I tuned to WBZ to check for George Bush’s funeral and it didn’t seem like they were covering it.
1.) By "covering it"...you mean covering it wall-to-wall, cancelling all other programming and canceling out all the spots?
2.) Do you think that's called for?
As much as I respected the late President G.H.W. Bush, a multi hour funeral with people doing long winded eulogies is not conducive to radio.
If a station chose to go wall to wall with it, that is their choice, but it certainly not something I would listen to for more than a few minutes....
I did catch a few minutes on the radio with pictures, and I'm sure we will be getting sound bites all night on the news, but IMHO wall to wall news station with a 30 minute wheel is not good radio, or necessary.
In my radio "dial-surfing", I also caught NPR live funeral coverage on WBUR-90.9, and Rhode Island Public Radio's 89.3The only station I found with it is WGBH. Does anyone know of any others covering it?
In my radio "dial-surfing", I also caught NPR live funeral coverage on WBUR-90.9, and Rhode Island Public Radio's 89.3
Bloomberg did.
WCBS in NY did.
Wimmmex, do you work for IHeart?
I was in Bristol, Connecticut on Wednesday waiting for my Mom at the hair dressers. Caught wall-to-wall funeral coverage on:
710 WOR NYC
770 WABC NYC
810 WGY Albany, NY
880 WCBS NYC
1010 WINS NYC
1080 WTIC Hartford, CT
1220 WQUN Hamden, CT
Yes, I think it's called for, especially when few, or no stations in the market have it
Yes, I think it's called for, especially when few, or no stations in the market have it
Personally, I think shutting down the stock market, the post office, federal govt. and airing the funeral live for a former president is overkill so I have no issue with their decision not to carry it. Especially if a couple other stations were already carrying it that is more than plenty. I'm surprised in NYC that both WCBS and WINS carried it - one could have while the other kept their normal routine going.
That leads to the obvious question of what the point of closing is? A symbolic gesture, apparently. They might as well have kept the offices open, possibly with some simple display honoring the former president, and offered 100% of the staff the admin leave day.I work at a postal sorting center.Only about 1% of employees got Wed off.Rest of us get to take a day of administrative leave within the next 6 months.(No delivery or open offices though.) We also got a similar day of mourning when Reagan (2004), Ford(2006), and Nixon (1994) passed.Been there since '86.Was working.