Posted on 03/08/2007 9:47:23 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr live thread
Howie Carr live thread. By the way I got the following from
WRKO. Note that HOWIE IS NOT MENTIONED though his name pops up in a following piece about a broadcast tomorrow from the Harp. Thanks Jason...
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A Letter from The Program Director of WRKO:
Dear WRKO Listeners:
As you know, last May, WRKO entered into a 10 year agreement to broadcast Boston Red
Sox Baseball. We are extremely excited about this new partnership and are very confident that the Red Sox will play a major role in our plan to take this station to the next level.
Our contract calls for us to air 15 spring training games from Florida, in addition to the full 162 game regular season schedule. A handful of the those 15 spring broadcasts begin at 1p on weekdays and as such have caused us to pre-empt the Rush Limbaugh show. I apologize to those of you who are Rush fans, be assured that this only affects us on eight days in March. The decision to air spring training games on WRKO was necessary in order to properly establish that WRKO is the new flagship station for the Red Sox.
Once we get to the regular season, all weekday afternoon games (with the exception of the two openers) will air on our sister station WEEI, and Rush will air, in his entirety, on WRKO.
Thank you for understanding and support for WRKO. I greatly appreciate it.
Jason Wolfe
VP AM Programming and Operations
Entercom Boston
Howie Carr Live Broadcast
Join WRKO and Howie Carr Friday, March 9th from 3-7pm at the Harp in Boston. Howie Carr will be broadcasting live! Stop by and see Howie in person and win great prizes. You may even win tickets to go to tomorrow’s Celtics game with Howie and sit in the Howie Carr section! That’s Friday from 3p-7p at the Harp located at 85 Causeway Street in Boston – right across from the TD Banknorth Garden.
I think there's a Red Sox game today again.
WRKO live stream (cut and paste into your browser)
mms://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/WRKO
http://www.wrko.com (Listen Live: hopefully they won't be
running Fox Sports this time)
http://www.wcrnradio.com (hopefully working)
http://www.wntk.com
WRKO Boston may be running Red Sox game today at 1 pm (and
tomorrow) so first hour may be pre-empted. WCRN may also
carry the game, not sure.
WRKO 680 Boston --streamcasts
WCRN 830 Worcester --streamcasts
WHYN 560 Holyoke
WXTK-FM 95.1 Cape Cod
WNTK 1010 Newport NH (?--moved to 1010, was 1020)
WNTK-FM 99.7 Newport NH --streamcasts
WUVR 1490 Lebanon NH
WGAN 560 Portland ME
WVOM-FM 103.9 Bangor ME
WEGP 1390 Presque Isle ME--streamcasts
I am really starting to loathe these 2 idiots, Kahn and Wolfe! 3 days this week interrupting Rush!! Makes my blood boil, there are probably 2 people listening to theses games and I imagine one of them must be in a coma.
NOW we can criticize him! But this takes the cake--yeah, it's nice that WEEI will have the weekday afternoon games (except for the "openers") in the reg. season, but to fail to mention Howie in his apology? As I mentioned on the WRKO board, Howie is to WRKO what Big Papi is to the Sox. Their franchise player and heavy hitter...
Consider btw that Rush can still be heard on WPRO 630
Providence, WTAG 580 Worcester, and WGIR 610 Manchester...
but in the case of Howie, you're out of luck because Howie's affiliate in Worcester also carries the Sox (WCRN 830) and he has no stations in Prov. or Manchester to fall back on. You do have online but imagine my disgust on Monday when I found
that WRKO's stream had Fox Sports instead, and WCRN's
(hoping they might have him) wasn't working!
Thankfully WNTK's stream did work. And yeah, I'm on the North Shore of Boston so if I try I can pick up Howie on WGAN
560 out of Po'tland, ayuh...
You got an answer and I didn't! Isn't that discrimination or something? ;-)
I did tell them I could get Rush on AM 630, but couldn't get Howie anywhere. And I'm not a sports fan of any kind, so I couldn't soften my language that way!
Inquiring minds want to know!!!
When I tuned in and heard another Red Sox game I nearly lost it. Let's just say I can't stand the Sox being a former NYer. Fortunately, I've discovered 630 from Providence and it's a pretty good signal.
That's the point I'm making--in the case of Rush, his fans
can tune in to WPRO to hear him if need be BUT that's not the case with Howie who is not on in Prov, etc (I think Howie had been on WPRO and also either AM 550 or 920 WHJJ in the past but it's been awhile since he's had a Prov station).
>>I can't listen on my old and tired computer, and I can't buy a new one (and broadband) right now.
But WRKO wants you to hear the Sox! Keep in mind Wolfie said that other than 2 times during the reg season, the games
will be on WEEI instead.
>>You got an answer and I didn't!
Actually it wasn't a personal answer to me. It was a "WRKO
Insiders" chain email...
oh swell: 3:08 pm and the Red Sox are on WRKO streaming too!
Trying WNTK
I think the reason they apologize for the Red Sox usurping Rush, but don't apologize for Howie, is that they advertise that Howie is on "after the game". All of Rush is cancelled, but we still get some of Carr's show. I don't say I agree, but after listening to their promo during the station break at 3 PM today, that seems to be WRKO's reasoning.
Big Digger
WNTK coming in. Overmodulated but coming in. May tape this hour and podcast it.
Oh well, I'll take what I can get!
will post the podcast a little later (may pause it when ads come on)... checking WRKO I find that it's tied 2-2 going to the last of the 9th. On some of these spring training games
they'll play a 10th inning then just call it a tie if still
tied...
will post the podcast in about half an hour.
"We're blacked out in Boston, Worcester, and Cape Cod for now...and we're happy to have those of us who ARE with us..."
"I don't miss pay phones either. Come to think of it I don't miss dachsunds either, if they go away. What is it that you see less of...?"
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