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Jason Wolfe Howie Carr's network mgr

raccoonradio

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http://news.****************/cgi-bi...=n32615?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
He continues with his Financial Exchange
position too.


"Jason has been working with us for several months and has been doing a great job in getting the show noticed by numerous new markets," said President/CEO Howie Carr. "I know that he will build on that success in his new role as our Network Manager."
 
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raccoonradio said:
http://news.****************/cgi-bi...=n32615?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
He continues with his Financial Exchange
position too.


"Jason has been working with us for several months and has been doing a great job in getting the show noticed by numerous new markets," said President/CEO Howie Carr. "I know that he will build on that success in his new role as our Network Manager."
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President/CEO, huh? ;-)

I thought these two guys weren't too keen on each other before this....no?
 
"Entercom happened" to both Howie and Coffee Boy. I noticed that Friday's show was done from the Sneaker Building.
 
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Money Matters Happens...?

One time when McPhee was on WTKK
something went wrong technically and
she joked "Greater Media happens".
6pm hr Fri,Howie:"We really want to thank the folks at WRKO."

VB: "Thought I'd never hear you say that...."
 
Howie was unveiling his new "TV friendly" studios. Would expect him to do some guest appearances on various shows and who knows what else. And yes Howie is looking very very thin, and is starting to show his age a bit but he's got well over 2 dozen affiliates. (Kuhner update: after over a year of promising a network, his affiliate count is still...one.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CokfsiCWIAAV1aP.jpg

Staff in front of the new Howie mural. Looks like Jared, Steve, Grace, and Howie
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cokeg8uW8AUuJZl.jpg
 
Hasn't Carr passed his sell by date?
Believing the "showing his age" Carr is far beyond the age Carr said Jerry Williams was which disqualified him from holding the 2-6 slot at WRKO as Howie began his campaign to take Jerry Williams job away from him.
 
Howie: 28 times as many stations as Jerry.Books,TV appearances (yes Jerry did have a couple shows, and remember him on Morton Downey lambasting Dukakis?),long running column.He is doing well.Jerry was bounced from RKO in 98 when he was 75. Howie is 64. So maybe Howie's star will fade around 2026.

Irving, can you get camera 3 on this?
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=K06WgWZK2hQ
Jerry was about 65 at the time of this very entertaining clip.He predicted Dukakis would lose MA in the 88 election.Actually he won but I think the rest of New England went for Bush.The Duke won 10 states plus DC
 
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Sadly, Jerry Williams was a generation behind the expansion of the very talk radio medium he created.
Nothing excuses Carr's ageism but to quote Carr again it is " father time" that is catching up with the elder Howard Carr..
 
Tilden said:
Hasn't Carr passed his sell by date?
Believing the "showing his age" Carr is far beyond the age Carr said Jerry Williams was which disqualified him
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Like a moth to the flame...... Howie Carr is in your head....and you think about him every day....and listen to his show almost every day....and you can't NOT think about him, eh?
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/902431/posts Has a couple Howie columns on Jerry, incl. when Jerry left RKO and when he died.Also the Globe's obit.

Writer SamAdams76 from that:
"Jerry Williams was an old-style liberal who became very disenfranchised with the Democrats in the 1980s, especially the way the "do-gooders" in the party would attempt to control our personal lives. Not only did he hate mandatory seat belt laws but he detested no-smoking laws and speed traps too. We once had a state rep that tried to ban butter in restaurants in favor of margarine. He went absolutely ballistic over this. Those were some of his best shows.
He also absolutely detested Mike Dukakis and during the 1988 presidential campaign, Jerry would often have radio hosts from other parts of the country on his show and he would give them the real scoop on Dukakis. It is not a stretch to say that Jerry played a vital role in getting Dukakis defeated."
 
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Actually it started long before Dukakis.
Remember, " Kevin I'm back...."!
 
raccoonradio said:
Howie was unveiling his new "TV friendly" studios. Would expect him to do some guest appearances on various shows and who knows what else. And yes Howie is looking very very thin, and is starting to show his age a bit but he's got well over 2 dozen affiliates. (Kuhner update: after over a year of promising a network, his affiliate count is still...one.)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CokfsiCWIAAV1aP.jpg

Staff in front of the new Howie mural. Looks like Jared, Steve, Grace, and Howie
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cokeg8uW8AUuJZl.jpg
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Grace's talents are being wasted on the radio.
 
raccoonradio said:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/902431/posts Has a couple Howie columns on Jerry, incl. when Jerry left RKO and when he died.Also the Globe's obit.

Writer SamAdams76 from that:
"Jerry Williams was an old-style liberal who became very disenfranchised with the Democrats in the 1980s, especially the way the "do-gooders" in the party would attempt to control our personal lives. Not only did he hate mandatory seat belt laws but he detested no-smoking laws and speed traps too. We once had a state rep that tried to ban butter in restaurants in favor of margarine. He went absolutely ballistic over this. Those were some of his best shows.
He also absolutely detested Mike Dukakis and during the 1988 presidential campaign, Jerry would often have radio hosts from other parts of the country on his show and he would give them the real scoop on Dukakis. It is not a stretch to say that Jerry played a vital role in getting Dukakis defeated."
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Hate to disillusion you but much of Jerry's on-air anger was part of his on-air persona. Once the shrink WRKO had on the schedule, Harry Sobel, Ph.D, and his "Thought Process" called for Jerry to go into "Therapy" to "deal with his anger...". Laughed for a whole day. For sure, Sobel didn't have a clue what was going on.
 
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