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96-1 WSRS/Worcester morning show

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Morning co-host Suzanne Lewis has been out on medical leave for a year. Co-host (Chris) Zito has been flying solo since then. I don't know when the official change happened but, listening in for a bit this morning, morning drive is now The Morning Show with Zito.

The show is also heard on Mix 93.1 in Springfield.
 
Interesting, Her Instagram and X pages have fresh content, including photos of an apparently happy, smiling Lewis all set for Halloween fun on Instagram. Both pages also indicate she's still at WSRS, too.
 
CTListener said:
Interesting, Her Instagram and X pages have fresh content, including photos of an apparently happy, smiling Lewis all set for Halloween fun on Instagram. Both pages also indicate she's still at WSRS, too.
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Look at the time time stamps on her posts. The most recent posts are from LAST October.
 
Isn't it odd that WSRS Worcester is a Mainstream AC station and WHYN-FM Springfield is a Hot AC station. Can they both share a morning show? Aren't the Hot AC listeners going to want a different playlist than the Mainstream AC listeners?

I know some rock-oriented morning shows can be on various rock genres because they either play very little music. Or because their stations are playing their own songs between the show's bits. But I never heard of that with an AC morning show.
 
It does have a different playlist. I think WHYN does the Premium Choices "The Mix" Hot AC playlist while WSRS does the "Soft Rock" Premium Choice AC playlist, except during Christmas Time. I think they have different playlists in the morning despite it being the same show.
 
Gregg. said:
Isn't it odd that WSRS Worcester is a Mainstream AC station and WHYN-FM Springfield is a Hot AC station. Can they both share a morning show? Aren't the Hot AC listeners going to want a different playlist than the Mainstream AC listeners?

I know some rock-oriented morning shows can be on various rock genres because they either play very little music. Or because their stations are playing their own songs between the show's bits. But I never heard of that with an AC morning show.
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JackindaBox said:
It does have a different playlist. I think WHYN does the Premium Choices "The Mix" Hot AC playlist while WSRS does the "Soft Rock" Premium Choice AC playlist, except during Christmas Time. I think they have different playlists in the morning despite it being the same show.
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JackindaBox said:
Pretty ironic they both have the same morning show.
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Not ironic at all, economies of scale and thats done with other stations.. shared "local" or "Regional" morning shows.

I know some are VT'd in the moment.. IE, just minutes before the break airs, they vocietrack it and it gets sent over to their respective automation systems so theres no sloppy rejoin if one stations break is longer than the other in a simulcast thats live live
 
I have heard "Greg and The Morning Buzz" hosted by Greg Kretschmar, while in New Hampshire. It airs on WGIR-FM Manchester, an iHeart Active Rock station, on WHEB Portsmouth, an iHeart Mainstream Rock station and on WLKZ Wolfeboro, a Classic Rock station with a local owner. The show plays only a few songs an hour, and only songs that fit all these rock formats, Rolling Stones, Boston (very big in New England), Van Halen, etc.

But Paul may be right when he says the WSRS - WHYN-FM morning show cast may just do their bits a few minutes before they air, and send them to each station's automation system. Worcester and Springfield are about 35 miles apart.

I have heard WSRS on weekends while in the Boston area. All the weekend DJs I heard were from the staff of WLTW New York.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Not ironic at all, economies of scale and that's done with other stations.. shared "local" or "regional" morning shows.

I know some are VT'd in the moment; i.e., just minutes before the break airs, they voice-track it and it gets sent over to their respective automation systems so there's no sloppy rejoin if one station's break is longer than the other in a simulcast that's live live
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Really. Is this any way to run a radio station?

Duh - this is "the new normal", right? But I don't have to like this.

What local flavor can a "regional" host provide?
 
nowradioguy said:
Really. Is this any way to run a radio station?

Duh - this is "the new normal", right? But I don't have to like this.

What local flavor can a "regional" host provide?
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WSRS is #1 and WHYN #4, so this is working for them
 
WMC2006 said:
Morning co-host Suzanne Lewis has been out on medical leave for a year. Co-host (Chris) Zito has been flying solo since then. I don't know when the official change happened but, listening in for a bit this morning, morning drive is now The Morning Show with Zito.

The show is also heard on Mix 93.1 in Springfield.
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They used to have an excellent morning program with Greg and Suzanne. Zito grates the ears, especially without anyone else to dilute him. Garbage decisions at 96.1 đź’°
 
The Greg of 'Greg and Suzanne' was Greg Byrne. He left the radio world way back in 2016 for a marketing job with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Worcester. A couple of his previous on-air partners are Jackie Brush and Heidi West (not at the same time). Heidi's husband is Jay Beau Jones, recently laid off from WROR.

Suzanne flew solo for a while before teaming up with WSRS part timer Greg Bedard, becoming 'Suzanne and Greg'. In 2020, Greg Bedard was laid off (maybe Greg Byrne saw the writing on the wall a few years earlier) by IHeart along with Tony Bristol who was WTAG's program director. As mentioned earlier, Suzanne was then teamed up with Chris Zito for the Worcester/Springfield simulcast.

Greg Bedard, according to what I just saw via Google, does a 2 hour morning show on New Bedford's Big Hits Big 101.3 which sounds like, but isn't, Big 103 (formerly WODS/Oldies 103).

There will be a quiz later. Neatness counts!
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
WSRS is #1 and WHYN #4, so this is working for them
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It may not be working all that well for WHYN-FM. In the June book (12+, Mon–Sun, 6am–midnight), MIX 93.1 gets clobbered by WMAS and WAQY, and ranks slightly lower than WSPR, a 470-watt station at 1490 kHz.
 
Kemosabe said:
It may not be working all that well for WHYN-FM. In the June book (12+, Mon–Sun, 6am–midnight), MIX 93.1 gets clobbered by WMAS and WAQY, and ranks slightly lower than WSPR, a 470-watt station at 1490 kHz.
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WSPR has a translator at 104.5 and Springfield/Holyoke has a large Spanish-dominant Hispanic population. The translator covers the area of the market where its target audience is very well.
 
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