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Live and Local in the Overnights?

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WFNERBSHX

Aside from Steve Leveille on WBZ, what other stations still have a live, local personality on the overnight shift?

BTW, I caught a bit of the Leveille fill-in for Uncle Dale on WODS this morning. I thought he and Karen Blake had a nice rapport. I think he'd be pretty good in that style of morning drive.
 
Will said:
spilot113 said:
Will said:
I believe everything owned by the Eye is 24/7.
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Oldies 103.3 has no one on overnights anymore.....and that's CBS.
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Really? I make my comment based on the presumably live jocks I've heard after 12 on ZLX and Mix.
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WZLX still has Al Cole on weeknight overnights and others on weekends, but 103.3 has no overnight jock, just a board-op punching up oldies (from what I've heard, it's not automated), and I haven't listened lately, but I don't think WBCN has an overnight jock anymore since Juanita was moved from that shift to weekends.
 
WZLX has Al Cole, and Travis mentioned in another post he has been doing overnights there on Fridays as of late.

WODS went jockless when they beached Patrick Callahan and moved J.J. Wright into the early evening slot.

WBOS and 93.7 are jockless 99.9 % of the time. 102.5 is off the bird on the overnight, WATD has live people on the overnight.
 
Yes WATD has Peter Black's Wide World of Blues. I understand former WMWM blues DJ Henri
'Jump Steady' Bellows was filling in for him the other night. Bellows was bounced from the SSC
station by the college after rude behavior.
 
It's great that WATD is live and local 24/7, but as far as I know, the DJ's on after 10 PM are not paid. It becomes a brokered and/or volunteer station from 10 PM to 5 AM.

Wide World Of Blues is brokered. They buy the time and get sponsors. I don't think that the late-night oldies and Doowop shows after the Blues show buy their graveyard shift airtime, but those DJ's are also not paid. Some of them do have some local sponsorships and spots, perhaps they get to keep some (or maybe all) of the revenue, I don't know.

It's really great that they have a visually-impaired DJ a few overnights a week (Ted McCaw) doing a deep '50s oldies and Doowop show out of his own customized studio at his home, using an audio link to the WATD studios! (It's a mono link, but most of the music he plays was never originally recorded in stereo anyway). What other commercial station anywhere would allow a blind DJ to live out his dream nowadays?

I do love listening to all those oldies, blues, and various other specialty shows on WATD. The hosts are all very dedicated, extremely knowledgeable about their genres, and passionate about what they're doing.
 
I pulled an overnight shift for a few years on ATD, I must say, the listeners were great and its a blast on graveyard. It is amazing how many people check in on the overnight. Who says no one listens at that hour????
 
About 30 years ago , I called in a music request to the "old sport" Norm Nathan on WHDH on the overnight. When there was still great radio on both AM and FM.
 
I've always been a great fan of live and local programming in the overnights, ever since I started listening to Norm Nathan during the weekends on WBZ. I've caught Ted McCaw a few times in the 2-5 shift on WATD and have really enjoyed him. Same goes for "'Round Midnight" heard Saturday-Sunday on 'ATD.

Another example of good, solid local overnight programming is "The Jazz Gallery" heard weekends on WGBH.

Staying with public radio for a moment, does WBUR go live with the station breaks during the BBC World Service or are they voicetracked?
 
WFNERBSHX said:
Staying with public radio for a moment, does WBUR go live with the station breaks during the BBC World Service or are they voicetracked?
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I can tell you with authority that the WBUR overnight BBC breaks are indeed live, I'm doing them every overnight (except Saturdays) for the next two weeks!

Normally, I do Thursday and Friday overnights year 'round (technically, Friday and Saturday mornings), and also most Tuesday overnights (Wednesday mornings) from September through June. The other overnight host is off for the next two weeks, so I'm filling in.
 
ZRXOA 5248 said:
102.5 is off the bird on the overnight
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WKLB does carry the popular "After MidNite" in overnights, but it is locally board-op'd. I was told that the each of the five studios in GM's Dorchester facility requires a board-op or personality 24/7, though that may no longer be the case.
 
encarta95 said:
I was told that the each of the five studios in GM's Dorchester facility requires a board-op or personality 24/7, though that may no longer be the case.
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WBOS 92.9 doesn't require anyone anymore......either board ops or listeners. ;-)

(...since it is 100% automated)
 
spilot113 said:
encarta95 said:
I was told that the each of the five studios in GM's Dorchester facility requires a board-op or personality 24/7, though that may no longer be the case.
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WBOS 92.9 doesn't require anyone anymore......either board ops or listeners. ;-)

(...since it is 100% automated)
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Really? I know someone who I had thought was board-oping 92.9 WBOS post-flip... perhaps said person is doing something else over there.
 
At least WROR still has former longtime WBCN overnight jock (and former WMBR DJ) Albert O. on weeknight overnights (but no weekend overnight jocks), and WMJX still has Michael Burns on weeknights, who has been on the shift for over twenty years. They're both live as far as I know.
 
According to the Magic 106.7 website, Burns is the top rated overnight personality in Boston. For some reason, I didn't think there was ratings information (or, at least, that Arbitron didn't bother with that day part) for 12A-6A. I'd imagine Leveille on 'BZ is right up there.
 
WFNERBSHX said:
According to the Magic 106.7 website, Burns is the top rated overnight personality in Boston. For some reason, I didn't think there was ratings information (or, at least, that Arbitron didn't bother with that day part) for 12A-6A. I'd imagine Leveille on 'BZ is right up there.
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pfft....I'm the highest rated classic rock overnight weekend jock for 18 - 54 males...where's my bonus check?
 
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