Posted on 09/02/2014 8:07:39 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie list ping for Sept. We may soon find out what stations will carry his "new" show, to start late this month or early next month
Howie ping list for Sept. He is ending his contract with WRKO sometime this month and will start a deal with Global Media. He also may be affiliated somehow with the Financial Exchange who may try to land him in various cities including some like Manchester NH, New Haven CT and Prov RI
WRKO? We don’t know yet if he will renew. A lot still up in air but i’ll let you know once we have news
Does he get to bring the sound bytes to a potential new channel? Does “lousy, rotten, stinkin’ bastid” still exist?
Don’t know if he gets them or not and don’t know if that is still around.
How about Giles Threadgold calling in? It’s been years. VB got him to say ‘my name is Giles and I’m an alcoholic’ and they used that (today was the 2 of them agreeing about Obama, not really shtick). One very funny show was the Fri afternoon when we found out Jocelyn Elders resigned over the ‘masturbation could be taught’ comment. That was during Clinton years. Giles was on and it was a riot.
I missed the show. I think I began listening to the show around the time of Giles’ prolonged absence. I don’t recall too many first-hand memories.
I’m curious, if you listen to him, what you think of Kuhner. I’ve had just about enough of the constant mocking of just about everything. It is getting old.
I thought the thing that keeps bringing Howie back to WRKO was the stations right to match Howies best offer.
Don’t really listen to him but he has some weird pronunciations of words and yes, probably mocks way too much. Again from what little I heard...
But that only was till the end of this month. Contract language was against him in 07 and 12 (Ent. had ability to extend him 2 yrs). Now he’s a free agent in control of his show and he’s able to go to Global Media and, apparently, Barry Armstrong/Fin. Exchange (Barry buys time on RKO)
Wed column ping
Sun column ping
The following is from Scott Fybush—North East Radio Watch. Note that he says Howie isn’t on Boston Herald Radio but I said he does do one hour with Joe Battenfeld, High Noon Wed. at noon. Also 1200 could be poss for Howie but they (Clear Channel) lease the station to Bloomberg for business news and they might not want that (WXKS does run college sports but that’s on weekends)
Back then, of course, Carr was all but publicly proclaiming that he was on his way from WRKO over to the FM dial, where he’d become the star talker at Greater Media’s FM outlet, WTKK (96.9). And if WTKK and Greater Media didn’t want to meet his terms, Clear Channel’s WXKS (1200) at least offered another negotiating partner. Alas for Carr, those doors are now firmly shut: WTKK, of course, ditched talk at the end of 2012 for “Hot” rhythmic top 40 as WBQT, pulling away the best card he had in his deck. WXKS is gone, too: not only did Clear Channel lease the station out to Bloomberg, it’s taking a company-wide swing away from the sort of political talk radio Carr’s been doing for decades. (Just this past week, it handed off Rush Limbaugh to a Cumulus station in San Francisco and killed off the last station still branded with the “Rush Radio” tag that WXKS once used.)
So what’s a talk host to do? Carr is already covering his bets: he’s signed on with a new syndicator, Global Media Services, to try once again to expand his network reach beyond the handful of New England outlets that carry his show. That deal appears to apply no matter where Carr is headquartered in Boston, so he can keep doing the show for syndication even if he leaves WRKO.
But if his long-held wish to break free from WRKO comes true, then what? One clue may have emerged this week, when the heretofore web-only Boston Herald Radio announced a deal to put the 9-10 AM hour of its “Morning Meeting” show on upstart talker WUFC (1510 Boston). When the Herald started the radio service last year, it was widely suspected that it was designed to provide a fallback position for the paper’s star columnist if the need arose. For now, Carr still isn’t a part of the webcast, nor will he be heard on the Herald Radio simulcast over WUFC. And it’s awfully hard, of course, to argue that any combination of a Herald webcast and WUFC’s painfully limited visibility will equal the reach Carr enjoys now at WRKO, reduced even as that has been by the slump of the talk format.
Could Carr’s best remaining move be the one he’s fought for so long – remaining in place at WRKO? As we’ve chronicled in NERW, the talk station’s glory years are pretty clearly behind it; the lineup of Jeff Kuhner’s sharply political morning show, Barry Armstrong’s money talk, Limbaugh’s declining influence in middays and then Carr at night doesn’t come close to the ratings or influence the station once enjoyed. In his afternoon slot, Carr would continue to have the same gripes he’s always had about the AM directional pattern once winter’s early sunsets hit. But if the best plan B for Carr is a webcast with a 1510 simulcast, does WRKO look as bad all of a sudden?
There’s every reason, meanwhile, to expect that Entercom would gladly re-up with Carr. Even as it’s gone through management changes at its Boston cluster, the company has tried to stick with what’s already working, as witness the recent renewals for the morning team of Dennis and Callahan down the hall at WEEI-FM (93.7). There’s no local bench at all on which WRKO could draw to replace Carr, which means his departure would likely lead to more syndication in afternoon drive, in a market that’s never warmed to syndicated talk.
After so many years of badmouthing WRKO, could Carr’s ego handle a renewal (especially at what’s likely to be a lower salary)? Or would a new slot at 1510 be an even bigger blow? We’ll be watching with interest to see how this chapter plays out.
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The following is from Scott Fybush—North East Radio Watch. Note that he says Howie isn’t on Boston Herald Radio but I said he does do one hour with Joe Battenfeld, High Noon Wed. at noon. Also 1200 could be poss for Howie but they (Clear Channel) lease the station to Bloomberg for business news and they might not want that (WXKS does run college sports but that’s on weekends)
Back then, of course, Carr was all but publicly proclaiming that he was on his way from WRKO over to the FM dial, where he’d become the star talker at Greater Media’s FM outlet, WTKK (96.9). And if WTKK and Greater Media didn’t want to meet his terms, Clear Channel’s WXKS (1200) at least offered another negotiating partner. Alas for Carr, those doors are now firmly shut: WTKK, of course, ditched talk at the end of 2012 for “Hot” rhythmic top 40 as WBQT, pulling away the best card he had in his deck. WXKS is gone, too: not only did Clear Channel lease the station out to Bloomberg, it’s taking a company-wide swing away from the sort of political talk radio Carr’s been doing for decades. (Just this past week, it handed off Rush Limbaugh to a Cumulus station in San Francisco and killed off the last station still branded with the “Rush Radio” tag that WXKS once used.)
So what’s a talk host to do? Carr is already covering his bets: he’s signed on with a new syndicator, Global Media Services, to try once again to expand his network reach beyond the handful of New England outlets that carry his show. That deal appears to apply no matter where Carr is headquartered in Boston, so he can keep doing the show for syndication even if he leaves WRKO.
But if his long-held wish to break free from WRKO comes true, then what? One clue may have emerged this week, when the heretofore web-only Boston Herald Radio announced a deal to put the 9-10 AM hour of its “Morning Meeting” show on upstart talker WUFC (1510 Boston). When the Herald started the radio service last year, it was widely suspected that it was designed to provide a fallback position for the paper’s star columnist if the need arose. For now, Carr still isn’t a part of the webcast, nor will he be heard on the Herald Radio simulcast over WUFC. And it’s awfully hard, of course, to argue that any combination of a Herald webcast and WUFC’s painfully limited visibility will equal the reach Carr enjoys now at WRKO, reduced even as that has been by the slump of the talk format.
Could Carr’s best remaining move be the one he’s fought for so long – remaining in place at WRKO? As we’ve chronicled in NERW, the talk station’s glory years are pretty clearly behind it; the lineup of Jeff Kuhner’s sharply political morning show, Barry Armstrong’s money talk, Limbaugh’s declining influence in middays and then Carr at night doesn’t come close to the ratings or influence the station once enjoyed. In his afternoon slot, Carr would continue to have the same gripes he’s always had about the AM directional pattern once winter’s early sunsets hit. But if the best plan B for Carr is a webcast with a 1510 simulcast, does WRKO look as bad all of a sudden?
There’s every reason, meanwhile, to expect that Entercom would gladly re-up with Carr. Even as it’s gone through management changes at its Boston cluster, the company has tried to stick with what’s already working, as witness the recent renewals for the morning team of Dennis and Callahan down the hall at WEEI-FM (93.7). There’s no local bench at all on which WRKO could draw to replace Carr, which means his departure would likely lead to more syndication in afternoon drive, in a market that’s never warmed to syndicated talk.
After so many years of badmouthing WRKO, could Carr’s ego handle a renewal (especially at what’s likely to be a lower salary)? Or would a new slot at 1510 be an even bigger blow? We’ll be watching with interest to see how this chapter plays out.
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will try to give election updates. I have Boston Herald Radio on and will check out sites, TV radio etc
Neil Dempsey tweet:
At the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem for John Tierney’s primary night rally — thin crowd save for media so far.
Now Herald Radio has a reporter there at Hawthorne Hotel. Now people are starting to file in (40-50 supporters), milling around, checking out numbers (”not a good sign for Team
Tierney”—BHR)
Beverley Ann Griffin Dunne has declared victory in the Democratic primary in Peabody’s 12th Essex District. Story to come soon.—Salem News facebook (Leah Cole’s seat? She’s a R I think)
AP—calling race for Brown in NH
Salem News tweet via Gloucester Times
RT @SeanGDT: Unofficial results have Tierney carrying Gloucester w/ 51.58 % to moulton’s 40.65%. #GloucesterMA #GlostaVote
Grossman’s folk are saying they THINK he got the vote in Hull, one of the bellwether towns.
RT @dspangallo: Six of 14 #SalemMA precincts in: Moulton 917 - Tierney 899. #MA06
15 per cent in WHDH
Coakley 41, Grossman 37, Berwick 22
Baker 76, Fisher 24
MASS AG
Healey 64, Tolman 36
MASS 6th 10 per cent in
Moulton 47
Tierney 45
Seth Moulton tops John Tierney in #Danvers, 1,321-800
8 of 14 precincts in #SalemMA Moulton holds the lead 1,311 to 1,221 for Tierney.
NH
Scott Brown 15,839 50%
Jim Rubens 7,400 23%
Bob Smith 7,145 23%
Dist 1 Repub
Frank Guinta 9,341 50%
Dan Innis 7,427 40%
Gov—Rep
Walt Havenstein 17,388 56%
Andrew Hemingway 11,498 37%
In Dem primary for gov, Hassan has 94 per cent of vote
BREAKING: Reporter Neil Dempsey says 9-term Congressman John Tierney has conceded 6th District Democratic primary to Seth Moulton #MA6
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