TIME FOR CBS TO SELL WBZ

[ChrisNH]

I would also like to compliment the www.fybush.com web site. It's a winner, and I just discovered it. A lot of good, cogent thought about the industry coming from a veteran of it.

While this might elicit a :::roll eyes::: response, what of those 'If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed...' events? You know...the high-pitched tone followed by the official-sounding announcer telling you what would happen if it was a 'real' emergency. Well, let's agree that these stations--WBZ et al--are cutting SO much SO fast that they are putting at RISK their ability to service the community 'in the event of an actual emergency.' It might be that 'Joe' just got laid off, but 'Joe' was the only one who knew the process.

I'm not trying to be a rabble-rouser; rather, I'm trying to suggest that media cuts--TV and radio--are putting these purveyors of information at risk of not being able to properly serve the community should something calamitous occur. An LNG tanker gets hijacked by terrorists in Boston Harbor and the guy in St. Louis says, 'No worry mon...we haff no Harbor e're"

[Will]

Nice work Garrett...you've been linked on universalhub.com.

[aaronread]

I agree that 'mega-ownership' has turned out to be a bad thing. WBZ has tanked under CBS and The Boston Globe has done the same under the NYT.

ChrisNH - I can guarantee you that if the Globe HADN'T been under NYT ownership these past few years, the cuts would've been much deeper and much more detrimental to the final product.

As bad as it's been for the Globe...it could've been much, much worse.  Just look at the Tribute, the LA Times, the Miami Herald, etc etc etc.

[skywalker]

Thank the wonders of deregulation. How great they said it would be. Look what it's done for every industry in the free marketplace.
Thank corporate raider and head Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein in Boston) One of Redstone's largest acquisitions came in the form of Viacom's former parent, CBS. And then there's Former Viacom President & COO Mel Karmazin (then the President of CBS) Look at the great things he's done for community radio big and small! And how can we forget Les Moonves who may have David Caruso’s back but it's turned on the radio division.  (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/12/les_moonves_has_got_david_caru.html)
And that brings us to Dan Mason, the former president of CBS' radio division, who replaced Joel Hollander as CBS Radio's president and chief executive on April 16th of 2007. "Part of this will be about the core business, making sure we're making the right decisions from a programming standpoint as well as a sales standpoint," Mason told the Wall Street Journal. "The second part is to nurture digital efforts." (http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/dan-mason-returns-to-cbs-radio-and-is-joel-hollander-going-to-sirius.html)

So there ya have it folks, as Governor Sara Palin would say.  All is in the name of making the right programming decisions! And we all know who those decisions will benefit most.   Priceless!!!!

Corporate always has a different agenda than programming!   $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$   At any price, 24/7 And they always make the right decisions.   RIGHT!!!!!!!!!