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WBZ's "Bring Back Steve
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Also someone did a blogspot blog/petition drive (the same one?)
http://bringbacksteve.blogspot.com/
By the way, what happens if a major local news event breaks overnight?
I can still remember a certain November night a couple years ago. I was driving
home from my job on 128 and going under the 114 overpass. Suddenly I heard what sounded
like a whole bunch of fireworks going off, with a BOOM! a moment later, and a mushroom
cloud rose over the sky. For a minute I thought it was the big gas tanks in Salem nr Beverly.
As it turned out, it was a chemical plant in Danversport. Yes, that one.
I got home and noticed someone on Free Republic asking if anyone had heard the
loud explosion. Nobody seemed to have info--other than one radio station I had on
in the background. People shared info about what happened, where it was. It was our
only way of knowing.
The station? WBZ 1030.
The program?
..The Steve Leveille Broadcast.
http://bringbacksteve.blogspot.com/
By the way, what happens if a major local news event breaks overnight?
I can still remember a certain November night a couple years ago. I was driving
home from my job on 128 and going under the 114 overpass. Suddenly I heard what sounded
like a whole bunch of fireworks going off, with a BOOM! a moment later, and a mushroom
cloud rose over the sky. For a minute I thought it was the big gas tanks in Salem nr Beverly.
As it turned out, it was a chemical plant in Danversport. Yes, that one.
I got home and noticed someone on Free Republic asking if anyone had heard the
loud explosion. Nobody seemed to have info--other than one radio station I had on
in the background. People shared info about what happened, where it was. It was our
only way of knowing.
The station? WBZ 1030.
The program?
..The Steve Leveille Broadcast.
I recall the night when the Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed. News people were not yet on the scene, but one of Steve's callers was a limo driver who had just driven by the trapped vehicle, and Steve's show switched from whatever that night's topic was to coverage of this event. Would this happen with the St. Louis-baseed McTalkshow?
Late-night local disasters, and no one is live to inform the public.
Hmmm, why do I keep thinking "Minot"?
Oh wait, that was Cheap Channel. Yeah, but this is now CheapBS.
Hmmm, why do I keep thinking "Minot"?
Oh wait, that was Cheap Channel. Yeah, but this is now CheapBS.
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Mannix33
Guest
To be quite honest I want a live show back much more than I want Steve Leveille back. I was never really a fan of his show. WAY too many cat stories, and other long rambling stories that are insanely boring such as trying corn from the supermarket in Maine, the sage of where Steve is going to get a haircut now and fit it into his sleep schedule, etc. And I hated that stupid folksy Steve Leveille Broadcast jingle he played before 3AM. In fact...I really preferred the show when Steve wasn't hosting....I thought Morgan White, Jr. is much more interesting. But I listened because it was LOCAL. This Jon Grayson show is terrible. I don't care what's going on in Minneapolis, Pittsburgh or St. Louis. I only care about Boston.
raccoonradio said:
I do mornings (and PD, chief and bottle washer) at a station out of the market (out of state!) I LOVED the throwback "LIVE" overnight that was Steve L. The generic national call-in shows are not unlistenable but just unmemorable. I only listened to BZ' for my hometown red sox connection and local callers from towns I miss being around. Tomorrow will be my third drive in with ST. Louie' boy on the bird. NOT the same. By the way, Christmas Eve 2002 I was instructed to terminate the overnight guy to crank up our new digital automation. It wasn't pretty. I miss the old days.
oldiesfan6479 said:Late-night local disasters, and no one is live to inform the public.
Hmmm, why do I keep thinking "Minot"?
Oh wait, that was Cheap Channel. Yeah, but this is now CheapBS.
wow you really zinged them with that one
M
Mannix33
Guest
Blackroc said:
Fair enough. It's not a terrible show. Another station could get away with it.....not 'BZ with their history. So......not local=......terrible.
Caller got on the end of Rea's show tonight wondering what Rea's exact hours were; he was told
when there's no Bruins game, live Rea 8-mid. with a reply of the 8 pm hour at mid., and if there
is a Bruins game, Rea stays till 1 am. "The less of 'Gruesome' the better--that's what I call
Grayson," the caller said. "He is horrible."
when there's no Bruins game, live Rea 8-mid. with a reply of the 8 pm hour at mid., and if there
is a Bruins game, Rea stays till 1 am. "The less of 'Gruesome' the better--that's what I call
Grayson," the caller said. "He is horrible."
I thought I would continue to listen to Dan and Jordan after these revolting changes, but when I've put their shows on last Friday, I just can't listen. It just keeps me thinking about how much we have been *******-over by WBoZo.
Besides, might as well do a clean break from this station. I'm sure Dan and Jordan will be the next overboard so no use continuing to be attached to the idea of any local programming.
This morning I put on channel 7 (avoiding the TV side of the train wreck as well) to check out the traffic situation before I left the house and then listened to XM in the car.
Meanwhile, I can't believe the Gary Lapierre is willing to voice the intros to traffic reports in the "no one is home" newsroom. When he retired I remembered him commenting on how every station used to have a newsroom and how lucky he was to have worked for a station with such a strong committment to maintaining the news dept. when pretty much everyone else had eliminated it. Guess money trumps conviction.
Besides, might as well do a clean break from this station. I'm sure Dan and Jordan will be the next overboard so no use continuing to be attached to the idea of any local programming.
This morning I put on channel 7 (avoiding the TV side of the train wreck as well) to check out the traffic situation before I left the house and then listened to XM in the car.
Meanwhile, I can't believe the Gary Lapierre is willing to voice the intros to traffic reports in the "no one is home" newsroom. When he retired I remembered him commenting on how every station used to have a newsroom and how lucky he was to have worked for a station with such a strong committment to maintaining the news dept. when pretty much everyone else had eliminated it. Guess money trumps conviction.
Today Steve's web site has been altered to read:
"ONE OF AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED"
"ONE OF AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED"
In today's Herald Steve said he wouldn't mind doing a morning show; not that they'd ever do it,
but imagine 680 putting Steve on.
Who'd you rather hear on WRKO in am drive, Steve or Tom FelonMan? (The show that's doing
so well they cut an hour of (live) talk from it! That's right, it's so popular there's now LESS of it!)
but imagine 680 putting Steve on.
Who'd you rather hear on WRKO in am drive, Steve or Tom FelonMan? (The show that's doing
so well they cut an hour of (live) talk from it! That's right, it's so popular there's now LESS of it!)
raccoonradio said:
Anyone know whether Feinburg has a contract with Entercom to co-host AM drive with Finneran on WRKO? If Feinburg is working without a contract, wouldn't LeVeille be a HUGE improvement? Then, when Finneran's contract ended a year from now, the "speaker" could be politely shown the door and Steve could go on do the show solo. Would be great to hear Steve more-or-less single-handedly revive WRKO.
I'd be for that! Not sure if Feinburg's under contract.
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spanky108
Guest
I'm not sure how Steve would sound with Finneran. But putting him on WRKO in the morning is a pretty good idea.
Leville's program was boring and suitable only for the dark of night. It is absurd to think that WBZ somehow owes it to the world to program a daypart that is little more than a cost factor. His act won't work in morning drive.
As for radio news, it died years ago of self-inflicted injury. They're still doing news, with stories nobody cares about clipped from the newspaper and considered relevant because of the addition of a short newsmaker cut, the same way they did it in 1972. BZ has one of the worst-sounding all news formats in the world; the people running the show know little about all-news presentation, that's why we see people likeMcMahon fired and replaced by overrated booth announcers who loooove to listen to their own voices but who are so obviously vapid talking heads.
The only thing worse is Metro news, which presents outdated irrelevance, usually traffic accidents and shootings that are more than 16 hours old. My favorite recent example, a story that Lunenberg is considering replacing Unitel as its power company, told from the local yokel perspective, rather than as a story of wider importance focusing on disgust at the way the ice storm was handled by the region's power companies.
As for Santos, the retirement story is a crock; it is so obviously a lay-off it's not even funny -- otherwise the GM wouldn't have been no-commenting.
As for radio news, it died years ago of self-inflicted injury. They're still doing news, with stories nobody cares about clipped from the newspaper and considered relevant because of the addition of a short newsmaker cut, the same way they did it in 1972. BZ has one of the worst-sounding all news formats in the world; the people running the show know little about all-news presentation, that's why we see people likeMcMahon fired and replaced by overrated booth announcers who loooove to listen to their own voices but who are so obviously vapid talking heads.
The only thing worse is Metro news, which presents outdated irrelevance, usually traffic accidents and shootings that are more than 16 hours old. My favorite recent example, a story that Lunenberg is considering replacing Unitel as its power company, told from the local yokel perspective, rather than as a story of wider importance focusing on disgust at the way the ice storm was handled by the region's power companies.
As for Santos, the retirement story is a crock; it is so obviously a lay-off it's not even funny -- otherwise the GM wouldn't have been no-commenting.
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