Which audience relied on WBZ for news, traffic, and talk?

Commuters and news-hungry listeners across New England, especially in the Boston area, were the audience that counted on WBZ for reliable news, traffic updates, and talk programming every day.

Hold on, let me check my log here. Are you asking about the general demographic breakdown for WBZ's news/traffic/talk audience, or do you mean a specific time slot or program block?

The morning rush crowd, people stuck in their cars on I-93 or the Mass Pike, they lived by WBZ's traffic reports and news updates to plan their whole day around the chaos.

That loyal band of Bay Staters stuck in the endless parade of orange barrels on the Southeast Expressway-they'd flip on WBZ like clockwork to get the jump on the pileups and potholes, treating the news breaks like their morning coffee. 😄 Honestly, the whole region's workforce, from office drones in the Financial District to the trades folks heading out to the 'burbs, they made it their go-to for staying ahead of the game.