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The awfulness of WBZ's website news stories

S

Smoke

Home invasion in New Bedford

Boston (WBZ Newsroom) -- Two men are under arrest for allegedly staging a home invasion in New Bedford. They're searching for others.
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I don't know what is funnier: the events in the story, or the awful writing of the story itself.

Is this barely literate garbage something a station with WBZ's heritage should have online?


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Speaking of WBZ's 'heritage,' that is going down the tubes, too. I refuse to listen to their radio station on my drive to work each morning. Flat-out REFUSE. Interestingly, many other people I know have arrived at the same conclusion. Gil Santos drones on...and on...and on...and on...about Purina CAT CHOW, and spends more time doing that ad than he did on his whole sports segment. I kid you not! Everything they do is 'brought to you by Subaru Dealers of New England.' Or this hospital. Or that bank. Or this make of car. Or that furniture store. I realize that advertising is what makes the world spin for these guys, but WBZ 1030 has taken it to nauseating extremes. They must have some FAT salaries there that ENDLESS advertising has to pay for. They have commercial banks--ads run consecutively--that forced me to tune the dial for something else to listen to. They did it enough times, they chased me away for good.

WBZ radio has really fallen off a cliff. It is NOTHING but commercials and ads, broken up (occasionally) by some tepid content...stuff most people knew about anyway.

WBZ HAD a heritage; they are a laughingstock now. I refuse to listen to that station.
 
Sweaters that look SO NICE ON RADIO! ::)

LOL @ 'Dorble-you-bee-zee'...you nailed it! I always cringe when I hear that!

Sadly, 'BZ is part of that 'old media' that is grovelling for any bit of business they can get. Whenever you hear them pitch their web site you know they've lost the war. They realize that they can't beat the Internet so they might as well join 'em! Trouble is (as was pointed out here), they can't even get THAT right. The 'old media' might as well give up right now. The train has left the station and they aren't on it.
 
One way for them to save money would be to do away with the useless Accu-Weather and replace it with the CH 4 meteorologists, who already work for the station (like in the old days).
 
Smoke said:
Home invasion in New Bedford

Boston (WBZ Newsroom) -- Two men are under arrest for allegedly staging a home invasion in New Bedford. They're searching for others.
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[EDIT-post truncated because originating material is copyprotected. Unauthorized use of copyrighted content is in violation of Radio-Info's TOS.]
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I hope Radio-Info's TOS allows for legal Fair Use, which posting that story for critque certainly was.
 
Talk about blatant bait-and-switch, the WBZ web site has a 'Feature' called 'Bertuccis What's Not to Love?' It is a COMMERCIAL!!! Nice 'Feature!'

And many TV and radio station web pages have links to DATING sites. Geez, any way they can scrape up a penny from click-per-view.
 
In my opinion, you are all nitpicking at thigns that are unextrodinary.
Segments having sponsers? You bet! It's a business. WBZ and other radio stations have done this as long as I have been listening (and that's a long time). Nothing new here. If they didn't sell their segments, they would be a non-profit radio station.

Second, same thing with websites. All commercial websites have ads as links. What's unusual about Bertucci's having an advo or link? Nothing.

I'll give you the "Dorble you bee zee" complaint however. But that too is old news.

Here's my complaint about the loss of heritage: No jingles that say "w-b-z, Boston." But look radio is always evolving, always has, as does everything. That's why we no longer have soaps on the radio, and why we no longer drive cars with fins.

Well one of you might, but that's a different story, imho.
 
Our Garrett is an Awesome Garrett said:
Second, same thing with websites. All commercial websites have ads as links. What's unusual about Bertucci's having an advo or link? Nothing.
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The problem is the Bertucci's ad is listed as a "feature" rather than as an ad. It's not really that different from opening a news cast with tonight's top story, there's some great deals at Market Basket.

<rant>

Of course, journalism school doesn't seem to teach the difference between "news" and "opinion" these days. A Northeastern grad I once knew saw no need to differenciate between the two in something she wrote for me; needless to say she didn't last long.

</rant>
 
BZ weather

I'm always amazed that Elliot Abrams ("wbzaccuweathermetorologistelliotabrams") can do a forecast on BZ, then do the same forecast on WPRO three seconds later, but never mix up the call letters.
 
While we're ragging on 'poor, old' WBZ, let's not forget Gary LaPierre and his 'I'm-in-Florida-but-I'm-going-to-pretend-I'm-in-Boston' charade. I'll rag on them for shamlessly turning their ad-to-content ratio upside down from years past. I refuse to listen to a station that has 15 minutes of ads every 30 minutes. Maybe (probably) it's closer to 16 or 17 minutes every half-hour. The only good thing about WBZ is that in the winter their signal early in the morning and at night doesn't drop like a rock. I still listen to Podcasts, though. Ads-per-30 minutes: zero.
 
Well sir, I disagree. I LIKE WBZ, it is top notch in my book, and there's nothing new about a feature having a sponsor.

Again, all nitpicks of stuff that is old news and has been discussed already.
Can we move on please?
 
Well jeez, folks...if you can't stand commercial radio's...errr...COMMERCIAL nature, why not just listen to WBUR?

Yeah, you have to put up with six fundraisers a year...that kinda blows. But the rest of the time there's barely three minutes of underwriting an hour vs. 20+ minutes of crap ads in WBZ.
 
martin1945 said:
One way for them to save money would be to do away with the useless Accu-Weather and replace it with the CH 4 meteorologists, who already work for the station (like in the old days).
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bring back Don Kent! 'GOOD MAWNING EVERYBODY!'
 
ChrisNH said:
Speaking of WBZ's 'heritage,' that is going down the tubes, too. I refuse to listen to their radio station on my drive to work each morning. Flat-out REFUSE. Interestingly, many other people I know have arrived at the same conclusion. Gil Santos drones on...and on...and on...and on...about Purina CAT CHOW, and spends more time doing that ad than he did on his whole sports segment. I kid you not! Everything they do is 'brought to you by Subaru Dealers of New England.' Or this hospital. Or that bank. Or this make of car. Or that furniture store. I realize that advertising is what makes the world spin for these guys, but WBZ 1030 has taken it to nauseating extremes. They must have some FAT salaries there that ENDLESS advertising has to pay for. They have commercial banks--ads run consecutively--that forced me to tune the dial for something else to listen to. They did it enough times, they chased me away for good.

WBZ radio has really fallen off a cliff. It is NOTHING but commercials and ads, broken up (occasionally) by some tepid content...stuff most people knew about anyway.

WBZ HAD a heritage; they are a laughingstock now. I refuse to listen to that station.
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Not to hijack this thread for something else but have you listened to WEEI lately? It's just as bad, I swear they are lucky to do 25 min per hour of actual talk. The 20/20 flashes go on for 15 min. of bs.
 
The best part of BZ lately is that they only run the abbreviated Paul Harvey segment, and they keep the Charles Osgood segments to a minmum ("... after this, from Smart Balance Buttery Spread.")
 
I thought they dropped Paul Harvey altogether. Isn't he on 1150 now?
 
Infidel said:
The best part of BZ lately is that they only run the abbreviated Paul Harvey segment, and they keep the Charles Osgood segments to a minmum ("... after this, from Smart Balance Buttery Spread.")
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I think I heard a "goldbug" (Swiss-America trading) ad on 'BZ the other day (could be mistaken). The same ones Michael Savage, Chuck Harder, and others have been flacking since the 1980's. Oh, how the Mighty have fallen. Next up: "This portion of the news brought to you by Enzyte."

Makes me all the more nostalgic for WEEI-590, back in their (mostly) "all-news" incarnation. Full-service CBS news/features package (remember "Sports Central USA"?), CBS's classic 1968 jingle package, and Norm Nathan, to boot!

There's an ABC News appreciation site on the net, with cuts of Charlie Osgood doing a "Flair" report (for Winston cigarettes) circa early 1960's, that is a formatic copy of "The Osgood Report" of today! Over 40 year's - great run, IMHO, for Mr. Osgood.

OBMM
 
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