Fybush:WMEX 1510...Howie

[Omnibus]

Actually, Howie Carr did not get his start on Boston radio until late August of 1982. Carr came on Jerry Williams WRKO Program after Carr wrote a Herald article about Williams days after the general manager pulled a publicity stunt that went off the rails. Williams did not know it but he had just given life to his own Frankenstein. ".....He's alive....he's alive.............".

Somerville too...I don't exactly when he started in the Boston area, maybe in the 70s? If Howie ever writes an autobio maybe he can explain.
He's owned property in Cambridge for awhile,not sure if he still does.

Wiki:
>>From 1980 to 1981, Carr was the Boston City Hall bureau chief of the Boston Herald American, and he later worked as the paper's State House bureau chief. As a political reporter for WNEV (now WHDH) in 1982, his coverage of then-mayor Kevin White was so relentless that after the mayor announced he wasn't running again, he told the Boston Globe that one of the things he enjoyed most about his impending retirement was not having Carr chase him around the city.

 

[Wimmmex]

Carr started...

Sorry, but Howie Carr violates the cardinal rule of talk radio. He is boring and more than that predictable.

Wasn't Gerry just as predictable? Seat Belts? "Kevinnnn...I'm bacccck". A childs Christmas in Wales, taxes, fines and fees?)

Yes, we get it...you don't agree with Howie politics...and he has been much more successful than you, so you are green with envy. (He's been the most well known talk host in Boston. Been on National TV and filled in for nationally syndicated hosts. One of the most popular columnists Boston has had. Writer of best selling books, etc., etc.)

Actually, Howie Carr did not get his start on Boston radio until late August of 1982.

I think Raccoon was referring to when he started at the Herald.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

FCC Sunset for Boston this time of year is 4:15. I think WMEX goes to critical hours pattern 2 hours before sunset (so 2:15) . Is it possible you are in the area where the signal disappears at the change of pattern?

No, I'm in Somerville, in their prime direction at all times, where they are strong day and night. I'll speculate that maybe when the transmitter was supposed to have switched to critical hours on Sunday, that it just shut off for some reason instead. I checked again about an hour and a half later around 3:50 PM and they were back on.

 

[raccoonradio]

Yeah I was talking about when Howie started at the Herald. re: talk radio, I really started listening around 86--late that year I wound up on graveyard shift till '88, and I was listening to WMRE 1510 (I already had been listening to Morgan White Jr there and then started w Bob Katzen) and Larry King on RKO, then I started getting into
Jerry Williams too. I only remember Howie from 87-88 on w Jerry. He had turned into a muckraker, anti-statist--maybe a touch of libertarian or conservative Dem.
This was anti-mandatory seatbelts (good thing for Howie he was wearing his on 11/5), anti-police roadblocks, anti-New Braintree prison (Dorothea Vitrac), and Ralph Nader would
come on to talk about the "Congressional pay grab". Jerry crusaded against Dukakis' "fees fines and taxes" and his '88 pres. run. (I still remember at Rockit Records in Saugus they had an album cover by Cajun musician D L Menard who looked like Dukakis and detourned it to say "Mike Dukakis-"Fees Fines And Taxes". It was a time when
Jerry would frequently use the term "hacks and cronies".

Mike Dukakis Sings

 

[Omnibus]

Actually,to dying regret Norma Nathan became Howie Carr's mentor and patroness. She is the one who put him in touch with Jerry Williams since her husband, Norm Nathan, " The Ol' Sport, Snappy Dresser and Body of Well Tempered Steel..." and greatly missed to this day was the morning man at WRKO.

Yeah I was talking about when Howie started at the Herald. re: talk radio, I really started listening around 86--late that year I wound up on graveyard shift till '88, and I was listening to WMRE 1510 (I already had been listening to Morgan White Jr there and then started w Bob Katzen) and Larry King on RKO, then I started getting into
Jerry Williams too. I only remember Howie from 87-88 on w Jerry. He had turned into a muckraker, anti-statist--maybe a touch of libertarian or conservative Dem.
This was anti-mandatory seatbelts (good thing for Howie he was wearing his on 11/5), anti-police roadblocks, anti-New Braintree prison (Dorothea Vitrac), and Ralph Nader would
come on to talk about the "Congressional pay grab". Jerry crusaded against Dukakis' "fees fines and taxes" and his '88 pres. run. (I still remember at Rockit Records in Saugus they had an album cover by Cajun musician D L Menard who looked like Dukakis and detourned it to say "Mike Dukakis-"Fees Fines And Taxes". It was a time when
Jerry would frequently use the term "hacks and cronies".

Mike Dukakis Sings

 

[Omnibus]

No !!! Howie is still after all these years a poor interviewer. He is a great history buff and well read but he is a lot like Jimmy Fallon - he can't get out of his own way when he does an interview. He has to be the center of attention. As big a Jerry Williams' ego was and it was huge who ever he interviewed became the center of attention. Used to drive David Brudnoy crazy. David would read and underline the book of any other he had on as a guest. Jerry may have read the book leaf at that and never the publisher's press release but he would conduct the best interview an author or a guest or celebrity ever had. That made a Jerry Williams interview NOT PREDICTABLE only to the degree it would be fresh, interesting, entertaining and informative. What problem do you have with "A child's Christmas in Wales..."? Perhaps, Howie can do one.... "A poor child's Christmas in Palm Beach or Deerfield Academy...? Howie was full grown when he started slumming in Slummerville..... ;-)

Wasn't Gerry just as predictable? Seat Belts? "Kevinnnn...I'm bacccck". A childs Christmas in Wales, taxes, fines and fees?)

Yes, we get it...you don't agree with Howie politics...and he has been much more successful than you, so you are green with envy. (He's been the most well known talk host in Boston. Been on National TV and filled in for nationally syndicated hosts. One of the most popular columnists Boston has had. Writer of best selling books, etc., etc.)



I think Raccoon was referring to when he started at the Herald.

 

[Wimmmex]

That made a Jerry Williams interview NOT PREDICTABLE only to the degree it would be fresh, interesting, entertaining and informative. What problem do you have with "A child's Christmas in Wales..."?

.....fresh, interesting, entertaining and informative? Wow...just your opinion....others would disagree. (not me, I liked Jerry's work.)

A Child's Christmas in Wales? I don't have a problem with it...just never saw the relevance....and it was predictable.

 

[Omnibus]

But NEVER Boring.Boaring perhaps but not Howie Boring....... ;-)

.....fresh, interesting, entertaining and informative? Wow...just your opinion....others would disagree. (not me, I liked Jerry's work.)

A Child's Christmas in Wales? I don't have a problem with it...just never saw the relevance....and it was predictable.

 

[raccoonradio]

jerrywilliams.org has the Child's Christmas in Wales recording in an .m3u (or other such format) file. He also would read stuff like If I had My Life
to Live Over Again I Would Pick More Daisies