Having recently lamented the demise of the Steve LaVeille Broadcast on WBZ AM in Boston, driving home tonight I was further dismayed to flip between the Boston and Providence oldies FM stations and hear the same songs. They’re both carrying a syndicated show with Tom Kent.
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I forgot to mention that the Boston station — Oldies 103 — is carrying only the left channel of the program over both channels. I heard the same problem again tonight. Don’t they have ears, or don’t they care? Maybe somebody there is doing it in protest to losing the local DJ slot.
Hi! It’s a shame that so many radio stations are using at least partial syndicated programming. Our FM oldies station here uses live djs at night but almost all the AM stations use syndication at night, and some use it non-stop after morning drive time. That sucks! I like having a person doing a show from the station, not a couple thousand miles away in California, or say from the midwest. Of course I break that rule with listening to old time radio shows that CHML carries from “When Radio Was/Chorus Radio Network”, BBC World Service, and “CBC Radio Overnight” that carries shortwave programming from various countries. I just like that rather than listening to syndicated talk shows at night.
One would expect better out of the greater Boston area, and even Providence. We have an oldies station, but they play the same handful of no. ones over and over till you could scream. Imagine starting to hate “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” It all boils down to cutting costs, I guess. That’s why I use my CD converter in the car. I can get two NPR stations in, but reception quality varies due to the weather and the mountains.