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patriots day explosion

Joseph_Gallant said:
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.
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WBZ Radio has been pretty amazing during all of this.

It is times like this that the station earns their stripes.
 
I had to go to upstate NY today, but I listened to WBZ as long as I could get the signal. I carried it as far as Schenevus, NY, where it became unintelligible. Very impressive daytime coverage.
 
All stations did well with coverage Music station wise notably WXKS-FM, WBQT Hot 96.9 and CBS cluster FM 100.7/103.3/104.1/AM1030... WJMN 94.5 as well...their ratings may not be "hot" but Kiss and Jamn are connected... Management tells kiss and jamn what to air... i think Jamn did good for what it is worth noting.
 
On another note... CC aired Kiss 108s Matty In the Morning for about an extra hour while "ramiro" and co host on 94.5 stayed in studio longer but less frequently aired with more "music" and "ads"... (the Lower paid djs). DebtChannel gets a B- today
 
Phil Hendrie did a play-by-play of Ch. 7's coverage of the shootout Friday morning on his syndi' show. He while watching HDH spent a lot of time praising Steve Cooper's reporting.
 
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