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SMALL ALTERATION OF WBZ'S ALL DAYS NEWS FORMAT

Just for the record, here are the CBS All-News stations that follow the format around the clock...

Market 1...NYC...WCBS and WINS
2...LA...KNX
3...Chicago...WBBM
4...San Francisco...KCBS
8...Philadelphia...KYW
9...Washington...WNEW (along with Hubburd-owned WTOP)
11...Detroit...WWJ
13...Seattle...KOMO (Owned by Fisher. They do some call-in interviews in the midday hours but it's All-News overnight.)

And the two Merlin-owned News stations in NYC and Chicago follow the format 24/7, although the word is they are working on automating the format so they won't need a live anchor at all times. CBS-owned 1080 KRLD Dallas is similar to WBZ, running All-News weekdays from 5am to 8pm, with Talk shows at night. KRLD doesn't do All-News on weekends as WBZ does. And 92.1 KROI Houston, a new All-News station owned by Radio One, runs Jim Bohannan from 1 to 5am, with All-News the rest of the schedule.

Boston is Market #10, so Detroit and Seattle, slightly smaller markets, do have nighttime and overnight All-News stations.

If Merlin were to buy a Boston FM and do All-News 24/7, it might force CBS to rethink WBZ's schedule. But that's an unlikely scenario. Since WBZ bills so well, I suppose CBS is going to keep the current News by day, Talk by night format. All-News fans have to pull in WCBS or WINS at night, since they come in so well in New England after sunset.


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Some of the comments are similar to the Mumbles Mennino school of thought, resistence to anything that may grow the city and try to keep it a provincial
backwater. Can't have any new tall structures, can't let the T run extended hours, close the clubs and therefore any restaurants early. Stop any overnight activity. Reminds me of my great grandmother "nothing good happens during those hours and everyone should be home sleeping" Note of glaring hipocrisy when the
democrat convention came to town what was the first thing to happen, keep the clubs and nightlife open.....good for the elite trash but not for the common citizen of greater Boston. Keep it up and watch you congressional seats vanish.
 
chrish said:
Some of the comments are similar to the Mumbles Mennino school of thought, resistence to anything that may grow the city and try to keep it a provincial
backwater. Can't have any new tall structures, can't let the T run extended hours, close the clubs and therefore any restaurants early. Stop any overnight activity. Reminds me of my great grandmother "nothing good happens during those hours and everyone should be home sleeping" Note of glaring hipocrisy when the
democrat convention came to town what was the first thing to happen, keep the clubs and nightlife open.....good for the elite trash but not for the common citizen of greater Boston. Keep it up and watch you congressional seats vanish.
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Menino wanted to develop an area of Beacon Hill/Back Bay including an office tower approaching 1,000 feet. Never happened; and I don't think it was going to come to pass even IF the George W. Bush near-depression never happened.
 
Laurence it was just a matter of time until your Bush derangement syndrome resurfaced, the guy could be dead and buried for 50 years and you still be blaming
him for the Mt. St Helen explosion and the tsumani in Sumantra
 
Regarding my earlier post of making a 24/7 all news. I'm all for adding spice but I think Boston is looking for a consistent station where they could find traffic/weather very frequently and well into the night. I think that Steve L and Dan Rae could still have significant roles in the station, as they both are former newsmen anyway. Jordan Rich and Bradley J. would also be excellent interview people. There are some all news stations around the country that establish a time every hour to do great interviews with newsmakers, that could definitely be something that BZ does to add the spice that generally all news stations lack. I do believe that it's time for WBZ to matuire as an all news entity, catering to our 24/7 news, traffic, weather needs as folks are working later, getting up earlier, and have more flexible work hours.
 
There is no evidence of popular demand for all-news in the evening and on the overnight at WBZ, and decades of evidence that TOH news and talk in the evening and overnight work just fine.

Regards,
TSB
 
chrish said:
Laurence it was just a matter of time until your Bush derangement syndrome resurfaced, the guy could be dead and buried for 50 years and you still be blaming
him for the Mt. St Helen explosion and the tsumani in Sumantra
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I know that typographical errors occur from time to time; I've even made a few. But your spelling of "Sumantra" was also kind of funny. What IS a Su-mantra? Non-stop hog calling? Soooey...soooey! Singing "A Boy Named Sue" over and over? But to get to the point...criticizing 'W' for the near-Depression in 2008 is NOT a sign of any derangement. It's an accurate description of a President who staffed oversight agencies with people who DIDN'T BELIEVE in financial oversight, thus enabling vampire capitalists to run rampant. He named Christopher Cox, a functionary in the Reagan mal-administration and later Republican Congressman to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. If you ever watched CBS-TV's "60 Minutes", you may recall how stock-market analyst Harry Markopolis met non-stop resistance from the SEC when he tried to expose the Bernie Madoff scam.
 
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