thanks—yup, had heard. meanwhile WRKO’s ratings are in the toilet, only a 0.8 last month (less than one percent of audience listening) while Talk1200 only got 0.1; WTKK a 1.8 or something. This is possibly due to the ratings service using Personal People Meters (I know, it sounds like an old song—it was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people meter). Instead of people just writing down they listened to a show, this follows people as they change stations, etc. Thus people listening to Rush or Howie might tune out after listening to one segment, and the meter reflects it.
Hackerama doesn’t miss a step
By Howie Carr | Friday, March 4, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
New hacks for old! New hacks for old!
Consider the state auditor’s office, a sleepy outpost of the hackerama staffed by generations of coat-holders taking early, very early retirement.
Until January, the auditor was Joe DeNucci, an ex-solon who for decades ran a hack hiring hall for layabouts including the occasional gangster’s wife and his 75-year-old cousin, the “fraud examiner.”
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — Suzanne Bump, another ex-solon and then secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.
Would you care to guess who Auditor Bump is replacing DeNucci’s hacks with?
Let’s go straight to her office’s statement:
“In building her senior staff, Auditor Bump hired candidates who were uniquely qualified for each position. She chose five of her former employees because they had proven experience and demonstrated leadership abilities...”
Nationwide searches, in other words.
Meet Laura Marlin. In the Labor Department, she was making $94,000 a year. Now she is the first deputy auditor, making, drum roll please, $125,000.
Would you care to guess which candidate Laura gave money to last year? That’s right, her boss — $250 in July, $100 in August, and a mere $25 in October.
Next there’s Jerry McDonough, former general counsel and now deputy auditor for legal and policy. He maxed out each of the past two years to Boss Bump — $500 on Dec. 31 2009 and then another $500 two months later. Shockingly, his pay has gone down, from $116,462 to $110,000. I predict outstanding performance reviews in his future and a well-deserved merit increase, probably by Bunker Hill Day.
Pamela Lomax used to be the manager of the economy recovery program for $77,650 and is now the deputy auditor for administration and finance — $110,000 a year.
Guess we know how Pam’s personal economic recovery program is coming along — swimmingly.
Come on down, Bernadette O’Malley. She lives in Winchester, and like McDonough, she maxed out with $500 to Bump on Dec. 31, 2009, and then did it again in March of last year.
Mrs. O’Malley used to be Secretary Bump’s chief of staff at $105,452, and now she is director of external affairs for $92,500. Surely this will not stand — by hackerama standards, the loyal lass deserves at least 120K.
Then there’s Bump’s scheduler, Jane Frain. She too has absorbed a pay cut — from $67,999 to $58,000 — but then, she didn’t do the right thing by Bump.
Not a dime to the campaign, what did she expect?
Recession? What recession?
No such thing at the State House, that’s for sure.
Serious question here: Could the ratings drops be due to not collecting/recording listeners that use smartphones, tablets, computers? In other words, non-radio listeners of radio programming?
I often wonder if TV networks tabulate “other than a TV” viewers in their collective numbers when they calculate ratings/shares of shows?