There’s some serious co-branding going on at the Boston Herald these days, where the Suffolk University logo is on the feisty local tabloid like Howie Carr on a Bay State solon.
For starters, there’s the Suffolk connection to the Herald’s weekly Press Party webcast, the underdog half of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight with WGBH’s Beat the Press. Here’s the ad from today’s paper:
And here’s how the webcast’s background looks . . .
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The hardwatching staff has been torn throughout the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers – partly because we really like the Bruins, partly because the Original Six Rangers were our boyhood team.
We would trundle down to the old Madison Square Garden a couple of times a month and buy $2 tickets in the second balcony, which featured open seating except you couldn’t get into the first three rows without greasing the ushers, which we didn’t have the money to do. The thing was, beyond the third row the ice surface started to get cut off, so you could only see maybe two-thirds of the action, which was generally enough given how bad the Rangers were in the early ’60s.
We started at the end of the Gump Worsley Era.
Team stats:
Regular season
SEASON GP MIN W L T GA SO GAA SA Sv% G A PIM 1962-63 67 3980 22 34 10 217 2 3,27 0 0 14 1961-62 60 3531 22 27 9 172 2 2,92 0 0 12 1960-61 59 3473 20 29 8 190 1 3,28 0 0 10 1959-60 41 2301 7 23 8 135 0 3,52 0 0 12 1958-59 67 4001 26 30 11 198 2 2,97 0 0 10 1957-58 37 2220 21 10 6 86 4 2,32 0 0 10 1956-57 68 4080 26 28 14 216 3 3,18 0 0 19 1955-56 70 4200 32 28 10 198 4 2,83 0 0 2 1954-55 65 3900 15 33 17 197 4 3,03 0 0 2 1952-53 50 3000 13 29 8 153 2 3,06 0 0 2 TOTAL 584 34686 204 271 101 1762 24 3,05 0 0 93Playoffs
SEASON GP MIN W L GA SO GAA SA Sv% G A PIM 1961-62 6 384 2 4 21 0 3,28 0 0 0 1957-58 6 365 2 4 28 0 4,60 0 0 0 1956-57 5 316 1 4 21 0 3,99 0 0 0 1955-56 3 180 0 3 14 0 4,67 0 0 2 TOTAL 20 1245 5 15 84 0 4,05 0 0 2
Mostly we remember Gump stopping 50 of 53 shots and losing 3-2.
But then came the Eddie Giacomin Era and the GAG – Goal A Game – line of Rod Gilbert (the NHL’s Mickey Mantle), Vic Hatfield, and Jean Ratelle (via Schulte Sports):
Sad to say, the GAG line gagged (trading Ratelle and Brad Park to the Bruins for a used-up Phil Esposito and an underperforming Carol Vadnais didn’t help) and it wasn’t until 1994 that the Rangers finally beat the 1940 curse of burning the MSG mortgage in the Stanley Cup.
Except the hardwaiting staff actually hated the ’94 Rangers.
But why get technical about it.
Cut to last night, when the Rangers actually woke up, thanks to a fluke goal when Bruins netminder Tuukka Rask tripped himself up.
After that it was off to the races, resulting in a 3-3 regulation tie and this sudden-death overtime goal from Ranger forward Chris Kreider (who pwned Bruins Kiddie Korps defenseman Dougie Hamilton).
The Rangers aren’t going to win this series. But maybe they can justify themselves before it’s over.
Trade magazine Radio Ink has published its first-ever list of the Top 20 News Stations in America. And local fixture WBZ-AM has landed in the top ten.
Via Pew Research Daily Briefing of Media News:
WTOP IS #1 NEWS STATION IN AMERICA
A panel of news and news/talk experts have named Hubbard Radio’s WTOP top news station in the country in Radio Ink’s first listing of news and news/talk stations. Under the leadership of GM Joel Oxley, Vice President of Programming Jim Farley, and Program Director Laurie Cantillo, WTOP has developed into a news leader in the Washington D.C. market, competing with newspaper outlets like the Washington Post and television news organizations in the nation’s capital. WTOP has also established itself as a digital news leader with nearly 100,000 regular readers at WTOP.com and 60,000 followers on Twitter and 11 full- and part-time digital journalists.
And here’s the full list (don’t forget a shoutout for WGAN in Portland, ME):
#1) WTOP - Washington DC
Read our cover story with WTOP’s Jim Farley HERE
#2) 1010 WINS - New York City
#3) KFI-AM - Los Angeles
#4) KCBS-AM - San Francisco
LISTEN TO A KCBS AIRCHECK HERE
#5) WBBM-AM/FM - Chicago
LISTEN TO A WBBM AIRCHECK HERE
#6) WCBS-AM - New York City
LISTEN TO A WCBS AIRCHECK HERE
#7) WBZ-AM - Boston
#8) WSB-AM/FM - Atlanta
#9) KYW-AM - Philadelphia
#10) WWJ-AM - Detroit
#11) KIRO-FM - Seattle
#12) WBT-AM/FM - Charlotte
#13) KNX-AM - Los Angeles
#14) KKOB-AM -Albuquerque
#15) WBAP-AM & FM – Dallas
#16) KTRH-AM - Houston
LISTEN TO A KTRH AIRCHECK HERE
#17) KFBK-AM & FM – Sacramento
#18) KMBZ-AM & FM – Kansas City
LISTEN TO AN AIRCHECK OF KMBZ HERE
#19) KRMG-AM & FM – Tulsa
#20) WGAN & WGIN – Portland, ME
Boston Magazine’s redoubtable David Bernstein might rank former state representative Charlotte Golar Richie #2 in his list of Boston mayoral hopefuls, and the Boston Globe might report big names coalescing around her campaign, but that still doesn’t give her any cred at ABC News.
In today’s edition of The Note, reporter Michael Falcone notes Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel’s loss this week to City Councilman Eric Garcetti, but says “The Year of the Woman Mayor” declared by liberal activist group Emily’s List could still come to pass.
Although Los Angeles was a top prize for Emily’s List, it is not the biggest. That distinction belongs to New York City where City Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads a crowded field of Democratic mayoral contenders, which now includes former Rep. Anthony Weiner. And other women leaders are running in mayoral races in large cities around the country — in Houston, Minneapolis, Seattle, Dayton, Syracuse, Albany, Long Beach and Tulsa — to name a few.
Albany? Tulsa?? But no Boston?
Hey, Mr. Falcone – give us a call. Better yet, give David Bernstein a call. He can get this sorted in no time.
The local dailies have very – all together now – different takes on yesterday’s swan song for Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray.
The Boston Globe runs it upper left on today’s front page:
The Boston Herald gives it all of Page One:
And page two . . and page four . . . and page five . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Reason #1:
The Bruins’ OT win over the Toronto Maple Leafs last night:
Reason #2:
The Kings’ OT win over the St. Louis Blues last night:
Reason #3:
Anaheim’s OT win over the Detroit Red Wings last night.
The hardwatching staff is off to celebrate its 30th wedding anniversary now, so we’ll be Stanley Cupless for awhile.
But you should definitely enjoy the Greatest Show on Ice in our absence.
Aereo, the ant(enna) farm that lets viewers access broadcast networks on the Internet for a monthly fee, is expanding into Boston, but not without opposition.
Via The Verge (tip o’ the pixel to Poynter):
Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network
Aereo has filed a complaint today against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing additional lawsuits against the fledgling service.
Aereo is a web TV service that enables users to view over-the-air broadcasts via the web. Two groups of television networks — groups that include CBS, Fox, and NBC — filed copyright claims last year and argued that Aereo is an illegal service because it distributes their programming without compensating them. After losing two decisions in New York this year, a CBS spokesman said on Twitter two weeks ago that CBS plans to file another lawsuit against Aereo in Boston, an area Aereo recently announced it would move into. Aereo says that the broadcasters are just shopping for a more sympathetic court and that it’s a waste of the public’s resources.
Boston as a sympathetic venue?
Who woulda thunk?
In the Stanley Cup quarterfinals, the Ottawa Senators are in the process of very forcibly sending the Montreal Canadiens back home for the summer.
Les Habitants, indeed.
Sweet enough Sunday night the Sens not only beat the Habs, they beat them up.
Last night they also beat them down, erasing a two-goal lead in regulation and winning Game 4 in overtime.
Those cheers have to be music to every Bruins fan’s ears, yes?
And it’s even better that the color commentary is in French, oui?
When we last chronicled the Marathon-bombings-related advertising in the local dailies, the Boston Globe was the clear favorite, two ads to none over the Boston Herald.
Especially notable was this ad from the Newbury Street League and the Buck – sorry, Back Bay Association.
Notable because it seemed a serious snubbing of the feisty local tabloid by the tony local retail set . . .
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