Examining women's radio silence

Boston Globe ^ | 6/4/2003 | Mark Jurkowitz

[nickcarraway]

When their bosses at WRKO-AM dropped ''Daytime Divas'' Doreen Vigue and Darlene McCarthy late last month, McCarthy recalls that the hosts had been told simply: ''This is a business decision.''

The move -- which at least for now has ended McCarthy's five-year talk career and dissolved her 2 1/2-year partnership with Vigue -- puts one more conservative male, Pat Whitley, in front of the microphone. And it leaves a grand total of one local woman handling a mainstream-issues talk show on a major Boston station: Margery Eagan, who is half of a WTKK-FM male/female team whose hours were slashed to make room for the radio career of Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. And it provides further evidence that being a woman is bad for business in the sweaty, angry, conservative world of talk radio.

[countrydummy]

I want my own radio show! I will take the licks and keep on ticking! hahhahahhahahahah

[backhoe]

Contrary to what the article tried to insinuate talk radio is about as close as possible to a pure competive market place as exists in the media markplace. That Rush's verbal pyrotechnics and satire and Sean Hannity's ability to explode weak arguments and non-sequiturs is more entertaining than an Oprah-esque feel-a-thon is the verdict of the marketplace. Obviously the author of this post we prefer a return to the era of the fairness doctrine when mediocrity reigned in talk radio.

Precisely- and despite the writer's none too veiled attempt at slandering talk radio, if it's so woman-hostile, why do so many women call in?

[lepton]

willows=winnows

Doh! Thank you. I can't believe I typed that and didn't see it.