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WCRN adds more local talk, CBS News

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

WCRN is adding another hour of local talk (and perhaps more in the future) plus CBS News at the top of
the hour, after the first of the year.

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/12/15/worcesters_wcrn_wants_to_be_true_to_its_words/

WTAG's Allen Callendar was hired for news, and Diane Williamson of the Telegram and Gazette will
do one hour per day. They run Peter Blute in mornings, Hank Stolz in pm drive (had been Howie until
the uncertainty about where he was headed), and syndie talk from Laura Ingraham and Michael
Savage (and that immortal "Drew Mortgage Show" at high noon)
 
raccoonradio said:
WCRN is adding another hour of local talk (and perhaps more in the future) plus CBS News at the top of
the hour, after the first of the year.
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I think that's great news for the city.
 
Now a station in Metro Boston that you can hear CBS Radio news on the hour during the day. Suprised that WBZ does not let one of the sister FM stations carry it during the day. Probably WODS would be the best fit.
 
mgpt6 said:
Now a station in Metro Boston that you can hear CBS Radio news on the hour during the day. Suprised that WBZ does not let one of the sister FM stations carry it during the day. Probably WODS would be the best fit.
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Isn't CBS News on the hour a product of Weswood One? I think so. And doesn't WWI also produce NBC News on the hour? If I'm not mistaken, WWI has a couple of other TOH news services as well, although the others are not named after once-great radio networks. I don't think there is a Mutual News any longer and AFAIK, WWI is not, and never has been, involved in producing any of the ABC-branded news services.

If anyone has the complete list of WWI news services, please share it! Are the different services fed at different times on the same transponder? That would require most of the affiliates to delay the 'casts. No big deal with today's technology but the sort of thing that, nevertheless, can prove to be too challenging for a lot of small-market stations.

I believe the newscasts on several of the WWI services, if not all of them, are identical in content, but different talent voices the differently branded 'casts. If that's correct, it saves on the number of writers they need--and during the writers' strike, if they use union writers, it would save on the number of scabs they would have to employ.
 
Any word about bringing back Howie Carr to WCRN, now that the syndication issue seems to be ironed out? Or are there bad feelings?

I'd imagine that Worcester would be a good town for his show and WCRN fills in 680's metro west signal holes nicely too.
 
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