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They could hire one of the Sob Story Guys for Pledge Week

adamg — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:55:53 +0000

Bostonians are a resilient bunch

adamg — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:03:15 +0000

Allen Rines reports Robin Young's segue from a Sox report on her "Here and Now" show this morning:

Well that's over, let's talk about sperm banks.

Meanwhile, what are the odds these bus ads will stay up as long as that Coraline thing on the Red Line?

Quincy court TV goes live today

adamg — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:22:37 +0000

Starting today, WBUR is livestreaming proceedings at Quincy District Court. OpenCourt.us is an experiment in further opening the court system to the public:

Putting a live-streaming camera in a courtroom is a touchy subject. While we have a goal similar to C-SPAN to provide government transparency, the judicial branch affects the lives of ordinary citizens in a way than the legislative doesn’t. So we’ve spent the last few months working with every stakeholder who would have us, from judges, clerks, attorneys, domestic violence advocates on the local level to a high-level advisory board that meets at the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston.

We want to find the right a balance between the public's right to know and citizens' rights to a fair trial and to be able to come to the court system for protection.

Reporter tags along with cabbie for story; cabbie writes his version first

adamg — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:43:52 +0000

The Hack reports on the WBUR reporter who rode with him one night for a story about Boston cab drivers:

All this chatting distracted me. I found myself driving aimlessly. Other cabs had cut in front of me to pick up fares I should have stopped for. I was getting frustrated.

"What about the airport?" Adam asked. "You must get a lot of good fares from there."

Actually, I hardly ever go to the airport, other than to drop off fares from the city. The taxi pool at Logan is a black hole, a place where hundreds of cabs cram themselves into a parking lot and become trapped for hours on end. By the time you get out of there you're likely only to get some passenger going to a downtown hotels. It's not worth it.

Angry at NPR? Don't take it out on WBUR

adamg — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:35:41 +0000

WBUR's Andrew Phelps tweets:

WBUR is now allowing donors to specify their money not go toward NPR programming.

WBUR gets all Crossfired up in Andrea Cabral's grill

adamg — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:08:03 +0000

Mike Ball listened to 'BUR's Deborah Becker grill Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral on Philip Markoff's suicide and thinks Becker ran amok:

Becker started out like a real journalist and quickly went tabloid on Cabral. She clearly came in with her conclusions and was not about to let truth or knowledge interfere.

Judge for yourself.

WBUR wins grant to enable wireless liveblogging and reporting in Quincy courtroom

adamg — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:18:07 +0000

WBUR's won a $250,000 Knight Foundation grant to work with Quincy District Court to set up a way for bloggers and reporters to report on court cases as they happen - and to develop standards for other courts to use. Laura McGann interviewed 'BUR's John Davidow on the Order in the Court 2.0 project.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it doesn't seem to have helped WGBH topple WBUR yet

adamg — Sat, 22 May 2010 16:42:27 +0000

Boston Music Intelligencer takes a peek at the latest Arbitron numbers for WGBH (and WCRB) and WBUR.

Radio Boston goes daily on Monday

adamg — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:07:46 +0000

Will air from 3-4 p.m. with host Meghna Chakrabarti and Adam Ragusea doing reporting. Their first week will features interviews with all five people running for governor (quick, can you name 'em?).

Radio Boston goes daily May 3

adamg — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:51:03 +0000

Dan Kennedy gets the scoop on WBUR's plans for the newly expanded show, whose "lead host" will be 'BUR reporter and producer Meghna Chakrabarti.

WBUR to answer daily local shows at WGBH with one of its own

adamg — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:26:47 +0000

The battle for ratings between our two bigfoot public-radio stations is stepping up a notch: 'BUR is turning Radio Boston, which now airs only on Fridays, into a daily show.

Nerd art

adamg — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:10:17 +0000

Go to wbur.org, then click on your browser View button, then on View Source. Maybe tilt your head a little to the right.

Apparently nobody at Boston magazine ever watched Zoom or heard of Robin Young

adamg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:08:54 +0000

Boston magazine has a long article on the public-radio war between WBUR and WGBH that I'm sure is just absolutely fascinating, but which I'm having trouble reading because it's just so full of mistakes, starting with the very first paragraph:

Battle at the low end of the FM dial

adamg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:18:43 +0000

Alex Beam reports on the war between WGBH and WBUR for public-radio supremacy in this most NPRish of towns:

... 'BUR staffers have an almost mystical faith in WGBH's management ineptitude, and in the past they have not been disappointed. ...

But 'GBH is hiring 10 new reporters and producers (Quick, Robin! To the Bat Resume!).

Earlier:
WGBH's new slogan sounds awfully familiar.
WGBH plans to stay unique by doing the same thing as other stations.

Tom Ashbrook is on notice

adamg — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:16:09 +0000

Eeka warns the WBUR yakker: If you say "TARP program" one more time, imma beat you over the head with an ATM machine.