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Severin set to break out of Boston
Boston Globe ^ | September 16, 2005 | Geoff Edgers

Posted on 09/16/2005 4:37:01 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

He's called Bill Clinton ''a traitor" and Al Gore ''Al Whore," but until now, Jay Severin's radio audience has been largely limited to Boston. That will change in January. Today Infinity Broadcasting will announce that it has signed the sharp-tongued former political consultant to do a radio show in a series of syndicated markets beginning next year.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: radio; severin; talkradio; talkshow
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To: nickcarraway
Severin used to fill in for Bob Grant (WABC and WOR), on occasion. I always thought he was pretty good. Then I have no idea what happened to him. Suddenly he became this rabid leftwing nutball. Bob Grant had some very harsh things to say about him and Severin was no longer a substitute host for Bob Grant.
21 posted on 09/16/2005 7:08:49 PM PDT by asp1
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To: Chickensoup

Don't get me wrong. I actually like funky Poughkeepsie. But it's not Greenwich, Connecticut if you get my drift.


22 posted on 09/16/2005 7:16:41 PM PDT by somerville
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To: LibFreeOrDie

I listen to Howie, too, except for when he has dopey recurring topics like "Disgusting things you found in your food at a restaurant." He is at his best when talking about local political stuff, no doubt, and he has a certain self-depricating ("I didn't come here to be made sport of" and "I beg your pardon" when people critique him) charm that is sincere and whimsical. The weekly segments with Sandy (police blotter) and Chris Wallace are generally stellar.


23 posted on 09/16/2005 7:17:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: BansheeBill

The NY Post, Page Six I think, mentioned a few weeks ago that he had children.


24 posted on 09/16/2005 7:19:03 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: asp1

Is Bob Grant still on? I haven't been back East for a long time.


25 posted on 09/16/2005 8:07:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Good riddance to this blow hard phony. He makes O'Really look credible. Hannity can take his spot and the ratings will probably go up. But Howie rules.
26 posted on 09/16/2005 8:11:24 PM PDT by JediForce (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
A couple of years ago, the Globe ran some critical stories about him, including that he did not live in Massachusetts and that he was happily married with children. He (on the air) took great issue with some things in the Globe stories but did not mention anything about how they were wrong about where he lived or his marital status.
I rarely listem to him anymore. He is supposed to be hosting a "talk show", but often you can tune in to the beginning of his show and he will bloviate and take no calls for 15 to 20 minutes, until he is forced to go to a station ID break/time check, or a commercial break. I really do not want to hear almost anyone go on and on for 20 minutes straight. He also seems to consider himself all knowing when it comes to 70s era hard rock and roll (and what music is cool and what is not), and lets his bumpers go on for way too long at times.

This page 6 excerpt from 7/17 may be what you were referring to:
JAY Severin has vanished from MSNBC's new "The Situation with Tucker Carlson." Sources say Severin, a conservative who hosts a radio talk show in Boston, didn't enjoy the commute from his home in Sag Harbor to the TV show's studio in New Jersey - especially when he saw how low Carlson's ratings were. Severin, who has a wife and young daughter, was also promised a state-of-the-art studio where he could do his radio show on the days when he was on TV, but MSNBC didn't deliver. Severin's departure leaves humorless Air America host Rachel Maddow as the breakout star on Carlson's daily panel.
27 posted on 09/16/2005 8:26:49 PM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: BansheeBill

Yes, that is the NY Post piece.

It seems that Scot Lehigh and Jay Severin have a history between them. Oftentimes, if I am listening to the radio midday, I will switch between Howie and Jay. I recall a few seismic verbal shots Jay lobbed towards him on a few occasions.

Jay's unique anti-Hillary observations are entertaining.


28 posted on 09/16/2005 9:56:20 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Jay is absolutely terrific when someone can steer the conversation to Hillary. He calls he every kind of sick puke you can think of...on the air!!!!

His shows in the past year have shown a lot of opportunism, tho - I would actually tune into IMUS on MSNBC early on the mornings when he was to appear - and he would sound like a Kerry/Imus suck up to the extreme. I was disappointed, to say the least.

Howie is da bomb.


29 posted on 09/20/2005 8:52:10 PM PDT by bitt ('It is a good thing the Commander in Chief is tough as nails.' (FR))
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Former Bostonian here. I listened to Jay sometimes, but he was a creep, which fit the depravity of some Bostonians. During one broadcast, Jay shared a stage with Laura Ingraham. He kept complimenting her on her looks. I sensed that Laura was put off by it. How? She normally is quick to reply during broadcasts, but she wasn't whenever Jay talked about her appearance. Instead, she was silent. I felt uneasy for Laura about it.

After that broacast, I mainly tuned into Jay's competitor, that candy-a$$ed ruffian named Howie Carr.


30 posted on 09/20/2005 9:01:47 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: Vision Thing

Someone used that term ("candy...") yesterday during a phone call to Carr, IIRC. :-)


31 posted on 09/20/2005 9:05:13 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I haven't listened to Howie in over three years, which is when I left Boston. However, back then, his show's intro contained a sound bite of a caller who referred to Howie by that description. Funny stuff.


32 posted on 09/20/2005 9:22:10 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: Vision Thing

Oh, OK. He has altered his intro since then.


33 posted on 09/20/2005 9:50:09 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: somerville

Long time no see, somer! How are you doing? All is well in Las Vegas! I may visit the old campus for an afternoon in the early spring!


34 posted on 09/20/2005 9:52:23 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: HitmanNY

How are you doing ? I met a couple of 25 year old Vassar grds on the Metro North train coming back from Poughkeepsie a few weeks ag. They were praising Fran Fergusson for her anti-war statements. They looked downright puzzled when I said that her stance had alienated some grads."When you're older, you might feel differently" I said. No doubt they were snickering about what I said later on.


35 posted on 09/21/2005 5:00:51 AM PDT by somerville
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Still missing on WTKK.
36 posted on 09/26/2005 12:50:36 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

this guy pissed me off when he said he would vote for Nader then Bush then demonizes Iraq war etc etc etc


37 posted on 09/26/2005 12:52:16 PM PDT by DM1
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To: nickcarraway
Didn't this guy use to be on in the New Jersey/New York Area? Maybe on WOR?

Yes, I think he was on against Bob Grant when he was on WABC.

By the way, does anybody know whatever happened to Jay Diamond?

38 posted on 09/26/2005 12:57:10 PM PDT by bankwalker (An accusation is often a subconscious confession.)
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To: raccoonradio

There was this chatter in today's Boston Herald gossip column:

Yakker’s empty words

WTKK's Jay Severin was caught embellishing his resume yet again. Severin, who claimed – falsely – to have won a Pulitzer Prize and who allowed himself to be introduced – falsely – as a graduate of Harvard Law School also claimed – falsely – to have a master's degree from Boston University.

Barry Nolan, CN8's roving reporter, said he brought the latest Severin subterfuge to the attention of Jay's agent, George Tobia, who told him that Jay ''skipped the graduation ceremony but remembers getting his diploma in the mail.''

Oh, that's rich!

''Then he told me that I was right, Jay had no master's. He said Jay had never turned in his thesis, even though he thought he had,'' Nolan told the Track. ''I told him that I found that rather hard to believe because everyone knows that the minute you hand in that thesis you do a Funky Chicken down Commonwealth Avenue, run to the bar and buy everyone a round of margaritas!''

Severin just inked a deal with Infinity Broadcasting to be syndicated in 10 markets beginning in January. A press release announcing the deal on Infinity's Web site originally reported the non-existent master's degree from BU. An updated version reports only that Jay is a graduate of Vassar College.

Vassar once only educated women. But as far as we know, Jay has never claimed to be one of those.


39 posted on 09/26/2005 3:35:34 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: BansheeBill
Ugh...that was a brutal article.

I'll miss Jays serving up big Happy Meals (tm) of $#!T to Boston Liberals.

He pi$$ed me off badly by being on the wrong side of the Elian Gonzalez situation

40 posted on 09/27/2005 1:04:46 PM PDT by MassExodus
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