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WGBH Announces Earliest Morning News

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Joe Matthieu, formerly of WBZ Radio, announced that starting next week Morning Edition will start at 4:55 AM making it the earliest full morning radio news. Since iHeart is ruining WBZ morning news with its iHeart Trash WGBH -FM 89.7 will be the place to turn no nonsense news.
 
Tilden said:
Joe Matthieu, formerly of WBZ Radio, announced that starting next week Morning Edition will start at 4:55 AM making it the earliest full morning radio news. Since iHeart is ruining WBZ morning news with its iHeart Trash WGBH -FM 89.7 will be the place to turn no nonsense news.
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It could be just the local Morning Edition expanding to 4:55 a.m. The national (and more known) Morning Edition from NPR will remain to start at 5:00 a.m.
 
Tilden said:
Joe Matthieu, formerly of WBZ Radio, announced that starting next week Morning Edition will start at 4:55 AM making it the earliest full morning radio news. Since iHeart is ruining WBZ morning news with its iHeart Trash WGBH -FM 89.7 will be the place to turn no nonsense news.
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Now 10 minutes earlier
Woo hoo
 
Tilden said:
Joe Matthieu, formerly of WBZ Radio, announced that starting next week Morning Edition will start at 4:55 AM making it the earliest full morning radio news. Since iHeart is ruining WBZ morning news with its iHeart Trash WGBH -FM 89.7 will be the place to turn no nonsense news.
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And I can get more in depth news, traffic and weather on my phone 24/7. What's your point?
 
mistermicrophone said:
And I can get more in depth news, traffic and weather on my phone 24/7. What's your point?
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Do you keep your I-Phone by your bed to get news at 6:55 AM? They invented a great device that has been around for more than a century....It's called a RADIO and it is easy to turn on and off. No download needed or data use. You should try it. :)
 
Tilden said:
Do you keep your I-Phone by your bed to get news at 6:55 AM? They invented a great device that has been around for more than a century....It's called a RADIO and it is easy to turn on and off. No download needed or data use. You should try it. :)
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Does it take your iPhone nearly 10 minutes to turn on and find the website or audio feed that will give you the traffic or weather update you want? That's how long you have to wait for those things if you rely on radio and happen to tune in during a long block of commercials or some soft feature -- or even hard news you don't care about. You'll be waiting even longer if you want specifically to know about that earthquake in the Caribbean or what Donald Trump tweeted this morning if you're using radio. Radio is still useful and entertaining, but internet-connected devices run rings around it for immediacy and on-demand content.
 
Good point but I don’t need my glasses at 6AM to turn on the radio to a preset station or have it turn on automatically. Can an I Phone do that ? Thanks
 
Once again, it's push vs. pull. How much work do you want to do vs how long are you willing to wait for it to come to you? There's a process, and a choice.

Get yourself an Amazon Echo or a Google Home and all you have to do is say "Alexa, give me the weather." And it does all the work.
 
TheBigA said:
Once again, it's push vs. pull. How much work do you want to do vs how long are you willing to wait for it to come to you? There's a process, and a choice.

Get yourself an Amazon Echo or a Google Home and all you have to do is say "Alexa, give me the weather." And it does all the work.
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Yep. I listen to radio a lot, but it's mainly for sports play-by-play (live and immediate, but I still have to wait for the announcer to let me know the score, so advantage to internet there) and music. (I don't mind not knowing what's coming up next and realize that I'm not going to love everything I hear, so I change stations occasionally. Some people want only songs they love, so the internet has the advantage there as well.) For the weather, news, and even scores of games I'm not listening to at the time, I always check the internet rather than wait for radio to get around to them.
 
That's why it's not a one-or-the-other thing, and why neither is going away. All the studies show people are using both traditional media and new media, because each one has its advantages and disadvantages.
 
Agreed. It really doesn't make sense on a website called "Radio Discussions" that some folks post that radio is outmoded. Radio was outmoded when TV came on back in the 1940s. Same for movie theaters. Both are doing well, if not quite as well as they once did.

Back to the original post. WBUR and WGBH are clearly locked in a radio battle. You can tell just by looking at the highway billboards and transit ads in Boston, where each station proclaims its superiority (but not mentioning the other). Both had been starting their morning news at 5am. Now one will start a few minutes before 5am. It has little to do with WBZ, which has a different morning format than the two NPR affiliates even if all three are information-based.
 
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