patriots day explosion

[raccoonradio]

WRKO/WEEI had talk and some news until midnight. As you say WBZ had Dan Rea with guests, etc.
(talk and some news) but then went into news for awhile, then back to talk at midnight. (I had
tuned into WBZ at one point about 9:30 or 10 pm and heard the sound bite of Rich Shortenlieb
of Sports Hub talking about what his family went through)

>>essentially repeated the same information, same interviews and sound bites for hours over and over.

It was good to get all that info out there but again after awhile it becomes like CNN Headline News
(not CNN-HN's talk shows), half hour blocks of news, etc. repeated over and over and over.
People are home from work in most cases. They can turn to TV or comp. for news...WBZ instead
has talk shows and does well with them. It is the right formula.

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

CBS kept it going with Bradley Jay and Rea, etc. (and by midnight the FMs changed back to music). Credit them with spreading their coverage to 4 spots on the FM dial for all those hours and yes maybe this is a preview of what could eventually be "NewsRadio103.3" or "NewsRadio104.1"
or whatever.

But did they really need to be simulcast on all four FMs?
Wouldn’t it have been better to //1.030 on just one of them——say 103.3——and (maybe) carry Ch.4 audio on one of the others (yes, the AM //’ed TV at times), with the others giving either DJ report updates and/or TOH //1.030 updates.
Or, if they really wanted wall-to-wall coverage on all four, carry AM and TV on the two Pru (e.g., 100.7-AM, 104.1-TV) and Newton (98.5-TV, 103.3-AM) stations, for complementary signal coverage.
On the flip-side, they should have kept one of them——again, 103.3 probably the best candidate——with 1.030 all night, if not for the duration of the wall-to-wall crisis coverage.

(BTW, at least in the late evening, WTIC-1.080 was // to 1.030, too)

 

[raccoonradio]

Given the same amount of ground they cover, yes they could have done it on one or two but not four. And as you say maybe one do the Ch 4 simulcast...and have the other 2 do some
periodic updates if possible.

Ent. had RKO on the full WEEI network and also I guess at least WHYN stayed with RKO (Kuhner)
past 7 pm, as someone from CT pointed out on Free Republic.
http://www.weei.com/weei/shows-schedules/network-stations

 

[ArtSpooner]

Felger and mazz let bertrand do one report on the explosion. During the second report, felger interrupted him when bertrand cited unconfirmed reports, at that point felger interrupted him and simulcast channel four

 

[richllewis]

I was listening to WBZ's feed yesterday afternoon from my home in Mississippi. A little bit of advice. If there is a next time, and WBZ defers to WBZ-TV and their reporters are doing the yeoman work, they need not preempt the TV coverage as much as they did. It would have been better if they would have both teamed up a little better instead of interrupting as much on Radio as they did. Otherwise the TV side did a better job doing the reporting than the radio side did. And what WBZ radio did was as good a job under the circumstances.

You know tragic events such as the one you in Boston experienced yesterday brings out the best in doing broadcast news. In my neck of the woods there was Katrina and the fine job WWL did in New Orleans. In your neck of the woods several months ago during the time that everyone thought Superstorm Sandy would come through Philadelphia KYW did a fine job during the part of the storm and one could mention what the two New York newsradio stations during 9/11 and Sandy. All these was news events to be gathered under difficult circumstances and WBZ and WBZ-TV did a good job under the circumstances.

 

[ArtSpooner]

Felger and mazz let bertrand do one report on the explosion. During the second report, felger interrupted him when bertrand cited unconfirmed reports, at that point felger interrupted him and simulcast channel four

I was curious as to how Felger would handle this situation(not curious enough to actually listen). His schtick is to always be the contrarian and be against the home team and by extension the home team fans. He can't do that in this situation. He's smart to just keep his mouth shut until he can go back to normal. Even if he tries to act concerned and sympathetic, no one will believe him. Every time he opens his mouth he risks a lot. You can bet that a lot of people are waiting to pounce just as happened with the Metco gorilla.

 

[EnterCommunicator]

Felger and mazz let bertrand do one report on the explosion. During the second report, felger interrupted him when bertrand cited unconfirmed reports, at that point felger interrupted him and simulcast channel four

I was curious as to how Felger would handle this situation(not curious enough to actually listen). His schtick is to always be the contrarian and be against the home team and by extension the home team fans. He can't do that in this situation. He's smart to just keep his mouth shut until he can go back to normal. Even if he tries to act concerned and sympathetic, no one will believe him. Every time he opens his mouth he risks a lot. You can bet that a lot of people are waiting to pounce just as happened with the Metco gorilla.

It's strange how you obsess over Felger, while claiming to not have listened since at least his original tenure at WEEI.

 

[Bos79]

Felger and mazz let bertrand do one report on the explosion. During the second report, felger interrupted him when bertrand cited unconfirmed reports, at that point felger interrupted him and simulcast channel four

I was curious as to how Felger would handle this situation(not curious enough to actually listen). His schtick is to always be the contrarian and be against the home team and by extension the home team fans. He can't do that in this situation. He's smart to just keep his mouth shut until he can go back to normal. Even if he tries to act concerned and sympathetic, no one will believe him. Every time he opens his mouth he risks a lot. You can bet that a lot of people are waiting to pounce just as happened with the Metco gorilla.

Felger was very professional today. You should give his show a chance. He does a good job.

 

[tvradiogeek]

Mr artspooner hates the sports hub and is a suck up for the old man weei.

 

[TSBench]

But did they really need to be simulcast on all four FMs?

When you only have 15 minutes of actual news (and half of that is visual), going 24/7 audio on 4 was ridiculous. WBZ-AM had an excuse for doing it, and even they, like everyone else, quickly ran out of anything factual to say.

The talk shows are the worst. As with any breaking story, you come out of them knowing less than you did going in.

Regards,
TSB

 

[Blackroc]

I wonder who issued a Press credential to the Alex Jones correspondent (who I assume was local) for the Gov's presser. Stuttering John lives.

 

[ArtSpooner]

Felger and mazz let bertrand do one report on the explosion. During the second report, felger interrupted him when bertrand cited unconfirmed reports, at that point felger interrupted him and simulcast channel four

I was curious as to how Felger would handle this situation(not curious enough to actually listen). His schtick is to always be the contrarian and be against the home team and by extension the home team fans. He can't do that in this situation. He's smart to just keep his mouth shut until he can go back to normal. Even if he tries to act concerned and sympathetic, no one will believe him. Every time he opens his mouth he risks a lot. You can bet that a lot of people are waiting to pounce just as happened with the Metco gorilla.

Felger was very professional today. You should give his show a chance. He does a good job.

I heard him for years on WEEI. His act then was to always criticize the local team. He only seemed interested in football, though he criticized Bob Kraft extensively. He knew very little about baseball or basketball, so he confined his remarks to cheap shots. Has anything changed?

I was disgusted with the Big Show and LJ on three times a week. If it had been almost anybody else on the new station I would have listened.

If 'EEI wants a different audience, they're on the way at least with me. I was a P-1, now I only listen to D&C. Typically at 10AM, I flip over to 105.7. Sometimes I switch it back in the afternnoon, but usually not so much anymore. What I find funny is that the people who hate all of the 'EEI personalities can't understand the same feelings toward Felger.........Felger of all people.

 

[scranton]

..Felger of all people.
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Felger runs a great show, he.s quite entertaining and his show is appointment radio in the same way that laquidara on bcn or severin on wtkk was in their day

 

[reelyreal]

LOL, Severin and Felger don't even approach the plane that Laquidara was on. Not even close.

 

[TSBench]

What I find funny is that the people who hate all of the 'EEI personalities can't understand the same feelings toward Felger.........Felger of all people.

I think we all know the answer to that one.

Regards,
TSB

 

[raccoonradio]

As events came to a head at M.I.T. and then in Watertown last night, much of the overnight show at WBZ was a simulcast of Ch 4. Occasionally Bradley Jay cut in to talk to WBZ reporters. It's wall to wall right now. I think I read on twitter that WBMX is simulcasting. Checked--as of 10:22 am
all CBS FMs in town are // WBZ AM (98.5, 100.7, 103.3, 104.1)

As far as I know RKO stuck with Doyle timeshifted then the UFO guy...
WEEI-FM talking about it.
I would suspect Bloomberg1200 may have simulcast Ch 5 again but who knows.
On my XM Fox News Channel was // CH 25 at times.

So no all news FM _commercial_ station in town but in this crisis, CBS is carrying 1030 on their FMs.

 

[MarkO]

Have had WBZ on all day over here at my desk in London, England......dramatic! I think they're doing a great job. It's hard to focus on work while this is going on.

 

[raccoonradio]

via twitter: 96.9 and 102.5 simulcasting Ch 5, other Greater Media stations in town still have music.
WRKO, WEEI doing their own coverage (think RKO may be // on AAF)
WCRN has been carrying RKO's feed, Graham will be on at noon
WBUR, WGBH etc

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Have been listening to WBZ 1030 via the internet for hours. The stream has been flawless.

Got through on the phone this morning to a childhood friend and his wife from NYC, now living in Boston, who are, of course, hunkered inside and following all this. We'll be calling later, too ; we went to their wedding.

An incredible day it must be for you homebound folks. We're with you, here at the other end of I-84.

(History note : April 19th 1775 was the day of the Shot Heard Round The World)

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Although it's not the way they wanted to win them, I expect that WBZ-1030 will win several Murrow and Marconi awards for coverage of this past Monday's (April 15th) bombing and today's (April 19th) shootout and standoff.

One interesting segment aired on WBZ after 12:30 P.M. EDT: Morning anchor Joe Mathieu was inside the station's mobile broadcast van (known in station promotions as the "Mobile Newsroom"), broadcasting live as the truck moved down Soldiers' Field Road from the WBZ broadcasting center (which is in the Allston section of Boston) headed towards the suburb of Watertown, which is where the surviving suspect may still (as of 3 P.M. EDT) to be in and only about two miles from the 'BZ studios.

In Watertown, driving has been banned and people have been barred from leaving their homes. In the live report, Matthieu and the driver were stopped as they entered Watertown for credentials three times at as many different checkpoints/barriers before finally being allowed to a staging area where TV and radio journalists from Boston, the nation, and the world are sitting.

The live report lasted until the mobile broadcast van arrived at the broadcast news staging area.