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Cumulus – All News Radio

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DavidZ

I have been listening on-line this morning to the new All News radio station (All News 106.7 WYAY-FM) that Cumulus just launched in Atlanta. I must say that it sounds very good. :D

http://player.streamtheworld.com/_players/citadel/?sid=1523

And to all the past posters that make excuses for why Boston doesn’t have a 24x7 news station, how could Atlanta have one and not Boston. The city proper population for Atlanta is 420,003 and the metro area is 5,268,860 compared to 617,594 for Boston and 7,559,060 for Greater Boston. IMHO, a 24x7 news radio station in Boston could not only survive but thrive.

As an aside, I noticed that WCRN in Worcester uses the same news, weather, and traffic sounders as All News 106.7 in Atlanta.
 
I'd rather have live talk with the ability to do breaking news than canned 24x7 news, it's just better content.

Anyone who's worked the overnight in a newsroom will tell you that you're working on the next morning's content, because there's NOTHING HAPPENING overnight.

Two $15.00/hour news-readers overnight has to be cheaper than running talk, CBS isn't dumb. There's a reason they're doing what they're doing.

(Actually, I think CBS Boston part-timers are up around $25 these days.)
 
DavidZ said:
to all the past posters that make excuses for why Boston doesn’t have a 24x7 news station, how could Atlanta have one and not Boston. The city proper population for Atlanta is 420,003 and the metro area is 5,268,860 compared to 617,594 for Boston and 7,559,060 for Greater Boston. IMHO, a 24x7 news radio station in Boston could not only survive but thrive.
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So, explain to us how you're going to pay for it and how it's going to turn a profit. The fact that Boston has a larger potential audience doesn't mean squat. Any business that wants to stay in business keeps an eagle eye on ROI and the bottom line. CBS obviously doesn't think the numbers add up, or else they would have done it years ago.

All-news is the most labor- and manpower-intensive format in radio, and as anyone who has ever run a business will tell you, salaries are the single largest "line item" in any business budget.

Further, WBZ is one of only a few AM's remaining in this market with any kind of decent ratings. Why blow up a winner?
 
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I don't know if it's true or not, but once I heard that when the old WEEI-590 went sports two decades ago, Westinghouse reportedly gave serious thought of making WBZ-1030 24/7 all-news.

But since their nighttime and overnight talk shows (David Brudnoy and Bob Raleigh respectively back then) were doing very well, the station decided not to extend all-news into the evening or overnight hours.
 
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