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I have been looking at the NPR website to find NPR stations when I come down to RTP. I live in Mass and WBUR has been a great asset here (I'll listen to it streamed forever, I think). I am looking for something like that down in that area. It seems like most of the NPR stations are jazz or some other music format and not all news/NPR stories all the time. Is that really the case (especially those transplants who listened to WBUR)?
I have been looking at the NPR website to find NPR stations when I come down to RTP. I live in Mass and WBUR has been a great asset here (I'll listen to it streamed forever, I think). I am looking for something like that down in that area. It seems like most of the NPR stations are jazz or some other music format and not all news/NPR stories all the time. Is that really the case (especially those transplants who listened to WBUR)?
TIA!
You're in luck! WUNC 91.5 is a 24-hour NPR news/talk station. As a matter of fact, "The Story with Dick Gordon" -- late of WBUR, before B.U. cut back the news operations and got rid of Gordon's "The Connection" -- originates from WUNC and is now a national program. Gordon moved to Chapel Hill in the wake of a major fundraising drive to bring him to the Triangle.
In addition to Morning Addition/ATC, WUNC is very similar to WBUR -- Diane Rehm in the mornings, Day to Day and Talk of the Nation in the afternoon (along with The Story and another local origination program, The State of Things with former NPRer Frank Stasio). Of course All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Fresh Air too. Overnights are the BBC World Service.
I'm an ex-Cantab who figured I'd miss WBUR when I moved down here. I've been glad to have been proven wrong.
As a matter of fact, "The Story with Dick Gordon" -- late of WBUR, before B.U. cut back the news operations and got rid of Gordon's "The Connection" -- originates from WUNC and is now a national program.
Actually, it was Christopher Lydon's "The Connection" and WBUR cancelled the programming when he wanted to syndicate as his own show. Not sure who Dick Gordon is, but I suspect I'll learn quick enough when I start tuning in to WUNC. Thanks for the great links.
You're in luck! WUNC 91.5 is a 24-hour NPR news/talk station. As a matter of fact, "The Story with Dick Gordon" -- late of WBUR, before B.U. cut back the news operations and got rid of Gordon's "The Connection" -- originates from WUNC and is now a national program. Gordon moved to Chapel Hill in the wake of a major fundraising drive to bring him to the Triangle.
In addition to Morning Addition/ATC, WUNC is very similar to WBUR -- Diane Rehm in the mornings, Day to Day and Talk of the Nation in the afternoon (along with The Story and another local origination program, The State of Things with former NPRer Frank Stasio). Of course All Things Considered, Marketplace, and Fresh Air too. Overnights are the BBC World Service.
I'm an ex-Cantab who figured I'd miss WBUR when I moved down here. I've been glad to have been proven wrong.
Well...it's not 24-hour news is it? You've got Back-Porch music in the evenings (8pm-11pm?) which is essentually 'in-the-heart-of-West-Virginia'
music (think of the music portion of Deliverance).
And then during the weekends, there's not alot of news (Car Talk, which I like, and Prarie Home Companion, which I'm not fond of...but it's better than listening to G105).
Actually, it was Christopher Lydon's "The Connection" and WBUR cancelled the programming when he wanted to syndicate as his own show. Not sure who Dick Gordon is, but I suspect I'll learn quick enough when I start tuning in to WUNC. Thanks for the great links.
Well, actually...
Christopher Lydon *was* the original host of The Connection in the 1990s. He asked for more money and more control in 2001, and WBUR management let Lydon go.
WBUR management brought in several hosts for on-air tryouts. Dick Gordon, a former broadcaster with the CBC in Canada, was chosen from all the applicants based on public feedback. He helmed the show for several years before WBUR's general manager was fired over financial/management issues. Gordon was let go shortly thereafter.
Here's an article from The Boston Phoenix on the matter:
News & Features | Dis-Connection (broken link)
Well...it's not 24-hour news is it? You've got Back-Porch music in the evenings (8pm-11pm?) which is essentually 'in-the-heart-of-West-Virginia'
music (think of the music portion of Deliverance).
And then during the weekends, there's not alot of news (Car Talk, which I like, and Prarie Home Companion, which I'm not fond of...but it's better than listening to G105).
The Back Porch Music -- which is a very popular and successful local show -- is in the evenings only Fri-Sun evenings. I didn't count Car Talk, Wait Wait, This American Life, and APHC just because practically every "news/talk" NPR station has them.
Don't know that I would call BPM 'Deliverance' style music... then again, I kinda like that music, so I'm a bit biased. And actually, a lot of their music is picked not because it hails from the Mountaineer State, but for its North Carolina roots.
Yikes... I picked the wrong thread to post on today!
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