• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Is WBZ starting to phase out their weekend News Blocks?

D

DavidZ

While in my car on Sunday morning, I noticed that “News Radio” WBZ-AM was airing a financial advice show on Sunday morning around 10:40 a.m. taking a call from a listener in New Jersey.

It was the syndicated “Ric Edelman Show”. I’m not sure what timeslot it occupies because according to their website, they are still All News, Traffic on the 3's, and Weather on the 10's from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.

http://www.wbz.com/pages/2945.php?

Oh how the mighty has fallen? With the rumor already being discussed in another thread about a prediction that CBS may be the next to file for bankruptcy, I suppose it should come as no surprise to me.

But I have to ask, “How long before New Englanders will not be able to get any local news on the radio on the weekends”? :-[
 
considering they canned most of their locally originated weekend shows in favor of informercials, it doesn't surprise me that they are going the WRKO route and selling whole blocks of time for money.

I did notice WRKO was airing 'Wall Street Journal Weekend' or something like that Saturday morning in either the 10 or 11o'clock hour where I thought they had a brokered show in the past. I wonder if the client bailed and they had to fill the hour with a no cost to them offering.
 
Go figure.

Long respected WBZ-AM is replacing news blocks with paid programming and has half the hits and discussion of 2-week old nescasts on WWZN.
 
They got the word at the end of '08 that weekends were going to be paid programming, eg: Komando replacing L.Dyett.
I don't know if Jordan Rich is weaving in time-purchasing guests to his shows or not?
 
Did I hear Katie Couric's CBS Evening Newscast simulcast on WBZ at 6:30 PM during drive time???? Commuters are still commuting and no "traffic on the 3's?" or "weather on the 10's" during that critical driving period during the rush hour?
 
This is when I get mightily embarrassed that WBZ's signal reaches 38 states. Thankfully it only happens at night. This is like selling Slap Chop and vacuum cleaners over the radio.
 
it may reach parts of 38 states, on a clear night, on a good radio, when there is no IBOC hash drowning them out, but in this day and age is anyone listening?
 
MRBIboredop said:
it may reach parts of 38 states, on a clear night, on a good radio, when there is no IBOC hash drowning them out, but in this day and age is anyone listening?
Click to expand...


What 12 States don't they reach. Let me see if I can guess.

1. Alaska
2. Hawaii
3. Washington
4. California
5. Nevada
6. Oregon
7. Idaho
8. Arizona
9. Colorado
10 Montana
11 Utah
12. Nebraska

OK... Am I right?
 
Skynet74 said:
What 12 States don't they reach. Let me see if I can guess. 1. Alaska 2. Hawaii 3. Washington 4. California 5. Nevada 6. Oregon 7. Idaho 8. Arizona 9. Colorado 10 Montana 11 Utah 12. Nebraska
Click to expand...

There are full-time stations on 1030 as close as Tennessee (two stations, both Class Bs, which makes them true full-timers, not Class D daytimers with low-power night authority). Although WBZ's signal in Chicago at night is legendary, there is a Class D station with nighttime authority licensed to Vernon Hills, only 40 or so miles west of Chicago. You also failed to list Wyoming, where KTWO operates on 1030 with 50 kW full-time DA-N using a simple two-tower directional array. Interestingly, KTWO protects WBZ to a lesser extent than do nearly all of the other former Class IIA stations protect the dominant co-channel Class As. This is true despite the fact that WBZ, because it is directional, sends to the west the equivalent of about 100 kW from any of the nondirectional Class A AMs, (With the exception of WBZ and WWL, all of the other former Class IAs AMs are nondirectional.)
 
I'll bet people in those 12 states listen to WBZ on the internet. I listen to Dan Rea and he gets emails from Alaska and Hawaii!
 
DanStrassberg said:
What 12 States don't they reach. Let me see if I can guess. 1. Alaska 2. Hawaii 3. Washington 4. California 5. Nevada 6. Oregon 7. Idaho 8. Arizona 9. Colorado 10 Montana 11 Utah 12. Nebraska
Click to expand...


OK... I would like to take back Nebraska and add Wyoming instead. Then I think the 12 states would be accurate.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom