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WBZ- News Tease?

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Noticed in the last week that WBZ is admittedly teasing many headlined news items.
Last week they headlined a news item two or three times about a health club that was removing cable TV from its gyms.
About twenty minutes later the WBZ news reader came on and said:
“ Well, we have teased you long enough about the gym in question...”
Listening this morning and they are doing the same thing about a fire in Mattapan.
They have a new PD at ‘BZ Radio. Is this another example of iHeart cheapening the product?
 
Tilden said:
Noticed in the last week that WBZ is admittedly teasing many headlined news items.
Last week they headlined a news item two or three times about a health club that was removing cable TV from its gyms.
About twenty minutes later the WBZ news reader came on and said:
“ Well, we have teased you long enough about the gym in question...”
Listening this morning and they are doing the same thing about a fire in Mattapan.
They have a new PD at ‘BZ Radio. Is this another example of iHeart cheapening the product?
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I would guess the various posters to these boards will each have their own opinions, but I have mine, which is I don't particularly care for the teasers, either.

I don't believe they are necessarily an iHeart trait per se, but I don't recall them when when 'BZ was under CBS Radio ownership.

Just curious: I'm not familiar with how the other former CBS O&O news stations - WCBS, WINS, WBBM, KYW, KDKA, KMOX, KRLD, WJR, KNX, KCBS, to name a few - did their news thing under CBS to make a comparison with how they are now faring under Entercom. I do feel bad that WBZ AM AND FM had to be separated from such a distinguished family.
 
Ummm....Teasing a story for 20 minutes to drag a listener through multiple quarter hours? What will these programmers think of next :)
 
TSBench said:
Ummm....Teasing a story for 20 minutes to drag a listener through multiple quarter hours? What will these programmers think of next :)
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For those who have Sirius Satellite Radio the Budweiser and Bufferin time salesmen at WBZ iheart radio are not thinking of much. CNN,MSNBC,FOX at my fingertips. Push the button....bye....bye....'BZ.
 
Tilden said:
For those who have Sirius Satellite Radio the Budweiser and Bufferin time salesmen at WBZ iheart radio are not thinking of much. CNN,MSNBC,FOX at my fingertips. Push the button....bye....bye....'BZ.
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I think that comment went over your head. You were in this business, right?
 
I got it but just don’t agree with it . Still, Sirius commercials sound like a throw back to 50’s AM Radio. LOUD and abrasive like a top 40 of the day.
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Tilden said:
I got it but just don’t agree with it . Still, Sirius commercials sound like a throw back to 50’s AM Radio. LOUD and abrasive like a top 40 of the day.
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Lots of direct response commercials there. Apparently, legit advertisers and the agencies just aren't thrilled with reaching a potential less than 5 percent of total radio users in every market nationwide -- not to mention that many of those potential listeners are listening only to music, which means they never hear an ad of any kind. Other than SXM's SFX-laden, overproduced promos, that is. Those things just get my eyes rolling. Some genius there seems to think that distorting a voice to phone-line quality means you're promoting some cutting-edge music or talk. No, it just makes you sound like you're overpaying production people and voiceover talent to show contest judges or whoever just how clever they are. I note, also, that there's something of a glass ceiling for voiceover talent that sounds African-American at SXM: They only get to do promos for the NBA channel and various jazz and urban music channel. The NFL's player are mostly black, too, but SXM has chosen to go deep-voiced Caucasian testosterone for those promos. The guy sounds like a typical small-market "puker" trying to sound like John Facenda of NFL Films fame, and succeeding only in sounding ridiculous.
 
I don't understand this discussion at all. If you want news coverage without hyped presentation or commercials, all you have to do is listen to WGBH or WBUR.

It's really very simple. It doesn't cost anything extra (unless you want to become a member). There are no commercials. They're not owned by iHeart. They don't do lots of teases. Problem solved.
 
nowradioguy said:
Just curious: I'm not familiar with how the other former CBS O&O news stations - WCBS, WINS, WBBM, KYW, KDKA, KMOX, KRLD, WJR, KNX, KCBS, to name a few - did their news thing under CBS to make a comparison with how they are now faring under Entercom. I do feel bad that WBZ AM AND FM had to be separated from such a distinguished family.
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You have listed a combination of all-news stations, mostly talk stations and the hybrid of news in the daytime, talk at night that is WBZ.

KDKA, KMOX, KRLD, WJR are not news stations.
 
TheBigA said:
What are you talking about?
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Apparently it is something that had something to do with radio shortly after Marconi started this whole mess, I have never heard the term used anywhere except on this board, and a google search of it brings you right to this forum.

Bufferin? I think my Granddad had it next to his Burma Shave, Brylcream, and Aqua Velva.

Sometimes the record skips and you hear the same thing over and over again
 
MRBIboredop said:
Apparently it is something that had something to do with radio shortly after Marconi started this whole mess, I have never heard the term used anywhere except on this board, and a google search of it brings you right to this forum.

Bufferin? I think my Granddad had it next to his Burma Shave, Brylcream, and Aqua Velva.

Sometimes the record skips and you hear the same thing over and over again
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Ever heard of " Alliteration"?
 
DavidEduardo said:


You have listed a combination of all-news stations, mostly talk stations and the hybrid of news in the daytime, talk at night that is WBZ.

KDKA, KMOX, KRLD, WJR are not news stations.
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David,

OK, I didn't do my research on the format of the big-city stations, many with legacy call letters. I know they were NOT programming music or sports or religion or ethnic, and were off-loaded to Entercom.

My question still has some standing; to wit, does anyone know if the stations mentioned, particularly the all-newsers, are faring well under Entercom?

As for WBZ here: the jury is still out on how they're faring under iHeart. True, we now get ABC News Radio reports once again, along with those from CBS News Radio; the CBS Evening News is still aired twice each weeknight; almost all of the on-air voices are still heard; ads for CBS-TV are completely gone, replaced by ads for other (sometimes less relevant) iHeartRadio offerings (no more than twice per half-hour, as of late); and the teasers this thread was initiated to address (although it seems to have gotten off-course more than slightly).
 
MRBIboredop said:
Apparently it is something that had something to do with radio shortly after Marconi started this whole mess, I have never heard the term used anywhere except on this board, and a google search of it brings you right to this forum.

Bufferin? I think my Granddad had it next to his Burma Shave, Brylcream, and Aqua Velva.

Sometimes the record skips and you hear the same thing over and over again
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I also Googled "Budweiser and Bufferin" and got directed to threads on these forums.
 
nowradioguy said:
My question still has some standing; to wit, does anyone know if the stations mentioned, particularly the all-newsers, are faring well under Entercom?
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That's an impossible question to answer just 60 days into Entercom ownership. The entire Entercom ownership period has been covered by the December and Holiday books, notoriously ignored in the industry and agency communities.
 
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