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Herald Radio's Morning Meeting starts today on WCRN

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DavidZ

Starting this morning at 10 a.m. Is Morning Meeting from Boston Herald Radio on WCRN. This replaces the Financial Exchange that can now be heard on cross town rival WTAG. Kudos to WCRN for not going with a national syndicated show or more infomercials to fill this time spot.
 
Interesting; Tom Shattuck formerly of Michael Graham's show works for BHR which was also recently added to WUFC 9-10a. Agreed.
 
Thinking out loud...why does the Boston Herald promote the 1st hour of Morning Meeting on WUFC in the paper but no mention of the WCRN simulcast for the next 2 hours? You would think they would want to promote that there is another over-the-air signal that the audience can listen to in the Herald.

Even though WCRN's city of license is Worcester, I can hear the station quite well in my drive into Boston except for pockets in downtown.
 
DavidZ said:
Thinking out loud...why does the Boston Herald promote the 1st hour of Morning Meeting on WUFC in the paper but no mention of the WCRN simulcast for the next 2 hours? You would think they would want to promote that there is another over-the-air signal that the audience can listen to in the Herald.

Even though WCRN's city of license is Worcester, I can hear the station quite well in my drive into Boston except for pockets in downtown.
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Maybe because Boston listeners don't matter to WCRN? Is WCRN itself promoting the two hours of Morning Meeting it carries? That's really all that matters so far as the show reaching the listeners WCRN's advertisers want to reach goes.
 
Hank Stolz talks inside radio on his show from time-to-time. He has mentioned as recently as last week that whenever station management thinks they're becoming too Worcester centric in their topics on the WCRN Morning News, they are reminded that they have 50,000 watts and they are much more than just Worcester.

As for promoting the simulcast of Morning Meeting, Hank does a cross-over with Hilary Chabot every morning just before 9 a.m. so you would think the Herald print edition would promote it as well.
 
DavidZ said:
Hank Stolz talks inside radio on his show from time-to-time. He has mentioned as recently as last week that whenever station management thinks they're becoming too Worcester centric in their topics on the WCRN Morning News, they are reminded that they have 50,000 watts and they are much more than just Worcester.
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Yes, they are. They're Fitchburg and Leominster and Gardner, and maybe even Westborough and Sturbridge. Not Boston.
 
No offense but I disagree. They ID themselves as New England's News & Talk WCRN Worcester-Boston. I usually listen quite often and unless there is a story from the Fitchburg, Leominster, Gardner corridor that is being talked about on a state wide basis, they never mention those towns. Most of their callers to the morning show are from the Worcester, Metrowest, Route 128 area. In fact, I believe most of their signal is directed towards Boston.

And when WTKK pulled the plug on talk, they picked up many listeners from them.
 
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