“We pride ourselves on providing Boston sports fans with the best coverage of their teams in the most informative, interesting and unfiltered way possible,” said Princell Hair, SVP and General Manager, CSN New England.
Nothing to add here, other than to note that the SVP and GM of CSNNE is named "Princell Hair".
As part of the new line-up, CSN will add a new nightly show Boston Sports Tonight presented by Town Fair Tire which will air every weeknight from 9PM to Midnight. This 3-hour show will be hosted by CSN’s Tom Curran and Tom Giles, along with WEEI’s Michael Holley and Kayce Smith who are both set to join the network next month.
Not a bad lineup. I like Curran. I mostly like Holley. Giles is fine. I don't know anything about Smith other than that she appears to be a hot blonde, which I am OK with.
The show will have a heavy social media interaction component
Oy. Just what we need on the teevee, discussion of dumb posts made by nitwit randos on Twitter and Facebook.
Also beginning April 3rd, CSN will expand its Arbella Early Edition program to two hours, airing weeknights from 6pm-8pm. The show will be hosted by new line-up of Gary Tanguay, Trenni Kusnierek and Michael Felger, who will join the show each night in-studio following Felger & Mazz.
As noted elsewhere: Tanguay sucks. It is truly amazing that people keeping hiring him and putting him on their air, while there are other available people who are smart and articulate and actually know things about Boston sports (e.g. Sean McAdam) that are out of work.
Trenni is generally good, maybe as a permanent co-host she'll be able to moderate or at least counterbalance Tanguay's egregious stupidity.
Interesting that Felger will be in studio. He just remotes in during this time slot now. How long is the drive from the 98.5 studios to CSNNE? I wonder if this means the end of Felger as an in-studio host for their later programming. He was host on the 10pm Sports Tonight fairly regularly. He's not mentioned at all in the blurb for the new 9pm-midnight show.
Early Edition will combine hot takes and opinion, with heavy debate from hosts and guests
Oy again. I guess this is not really any different what the show is now. But with an expanded 2-hour timeslot there'll be plenty of airtime to fill with even more HOT TAKEZ! Great.
It is also pretty depressing that the press release literally touts "hot takes" as a 'feature' of the show. *sigh*