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Avi Nelson filling in for Howie next week

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Howie Carr said that a best-of show will run on Christmas day, then from Tue-Fri of next week
Avi Nelson will guest host. I remember years ago, maybe late 80s/early 90s, I bought & read a book
called Talk Radio and The American Dream (I no longer have it), which spotlighted Jerry Williams
and Avi.

Avi started WMFP-TV ("Media for the People"), Ch 62, licensed to Lawrence.
 
you mean they are actually going to have a host on who can speak English? The diction-challenged Carr is going to give it a rest? Where's Howie going for Christmas, to Santa's Fudge & Sugar palace? He could come back the first of the year looking like VB's older brother...
 
At least it won't be the raspy voiced Col. Hunt. As for someone who speaks English, other than some previously booked ads that are still running, ingles* is something you won't hear on the former Boston's Progressive Talk.
Howie is going to Florida and will make an appearance on Fox & Friends from there.

There's an effort to revive prog talk in Boston at the yahoo group I mentioned. There's the chance another station could take a chance on it (or maybe some shows can be picked up by WRKO or WTKK) and some
have thought about banding together to buy a station. Can the Ketchup Lady and her Senator husband
pony up some $$ to buy one for the libtalk fans? Too bad we don't have a frequency of 570 kHz here.
It could be "Heinz 57 AM: Ketchup on all the latest news and talk about it!"

*--I think there's an accent over the e in that word but I don't know how to type that on this keyboard
 
Some of the folks on the Howie Carr ping list I do for Free Republic are remembering that Avi was not necessarily a social conservative; he was anti-busing, and more of a libertarian a la Brudnoy. I really can't remember much of that book I'd read, it was so long ago. (The author, Murray Levin, may have passed on awhile back). Here was a post I did for FR:

Yes maybe Avi was more libertarian than conservative but I will say I think he was active in the GOP and may have run for office. It's in the past and I can't remember everything. By the way up until '86 or so I hadn't really heard talk radio but it was then that I started working for the post office
and discovered WRKO, especially Jerry W. I started to drift to the right after that. While Jerry was considered liberal in many ways, he talked about "statists", hacks and cronies, et al...government waste...the seat belt issue, New Braintree, etc.

And of course it was fun when some writer for the Herald
named Howie Carr would join him and Barbara Anderson for
"The Governors" on Tue. afternoon. Howie started doing fill-ins for Jerry and I'd tune in at 2 pm (I think the
show was 2-6 back then) and hear him say, "Good afternoon,
New England, this is Howie Carr from the Boston Herald
filling in for the Dean today"...and I found that while
Jerry was good, I enjoyed Howie even more...

I also found myself listening to some shows on WMRE 1510
(which went off air in Jan. of '87, I believe) including trivia with Morgan White Jr., and Bob Katzen's nightly
show (there's someone who was later frequently on 'RKO,
doing his own weekend show for awhile but also of course
on with Jerry. "Here's Bob Katzen from the Beacon Hill
Roll Call, or 'Bugle Call Rag', maybe we should call it...")

"Stay on top. 1510...WMRE" I actually attended the farewell
party for WMRE (they got sold and went "dark" for awhile)
which was held at the Breakfast Club just down the street
from Fenway (Brookline & Boylston?). Katzen was there.
Even Christopher Lydon stopped by, IIRC.
 
what happened to hedlund?? he was supposed to do those days..
 
Pango nobody has said that Hedlund was any more than a one time fill in.

People have been speculating, and incorrectly at that , that Senator Hedlund was going to be doing more work for Entercom. One person went so far as to say there would be a vacant senate seat soon.

The only thing I am accepting as fact is that Hedlund is going to be doing an hour a week at 95.9 WATD on Sunday afternoon. If you read this board long enough you know who has facts, and who has guesses.

It will be interesting to hear Avi again. Lets see if our memories of the golden age of talk radio compare to what he'll put out there next week.
 
Avi is an uninspired pick to fill in. He was pretty good in his day, like the late 70's. His later years on 5 on 5 and his various appearances as a "political analyst" on different TV outlets have become predictable and thus boring. Howie should have done something a little more outside the box.
 
raccoonradio said:
Howie Carr said that a best-of show will run on Christmas day, then from Tue-Fri of next week
Avi Nelson will guest host. I remember years ago, maybe late 80s/early 90s, I bought & read a book
called Talk Radio and The American Dream (I no longer have it), which spotlighted Jerry Williams
and Avi.

Avi started WMFP-TV ("Media for the People"), Ch 62, licensed to Lawrence.
Click to expand...

Is Jessica Heslam going to be listening to WRKO on her shower radio again?
 
>>>Pango nobody has said that Hedlund was any more than a one time fill in.

was in the herald that he would do Howies show next week...
 
WOW...Avi Nelson in for Howie Carr. Anyone else with one foot in the grave that be resurected for WRKO ???

This is pathetic. With the number of host available..they pick Avi Nelson. I suspect it us because Howie does not like anyone better than him, on the air. That leave about anyone !
 
Haven't heard this name in almost 30 years.

Perfect for a radio station whose P1's are on average 64 and up.
 
>>>Perfect for a radio station whose P1's are on average 64 and up.

what do you expect, 'rko is winging it these days!!
 
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