Topic: Politics and Election Coverage
Posted on 11/20/2014
Connoisseur Media’s WPLR-FM New Haven personalities Chaz and AJ hosted gubernatorial candidates Dan Malloy and Tom Foley on Nov. 3. The radio hosts and candidates kept the discussion light by playing with Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots on air. Malloy and Foley debated on several other occasions: Sept. 30 on Meredith Corporation’s CBS affiliate WFSB-TV Avon, Conn.; Oct. 9 at the Connecticut Broadcasters Association (CBA) conference, which aired live on television and radio and replayed on Tribune Broadcasting Company’s Fox affiliate WTIC-TV Hartford; and Nov. 2, on LIN Media’s ABC affiliate WTNH-TV New Haven.
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