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1510: Boston's HALF Sports Station...

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Their website currently says "Boston's Sports Station" ( http://www.1510thezone.com ) but really that may be misleading soon, as Jeff Santos' announcement was that they would not only keep running his prog. talk show but adding Stephanie Miller, Ed Schulz, and Thom Hartmann as well (I don't know when) thus having lefty
talk 6 am to 6 pm. Yeah, they are still sports after 6p, but when you consider half the day will be not sports...

It may take awhile for various updates to show up, incl. the WWZN site (again no idea when the other
shows will be added).
 
Slogan time?

1510: The (Twilight) Zone

1510: Lefties On The Right (side of the dial)

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1510 Hockey: Only Left-Wingers Play
(no goalies, rightwingers, defensemen...)
 
Progressive talk all day and syndicated sports talk at night. That doesn't really make much sense from a programming standpoint, now does it?

Why not go with classical all day and hip hop at night? Just as jarring. It's looking more and more like a bunch of monkeys with typewriters are programming WWZN now.
 
It's all for money; Santos and friends came up with it and provided they can sell some time to make their
money back...yes it does seem like strange bedfellows (and they do say politics makes them...)

Dan S passes along the lineup: Santos expanded 6-10 am, Steph Miller 10-noon (yup only 2 hrs),
Ed Schulz 12-3, Thom Hartmann 3-6, and a show to be named later till 7 (so make that 13 hours...)
 
raccoonradio said:
Their website currently says "Boston's Sports Station" ( http://www.1510thezone.com ) but really that may be misleading soon, as Jeff Santos' announcement was that they would not only keep running his prog. talk show but adding Stephanie Miller, Ed Schulz, and Thom Hartmann as well (I don't know when) thus having lefty
talk 6 am to 6 pm. Yeah, they are still sports after 6p, but when you consider half the day will be not sports...

It may take awhile for various updates to show up, incl. the WWZN site (again no idea when the other
shows will be added).
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The new lineup kicks off Monday, May 4. Progressive talk runs until 7:00PM, not 6:00PM as you posted in a different thread. Santos hopes to announce the talent for the 6:00PM hour on Friday. Don't hold your breath, though. He's probably trying to line up Rachel Maddow, whose program airs live from 6:00 to 7:00PM, I believe. But AFAIK, Maddow still works (on radio) for AirAmerica. Since all of the other syndie talent in WWZN's Progressive talk lineup is from Dial Global and Dial Global is probably paying at least part of the freight for leasing the time, there could easily be a problem with airing a program from a competing syndicator.

But even if the Progressive Talk runs only until 6:00PM, you are wrong about calling WWZN a half-sports station. The 5:00AM hour is leased by Brother Stair, leaving less than 50% of the broadcast day for sports. The correct slogan would be Boston's not-quite half-sports station. But anyhow, WWZN's own Web site is not the Web site Santos is promoting. He has his own site: http://www.revolutionboston.com/
 
Re: 1510: Boston's (less than half) Sports Station...

Oh OK--and you're right, I forgot about brother Stair! I think Stair was on around 2-3 am also recently.
And revolutionboston.com will stream.
 
I tipped off the folks at http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com so the sports fans would know why they may tune in next week to hear prog talk instead of sports during the day, and their head honcho Bruce A. relayed it to
his forum and asked "Is this their plan to counter mostly-conservative WEEI? ::) "

There actually is a kind of political point/counter-point on one WEEI show, JT The Brick from Fox Sports
Radio. Yankees-worshipping John Tournour (who actually bears a slight resemblance to George W Bush)*
is conservative while his sidekick Tom Looney (yes, his real name) is liberal

"...Stategery..."
http://www.joesportsfan.com/jsfpics/columns/brick.jpg

JT and Tom Looney
http://www.foxsportsmerced.com/images/JTTheBrickLooney.jpg
 
>Progressive talk all day and syndicated sports talk at night. That doesn't really make much sense from a >programming standpoint, now does it?
>
Well, the former WEIM in Fitchburg is running conservative talk all day and sports all night. Nobody's complaining about that.

It's a one-year lease on the daytime programming, which means, I think, that it reverts back to the original programming by night. However, Santos suggested that "Revolution Boston" would be the moniker 24-hours, and it's clear that his goal is to go all progressive talk after this first year. Thumbs up to him.
 
raccoonradio said:
... Jeff Santos' announcement was that they would not only keep running his prog. talk show but adding Stephanie Miller, Ed Schulz, and Thom Hartmann...
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raccoonradio said:
Ed Schulz
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raccoonradio said:
12-3
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I think the misspelling of Mr. Schultz' name might be a Freudian slip, as I'm sure the return on this investment will be peanuts... ;D

As far as cartoon characters per se, I always identified "Big Ed" with Fred Flintstone...
 
If a certain newspaper goes pretty much out of business tomorrow, I wonder if some of them could get jobs at 1510. One possibility: Charlie Pierce, who complained (acc. to the Boston Phoenix) about the Herald's
gleeful coverage of the BG's possible demise. The Phoenix quotes a Herald worker who says the Globe
was no different back in the 80s, offering a "a relentless barrage the entire town interpreted as a calculated attempt to put us in our grave."

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/81717-Will-the-Globe-survive/?page=3#TOPCONTENT

Pierce, who won an award for liberal bias from the Media Research Center, would be a great addition to 1510.
Sure, hire the unemployed Globies at WWZN. New slogan: The Globe's _HERE_....

Yeah I must have thought Big Ed's last name was spelled that way; I had seen it spelled that way elsewhere
and thought, "most people with that surname have the t included but he may be an exception that proves
the rule".
 
raccoonradio said:
If a certain newspaper goes pretty much out of business tomorrow, I wonder if some of them could get jobs at 1510.
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Where do you get the idea that WWZN is hiring anybody? Isn't this ALL brokered/leased time programming?
 
Ha...I was joking of course :) The fact that Globe writers, etc. may be out of work, but look what's going on the air--and yup it is brokered time. (I know it's far-fetched but some of them could BUY time from WWZN,
put themselves on, then maybe if someone bought the station they could be hired by the new owner...
Yeah, far fetched.)

And just think: you know the Globe's ban of having their writers on WEEI? If they get laid off/early retirement,
etc., they'd prob be available...
 
Eli Polonsky said:
Where do you get the idea that WWZN is hiring anybody? Isn't this ALL brokered/leased time programming?
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If anybody is hiring in connection with the new programming at WWZN, it would be Jeff Santos--and I don't believe for an instant that he is hiring anyone right now. He does have a company, though, and he occasionally refers to it on the air--Santos Communications.

As for why people THINK WWZN must be hiring, even though the fact that the station is all brokered time has been stated over and over and over in this and related threads, some fraction of the readers appear either not to understand that this is the case or not to know what brokered time is. Kind of makes you wonder whether whoever it was who said that nobody ever lost money by understimating the intelligence of the audience might not have been right after all.
 
Again, I was kinda joking--hey, if the Globies lose their jobs... not that they would nec. be hiring at WWZN
though if Santos had $ to spend, who knows? Meanwhile someone just emailed me and said they were running a bit of Stephanie Miller already, plus a Schultz rerun, though when I tuned in at 2:35 it was
Snoring News Radio about boxing or something. Maybe testing out the sat. feeds?

Again...I was joking.
 
raccoonradio said:
Again, I was kinda joking--hey, if the Globies lose their jobs... not that they would nec. be hiring at WWZN
though if Santos had $ to spend, who knows? Meanwhile someone just emailed me and said they were running a bit of Stephanie Miller already, plus a Schultz rerun, though when I tuned in at 2:35 it was
Snoring News Radio about boxing or something. Maybe testing out the sat. feeds?

Again...I was joking.
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I heard part of the Ed Schultz show rerun between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm. I noticed two changes...WWZN never
referred to itself as "The Zone" during this show, and the commercials were completely different from the type of spots I occasionally hear when monitoring AM 1510 or ESPN 890 on 1400. It wasn't until AFTER the only hour of the Ed Schultz show that I heard typical WWZN advertising: for an 800-number that will give you "guaranteed winners" for when you call your bookie!
 
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