broadcast band on life support in most cases these days, most AM stations need to have some kind of presence on the FM band to survive at all. Jeff Lehmann > On Apr 6, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Gary's Ice Cream wrote: > > There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. > > Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Walker, Jr. > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 4:53 PM > To: Don > Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org > Subject: Re: Translators far away? > > Simple. > > Translators don?t have city or license coverage requirements > > Paul. > >> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don wrote: >> >> Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? >> >> This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen >> >> https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX >> >> Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right >> next to Haverhill). >> >> Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the >> AM it is intended to help. >> >> How is this OK? >> >> Thanks for your thoughts... >> >> D >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > From astelle.donald@gmail.com Fri Apr 6 21:00:35 2018 From: astelle.donald@gmail.com (Don) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 21:00:35 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: >>There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. For AM daytimers? For stations with severe coverage deficits? On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:20 PM, Gary's Ice Cream wrote: > There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. > > Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest- > bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Walker, Jr. > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 4:53 PM > To: Don > Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org > Subject: Re: Translators far away? > > Simple. > > Translators don?t have city or license coverage requirements > > Paul. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don wrote: > > > Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? > > > > This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen > > > > https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX > > > > Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right > > next to Haverhill). > > > > Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the > > AM it is intended to help. > > > > How is this OK? > > > > Thanks for your thoughts... > > > > D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From bob.bosra@demattia.net Sat Apr 7 00:29:56 2018 From: bob.bosra@demattia.net (Bob DeMattia) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 00:29:56 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: Without translators, how are most people going to hear the HD2 and maybe HD3 streams? -Bob On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Don wrote: > >>There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. > > For AM daytimers? For stations with severe coverage deficits? > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:20 PM, Gary's Ice Cream > wrote: > > > There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. > > > > Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest- > > bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Walker, Jr. > > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 4:53 PM > > To: Don > > Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org > > Subject: Re: Translators far away? > > > > Simple. > > > > Translators don?t have city or license coverage requirements > > > > Paul. > > > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don wrote: > > > > > Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? > > > > > > This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen > > > > > > https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX > > > > > > Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right > > > next to Haverhill). > > > > > > Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the > > > AM it is intended to help. > > > > > > How is this OK? > > > > > > Thanks for your thoughts... > > > > > > D > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu Sat Apr 7 13:55:34 2018 From: ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu (Sean Smyth) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 13:55:34 -0400 Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> <031301d3cdfd$dbe452b0$93acf810$@garysicecream.com> Message-ID: I reckon you don't agree with the FCC's "AM revival" policy? On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 7:20 PM, Gary's Ice Cream wrote: > There is no reason in my opinion for translators to exist. > > Chelmsford Creamery Inc. - Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Paul B. Walker, Jr. > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 4:53 PM > To: Don > Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org > Subject: Re: Translators far away? > > Simple. > > Translators don?t have city or license coverage requirements > > Paul. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 4:51 PM Don wrote: > >> Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? >> >> This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen >> >> https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX >> >> Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right >> next to Haverhill). >> >> Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the >> AM it is intended to help. >> >> How is this OK? >> >> Thanks for your thoughts... >> >> D >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > From brouder@juno.com Sun Apr 8 08:53:44 2018 From: brouder@juno.com (brouder@juno.com) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 12:53:44 GMT Subject: Tony Pepper Message-ID: <20180408.085344.6050.0@webmail05.vgs.untd.com> I was surprised to read in this morning's Boston Globe that Tony Petter died on April 3 of complications from diabetes and heart disease. He was 79. It wasn't long ago that his former WRKO morning partner, Janet Jeghelian, died. I have found memories of Tony at WBZ TV from the early to mid 1970s. Ed Brouder Manchester, NH ____________________________________________________________ 1 Cup of This Before Bedtime ''Ends'' Tinnitus (Ear Ringing) Healthier Patriot http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/5aca10eeb407310ee4c7est04vuc From ecps92@earthlink.net Sun Apr 8 09:33:33 2018 From: ecps92@earthlink.net (~Bill) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:33:33 -0400 Subject: Tony Pepper - passes at 79 Message-ID: <088b01d3cf3e$30bed0d0$923c7270$@net> http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/category/news/3841943-legendary-wbz-tv-news man-tony-pepper-dies-at-age-79/ Only just saw this on Sunday while browsing the Web news Bill - N1KUG Boston, Mass Cruise Ship Frequencies http://scanmaritime.com/ From astelle.donald@gmail.com Sun Apr 8 13:18:10 2018 From: astelle.donald@gmail.com (Don) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:18:10 -0400 Subject: Starr's Hub radio career has been Touch and go | Boston Herald Message-ID: <6E3A06AE5B60499A92D649AC04BE3AFB@ownerd8aa55a4d> This is an old article I came across about Jimmy Myers that mentioned his "quitting on-air at wbz-tv". In this day and age where there are all sorts of clips online....I don't think this one is online anywhere. Does anyone have the clip? Anyone remember seeing it live? Why did he quit what some would consider a plum job for a young sprtscaster? Can anyone shed some light? http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/joe_fitzgerald/2013/06/star_s_hub_radio_career_has_been_touch_and_go From joe@attorneyross.com Tue Apr 10 01:04:43 2018 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 01:04:43 -0400 Subject: Radio station calls election a week before election day Message-ID: <9b727508-74c2-709c-7899-15a37f72b076@attorneyross.com> From MASSterlist: Thinking ahead: Radio station decides it?s never too early to call election result An innocent mistake or an April surprise? WMYV on Martha?s Vineyard aired a report giving the win in the Edgartown selectmen?s race to the incumbent, even though the election was still more than a week away at the time, George Brennan reports in the Martha?s Vineyard Times. The challenger learned of the fake news report when co-workers offered condolences on her defeat. The station says the error occurred when a news copywriter was writing a ?pre-story? on the election that wasn?t supposed to air until after the April 12 election. MV Times -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From kvahey@gmail.com Tue Apr 10 02:29:12 2018 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 02:29:12 -0400 Subject: Radio station calls election a week before election day In-Reply-To: <9b727508-74c2-709c-7899-15a37f72b076@attorneyross.com> References: <9b727508-74c2-709c-7899-15a37f72b076@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: Election night 1968 at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH. Local elections has been decided early but the race for POTUS was too close to call - but at 12:58 AM WMUR-TV became the first media outlet in the US to declare Richard Nixon had won. General Manager Sam Phillips didn't want to pay overtime. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:04 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote: > From MASSterlist: > > Thinking ahead: Radio station decides it?s never too early to call election > result > > An innocent mistake or an April surprise? WMYV on Martha?s Vineyard aired a > report giving the win in the Edgartown selectmen?s race to the incumbent, > even though the election was still more than a week away at the time, George > Brennan reports in the Martha?s Vineyard Times. The challenger learned of > the fake news report when co-workers offered condolences on her defeat. The > station says the error occurred when a news copywriter was writing a > ?pre-story? on the election that wasn?t supposed to air until after the > April 12 election. > > MV Times > > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 > 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From ehennessy@verizon.net Tue Apr 10 10:26:58 2018 From: ehennessy@verizon.net (Ed Hennessy) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:26:58 -0400 Subject: Charlie Austin passed Message-ID: <162aff3da4f-17a2-67f4@webjas-vad208.srv.aolmail.net> >From the radio-with-pictures department, WBZ-TV is reporting the passing of longtime reporter Charles Austin, who retired from the station in 2000. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/10/charles-austin-wbz-tv-reporter-dies-obituary/ Ed Hennessy From 011010001@interpring.com Tue Apr 10 11:04:28 2018 From: 011010001@interpring.com (Rob Landry) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:04:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Translators far away? In-Reply-To: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> References: <9E0EA89693A54F7FABD95666AFD1EB77@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: If memory serves, translators for AM's can cover anywhere within a 25-mile radius. Alex Langer has a CP for a translator for WZBR on (98.1? I forget); it will be built in Medford with a highly directional pattern pointing pretty much due east, and will havealmost no overlap with the AM, which is in Hyde Park and licensed to Dedham. Rob On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Don wrote: > Maybe some of the technical people can answer this? > > This is a translator for 1570AM in Methuen > > https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W287CW-FX > > Looks like it barely reaches the city of license.....Methuen (right next to > Haverhill). > > Looks like the translator serves a different geo-population that the AM it is > intended to help. > > How is this OK? > > Thanks for your thoughts... > > D > > > > > > From tlmedia@intrstar.net Tue Apr 10 11:10:37 2018 From: tlmedia@intrstar.net (Ted Larsen) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:10:37 -0400 Subject: Charlie Austin passed In-Reply-To: <162aff3da4f-17a2-67f4@webjas-vad208.srv.aolmail.net> References: <162aff3da4f-17a2-67f4@webjas-vad208.srv.aolmail.net> Message-ID: <6349d357-707e-4b72-a870-40f4d553921c@getmailbird.com> Very sad. He was a great colleague.? On 4/10/2018 11:04:01 AM, Ed Hennessy wrote: >From the radio-with-pictures department, WBZ-TV is reporting the passing of longtime reporter Charles Austin, who retired from the station in 2000. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/10/charles-austin-wbz-tv-reporter-dies-obituary/ Ed Hennessy From joe@attorneyross.com Tue Apr 10 23:16:19 2018 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:16:19 -0400 Subject: Radio station calls election a week before election day In-Reply-To: References: <9b727508-74c2-709c-7899-15a37f72b076@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <6d755844-74a7-a61f-6833-fefb9632a868@attorneyross.com> Well, at least they called it correctly, and after the voting. On 4/10/2018 2:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Election night 1968 at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH. > > Local elections has been decided early but the race for POTUS was too > close to call - but at 12:58 AM WMUR-TV became the first media outlet > in the US to declare Richard Nixon had won. > > General Manager Sam Phillips didn't want to pay overtime. > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:04 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote: >> From MASSterlist: >> >> Thinking ahead: Radio station decides it?s never too early to call election >> result >> >> An innocent mistake or an April surprise? WMYV on Martha?s Vineyard aired a >> report giving the win in the Edgartown selectmen?s race to the incumbent, >> even though the election was still more than a week away at the time, George >> Brennan reports in the Martha?s Vineyard Times. The challenger learned of >> the fake news report when co-workers offered condolences on her defeat. The >> station says the error occurred when a news copywriter was writing a >> ?pre-story? on the election that wasn?t supposed to air until after the >> April 12 election. >> >> MV Times >> >> >> -- >> A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 >> 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From kvahey@gmail.com Wed Apr 11 03:22:08 2018 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 03:22:08 -0400 Subject: Radio station calls election a week before election day In-Reply-To: <6d755844-74a7-a61f-6833-fefb9632a868@attorneyross.com> References: <9b727508-74c2-709c-7899-15a37f72b076@attorneyross.com> <6d755844-74a7-a61f-6833-fefb9632a868@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: In 1968 I was making $2,50 an hour at WMUR ( $100 a week ) and even with driving back and forth from Cambridge 5 days a week and 'buying' a brand new 1969 Mustang and paying State St Bank $33 a month for the car, I was living large. Times have changed. :) On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:16 PM, A Joseph Ross wrote: > Well, at least they called it correctly, and after the voting. > > > On 4/10/2018 2:29 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > >> Election night 1968 at WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH. >> >> Local elections has been decided early but the race for POTUS was too >> close to call - but at 12:58 AM WMUR-TV became the first media outlet >> in the US to declare Richard Nixon had won. >> >> General Manager Sam Phillips didn't want to pay overtime. >> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:04 AM, A Joseph Ross >> wrote: >> >>> From MASSterlist: >>> >>> Thinking ahead: Radio station decides it?s never too early to call >>> election >>> result >>> >>> An innocent mistake or an April surprise? WMYV on Martha?s Vineyard >>> aired a >>> report giving the win in the Edgartown selectmen?s race to the incumbent, >>> even though the election was still more than a week away at the time, >>> George >>> Brennan reports in the Martha?s Vineyard Times. The challenger learned of >>> the fake news report when co-workers offered condolences on her defeat. >>> The >>> station says the error occurred when a news copywriter was writing a >>> ?pre-story? on the election that wasn?t supposed to air until after the >>> April 12 election. >>> >>> MV Times >>> >> o0FCASAtPtjNxRkW2sP-i_TTM_quIpHBxeeBbVdgn0j8qTdbn8lsCKwrbT4U >>> 6sF26GRljhy5mmTp7l2oEY2tNsz_qOs6KAc5Qimverl2lyFaQ-HA3xKhvO >>> Xg1JjOiqzv0HCd0CppdvVtPOMsdJlWiCGvFnBruTypMvQRcg6pVLg7QCw-QZ >>> HQWmz7yq2QMfHeMDM6MJDCKWPuKsI-9-YskvoSUgcPC-JJNbbu&c=SNI3LBl >>> cldICywc9FScnRXCBJjazZKoHyepS2ZunP45sBCMzgSxdhw==&ch=qNk-zrp >>> 2ecSPGHiPfuKmnyinS5ZQOLM3OfkfPtpwUPWr9JR00YrKlQ==> >>> >>> -- >>> A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 >>> 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com >>> >> > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 > 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com > From joe@attorneyross.com Fri Apr 20 01:03:31 2018 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 01:03:31 -0400 Subject: Gil Santos dies on 80th birthday. Message-ID: <08e71e17-642c-ae0c-9997-87b034a1aefb@attorneyross.com> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/19/gil-santos-legendary-voice-of-the-new-england-patriots-dies-at-78/ -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From martinjwaters@yahoo.com Fri Apr 20 05:13:48 2018 From: martinjwaters@yahoo.com (Martin Waters) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Gil Santos dies on 80th birthday. In-Reply-To: <08e71e17-642c-ae0c-9997-87b034a1aefb@attorneyross.com> References: <08e71e17-642c-ae0c-9997-87b034a1aefb@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <969265266.1739547.1524215628846@mail.yahoo.com> ? ? ?Gil was one of the best people I ever worked with in radio. Quiet in the newsroom, but friendly. I always got a kick from hearing him peck away on his manual typewriter, on which he did all his writing until the day he retired from WBZ (AM). Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:41, A Joseph Ross wrote: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/19/gil-santos-legendary-voice-of-the-new-england-patriots-dies-at-78/ -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From billohno@gmail.com Fri Apr 20 11:54:03 2018 From: billohno@gmail.com (billohno@gmail.com) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:54:03 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <08e71e17-642c-ae0c-9997-87b034a1aefb@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: 1940 to 2018 is 78 years. Some reports got it right. Some blew it. A journalist like Gil deserves better. Bill O?Neill > On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:13 AM, Martin Waters via Boston-Radio-Interest wrote: > > From tlmedia@intrstar.net Fri Apr 20 18:11:23 2018 From: tlmedia@intrstar.net (Ted Larsen) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:11:23 -0400 Subject: Fw: Your message to Boston-Radio-Interest awaits moderator approval In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9c1e01ed-6995-4285-bbbc-86dd5d4daeea@getmailbird.com> HI Mark. I don't understand this. I've been a member for many years. Each month I receive the "update email address" notification. Thanks in advance. Ted Larsen ------ Forwarded Message -------- From: boston-radio-interest-owner@lists.bostonradio.org Date: 4/20/2018 5:00:20 AM Subject: Your message to Boston-Radio-Interest awaits moderator approval To: tlmedia9@gmail.com Your mail to 'Boston-Radio-Interest' with the subject Gil Santos Dead At 80 Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: https://lists.BostonRadio.org/mailman/confirm/boston-radio-interest/dd00589e560bf3107e1415dc051f3afdc6ad3e4a From tlmedia9@gmail.com Thu Apr 19 23:43:40 2018 From: tlmedia9@gmail.com (Ted Larsen) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:43:40 -0400 Subject: Gil SAnton Dead At 80 Message-ID: A true gentleman and a great colleague. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Longtime-Patriots-Broadcaster-Gil-Santos-Dies-at-80-480325763.html?_osource=Newltr_Station_Hdlines_Boston From rbello@belloassoc.com Fri Apr 20 18:45:40 2018 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:45:40 -0400 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <08e71e17-642c-ae0c-9997-87b034a1aefb@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: All reports today have said he died on his 80th birthday WBZ-TV had a graphic *1938-2018 *at 6pm --------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM, billohno@gmail.com wrote: > 1940 to 2018 is 78 years. Some reports got it right. Some blew it. A > journalist like Gil deserves better. > > Bill O?Neill > > > On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:13 AM, Martin Waters via Boston-Radio-Interest < > boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org> wrote: > > > > > > From scott@fybush.com Sat Apr 21 09:10:20 2018 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:10:20 +0000 Subject: No subject In-Reply-To: References: <08e71e17-642c-ae0c-9997-87b034a1aefb@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: The reports that said Gil was 78 appear to have stemmed from some bad reporting when he did his last Pats games... at the time, at least one article pegged him as having been 72 in late 2012. But the reporting on his retirement from WBZ in early 2009 had him (correctly) as being 70 then. All indications I can find are that he indeed died on his 80th birthday. On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 9:24 PM Ron Bello wrote: > All reports today have said he died on his 80th birthday > WBZ-TV had a graphic *1938-2018 *at 6pm > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM, billohno@gmail.com > wrote: > > > 1940 to 2018 is 78 years. Some reports got it right. Some blew it. A > > journalist like Gil deserves better. > > > > Bill O?Neill > > > > > On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:13 AM, Martin Waters via Boston-Radio-Interest < > > boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > From tlmedia@intrstar.net Wed Apr 25 12:00:31 2018 From: tlmedia@intrstar.net (Ted Larsen) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:00:31 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES Message-ID: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsradio-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines From tlmedia@intrstar.net Wed Apr 25 16:10:26 2018 From: tlmedia@intrstar.net (Ted Larsen) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:10:26 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: Nothing I could find except the mention of a "sudden dead." On 4/25/2018 3:22:50 PM, Don wrote: Does anyone know how or why she passed away? I don't recall her being ill. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via Boston-Radio-Interest" Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsradio-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com From billohno@gmail.com Wed Apr 25 16:16:40 2018 From: billohno@gmail.com (billohno@gmail.com) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:16:40 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> Message-ID: <3300EE93-79FD-448F-8EA4-7820FBCF7C3E@gmail.com> So tragic. My deepest condolences to Lana?s husband and her many friends and colleagues. So sad to witness her last story filed was that of her former now deceased colleague, Gil Santos. It has certainly been no ordinary time for the team on Soldiers Field Road. Bill O?Neill > On Apr 25, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Ted Larsen wrote: > > http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsradio-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines From dlh@donnahalper.com Wed Apr 25 17:20:58 2018 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:20:58 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: On 4/25/2018 4:10 PM, Ted Larsen wrote: > Nothing I could find except the mention of a "sudden dead." > On 4/25/2018 3:22:50 PM, Don wrote: > Does anyone know how or why she passed away? Radio reporter Laurie Kirby said she came home from an event and suddenly collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital, where she died. -- Donna L. Halper, PhD Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies Lesley University, Cambridge MA From astelle.donald@gmail.com Wed Apr 25 15:21:03 2018 From: astelle.donald@gmail.com (Don) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:21:03 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> Message-ID: <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> Does anyone know how or why she passed away? I don't recall her being ill. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via Boston-Radio-Interest" Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsradio-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com From raccoonradio@gmail.com Wed Apr 25 09:38:31 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:38:31 -0400 Subject: WBZ's Lana Jones passes Message-ID: https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/2018-04-25-veteran-wbz-newsradio-reporter-lana-jones-dies/ WBZ radio's Lana Jones died suddenly this morning at UMass Medical Center From tlmedia@intrstar.net Wed Apr 25 19:57:01 2018 From: tlmedia@intrstar.net (Ted Larsen) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:57:01 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: <4a059e92-46ca-41d6-a19d-cdeef395f421@getmailbird.com> Here is the complete posting from Lana's husband's Face Book page. So sad. https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=steve%20Jones On 4/25/2018 6:30:38 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: Her husband Steve posted on Facebook.She felt ill on the way home, and collapsed about 5 am.She was rushed to the hospital and it was discovered she had a burst aorta that was irreparable.She passed away just after 7 AM He says there will be a wake next week and a celebration of life in September On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Don wrote: Does anyone know how or why she passed away? I don't recall her being ill. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via Boston-Radio-Interest" Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsradio-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines [http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsradio-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines] --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com [http://www.avg.com] From raccoonradio@gmail.com Wed Apr 25 18:30:29 2018 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:30:29 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: Her husband Steve posted on Facebook.She felt ill on the way home, and collapsed about 5 am.She was rushed to the hospital and it was discovered she had a burst aorta that was irreparable.She passed away just after 7 AM He says there will be a wake next week and a celebration of life in September On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Don wrote: > Does anyone know how or why she passed away? > > I don't recall her being ill. > > > Thanks! > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" > To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via > Boston-Radio-Interest" > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM > Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES > > > http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsrad > io-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium= > email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > http://www.avg.com > > From Kaimbridge@Gmail.com Thu Apr 26 00:05:15 2018 From: Kaimbridge@Gmail.com (Kaimbridge M. GoldChild) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:05:15 +0000 Subject: [B-R-I] Re: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES Message-ID: <5748e34e-eaea-e118-0708-8eeeae2b3bd5@Gmail.com> Ted Larsen wrote, > Here is the complete posting from Lana's husband's Face Book page. > So sad. > > https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=steve%20Jones Here is the more specific link: https://www.facebook.com/srdagostino/posts/10155450725982304 ~Kaimbridge~ -- -- -- Wiki?Sites Contribution History Pages: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kaimbridge math.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kaimbridge wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/Kaimbridge rosettacode.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kaimbridge ***** Void Where Permitted; Limit 0 Per Customer. ***** From billohno@gmail.com Wed Apr 25 22:47:33 2018 From: billohno@gmail.com (billohno@gmail.com) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:47:33 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> Message-ID: <583D0EBA-606A-4AA2-B471-F55DD774DA53@gmail.com> This is so tragic. Lana was quite likely going into cardiac crisis on the way home from work. Perhaps early intervention (cath lab or other options) could have caught this before she arrested? We lost our kid brother similarly, but years ago and he was 24. The common thing was symptoms then delayed intervention. I?m no doctor, just a rural volunteer EMT, but, perhaps each of us could learn from Lana?s passing? Never go to bed with unexplained chest pain. Ever. I never met Lana but it?s obvious that she was a remarkable person. Bill O?Neill > On Apr 25, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: > > Her husband Steve posted on Facebook.She felt ill on the way home, and > collapsed about 5 am.She was rushed to the hospital and it was discovered > she had a burst aorta that was irreparable.She passed away just after 7 AM > > He says there will be a wake next week and a celebration of life in > September > >> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Don wrote: >> >> Does anyone know how or why she passed away? >> >> I don't recall her being ill. >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" >> To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via >> Boston-Radio-Interest" >> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM >> Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES >> >> >> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsrad >> io-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium= >> email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >> http://www.avg.com >> >> From joe@attorneyross.com Fri Apr 27 01:59:42 2018 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 01:59:42 -0400 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: <583D0EBA-606A-4AA2-B471-F55DD774DA53@gmail.com> References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> <583D0EBA-606A-4AA2-B471-F55DD774DA53@gmail.com> Message-ID: Well, I had an episode of cardiac arrest last October, and there never was any chest pain at all.? I just felt really ill, put my head down on the desk, and woke up on the floor ten minutes later. So I went to the emergency room, where they ascertained (from a monitor that had been implanted earlier) that my heart had stopped for 5 seconds, then 7 seconds, then re-started.? So now I have a pacemaker.? So chest pain isn't the only indicator.? In my case, it was an unexplained unconsciousness.? And earlier episodes of unexplained rapid heartbeats, which led to the monitor being implanted. On 4/25/2018 10:47 PM, billohno@gmail.com wrote: > This is so tragic. Lana was quite likely going into cardiac crisis on the way home from work. Perhaps early intervention (cath lab or other options) could have caught this before she arrested? We lost our kid brother similarly, but years ago and he was 24. The common thing was symptoms then delayed intervention. I?m no doctor, just a rural volunteer EMT, but, perhaps each of us could learn from Lana?s passing? Never go to bed with unexplained chest pain. Ever. > > I never met Lana but it?s obvious that she was a remarkable person. > > Bill O?Neill > > > >> On Apr 25, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: >> >> Her husband Steve posted on Facebook.She felt ill on the way home, and >> collapsed about 5 am.She was rushed to the hospital and it was discovered >> she had a burst aorta that was irreparable.She passed away just after 7 AM >> >> He says there will be a wake next week and a celebration of life in >> September >> >>> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Don wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone know how or why she passed away? >>> >>> I don't recall her being ill. >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" >>> To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via >>> Boston-Radio-Interest" >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM >>> Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES >>> >>> >>> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsrad >>> io-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium= >>> email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines >>> >>> --- >>> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >>> http://www.avg.com >>> >>> > -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Apr 27 03:15:36 2018 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:15:36 +0000 Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES In-Reply-To: References: <7fa8efde-27ae-4cb6-acca-e0631d2f94b4@getmailbird.com> <8B79AF832C1E4D45A0591B6911DEE64C@ownerd8aa55a4d> <583D0EBA-606A-4AA2-B471-F55DD774DA53@gmail.com> Message-ID: I have a very respected cardiologist at Mount Auburn and she is upfront that there are some silent heart attacks modern science cannot detect ahead of time. I knew Lana ca ?? sually and during her WMJX-WHDH years she was Lana Jones -D'Agostino on air but at WBZ it was simply Lana Jones. I can't help but feeling that stress from the unexpected ownership change to iHeart might have played a role in this. They axed Rod Fritz a couple of weeks earlier and she had to be concerned. On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:31 AM A Joseph Ross wrote: > Well, I had an episode of cardiac arrest last October, and there never > was any chest pain at all. I just felt really ill, put my head down on > the desk, and woke up on the floor ten minutes later. So I went to the > emergency room, where they ascertained (from a monitor that had been > implanted earlier) that my heart had stopped for 5 seconds, then 7 > seconds, then re-started. So now I have a pacemaker. So chest pain > isn't the only indicator. In my case, it was an unexplained > unconsciousness. And earlier episodes of unexplained rapid heartbeats, > which led to the monitor being implanted. > > > On 4/25/2018 10:47 PM, billohno@gmail.com wrote: > > This is so tragic. Lana was quite likely going into cardiac crisis on > the way home from work. Perhaps early intervention (cath lab or other > options) could have caught this before she arrested? We lost our kid > brother similarly, but years ago and he was 24. The common thing was > symptoms then delayed intervention. I?m no doctor, just a rural volunteer > EMT, but, perhaps each of us could learn from Lana?s passing? Never go to > bed with unexplained chest pain. Ever. > > > > I never met Lana but it?s obvious that she was a remarkable person. > > > > Bill O?Neill > > > > > > > >> On Apr 25, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Bob Nelson wrote: > >> > >> Her husband Steve posted on Facebook.She felt ill on the way home, and > >> collapsed about 5 am.She was rushed to the hospital and it was > discovered > >> she had a burst aorta that was irreparable.She passed away just after 7 > AM > >> > >> He says there will be a wake next week and a celebration of life in > >> September > >> > >>> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018, Don wrote: > >>> > >>> Does anyone know how or why she passed away? > >>> > >>> I don't recall her being ill. > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Larsen" > >>> To: "Boston-Radio-Interest" ; "Mark via > >>> Boston-Radio-Interest" > >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:00 PM > >>> Subject: WBZ'S LANA JONES DIES > >>> > >>> > >>> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/lana-jones-wbz-newsrad > >>> io-1030-reporter-dies/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium= > >>> email&utm_campaign=daily-headlines > >>> > >>> --- > >>> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > >>> http://www.avg.com > >>> > >>> > > > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. ? 1340 Centre Street, Suite 103 ? Newton, MA 02459 > 617.367.0468 ? Fax:617.507.7856 ? http://www.attorneyross.com > From gspatola@gmail.com Fri Apr 27 15:50:50 2018 From: gspatola@gmail.com (Glenn Spatola) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:50:50 -0700 Subject: WBZ's Lana Jones dies Message-ID: Bob Rivers worked at WAAB-AM in Worcester, and later did morning drive at WAAF Worcester/Boston, where he worked with Lana in the 80's. He went on to a notable career here in Seattle. https://bobrivers.blog/lana-jones/ Glenn Spatola From gspatola@gmail.com Fri Apr 27 15:42:39 2018 From: gspatola@gmail.com (Glenn Spatola) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:42:39 -0700 Subject: WBZ's Lana Jones dies Message-ID: Bob Rivers was on the air at WAAB-AM in Worcester and at WAAF Worcester/Boston, where he worked with Lana in the 80's. He then went on to a long career at a couple of stations here in Seattle. https://bobrivers.blog/lana-jones/ Glenn Spatola