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Susan Bickelhaupt, Globe Staff. "A new station for news: WBZ-AM." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 1992. HighBeam Research. 5 Nov. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Susan Bickelhaupt, Globe Staff. "A new station for news: WBZ-AM." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). 1992. HighBeam Research. (November 5, 2012). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8760122.html
Susan Bickelhaupt, Globe Staff. "A new station for news: WBZ-AM." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times Company. 1992. Retrieved November 05, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8760122.html
Finally, Boston has an all-news station again. Sort of.
WBZ-AM (1030) says that starting next Monday it will become an all-news station -- on weekdays, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.
David Brudnoy's talk show will continue on weeknights from 7 p.m. to midnight, followed by Bob Raleigh until 5 a.m. So if you flip on the radio at 1:30 a.m. and want to hear a 30-minute update on the latest news, you're still out of luck. During the weekdays, though, and on weekends until noon, WBZ is touting itself as the place to tune for news.
In other words, no more chatter and no more phone-ins.
WEEI-AM (590) left a void last fall when it dropped its well-known ticker-tape sound and …
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