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Simulcast of "On Being" on both WBUR-FM and WGBH-FM

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thezak

"On Being" https://onbeing.org/ vexingly broadcast simultaneously at 6am Sundays for an hour on both WBUR-FM Boston University 90.9 and WGBH-FM Brighton 89.7 even though it would be better offering a choice to radio listeners of different programming at the same hour on the two stations at the same part of the radio dial.
 
thezak said:
"On Being" https://onbeing.org/ vexingly broadcast simultaneously at 6am Sundays for an hour on both WBUR-FM Boston University 90.9 and WGBH-FM Brighton 89.7 even though it would be better offering a choice to radio listeners of different programming at the same hour on the two stations at the same part of the radio dial.
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Considering that listening to either station in that time slot would be measured in the low hundreds at best, any programming done then is merely keeping the transmitter warm. Neither station would reap any donation benefits -- or hurt itself -- by changing things up. What is the basis of your long-running obsession with WGBH minutiae, anyway? Aren't you the same guy who used to post at length about the Boston Public Library?
 
Do GBH and BUR also simulcast All Things Considered and Morning Edition? Competing NPR affiliates.Both trying to be "Boston's NPR News Station" in some way.
While non commercial, NPR and PBS affiliates
get funding from listener donations, corporate giving and maybe a bit from Corp for Public
Broadcasting.(K Love is similar--no ads but
listener supported).
As we've seen hard times for listeners and
corporations have meant less funding...and listeners listen to podcasts but don't always give to their local NPR/PBS these days.

"We will always need your help."--from the longtime WGBH/WGBX/WGBY sign on or
sign off tape.
Anyway we have competing NPR stations in town and at times both run same show in same
time slot.
Sun 6 am indeed not prime time
 
Since you were obviously listening at this early hour, did you catch the gutter shield commercial that snuck into the 7am ET hourly newscast? It sounded like Giles Snyder was watching YouTube before starting his newscast, and when he went to play an actuality from Tulsa last night, the ad played over top of the sound.
 
raccoonradio said:
Do GBH and BUR also simulcast All Things Considered and Morning Edition?
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They do. It wasn't always this way. Some remember a time when WGBH ran Morning Pro Musica in morning drive, while WBUR ran ME. There was a time when WGBH & WBUR ran ATC at different times. Then they decided it didn't matter. Their specific approach to those shows are different. The way they handle the local cutaways are different. GBH interrupts ATC with Marketplace. It doesn't matter because people have their favorites, even when the two stations do basically the same thing.

It's pretty common around the public radio system for two stations in a market to run the same program at the same time. It's called "competition." It's likely that you have two music stations in the same format playing the same song at the same time. Is that a problem? No one says they can't. In commercial radio there's something called "market exclusivity." That concept was discussed many years ago at NPR, and they decided against it. NPR is a member organization, and they decided that was a decision best made by the members rather imposed by the network.

My guess is that this particular show is fed on the NPR satellite at 6AM Sunday, so the two stations carry the live feed because it's easy.
 
Corporate donations to public radio shows...Marketplace was made possible in part years ago by a donation from General Electric.
I heard the theme song go into a snippet of GE's "We bring good things to life" jingle right after the mention.
Public TV shows thank their corporate donors with bits that look slightly like commercial bits, but are not.They would have Clifford the Big
Red Dog and a bit thanking Kellogg's.
 
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