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WBZ bringing back Leveille? (Univ Hub)

This is excellent news, a real testament to the persistence of WBZ's loyal listenership and a welcome return to WBZ's long tradition of providing live and local programming 24 hours a day.

I look forward to listening this Sunday/Monday overnight for the return of the Steve LeVeille Broadcast!
 
Yep - good news...Although I was/still am fed up w/ Steve's attitude, I couldn't really warm up to Jon that well. Maybe this layoff that Steve had will take him down a couple of notches & he will be more pleasant with the callers...

:) That being said - WELCOME BACK STEVE!!!!! :)
 
It proves that WBZ is NOT like other stations.
CBS did the right thing.

It also shows that when it comes situations like WBZ or bringing back CBS-FM, CBS does listen.
 
This is great for Steve and WBZ's large overnight listening audience! WBZ live and local overnights again!

But, 4:30 AM Sundays for Lovell Dyett's half-hour show? I'm glad he's back on, but that's about the most graveyard slot he could have been given! That's going to be a challenge for him to build an audience with a slot like that.
 
Oh good.......can't wait to hear what his cat has been up to. (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) But it is better than Jon Grayson. 'BZ must be local. I'd almost rather listen to the Jordan Rich snoozefest than listen to syndication.
 
With so much horrible news in the radio business these days, this is a nice slice of something positive !! Who says the listeners input doesn't count ? Good move, WBZ !
 
I think it's safe to say that rather than placate listener desires, CBS found that the move wasn't a positive one for the station overall and changed back reluctantly. While revenue flatlines in the overnight, the station's mystique took a big hit. Grayson was ok (in the min's I heard him) and it didn't have to be Leveille. But it's Boston or nothing and people in sales probably heard that.

While I wanted Leveille back, my argument was more about the station's history and a need for a few great AM'ers to not homogenize. If St.Paul and Pittsburgh can handle it, that's their problem.
 
Mannix33 said:
Oh good.......can't wait to hear what his cat has been up to. (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) But it is better than Jon Grayson. 'BZ must be local. I'd almost rather listen to the Jordan Rich snoozefest than listen to syndication.
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Can't explain why WBZ would do this unless their management temporarily lost their minds. Or, they offered Rich to time buy the rest of the overnight schedule and he hired LeVeille to host it.
 
I had heard that when Paul Perry was fired from Oldies 103 (CBS) then hired later at a CBS station in Chicago, CBS tried to get the severance back but didn't want to restore Perry's "time with the company". I wonder if they tried any such shennanegans with SL?
 
Eli Polonsky said:
This is great for Steve and WBZ's large overnight listening audience! WBZ live and local overnights again!

But, 4:30 AM Sundays for Lovell Dyett's half-hour show? I'm glad he's back on, but that's about the most graveyard slot he could have been given! That's going to be a challenge for him to build an audience with a slot like that.
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I too am glad Steve will be back. Thank you to the Bring Back Steve Group for the e-mail. I don't live in the Boston area and haven't listened to WBZ, so I woudn't have known. I am sad about Lovell. His old time slot was not good for me and I probably will hear more of him now, but his live show served a purpose in a simmering pot like Boston. I agree with the writer who said he brought civility, insight, grace, and perspective to the most contentious issue. Perhaps a Fri./Sat. overnight? We need to also be grooming the next generation if we value radio listening. The broadcasting outlets have absolute "slop" that they are grooming. We have talent out there who are pounding the pavement while colon cleaners are filling our - the public air waves.
How about "the Jimmy C. Show"? It's edgy and fun...history and current events meets Saturday Night Live. It is as local or national as the days events or his market place at the time. It fills in between the lines of what print media and formal broadcasting doesn't. Imagine interviews with those people who selectively meet the press! It is a scream...let's face it we all need a laugh!
 
This is great news. Nice to know that all the emails I sent to advertisers may contributed in some way to helping change their minds. I'll be ending my 24 hour a day boycott of listening to WBZ/WBZ.com and watching WBZ-TV immediately.

At least they now have an indication of how many people listen to the overnight show, want it to be local and are willing to put up a fight for it.

Now I hope they reconsider the news cutbacks during the evenings.....
 
Re: Grayson

I'm from Pennsylvania, generally enjoyed Steve L. and have been twice shocked with his firing/reinstatement.

On the other hand, Grayson has Midwest charm and ought to be given national exposure on some of the other 50kW flamethrowers carrying "the alien channel". There is an intelligent overnight audience for something other than talk about the Red Sox, trucking, and UFOs. The IBOC kills 1020 here at night.
 
I'm glad they're back....

But the time slot they gave Lovell is just an insult.
 
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