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WBZ New Lineup

CTListener said:
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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It's probably, at least some of the reasons, why John H. has three houses in New England. Treasures galore in each, I'm sure. Not to mention the planes.

I spent a good amount of time hanging out at 111-115 Broadway and on Soldiers Field Rd. Loved them both!
 
Getting back on topic, I noticed that the weekday anchors are now doing longer shifts. Jeff Brown went to 10 this morning before handing the anchor duties over to Laurie Kirby.

I just looked at their schedule (iHeart finally added their program schedule) and they have Jim MacKay from 5-6 a.m. with Jeff now starting at 6 with the new 4-hour shifts from there.

https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/schedule/
 
DavidZ said:
Getting back on topic, I noticed that the weekday anchors are now doing longer shifts. Jeff Brown went to 10 this morning before handing the anchor duties over to Laurie Kirby.

I just looked at their schedule (iHeart finally added their program schedule) and they have Jim MacKay from 5-6 a.m. with Jeff now starting at 6 with the new 4-hour shifts from there.

https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/schedule/
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At least they are now listing the anchor names on the program schedule. Since iHeart took over it seemed they were not including that whenever I looked.

The initial changes they made when iHeart took over I liked with the new sounders and some tweaks to the on air staff and presentation. What they've been doing since the beginning of this year I'm not a fan of. After the layoff in January I didn't listen at all but I have been listening again with this covid thing and being home more. I used to be able to keep it on all day and between having anchors changing every 20 minutes and it seemed more features, it didn't get monotonous to me. Now it does so I tend to listen for a half hour at most then switch to something else.

Of course dumping Deb Lawler and Bradley Jay was just not cool at all. Its funny with that WBZ flashback show on Sundays they do reruns of the old talk shows and now during overnights they do re-runs of the news. Some 20 percent+ of programming is now reruns but they are "always live, always local" - good one.

I always wonder what someone at WLW has on iheart management cause somehow they manage to keep a local overnight show in market 32 but market 10 WBZ or even market 1 at WOR gets re-runs or syndication. I think the entire WLW schedule is local for the most part - except some of the weekends.
 
spt87 said:
I always wonder what someone at WLW has on iheart management cause somehow they manage to keep a local overnight show in market 32 but market 10 WBZ or even market 1 at WOR gets re-runs or syndication. I think the entire WLW schedule is local for the most part - except some of the weekends.
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Actually America's Trucking Network is a syndicated show based at WLW. I think it's also heard on Sirius.

As for listing anchor names, that's a very common thing at other similar stations. The goal is to create an identifiable personality in the daypart, rather than generic "news."
 
Is Don Huff on live overnights? Or maybe he records in the evenings and runs overnight? That would at least be better than what they were doing.
 
But how does it work now since they do continuous news overnights. Does he record a few half hour newscasts and they alternate them?
 
dhoule said:
But how does it work now since they do continuous news overnights. Does he record a few half hour newscasts and they alternate them?
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His pre-recorded news segments are shorter than that because they still break for "traffic and weather on the 3's" every ten minutes overnights, however, the weather forecast is also pre-recorded.

The traffic reporter sounds live in real time, but I don't know whether he's working for the station, or one of the traffic services that serves many stations. He does the current Boston temperature at the end of the traffic reports, it's not included in the pre-recorded weather forecast.
 
Does WBZ still have traffic reports during the overnight?

I’ve read on the various boards that KYW in Philadelphia, WINS in New York, and WBBM in Chicago have dropped their overnight traffic reports.
 
DavidZ said:
Does WBZ still have traffic reports during the overnight?
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They did as of a week ago when I last listened, but though the traffic reporter is their only live real-time voice overnights, I don’t know whether he may be working for a service such as iHeart’s Total Traffic that serves many stations, rather than for WBZ itself.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
They did as of a week ago when I last listened, but though the traffic reporter is their only live real-time voice overnights, I don’t know whether he may be working for a service such as iHeart’s Total Traffic that serves many stations, rather than for WBZ itself.
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Are not ALL of WBZ's traffic reports from iHeart's Total Traffic and News operation? The only time they were not was for roughly one year when WBZ, then-owned by CBS Radio dropped TTN in favor of CBS' own traffic service (whose name escapes me), which fizzled for one reason or the other. I seem to recall a lawsuit between Entercom and the failed entity that began under CBS's watch.

I'm guessing that the overnight traffic reporters are not restricted to being on 'BZ exclusively, since they may serve other iHeart and even non-iHeart stations in the region.
 
Still trying to figure out how the overnight news is done now. Don Huff is listed as doing the anchoring. Does he record a couple half hours that keep repeating?
 
inorm99 said:
I hope Madison Rogers in afternoon drive this week is only to cover Nichole
Davis in her absence
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I like Madison Rogers a lot, but my hunch is Nichole Davis, Kevin Brennan, and Tina Gao may each be on vacation, since I haven't heard any of these three in over a week. People do need some downtime. When they are absent around three weeks then there's a different message.
 
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