How many stations in Boston still have live overnight DJ's? I know WZLX has one live overnight shift a week..any others? I'm not counting WATD or WBZ because that is news and isn't a music jock...
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Live overnights
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The guy that does most of the WATD overnights is a good friend of mine, and has a real love of radio, unfortunately he thinks real radio is like WATD. He plays a TON of music and he even takes requests. He and I will go back and forth on Facebook chat picking the songs sometimes. Lots of times he is also doing the 10 to 2 blues show or board op'ing Sam Koppers show on Friday night.
Can I assume the only live ZLX shift is the one you are doing? I don't want to show my age, but I remember when Suzie Sherman did that shift. She was Harvey Wharfields producer, a very nice young lady... we hit a couple of concerts together and she'd have to get to work right after the show.
WPLM is somewhat live on the overnights, " Daniel Stevens" is in the building, some of it is VT'd while he is getting the morning news and other stuff ready for AM drive. I know for a fact he does some of it live though, I've seen it happen.
Can I assume the only live ZLX shift is the one you are doing? I don't want to show my age, but I remember when Suzie Sherman did that shift. She was Harvey Wharfields producer, a very nice young lady... we hit a couple of concerts together and she'd have to get to work right after the show.
WPLM is somewhat live on the overnights, " Daniel Stevens" is in the building, some of it is VT'd while he is getting the morning news and other stuff ready for AM drive. I know for a fact he does some of it live though, I've seen it happen.
MRBIboredop said:
I have moved off of weekend overnights and now do other various shifts...Mike Wendt is the only live voice left on the weekends...strange to think how few live music dj's are left in the overnights
Overnights, mid days, evenings, weekends, cripes pretty soon the only job left in radio will be to fill out all the FCC compliance forms and maintain the Public Inspection File.
We are going the way of the village blacksmith....
We are going the way of the village blacksmith....
AFAIK, WBUR still has a live employee on the mix board 24/7/365...even though the automation CAN be used to handle everything on the overnights if needed. That was true even back when I worked there in 1999...the rationale then was that management wanted a live body there to make a judgment call in the event of breaking news. At the very least, the "combo" board-op (operates the board AND goes on-mic) can call down the on-call list of senior newspeople and ask what to do.
FWIW, though, when I was there, there were only a few hours (from about 11pm to 3:30am) each day when only the board-op was in the building. Otherwise there was always a producer or news writer around. I would assume that's still true.
I think WGBH also had live board-ops in the studio 24/7 as well. No idea if the format change affected that one way or the other.
FWIW, though, when I was there, there were only a few hours (from about 11pm to 3:30am) each day when only the board-op was in the building. Otherwise there was always a producer or news writer around. I would assume that's still true.
I think WGBH also had live board-ops in the studio 24/7 as well. No idea if the format change affected that one way or the other.
but the local service station is another casualty of the changing times, self serve and C stores are more profitable than repairing cars, plus the lack of technicians that could work on all the different product lines and comprehend the computer based engine control systems, if they could get the proprietary codes that are not mandated under OBDII at all forced a change in the car business.
And that is my opinion, as a former mechanical tech who jumped into frame repair in 1992, and has had to refuse work, or sublet some of it because some manufacturers are not letting the repair info out to independent shop.
And that is my opinion, as a former mechanical tech who jumped into frame repair in 1992, and has had to refuse work, or sublet some of it because some manufacturers are not letting the repair info out to independent shop.
All interesting stuff, but it's been my experience that stations need more help in developing new business than sustaining the old business. The old business can be done by a computer. There's no mystery there. The new business has them baffled. If someone in-house can guide them through it, that may be more useful than having a live body on the air at a time when there's very little to gain.
aaronread said:
Yes, it still does.
aaronread said:
I've heard that there is no longer a board-op overnights at WGBH-FM. The breaks in the nationally sydicated jazz show aired after midnight are done by automation. There may be people in the facility on the television side, I don't know.
WZLX has a live board-op playing the music and spots weeknight overnights (in addition to the live hosted weekend overnight), but they are not permitted to live announce more than an occasional spot tagline on the weeknight overnights.
I've heard somebody overnight on WPLM 99.1, Dan Stevens I think his name is.
Yep that's the guy, I met him once, he really knows what he is doing, knows many aspects of the business, he is the overnight guy/morning show producer/news guy, and IIRC is a flash guy for Metro doing sports somewhere.
A very talented guy.
A very talented guy.
IngramMess said:
Dan may actually be live, I don't know how WPLM is run, but hearing somebody overnight doesn't necessarily mean that they are live nowadays. Many stations use voice-tracking overnight, where a host records the breaks earlier to make it sound like they are live, when they're not really there during the airshift. A computer is programmed to match the pre-recorded breaks up with the correct music, spots, etc...
Having interviewed for the weekend overnight position there in February ( and I was offered the gig), I can tell you "Daniel Stevens" is in the building and working his ass off at least 5 nights a week.
It is a shame that most overnights are not done live any longer. The perfect place to learn the trade. A good place to get to know your listeners. A great place to interact with the listeners. I enjoyed the "graveyard " shift.
Wbzfm2010 said:
Isn't Looney in LA but JT in Vegas?
PancakesRule said:
JT The Brick does his FSR show live from his Vegas studio w/Tom in LA, I think.
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