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SaveWRKO: Rumor (I stress, rumor) has WBZ cutting Leveille, Dyett

funniest part is, Lovell was late again the very next week
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I hadn't laughed in the last few days, but that line did it.

I'm listening to Dr.Knowledge on KDKA/1020 and he's talking about the new schedule and he's on Sat mornings 12-3 so I guess J.Rich's hours are unchanged though I don't think he's confirmed that. The Pitts., station made changes throughout the day: almost a new lineup.
 
Yeah, after 37 years for Lovell and 15+ for Steve, they should have gotten some chance to bid farewell. Of course, I didn't realize that 'BZ had decided to copy the tactics of WRKO (aka the station that has the board op tell the show host they are canned).

With all due respects to Mr. Greyson who I'm sure does a great job for St. Louis, I won't be listening. I want a Boston based show. If it's not then I'll just go to XM in place of 'BZ. Channel 210 has all the traffic and weather info you could ever need for Boston, and I can get more up to date news overnight at BostonHerald.com (seeing that 'BZ now will have no one home to do news past 8pm). In fact, I won't listen to 'BZ at all anymore outside of Dan Rea and Jordan. I will also make a point of letting anyone who advertises on that station know that I'm boycotting them and the station until either they stop advertising on WBZ or WBZ returns to serving the public interest in BOSTON, not in ST. LOUIS!!!!!
 
It seems like Jordan is staying put on his various weekend shifts. I assume he'll be expanding to three hours on Sunday night as "Overnight America" doesn't start until 1AM.

The only remaining question is what will fill the 12AM-1AM hour during the weeknights.

On balance, I think Jordan's done a fairly reasonable job of trying to introduce the listeners to Grayson while recognizing the concern and, in a lot of cases, anger being felt throughout the 'BZ audience.

That said, I disagree with his reassurance that this is a positive change. I know he's an upbeat, optimistic guy and is trying to smooth some rough waters, but I personally don't think that a heritage station with a 50,000 watt blowtorch of a signal abandoning local programming for a significant chunk of its schedule (even if its the overnight) is a positive development. WBZ has always prided itself on being live and local, but with boiler plate syndie computer chat on Saturday nights and a new national offering in place of a local program that was really the only source for real-time breaking news between midnight-5AM (several people have referenced Steve's coverage of the tunnel collapse, the Danversport explosion, the Everett tanker fire. . .all of which happened in the overnight hours), their credibility in that regard has taken a significant hit.
 
No, it it not a positive development. Combined with the cut back in news hours, it is the beginning of the end. Without programming, the listeners will leave. It isn't easy to get them back (especially on AM). The foolish thing is that original programming will rule the roost on internet stream casts. WBZ was well positioned to cash in on that (stressing the word "was"). 500 stations playing Kim Kommando on their stream makes the BZ version of that pretty uncompetitive.

If something happened that was newsworthy, until Friday I knew the best place to go to find out about it 24 hours a day was WBZ. Now that is no longer true. In fact, WBZ may be the worst place to go. Hey, at least they are saving money and as a bonus the the tax bill will also decrease when the revenue drops.

What should happen is CBS should lose the license and it should go to someone that will invest the money earned in Boston back in Boston. Not skim all of it to service debt incurred in other parts of the CBS and Viacom empire.
 
Heard a small bit of new show last night but was sleepy, only half-listening--new guy sounds professional and was talking about drunk driving, etc; there were calls from various states including at least one guy from Boston, but clearly it's national talk not local. Closest to a local bit was the Boston caller saying a lot more people are on the roads around here at night these days compared to before.
 
I listened from 3-5, then tuned to 1120 for the remainder of the show. Seems like a "likable" guy, intelligent, easy-going manner. I know that on his first few nights he will be a bit restrained, but I am hoping that the "jolly-ness" factor will kick in, like Steve had. I am 500 + miles away from Boston, so the "local" factor doesn't really affect me like it does some of you.

I have not been used to "local" radio for some time, as the stations in my area continually chop the lineup to pieces.

I am not into boycotting the show, just because I miss Steve. We all know how things change in this 'biz, and if you listened very closely to Steve over the past year, there were "vibes" coming over the air that this type of thing might be in the works.

Lodging a "formal" complaint with the FCC is silly; what do they have to do with it? A Boston caller mentioned that he was going to do that today. We don't know what all went on behind the scenes with Steve & CBS, so without more information, all we can do is speculate.

Steve hasn't updated his website as to the latest happenings, and that seems odd. You would think that he would do that, since it is his only contact with his audience at this point. Again, maybe there is a reason he isn't doing that as well...
 
I thought I heard he was legally blind (or maybe it was one of the others who was laid off) so maybe someone else is doing his site.
 
No, Steve edits the site himself. I have talked to him in the past about it. He is legally blind, or "visually impaired" is the way he puts it. He does not drive, and does have issues with depth perception, as he has talked about from time to time on the broadcast.
 
I to listen to some of last nights show cause I won't say anything negative about some one I have not heard. He reminded me of Bradley Jay and his Jay Talking. His first topic was fresh from "60 Minutes" just hours earlier. I fell asleep to monkey meat...gross and woke up hours later and he still was talking about monkey meat and at that point my husband put on channel 10 TV in Providence, R.I.. They are still local in the morning. Nothing against Jon Grayson, but I think I would have tried harder. Done more prep work. It almost sounds as though CBS just gave him a script. Does anyone know of an overnight local talk show in the Boston/Providence area?

Boston has gone from Local to Loco, but I am not following them
 
Oh OK; do hope he can update the site, etc and maybe he can (if he can't get the domain back from CBS)
get something like radiosteve.net, radiosteve.info--though to be honest it does show up on a web search
so people should be able to find it. (I know there are modifications for the legally blind re: computers;
WEEI's Pete Gustin uses computers in that way I believe)
 
another overnight national show, just like on the other AM signals in this market. What a shame. Nothing against Jon, either, and I may tune in on occasion but I'd rather have something local. More homogenization...
 
He reminded me of Bradley Jay and his Jay Talking.
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I felt that vibe too. Maybe he was a bit nervous his first night out of the chute, I kinda felt that... I didn't care for the Monkey meat thing either, but Steve has been know to take topics from news stories like that & run with it.

At least he didn't beat it to death (pardon the pun) :D , but it did come up throughout the show - & then, someone called in the last hour to say they had actually eaten some. I could have done without it, but I won't make a decision on the first night or even in the first week.

Now, if they would have set Bradley Jay in that seat, I would have tuned out & never came back. Is it just me, or does he seem like he always shows up unprepared for the show. Very green, definantly not talk show host material. ::)
 
(Note: it was not mentioned in this thread but Leveille got his job back by late Jan of 2009. Just mentioning lest people think he was gone forever from the BZ airwaves! Apparently a diff. thread was started saying he was returning...)
 
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