I could not agree with you more! When he had that one-hour show at 11:00 AM, I was blown away with both his content and his style. I believe he was still with The Washington Times then (mid-2012). And then 'RKO gave him the morning drive slot; he has since been, to be polite, less than riveting.
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I could not agree with you more! When he had that one-hour show at 11:00 AM, I was blown away with both his content and his style. I believe he was still with The Washington Times then (mid-2012). And then 'RKO gave him the morning drive slot; he has since been, to be polite, less than riveting.
Don’t think John really wants to “go national”.... I listen to him most days when I am near a computer, He doesn’t do a significant amount of “national” topics on his show, I would say a good 75+% of it deals with local Rhodyland topics.
At the moment he’s in a bit of a bind, there really isn’t anywhere for him to go in Rhodyland or Massachusetts, and I do not think for various reasons he wants to relocate his family at this point somewhere else in the US (his kids are still in high school/college), so at the present I think he’s trying to eek out an existence buying a slot on WNRI and selling ad time. I would expect him to bail on Rhodyland completely if his kids were older and he had less “ties” to the region.
Maybe it is because I'm in the Christmas spirit, but I don't get the constant hatred for Kuhner. His politics aren't mine....virtually opposite. But the numbers I see are more than respectable, and I happen to like his on-air swagger. How else can you get attention on the AM Band in 2017? Many have tried and failed dismally to stare down the almighty Limbaugh, and Kuhner has lived to fight another day. If Kuhner says he has a new contract, iHeart must see (hear) something there. Whether or not he ever gets syndicated really isn't the point. Kuhner came to Boston and has made a mark, and for that I think he deserves credit.
Happy New Year to All!
Happy New Year to All!
IHeart has cancelled Jeff Lawrence's Sat Night 60s oldies show on WRKO, he announced on Twitter and Facebook."It was a good run."
Cheap channel strikes again
Wasn't that a brokered time slot?
It wasn't brokered. He was a paid employee.
Ironically he moonlights at Amp, which had been CBS..then Ent. got CBS stations like Amp in the deal
Last night during a break in the Pats game I surfed around my Xfinity cable and found they have the iHeart app.Typed in WRKO in search to see what was on instead of oldies. "Cigar Dave"..
Last night during a break in the Pats game I surfed around my Xfinity cable and found they have the iHeart app.Typed in WRKO in search to see what was on instead of oldies. "Cigar Dave"..
Wonder if they didn't like the Moonlighting?
Or perhaps they decided that breaking format for a few hours a week was not what they wanted to do. WABC in NY did a similar thing a few years ago with Mark Simone, where he recreated the old Music Radio format from the 60s and 70s. That was obviously popular with a lot of boomers who want to hear that music on the radio. Then there was a change in PDs at the station, and the new PD replaced the music with more talk.
However, I will say it's easier to pitch these kinds of ideas to PDs when you're already employed by the same company. Some companies have rules about working for stations owned by competing companies in the same market.
However, I will say it's easier to pitch these kinds of ideas to PDs when you're already employed by the same company. Some companies have rules about working for stations owned by competing companies in the same market.
"Cigar Dave" is nationally syndicated. It may cost iHeart/WRKO very little, or nothing, to air it (especially if it's paid for by national advertising), probably a lot less than paying a live local host to work the time.
It's also a talk show, not a music show, so it fits the format of the station. Don't minimize the importance of staying in format. Format is more important than a salary. It's not always about saving money. You sell your format, and the audience that format attracts. That's how you make money. A show about cigars fits the audience who listen to talk radio. Rush Limbaugh is a cigar smoker, as are other talk show hosts. So this show fits a conservative talk radio station more than an oldies show, hosted by someone who also works at another station in the market.
BTW this show originates at an iHeart station in Tampa, so the host of this show is already getting paid by iHeart. He doesn't work for Entercom or some other company. It's in-house, even though it's not syndicated by iHeart.
BTW this show originates at an iHeart station in Tampa, so the host of this show is already getting paid by iHeart. He doesn't work for Entercom or some other company. It's in-house, even though it's not syndicated by iHeart.
Nobody enjoys a good cigar more than I do, but I am not going to listen to a radio show about it.
Jeff has a day gig with one of the Pete Falconi & friends radio stations up here in NH
I will admit I was wrong when I said a while back that it was a bad fit for WRKO, it was a very entertaining show, I was actually listening to it last Saturday night when I was out and about.
As for WODS, we'll have to see what happens over there, especially with the union requirement that there be a warm body on the board 24/7. His Saturday night shift may become the victim of voice tracking or syndication
Jeff has a day gig with one of the Pete Falconi & friends radio stations up here in NH
I will admit I was wrong when I said a while back that it was a bad fit for WRKO, it was a very entertaining show, I was actually listening to it last Saturday night when I was out and about.
As for WODS, we'll have to see what happens over there, especially with the union requirement that there be a warm body on the board 24/7. His Saturday night shift may become the victim of voice tracking or syndication
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Typical low life scumbag radio you would expect on Trump's PRAVDA Radio! Anyone every heard of LUNG CANCER ? Rush cough up a lung as well the other fool behind this show. Well, on the positive side it might shorten Rush's "On-Air " availabiltiy. Enough coughing up and he will be broadcasting from a cofffin...the sound of slience... "-)
Just an FYI: Bill Clinton is a huge cigar smoker. So was JFK. Lots of cigars are smoked in Boston's Democratic clubs. And you typically don't get lung cancer from something you don't inhale.
It's a show about cigars -- which are legal -- for people who enjoy smoking them -- also legal. Everyone who chooses to smoke these days has heard about the health risks. They also know that not everyone who smokes contracts cancer. In the end, it's their choice and if someone wants to do a radio show for them, I see no problem. And I'm no Trumpster, believe me. I don't smoke, but I enjoy craft beer and would gladly listen to a radio show about it, and yes, I am aware of the health risks that go with drinking beer.
Bottom line: By all means, keep educating the public on the potential dangers of tobacco, but don't stereotype cigar smokers as knuckle-dragging "scumbags" as they come from all social strata and political leanings. You wouldn't stereotype pipe smokers that way, would you? In fact, if any stereotype of a pipe smoker exists, it's that of a tweed-wearing, neatly bearded professor at a prestigious university. Would you be attacking a "Meerschaum Mike" radio show aimed at pipe smokers the same way you scorn "Cigar Dave"?
This is not a slam on Jeff by any means, he has been on air in Boston in major dayparts, He was the morning drive guy at WMLL in Manchester for quite a while IIRC, now he is working at a another station in NH.
The overnight people behind the board at WODS are not allowed to crack the mic.
Jeff will tell you this himself, and I have personal knowledge that the board ops doing the overnights are not supposed to crack the mic.
Jeff is a board op for all intents and purposes at WODS, he is not a "personality" on those overnight shifts, and the only reason you know he works there is because he tells you so.
Find his name anywhere on their website?
So you can't really use the "he is working for another station in the market" as an excuse.
There are people on WBZ-A doing traffic ( I know they are not IHrt employees) that are doing AM drive on stations in the market (albeit rim shotters) and have been for years. There are quite a few weekenders and other PT employees that are working in Boston radio that are doing radio in smaller markets not too far away.
Sometimes they are on 2 different stations in the same day.
OK, so that's not the reason. We can rule that out. In that case, I stand by my main observation, which is that an oldies show is a break in format for a talk station. The only other major market station I know that has done this is WABC, and they stopped it several years ago. I know of no iHeart talk station that breaks format for a music show. I'm sure that's the main reason, because your other point is valid.
He's a good talent, he's done a good show, and maybe now he should pitch the idea to Entercom.
I'm confused: If Jeff was doing the 60s show on 'RKO Saturday night, then how could his "Saturday night shift" at WODS be in jeopardy?
Has it been established whether 'BZ's traffic reporters were rehired by TTN, or are they still with that Radius service CBS was using of late?
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