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Dear CBS: Please sell WBZ-AM before you destroy it completely

By adamg on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 6:14pm

Garrett makes the case:

... While radio (like anything else) is indeed a business, CBS seems not to understand what New Englanders listen to. In addition, I would also add that Bostonians (like myself) are a particular species of animal; stubborn in our habits and set in our ways: Don't move our arm chair, or touch our TV remote. We are that kind of people. We love our Dunkin' Donuts, our Boston Red Sox, and hate the Yankees. Don't even think of taking the CITGO sign down, or those Green Line trains off Beacon Street. Too bad CBS does not understand this about our native soil, and you could argue they never have. In a modern broadcast world where everythign down to TV News character graphics are researched with viewers, you'd think that CBS would do some research about the demographic of thier Boston listeners. Sadly, no such research seems to be conducted, or they do not understand the results. ...

Then there's the Slow death of WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Facebook group (started by a BBC engineer from Watertown):

A place where former fans of WBZ radio can come in from the cold and discuss the agonizingly painful destruction of a once-proud radio news outlet.

Such destruction includes the end of live news reports after 8 p.m. - so the next time Danvers blows up, don't count on hearing about it first on 'BZ (let alone via phone calls to the Steve Leveille show).

Meanwhile, efforts to get CBS to reverse the layoffs of Leveille and Lovell Dyett continue. There's now a Web site, a blog and Facebook group to try to get Leveille back. Some leaders of Boston's black community are equally emphatic about trying to get Dyett back on the air.

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Comments

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 11:53pm.

He's one of the better posters on R-I (where I post as Will.) Glad you checked them out.

By Kaz on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:44am.

I'm sorry, but didn't you mean to say "The guys running WBZ-AM should be shot and then hung...those utterly useless wastes of life."

By Will LaTulippe on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:52am.

...why not wanting crime in my community makes me a bad person.

By Kaz on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 2:10am.

Wasn't me. Now come down off that cross before the wintery mix starts. Your french toast is getting cold.

By Will LaTulippe on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 2:31am.

...but I can get my French toast anytime I want at the IHOP down the street. :-)

By Ron Newman on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:55pm.

Why can't WBZ radio call on the resources of WBZ-TV to provide local news coverage after 8pm?

By Will LaTulippe on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 2:07pm.

In my hometown of Burlington, VT, one of the AM stations used to simulcast the audio of the NBC affiliate's 6 PM local newscast. Maybe WBZ radio should do that at 11.

By BoB from Wakefield on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 1:46pm.

My family and I were crushed and deeply hurt to learn that the Steve LeVeille Broadcast was abruptly replaced by “Canned Compost”. I listened to the monkey business and clicked it off. I made another attempt to listen Tuesday, but it was like probing an open wound.

Steve is the best combination of those personalities that aired during the past forty years, e.g. Larry, Norm, Tom and Bob. Keep in mind, that is who we allow into our homes – personalities, not call letters.

In this post 9-11 period he certainly represents an immediate “local voice” with local information and local banter (about same) as we awake from a period of rest.

Please, bring back The Steve LeVeille Broadcast – sooner, rather than later.