For several hours today at the top of the hour I have heard WBZ-1030 News for about a minute on WHJJ, then WHJJ has its pre-recorded weather forecast, and now at the 3:00 hour they skipped over the Fox News Radio and went back to WBZ News instead of going to the start of the Sean Hannity Show. Could this be a satellite switching issue at the station?
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WBZ-AM 1030 News on WHJJ-AM 920
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I believe Iheart
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Correct. The Providence market does not have an all-news station, and on weekends their news-talk stations are filled with infomercials, so this was a smart move on iHeart's part. In fact, WBZ itself ditched the Ric Edelman show at 10:30 to go live with storm coverage.
It still kinda blows my mind that WBZ airs The Ric Edelman Show on Sundays from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon when its all-news Mondays-Saturdays in the same timeslot.
That sentence makes no sense to me. I do things on Sundays that I never do on Monday thru Saturday.
Simulcasts when news coverage warrants it. On
the day of the Lawrence gas explosion WRKO
briefly simulcast WBZ during Howie show. In 2013 during marathon bombing situation WRKO
was simulcast on then sister station WEEI-FM at times.
the day of the Lawrence gas explosion WRKO
briefly simulcast WBZ during Howie show. In 2013 during marathon bombing situation WRKO
was simulcast on then sister station WEEI-FM at times.
I only say that because its schedule is consistent all other days of the week yet, not so much so on Sundays. Just a gripe on me, that's all.
If you compare it to other stations, you'll see it's fairly typical. Sundays is when music stations run their syndicated countdown shows in place of their usual daily shows. The Edelman show is carried on a lot of news stations, including WCBS in NYC.
I was driving down MA-128 yesterday near Burlington listening to WBZ waiting for a traffic report, when the Emergency Alert System went off with a report about a tornado touching down in Marlborough. Apparently the anchor on WBZ didn't realize she had been over-ridden and continued with her reporting after the alert message had ended. Now, I have heard that the main station for emergency alerts is WBZ-FM, *not* WBZ (which you might expect given its coverage area and its news format). I'm pretty sure I heard that 98.5 has been the key station for alerts, back to its WROR and WBMX days. And given the fact that the anchor didn't know immediately that an alert had gone off tends to reinforce this. So my question is: Is it in fact WBZ-FM that is the key station, and WHY is it WBZ-FM and not WBZ?
I don't know the criteria, but the station's format has nothing to do with it
As a matter of fact, you're right! I forgot that my car radio has terrible AM reception, and I typically listen to WBZ on WXKS-FM-HD2 (and WRKO on WZLX-HD2). I don't know why the AM reception is so bad. I think VW may try to use the satellite antenna for AM radio too. But the AM band is very staticy...almost sounds like bad short-wave reception with all the pops, clicks, and beeps. I had that trouble in my previous car too, but only when the cable TV lines were on my side of the road. Now the AM reception is so bad I don't even think to turn it on.
They also carried WBZ all day Sunday for storm coverage.
After living in South Florida for 11 years and returning to New England, I noticed one thing missing during Tropical Storm Henri and other prior storms is the airing of continuous television coverage of the storm on a partner radio station. In South Florida, most if not all television stations have partnerships with radio stations to air their newscasts in the event power is lost, so residents can hear their local tv stations on the radio throughout the storm. I think the radio and tv stations in New England should do this also. Not everyone has cell phones which has this information and once the battery drains, it cannot be recharged without power, and by using an old-fashioned transistor radio, batteries can be replaced to keep the radio on. Why couldn't WBZ radio simulcast WBZ TVs continuous coverage even though they are owned by 2 different companies. This partnership would make sense in an emergency situation.
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Fun fact, it's both. WBZ is the local primary, WBZ-FM is local secondary for the Boston area, according to the MA Broadcasters Association.
I don't really see the need. WBZ RADIO had its own reporters covering the storm in the Westerly, RI and Worcester and Cape Cod areas, and they still have an arrangement whereby they use news reports and even weather briefs from WBZ-TV. Other than WBZ and WRKO, what other AM stations in Boston have any listeners to speak of? As for FM stations: 96.9 FM Talk died in early 2013.
No, for once this was intentional, and not an instance of what we call "iHeart happens."
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