Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Media The future of Eight Forty-Eight?
Posted By Sam Worley on 11.02.11 at 02:00 PM
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The Crain's report was alarming, and Robinson's piece was both irked and irksome—c'mon: comparing Vocalo to the Red Eye is not entirely fair—but Robert Feder reported this morning that the goal at WBEZ is actually to gain more, not fewer, locally made shows. Feder’s following up on something that he wrote about back in August—that Malatia wants to boost local programming in consideration of two new WBEZ competitors, Merlin Media on WWWN FM 101.1 and CBS News on WCFS FM 105.9, both of which operate an all-news format. Via Feder:
“The idea here is to add hours — not to take away hours,” Malatia said Tuesday. “We have two hours now [Eight Forty-Eight and Worldview] that we do Monday through Friday. We’d like to add one more before the summertime, and we’d like to add one or maybe two next fiscal year, which is from July 2012 through June 2013. Over a period of time, we want to add hours and do more live, original talk during the day. It’s not in our interest to go backwards. It’s in our interest to add.”
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