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Have you heard the "NEWS"?

Rob Piotrowski said:
Tune in to "Buffalo's #1 Oldies Station" Monday morning!
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So, Tony Magoo has returned to the Buffalo radio market as WECK’s morning newscaster. I Googled his name and found he works for a service called Virtual News. So, presumably, Tony is doing his casts from where he now lives in Mississippi. It’s good for WECK to have a news presence in AM drive again. And Tony may be a familiar name to the older radio audience WECK attracts, plus he’s familiar with our regional town and highway names.

Obviously, Tony will be using other local media websites to gather his news. That’s okay for crime stories or events that most media are covering. But he needs to be careful of using enterprise stories from a specific outlet. For instance, Tony used a front page enterprise story from the Sunday News about declining church contributions here in the wake of the clergy abuse scandal. He did not attribute it to the News. That’s bad! That might have been standard practice 30 years ago. But taking exclusive content without attribution is rarely done anymore. And it only makes the broadcasting industry look bad when a print reporter hears his work without proper attribution. Plus, Tony stumbled over the word “diocese,” which I usually hear mispronounced by younger anchors.

I did like the way he linked a dinner by NFL players at Chef’s the other night with his remembrance of similar dinners at the Pierce Arrow during the Bills Super Bowl years. Sure, he inserted himself into the story, which would not be appropriate for an anchor at a news station. But WECK is a music station, so the rules are different. And it was fun hearing Danny insert the clip from the popular cartoon, “Ah, Magoo, you’ve done it again.”
 
Mark1981 said:
So, Tony Magoo has returned to the Buffalo radio market as WECK’s morning newscaster. I Googled his name and found he works for a service called Virtual News. So, presumably, Tony is doing his casts from where he now lives in Mississippi. It’s good for WECK to have a news presence in AM drive again. And Tony may be a familiar name to the older radio audience WECK attracts, plus he’s familiar with our regional town and highway names.

Obviously, Tony will be using other local media websites to gather his news. That’s okay for crime stories or events that most media are covering. But he needs to be careful of using enterprise stories from a specific outlet. For instance, Tony used a front page enterprise story from the Sunday News about declining church contributions here in the wake of the clergy abuse scandal. He did not attribute it to the News. That’s bad! That might have been standard practice 30 years ago. But taking exclusive content without attribution is rarely done anymore. And it only makes the broadcasting industry look bad when a print reporter hears his work without proper attribution. Plus, Tony stumbled over the word “diocese,” which I usually hear mispronounced by younger anchors.

I did like the way he linked a dinner by NFL players at Chef’s the other night with his remembrance of similar dinners at the Pierce Arrow during the Bills Super Bowl years. Sure, he inserted himself into the story, which would not be appropriate for an anchor at a news station. But WECK is a music station, so the rules are different. And it was fun hearing Danny insert the clip from the popular cartoon, “Ah, Magoo, you’ve done it again.”
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Are you kidding me? WBEN has been getting all its news from The Buffalo News for years and NEVER attributes the info to the source! They have one reporter in the field, that squeaky voiced kid called Sean Keenum or whatever. They have become an embarrassment to this market!
 
<<<Are you kidding me? WBEN has been getting all its news from The Buffalo News for years>>>

Again, taking a crime story or another simple report is OK. But an "enterprise" story that a reporter had to do some investigating for, should always be credited. I hope both WBEN and WECK make sure they make that distinction. There's no dishonor in quickly saying in the second sentence "in a Buffalo Evening News story..."
 
How many people wake up and turn WECK on for news? The oldsters who don't do Reddit, Drudge, Channel 2, 4 or 7, or the Buffalo News on line, which is behind a paywall. They're at WBEN anyway.

Are you kidding me? WBEN has been getting all its news from The Buffalo News for years and NEVER attributes the info to the source! They have one reporter in the field, that squeaky voiced kid called Sean Keenum or whatever. They have become an embarrassment to this market!
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The Buffalo News is the source for a lot of radio stations' breaking stories. But give the guy a break. Sure, back in the day he might have spent a few years polishing his act in Batavia or Dunkirk before moving up to WBEN, but he actually does some pretty decent reporting. Who says a guy has to be Bobby Ballsvoice to do good reporting?
 
Frankly, I don’t listen to WBEN for news much. I avoid the station because of its extreme right wing talk content. That said, I disagree with “Oldbloodandguts” that WBEN gets most of its content from the Buffalo News. That’s simply not true anymore. I checked the WBEN website on the day “OB&G” made the charge. All the stories there were either follow-up stories on issues in the news or breaking stories most media outlets had. Sure, they were in the Buffalo News, too. But that doesn’t mean WBEN “stole” them. Here’s the thing. The News may break a story, such as the clergy abuse scandal in February 2018. But then other media follow up. WBEN has had a few exclusive interviews with Bishop Malone. Channel 7 has obtained diocesan documents and shared them with its audience. The story is now in the public domain. The problem I had with Tony Magoo on Monday is that he read a very specific story from the Buffalo News from Sunday’s front page and didn’t credit the News. Yes, the Buffalo News will break stories. But so, too, will TV newsrooms and Buffalo radio’s two newsrooms. And other outlets will follow up and make the stories their own. There’s nothing wrong with that, though it would be nice to acknowledge the original source of the story. What I have a problem with is those radio stations, primarily those that play music and have AM newscasts, which do steal the content of others and make it appear as if the stories are their own. Simply attribute the source, and there’s no problem.
 
The WECK website has news feed stories credited to WGRZ TV. Others have noted that WECK is not a news station. If the newly hired newsreader is in Mississippi, that isn't exactly "Live & Local". He's probably there more for nostalgia anyway. Stories about "Remember When" for the Upper Upper Demos.

People who want actual news on the radio are listening to NPR(WBFO in Buffalo). Mississippi Magoo can always find some yarns in the funny papers...
 
The question is "Have you heard the NEWS"? I have and I have a couple of thoughts regarding Mr. Shula's latest talent excavation.

(Let me first say I've never met Tony. I know he worked in Buffalo radio and from what I've read, he left town in the mid-90s and worked in some major markets. A talented guy apparently and well-liked, I guess, from those here in Buffalo who knew him.)

One-Tony needs to slow down and speak more clearly. His diction is a bit sloppy and the quality of his audio feed is of poor quality (sibilant), not nearly matching the quality of Gail and Tom's "live" mics. This could be the room he's recording in, the mic he's using or some other technical issue. The point is-if he's going to be a longtime player on the WECK morning show (and that hasn't happened with any news guy yet), this needs to be fixed.

Two-I'm surprised that Mr. Magoo received billing in the latest renaming of the morning show from the get-go. It would be different if he was part of the conversations with the show's hosts between tunes. But why would a guy that ships his two minute contribution to the the station via the internet with absolutely no other interplay with Gail & Tom within the program hour get billing in the show's title?

I guess Buddy feels he's added another "legend" to his team. But did Tony ever achieve the notoriety in Buffalo radio that Donahue, Huber, Summers, Moore, Neaverth, Zach and Shula have? He's been gone for about 24 years. Can Tony be considered a Buffalo radio "legend"?
 
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