Good morning fellow blogreaders...I realize I haven't posted in a while. I have been incredibly busy. But, this just caught my eye.
Why are we, all of a sudden, streaming funerals? What is our fascination? I understand that Whitney Houston just passed away, but, do we really need to stream her funeral? In my view, broadcasters and fans should just leave the family alone during their time of grief. It would be one thing if it was a public memorial. But, since the family requested a private funeral, broadcasters and fans need to stay out of it and give the family their time to grieve their lost loved one.
Now, it was just announced today that the funeral of former Mets Hall of Famer Gary Carter, who recently passed away, will be streamed not only on the church's website, but also on a purely media website, cbsnewyork.com. What is this...funeral tv/radio? I don't get why people can't just leave the family alone.
They might as well just create a permanent TV network/stream all about funerals and dead people. Maybe that will make people happy....I think not!!
Thank you for listening to my rant and...broadcasters...read the memo and LEAVE THE FAMILY ALONE!!!
KEEP RADIO ALIVE!!
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
An Inside Look of a Major NYC Cluster (CBS)
Dear friends,
I apologize for not posting in a while. I have been very busy with settling in to the spring semester of my freshman year of college. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit the studios of CBS Radio's six-station NYC cluster. It was very interesting to see how a large media company operates locally. I visited the studios of 1010 WINS (NYC's all-news leader), 660 The Fan (WFAN, the sports leader and home of the future 2012 Super Bowl champion, the NY Giants, hint...hint), WCBS 880 (the other CBS-owned all-news station), and the three FM's, CBS FM (classic hits and oldies), WXRK (92.3 NOW, which is now top-40, used to be K-Rock), and WWFS (Fresh 102.7, home of Jim and Kim in the morning). I also met so many interesting people such as Joe Causi and Dan Taylor from CBS FM and Ben Mevorach, news director for 1010 WINS. So, all in all, I had the pleasure of seeing all of these classic stations which happen to all be under one roof.
The cluster was set up very nicely with each station defining its own identity with its own space. 1010 WINS was in one section while WFAN was on another. The same goes for the other four stations.
Of course, this post wouldn't be complete without thanking the man who invited me and toured me around the CBS mecca, Lee Harris. Mr. Harris has been a long-time anchor at 1010 WINS (18 years) and is a Hofstra alum. Did I mention that he is anchoring the overnight shift on Sunday night on WNEW in DC (The New CBS All-News Station, See Post Entitled "CBS is Officially The All-News Leader") and also runs his own web development business on the side? I can't thank him enough for kindly inviting me to hang out at the CBS cluster for an hour today!!
If you would like more information on my trip, feel free to email me at aaron.waisler@gmail.com or comment on this post and I will try my best to reply.
Until next time, KEEP RADIO ALIVE!!
I apologize for not posting in a while. I have been very busy with settling in to the spring semester of my freshman year of college. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit the studios of CBS Radio's six-station NYC cluster. It was very interesting to see how a large media company operates locally. I visited the studios of 1010 WINS (NYC's all-news leader), 660 The Fan (WFAN, the sports leader and home of the future 2012 Super Bowl champion, the NY Giants, hint...hint), WCBS 880 (the other CBS-owned all-news station), and the three FM's, CBS FM (classic hits and oldies), WXRK (92.3 NOW, which is now top-40, used to be K-Rock), and WWFS (Fresh 102.7, home of Jim and Kim in the morning). I also met so many interesting people such as Joe Causi and Dan Taylor from CBS FM and Ben Mevorach, news director for 1010 WINS. So, all in all, I had the pleasure of seeing all of these classic stations which happen to all be under one roof.
The cluster was set up very nicely with each station defining its own identity with its own space. 1010 WINS was in one section while WFAN was on another. The same goes for the other four stations.
Of course, this post wouldn't be complete without thanking the man who invited me and toured me around the CBS mecca, Lee Harris. Mr. Harris has been a long-time anchor at 1010 WINS (18 years) and is a Hofstra alum. Did I mention that he is anchoring the overnight shift on Sunday night on WNEW in DC (The New CBS All-News Station, See Post Entitled "CBS is Officially The All-News Leader") and also runs his own web development business on the side? I can't thank him enough for kindly inviting me to hang out at the CBS cluster for an hour today!!
If you would like more information on my trip, feel free to email me at aaron.waisler@gmail.com or comment on this post and I will try my best to reply.
Until next time, KEEP RADIO ALIVE!!
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