(Full disclosure: The hardwatching staff was a longtime blah blah blah.)

When it debuted in March, the feisty local tabloid’s Wayne’s World webcast streamed at 7 pm on Friday, directly opposite the ‘GBH broadcast. Now it’s posted early on Friday, presumably to . . . who knows what.

Regardless, it’s instructive to compare their respective treatments of Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Tim Murray’s announcement this week that he’s abdicating to the private sector.

Press Party’s Did the media buy Tim Murray’s story segment mocked the local news media for considering “Tim Murray’s legacy” and spent a lot of time speculating about the possibility that Deval Patrick forced Murray out.

Crosstown, the Beat the Press panel discussed whether the media has been too tough on Tim Murray, and pretty much concluded that it has.

Two different media worlds, yeah?

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 . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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  93

Playoffs

 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.

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

 

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 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.

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.

At issue: Exactly when the “slackers from an alternative Boston ad agency” decided to use Drake’s song as the commercial’s soundtrack instead of their original choice of a track from The Church.

The hardworking staff noted that “[i]t wasn’t ‘an alternative Boston ad agency’ that created the spot. It was Arnold Worldwide, the second-largest ad agency in New England at the time, if memory serves us.”

We also checked with Alan Pafenbach, the creative director of the spot, who wrote this in an email:

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” It makes a better story, so what the hell. He gives us credit and probably between me Lance [Jensen] and Shane Hutton there probably was a general impression of slackerdom. Truth is it happened in the edit and Volkswagen never was given a choice.

But Joe Boyd says, not so fast.

I have to disagree. I have a clear recollection of being sent the story board before the shoot. Perhaps it was already shot, but we weren’t told. Also, I have a clear memory of the meeting two years later in Boston with the agency and hearing the guy who came with the Pink Moon idea telling me about listening at home and bringing the idea in the next day to the rest of the team, right before the VW exec came for a meeting. I may have exaggerated “that same morning” for the VW meeting, but I know it was very soon after the switch from the The Church to Nick Drake.  

That’s it. We’re done now. You can ship the Maypole to the Markey/Gomez rumpus.

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?

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?