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WBZ New Lineup
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And what about Jim McKay? He was reporting from NH on Tuesday.
I like Suzanne Sallsville a lot; she's knowledgeable, seems at-ease on air, and doesn't fumble, but I thought she was a news writer/editor. I mean, is she a place holder for Jim McKay or Nicole Davis?
A 6:00 - 8:00 PM shift seems kind of short compared to what the other anchors are getting.
I can't wait to see what's going to happen during the weekend.
The one-minute summary feeds to WRKO are now more aged than before. E.g., Jeff Brown, who leaves the air at 9:00 AM, is heard doing
pre-recorded updates for WRKO well up until noon.
Jeff Brown does start at 5 so it looks like he has a 4 hour shift. I also noticed that the weekday anchors are reporting on stories as well so they’re pulling double duty.
This leads me to believe that more cuts may be in the offing at 1030.
Tina Gao ?
Methinks Tina will remain on weekends with Art Cohen and Charlie Bergeron. I prefer the retired Doug Cope to Charlie Sherman(!!!).
And, similar to Shari Small, Mike Macklin is a better reporter than on-air anchor.
Charlie Sherman is better suited for TV. Doug Cope is a solid newsman but I find his delivery a little mechanical. I have started listening Bloomberg Business Radio more often in the afternoon. I find I get the news I need and the interviews are interesting.
This may be a moot point, since the weekend lineup - at least up until 6:00 PM on both days this weekend - was:
Charlie Bergeron 5:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Art Cohen 9:00 AM - noon
Madison Rogers 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tina Gao 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
It remains to be seen whether Madison Rogers, who is VERY GOOD, BTW, stays in that spot, or whether she was subbing for Mike Macklin. I'm hoping it was the former.
It’s Monday, March 2. ‘BZ has Shari Small struggling with the news during the noon to 3:00 pm shift. I wish someone would relieve her and put Madison Rogers or Suzanne Sallsville in her place.
Sorry, Shari; you’re a great reporter but anchoring is not your forte.
Sorry, Shari; you’re a great reporter but anchoring is not your forte.
Tired Of It All
Banned
WHY do they record one newscast and then play it over and over again for hours on end? AND...say at 3am a newscast from 9am will air? WHY? Secondly, on Talk1200 the station consistently airs two things at once especially in the morning, for instance the local news and the national news will air simultaneously, or their stupid "top three songs of taylor swift" will air along with the beginning of a program, it is especially prevalent on the weekends. I have emailed talk1200, sent a tweet to them and have also notified Iheart, to no avail. The other nite on RKO during Coast to Coast there was dead air for long periods of time, it was like they lost the feed to C2C and then all of a sudden it would reconnect, it went on for hours. I know or at least think everything is computerized BUT who is responsible for setting these things up? Shouldn't they be held responsible? I can picture a fifth grader doing a better job. Talk1200 has been doing the double airings for months and months.
There seems to be a connection here ... WBZ, WRKO, and WXKS (Talk 1200). Hmmmm .... three iHeart stations. Got it ... 1. No one is home at the stations, 2. Nobody cares, and 3. Is anybody still listening?
WBZ had a huge jump in January, the third most-listened to station in Boston. WRKO is also up. Still highly rated. So yes, lots of people are listening.
Talk1200 is a doorstop. Always was, and still is. iHeart uses it to run their secondary shows.
My point is that it takes only ONE person to listen ... someone minding the store while three radio stations (in a major market) run into technical problems during the overnights. Everybody is in the same building. Maybe a body from the "doorstop" can help out.
Are you volunteering to do it for free?
Hmmm ... throw in a sandwich and some coffee and we might have a deal.
Oh ... and the Larry Glick tapes! I promise (maybe) to air them only between 2 and 4 am.
Will you be responsible for the lawsuit?
Pffttt, no worries but it'll cost ya. Talk1200 (the Doorstop) ... the Steve Fredericks Show OR you can break the talk format in the middle of the night and go music ... Bud Ballou, John H. Garabedian, or Ron Robin. Your choice. What a deal!!
Pffttt, no worries but it'll cost ya. Talk1200 (the Doorstop) ... the Steve Fredericks Show OR you can break the talk format in the middle of the night and go music ... Bud Ballou, John H. Garabedian, or Ron Robin. Your choice. What a deal!!
I wonder if tapes still exist of John H.'s show on WGTR 1060 Natick when he was running it. His show was often prerecorded and aired using a quirky early automation system using tapes that frequently got the cues fouled up. He and Don Kelley used to alternate shifts there, Don in the a.m., John in the p.m. Now those tapes would be more interesting for me than old Glick shows.
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