WBZ

WBZ getting Web revamp

adamg — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:19:09 +0000

Michael Page alerts us that CBS is getting ready to smush all its Boston stations (Channel 4, WBZ 1030, Channel 38 and 98.5) into a single CBS Boston site with local news, sports and service-y type stuff all wrapped up under an emphasis on the CBS-ness of it all - four years after Channel 4 started calling itself WBZ again instead of CBS 4 Boston.

From this:

To this:

Is it just vacation for Steve LeVeille?

adamg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:12:54 +0000

LeVeille isn't on WBZ 1030 this week and some anxious fans are wondering.

UPDATE: Just heard from one of those people in A Position to Know, who says there's nothing sinister going on: LeVeille had a cold last week and now he's on vacation: "He hasn't been purged again!"

Larry Glick dies

adamg — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:11:43 +0000

The Globe reports.

Glick talks to Sal from Peabody:

Dave Maynard drops in on Glick:

Three more samples of Glick's work from Northeast Air Checks (requires RealPlayer):

Dave Maynard drops in

adamg — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:30:47 +0000

Ooh, could we see some civil disobedience at WBZ's studios next week?

adamg — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:19:58 +0000

Bruce Wall is now all but promising some excitement on Friday, Feb. 27, when Lovell Dyett supporters show up on Soldiers Field Road to demand Dyett be moved to a time slot where most people are awake enough to hear him. He's claiming WBZ has told him he and his followers are not welcome on its property and that:

Pastor Wall is concerned that his planned peaceful rally could turn ugly and this is not what he wants his people to encounter. He does not want people to be hurt if the WBZ security and Boston Police start to haul people away.

Because, you know, there's absolutely no nearby public space, like, oh, a public park and parking lot where protesters could show WBZ their feelings.

Oh my God, I agreed with something Jon Keller said

adamg — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:27 +0000

This morning, the Mouth that Roared declared that nobody cares what he's doing every minute of the day. And I couldn't help but agree: I don't care what he's doing every minute of the day.

Of course, Keller said that in the context of being roughly the 74,000th media pundit to sneeringly declare his disdain for people who use Twitter, because if he doesn't get it, there's obviously something wrong with it.

Twitter this, Mr. Keller.

Lovell Dyett fans want him back at a decent hour

adamg — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:39:38 +0000

Lovell Dyett supporters don't think much of the way WBZ brought him back - via a taped 30-minute show airing at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. The Rev. Bruce Wall reports the Friends of Lovell Dyett are planning a protest march on Friday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. around the 'BZ studios at 1170 Soldiers Field Rd.

[WBZ Program Director] Peter Casey is saying, by his actions, that he does not care what we have to say and that he will do what he wants to do. It is time that we take a stand and fight for a man who has fought for us.

If Paul Harvey read the sports news

adamg — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:58:16 +0000

And he kept shuffling papers and he was unable to finish his anecdotes, he'd sound like Bob Lobel did doing the sports this morning on WBZ.

WBZ says good bye to Gil Santos

adamg — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:40:08 +0000

And Steve Garfield was there this morning:

A reason to listen to 'BZ on the way to work next week - or maybe not

adamg — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:07:16 +0000

Bob Lobel will be doing the morning drive-time sports reports on WBZ next week, we hear. It's not a permanent thing (at least, not yet).

Protests worked: Steve LeVeille to return to WBZ

adamg — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:41:15 +0000

A little bird chirps in our ear that management just let staff know that LeVeille is returning. The station had dropped the overnight host earlier this month to save money, but apparently decided it couldn't argue with the hundreds of people who barraged station management with letters and e-mail.

The heartbroken little old lady and WBZ

adamg — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:54:37 +0000

The Salem News interviews Generosa Aiello on her sadness at the loss of Steve Leveille:

... Aiello, a chatty 96-year-old, phoned the station every Friday morning between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. for the past 30 years. Her weekly discussions earned the great-grandmother a following of her own. ...

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

adamg — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:14:56 +0000

Garrett makes the case:

Blast from Boston radio past to start 'Net streaming

adamg — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:37:38 +0000

Dick Summer, who once did the overnight shift on WBZ, is busy putting together an Internet station. And he's trying to get in contact with Steve Leveille, who used to do the overnight shift on WBZ and others recently let go by CBS stations. He explains in a post to the Boston Radio Interest mailing list:

Non - Political talk, done by entertaining, highly professional, honest to God real people. No money...at least not now. But a lot of personal satisfaction, and a platform to be heard all around the world.

Outraged Steve LeVeille fans want him back on WBZ

adamg — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:59:10 +0000

UPDATE: WBZ comes to its senses, re-hires LeVeille.

A little birdie from Brighton passes along some of the e-mail WBZ's gotten since canning Steve LeVeille (along with Lovell Dyett, Tom Cuddy and Pat Desmarais). Posted verbatim, although I took out last names, phone numbers and the like: