Tag Archives: WGBH

WGBH=Workers Get Big Hatin’

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The Wisconsin public employee unions may have felt the love during the Cheeseheads Held Hostage standoff, but it’s quite the opposite for the WGBH union (Association of Employees of the Educational Foundation, Communications Workers of America, Local 1300) that has resoundingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AEEF, Cheeseheads Held Hostage, CWA, public employee unions, WGBH, Wisconsin | 2 Comments

WGBH=Whacked Good, Boston Herald

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Our feisty local tabloid has found the perfect target: Brie-eating, Chardonnay-sipping, taxpayer-dollar-sucking public television. As in, local public broadcaster WGBH. Yesterday’s Boston Herald front page: Today’s addition: Your tax dollars turn on WGBH The flagship of public television, WGBH — … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Herald, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Howie Carr, liberal bias, NPR, PBS, WGBH | 12 Comments

Boston Globe’s Conflict-Of-Disinterest Policy

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Saturday’s Boston Globe Business pages included this piece by tech writer Hiawatha Bray about “Mobile DTV, a new technology that could turn millions of digital gadgets into portable TV sets.” Headline: WGBH steps into mobile TV market Nut graf: WGBH … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Basic Black, Boston Globe, Emily Rooney Show, full disclosure, Greater Boston, Hiawatha Bray, WGBH | 3 Comments

Dead Blogging the ‘GBH Classical Radio Rumpus, Part 2

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Grace notes from Tuesday night’s future-of-classical-music-in-Boston hoedown (all statistics via WGBH general manager John Voci): • Classical audience for WGBH: 120,000; for WCRB: 340,000 • WGBH classical audience: 71% are 55 or older; WGBH news audience: 1o-15 years younger • … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Symphony Orchestra, FCC, repeater stations, WCRB, WGBH | 3 Comments

Dead Blogging the ‘GBH Classical Radio Rumpus

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Tuesday evening The Boston Musical Intelligencer presented a panel discussion – “What Can We Do for Classical Music Radio in Boston?” – at the Old South Church in Copley Square. The moderator: William M. Bulger, former Massachusetts Senate President and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged classical gasbags, public broadcast pity party, The Boston Musical Intelligencer, WCRB, WGBH | 11 Comments

Hark! The Herald!

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

From our Strange Bedfellows Bureau: The Boston Herald has become an underwriter at WGBH, the local public broadcaster that’s turned into a radio mixmaster with 89.7 FM going news/talk and WGBH’s classical programming going to 99.5 FM. And now here’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Herald, radio mixmaster, Strange Bedfellows Bureau, Tom Brady, WGBH | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging the Boston Mayoral Debate

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

For all of you who stubbornly cling to the 21st century: dead blog v. tr. To wait until an event is over before writing about it. So, the Boston mayoral debate tonight between Mayor Tom Menino and City Councilor Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, dead blog, Michael Flaherty, NECN, Tom Menino, WBUR, WGBH | 1 Comment

Errors o’ the Day (pat. pending)

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

Let’s stipulate, as they say on the Law & Order industrial complex (Coming next fall: Law & Order Lunch), that there but for the grace of God go the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider. Regardless . . . Error o’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Logan, Richard Knisely, WCRB, WGBH | 3 Comments