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All Access: Beau Raines out at WXRV

MRBIboredop said:
you could safely say weeks, or months, but not more than those measurements
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Before the Denver station he worked at prior to WXRV, he had fairly lengthy stints back here in Boston as PD of 105.7 WROR (classic hits), and 100.7 WZLX (classic rock) at different times. If I remember correctly, he had at least a few years at each one.
 
I was referring to his stint at WXRV.

After working at rather high profile stations in Boston, and Denver, who presumably had deep pockets, I can't believe that the notoriously cheap WXRV would pay him a lot of money or that he was working for such a minor league, or even farm league team.
 
MRBIboredop said:
After working at rather high profile stations in Boston, and Denver, who presumably had deep pockets, I can't believe that the notoriously cheap WXRV would pay him a lot of money or that he was working for such a minor league, or even farm league team.
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The high profile, major market stations aren't necessarily always so generous with their "deep pockets", especially the way the economy has been going and affecting them. It may have been that CBS Boston consolidated managers within their group, having the same GM, PD, and other positions serve multiple stations within their cluster to cut company salary and personnel expenses. That meant that some managers who had been previously been serving only one station were spun out to cut costs. Something similar may have happened at Greater Media also. I don't know about Denver, but maybe he wanted to come back to Boston (perhaps family?) and small-owner WXRV may have been the best opening available.

I've never met or worked with him, but I've heard he's a good guy, and I wish him the best of luck. I hope he's got some good leads to track down.
 
or, maybe, he, like the many talented good people who have worked there in the past, simply had enough of the River's management baloney and just quit.
 
Please, Beau Raines is the hump that thought The Tie and Steve Sweeney Show would be a good idea for WZLX. He was lucky to get the River job and must have done something to screw it up.
 
Lucylu said:
Please, Beau Raines is the hump that thought The Tie and Steve Sweeney Show would be a good idea for WZLX. He was lucky to get the River job and must have done something to screw it up.
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Lucylu, Sounds like you've got some sour grapes there pal!

Beau was PD at WROR for several years before he walked across town to WZLX. Sweeney had already been at 'ZLX.

As I recall, Raines was NOT the one who thought that Tie and Steve Sweeney would be best for WZLX :-X. Although he liked Sweeney the ratings didn't support the show. It did not showcase Steve's best qualities. Steve is a great comedian but not a super morning radio DJ particularly when it comes to the routine morning show "elements".

Raines took many months to search for an alternative and brought Karlson and McKenzie to mornings at WZLX where they have been for quite awhile. Although it sounds to me like they're being reigned in a bit now compared to what they did at their last gig.

From what I hear, the job at The River was convenient for Beau who wanted to be back in the area after his stint in Denver. I understand he has roots here and wanted to be closer to his friends and family including his aging and ailing mother. I highly doubt that Beau screwed up at the River. Most of us know that The River was screwed up long before he got there. How many PDs have been "up the River"?

RSKaz and newsbot get it. See their posts. Like others have said, Raines is one of the good guys.
 
Lucylu's faulty memory and axe to grind!

Lucylu said:
Please, Beau Raines is the hump that thought The Tie and Steve Sweeney Show would be a good idea for WZLX. He was lucky to get the River job and must have done something to screw it up.
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Too bad Lucylu has such an axe to grind against Beau Raines. I remember Lucylu's out-of-place posts from several years ago attempting to discredit Raines during Raines's reign at WROR and WZLX. It really jeopardizes the Lucylu credibility. No one will tank you for such mis-information Lucylu.

Those who have a clear and unbiased memory will recall that the Tai and Sweeney morning team was put together by Buzz Knight as PD at WZLX while Raines was still PD at WROR and long before he took over 'ZLX.

Raines had good ideas for WROR, WZLX and for The River too. Those who are radio aware should know radio politics at all the stations and also understand what the circumstances were like trying to accomplish things "Up the River". :D

You are entitled to speculate about his "luck" and separation from The River but to claim he must have "screwed it up" and your attempt to re-write WZLX history really displays your continued negative bias toward Beau Raines.

As others have said, Raines is one of the "good guys".
 
I thought The River sounded pretty good under Beau. Of course, I also thought it sounded good when Joanne and Nicole were programming it too. Unfortrunately, that station seems to be a revolving door for employees. I got fired from a cluster a few years ago. The VP/GM (who liked me) said: "In five years this place has had six engineers. Their names read like a "who's who" of engineering. What you have to ask yourself is whether all those engineers were the problem or whether this place is".

I think there's a good parallel to The River!
 
I'm sorry, what were the good ideas at WZLX that Beau put in place? If he didn't start the Tie and Sweeney mess, it kept it around and then got rid of Tie and left Sweeney out there to rot in the wind... But aside from that, what else did he bring to the station, or WROR or The River? He seems more like one of these middle managers that just keeps ducking actually programming anything, keeping his head down and his ear out for the next job to limp along... PS: Beau, nice to see you're on the board, you old radio vet, you.
 
Re: Beau Raines

Lucylu said:
I'm sorry,
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You should be :p .

Tie and Steve Sweeney on WZLX were indeed left over from PD Buzz Knight. Your unkind comments about Steve don't take into account other factors involved with his morning show. Such as contracts, personalities and corporate managemetn mandates. How do you know what Raines did or tried to do with Steve's talents or the morning show? You seem to have no idea what he did or tried to do while at the River either. LA_Guy makes an excellent point. IMO you seem to have blinders on when it comes to Beau Raines (who, BTW, does not post to this site).

Don't forget, at 'ZLX he did relieve at least one obvious annoyance to Steve - a gravel voiced prima donna sports reporter. And there were other changes as well. It's hard to remember all of them from several years ago.

Check out the "take-it-outside" area where the moderator moved some of the messages from this thread. Yes, you should be sorry for your Beau bashing LucyLu. He is one of the good guys and you do seem to be holding a grudge.

Happy holiday season to all who read this (and even to those who don't read this ;D).

Uncle AL
 
Sorry to hear of Beau's departure so soon. He was indeed one of the most fair and even-tempered PD's for whom I have ever worked. My demise at WROR came after our brief discussion of asking for a raise (7 years at same pay rate) to which he agreed was long overdue, only to have him return from a meeting with the (eh-hem) "GM" (won't mention name of the incredibly stooopid loser who stepped into that title for a very a brief time) who said that they would have to offer a 50% pay CUT... he was more upset about this than I was. I believe this precipitated his move to ZLX. Harry Nelson previously had also stepped out under said "GM's" reign.
 
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