WBFO -- AP Awards

[tbolt909]

WBFO recently received several AP Awards including Outstanding News Operation. The combination of NPR and the local content are deserving of accolades & listener support...

 

[Rob Piotrowski]

So did your favorite target - WBEN. Those awards and $2 gets you a Tim Hortons coffee.

 

[tbolt909]

WBEN certainly is worthy of the award for "Best Alternative Facts & Fake News"...

 

[Element9]

So did your favorite target - WBEN. Those awards and $2 gets you a Tim Hortons coffee.

Horsepucky. The AP awards are demonstrative of journalistic excellence and are valued by those in the news profession who recognize the hard work that goes into researching, writing and producing objective coverage of events in the community. And if the awards weren't valued, Newssquawk 930 wouldn't be trumpeting them as much as they do.

 

[Rob Piotrowski]

Horsepucky. The AP awards are demonstrative of journalistic excellence and are valued by those in the news profession who recognize the hard work that goes into researching, writing and producing objective coverage of events in the community.

So the AP award WBEN got for "best weather coverage" by their TV weather partner is "demonstrative of journalistic excellence"? Horsepucky indeed.

 

[TheBigA]

So the AP award WBEN got for "best weather coverage" by their TV weather partner is "demonstrative of journalistic excellence"? Horsepucky indeed.

Did you hear the demo they entered? It's possible the demo only included their own coverage, without any of the TV audio. The judges base their decision on the demo and the application, not the entire coverage.

 

[SirRoxalot]

When it comes to major weather events, WBEN does a better job than any other local station. Politics aside, they will still go wall-to-wall with weather coverage when a storm hits. Nobody else in town does that anymore. WBFO rarely breaks away from their regular programming for extended coverage, and I can't remember the last time they went wall-to-wall for more that 15 minutes. Neither Cumulus nor Townsquare break format anymore for extended periods. In fact, if the weather is bad enough, they're more likely to run on automation with voice-tracked shows that lack immediacy or interaction with listeners.

 

[tbolt909]

Storm coverage is tedious. Unless it's a severe situation that's causing widespread problems, who cares. Putting moronic callers on saying "Yep it's snowing" may be local, but it isn't compelling content...

 

[SirRoxalot]

Storm coverage is tedious. Unless it's a severe situation that's causing widespread problems, who cares. Putting moronic callers on saying "Yep it's snowing" may be local, but it isn't compelling content...

Nobody does storm coverage unless it's a severe situation causing widespread problems. That voice track with no weather forecast and the same old music won't tell you how widespread it is when you're stuck in a car wondering whether there's a chance you'll get to your destination.

 

[four4rock]

Speaking of WBFO... I crossed paths in high school for one year (his senior year, my freshman year) with a guy - Pat Brogan - who in the early '80s (IIRC) was a reporter at WBFO. Later, I think I recall that he did the traffic (and, maybe?, weather) for either WGR or WBEN. (Though really vague, maybe he did news stuff on channel 7, too?????) I have no idea how he was in the business/radio world, but in high school he was a decent guy. I seem to remember that he did investigative type stuff... kinda like an early incarnation of "ma-high-lew" as a '2 on your side red coats holding people accountable' thing. Anyone know if he is still around anywhere?