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Bernie from Imus on with the felon on RKO

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wonder what the Red sox think. This shows how bad Tommy is doing. Must be part of the "high standards" Entercom talks about.
It is on the front page of both papers and nobody who writes on this board knows about it. You need to get jobs.
 
If this was a cable news channel, you'd have no problem with Bernard being on. Why is radio held to a different standard?
 
They were trying him out for Jason & Julie's new name for the Finneran morning show "Two Wrongs To Make A Right", though perhaps Julie & Jason are living proof that the old cliche is true "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right".
Those two wrongs just can't make it right, can they?

Of course, with "GO RED SOX" and "BELIEVE" in the hallways of RKO, who needs to program talk on the station?
 
I found this Drunken' Donuts napkin on the conference room floor at 21 Guest...

The new plan is this : Bernard gets in the door at WRKO and sets up shop. When Imus' legal hiccup with CBS gets settled by Christmas, let's hire him to be WRKO's new morning person. Peter Smyth to be hired for WRKO's PD and PR positions. Bernard to get the executive producer title. Entercom to syndicte Imus and make millions. Finneran will move to weekends. Fienburg to be released. If Radio Chick loses her Free FM gig, offer her a return to WRKO to be the new midday person. If Howie retires and and moves to Florida, let's bring back Jerry Williams from the dead to be WRKO's afternoon drive person. :D
 
Bernie Mc Jerk is just a 2007 version of that old chestnut....
rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. ;)
 
the Track gals from the Herald: " Finneran, who debuted with much fanfare last February replacing struggling morning man Scott Allen Miller, actually lost listeners for the station. According to Arbitron winter ratings, nearly a third of ’RKO’s morning-drive audience in the key 25- to 54-year-old adult category disappeared this past winter when compared to the same time last year. The play for McGuirk signals how much clout the one-time king of Beacon Hill has lost at the station. The ex-pol has been on his high horse denouncing Imus and vowing to bring civility back to talk radio. Now he must sit alongside the guy who got the whole nasty Rutgers conversation rolling!"

two opinions from free republic:
CAPT TOM: " I doubt tha Finneran is falling flat on his face. I am biased against him but I must give him credit for doing a good job on the show. He is knowledgeable and a good talk show host. He is also a right wing democrat.
I am sure the lefties don't like him."

(check out Brian Maloney, Tom; the Righties don't...)

TRISHAM: "He’s not doing very well, imho. His show is boring."
 
They say that Wolfe is claiming the tryout is not an attempt to boost ratings. Yeah right!
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Well, EVERYTHING in commercial radio is done to boost ratings. Well, actually it's done to boost revenue, which is usually accomplished by boosting ratings. But I think a better way of reading that statement is that Wolfe means there's another layer in there...in that they're trying to improve the overall sound of the show, which should then boost ratings, which boosts revenues. If it were purely about boosting ratings, they'd just bump Finneran and put McGuirk in there directly.
 
raccoonradio said:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/05/18/wrko_to_audition_imuss_ousted_cohort/

They say that Wolfe is claiming the tryout is not an attempt to boost ratings. Yeah right!
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jason is just trying to cover his own behind here. he knows they messed up big with finneran but he needs to make himself look good in the process. kind of like bush and the lost iraq war. the great finneran experiment has failed and now it's all about well managed pr and giving sugarquoted statements to the press.
 
<<<CAPT TOM: " I doubt tha Finneran is falling flat on his face. I am biased against him but I must give him credit for doing a good job on the show. He is knowledgeable and a good talk show host. He is also a right wing democrat.
I am sure the lefties don't like him."

(check out Brian Maloney, Tom; the Righties don't...)>>>

On one hand, we have the coalition of Republicans, conservative Dems, and Republican govs who were the base of Finneran's position and power on Beacon Hill. We also have Bob Kraft, Scott Harshbarger, plus all the Liberals who hated his guts and gave him the nickname Darth Vader.

On the other hand, we have Brian Maloney.

If only all of life's decisions were like this.

Regards,
TSB
 
Hey, I'm kinda new to this radio stuff, and Maloney at SaveWRKO never seems to have the time to answer questions, so maybe someone can help me out.

Your competition just lost their morning drive program and is scrambling to find a replacement. You have one of the major players on that defunct program available to be on your competing show. So you book him for a couple of days and get free publicity for it in both dailies. This is a bad programming move, how?

Of course, I've also read in the same source, and by the same person in fact, that McGuirk both may be, and cannot be, hired by WRKO.

<<<<WRKO is apparently looking to add Klan Fan Bernard McGuirk.>>>

and then

<<<<Finneran's high salary already busted WRKO's morning show budget As a result, don't be surprised if McGuirk comes and goes after the tryout is over.
>>>>

Ummm....well, other than I don't understand why McGuirk is considered a fan of the KKK, I'm pretty sure that McGuirk doesn't do radio work pro bono, so one of these statements has to be wrong. The probable reason is that by the end of the posting Maloney had forgotten what he had written at the beginning. Someone more cynical than I would say that Maloney has no idea what the budget for the morning show is and its just another way to cover his tracks no matter how it turns out. Heads I win, tails I win.

Of course, if you're someone who's broke but spends weekends test driving Rolls Royce Phantoms, trying out talent you can’t afford to hire probably makes sense.

Regards,
TSB
 
TSBench said:
Someone more cynical than I would say that Maloney has no idea what the budget for the morning show is and its just another way to cover his tracks no matter how it turns out. Heads I win, tails I win.


Regards,
TSB
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Sorry to inform you but Julie personally requested that he be granted full access to all the WRKO budget files, worksheets, contracts, weekly sales figures and ratings reports on her computer.... :D I am sorry you didn't get that memo.
 
via radioandrecords:

>“From the beginning of Tom’s show we always stated that we would be looking for a co-host for him,” Wolfe tells R&R. “We’ve been looking and worked with several people in the first several weeks of him starting. The fact that we haven’t had anybody on with him recently is no indication of our continued desire to find the right person for him.” Regarding giving McGuirk a tryout with Finneran, Wolfe added, “I’ve known Bernard for a while. I think he’s an exceptional talent and a terrific personality. I’m very curious to see what kind of chemistry we can develop between him and Tom.”

The Globe article about this said McG was hoping to get on air either in NY or Boston. (And, what if Imus
comes back? NY Post reported some syndicators are interested...maybe he'd rejoin the I-man in such a show.)
 
brightonboris said:
TSBench said:
Someone more cynical than I would say that Maloney has no idea what the budget for the morning show is and its just another way to cover his tracks no matter how it turns out. Heads I win, tails I win.


Regards,
TSB
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Sorry to inform you but Julie personally requested that he be granted full access to all the WRKO budget files, worksheets, contracts, weekly sales figures and ratings reports on her computer.... :D I am sorry you didn't get that memo.
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Thanks for the heads-up.

Reminds me (things always remind me of something else) of the old Revolutionary War story about John Paul Jones. The HMS Serapis and Jones' Bon Homme Richard were involved in a horrific slugging match off the coast of England. The smoke became so thick the British captain couldn't see the flag on the BHR and shouted through his megaphone

" Have you struck, sir ?"

JPJ, standing amidst the bloody carnage on the deck, shouted back

"Struck, sir? I have not yet begun to fight ! "

At this point, a Marine up in the rigging reloading his musket, looked down and remarked

"There's always somebody who doesn't get the word."

Regards,
TSB
 
Simple:

This is just such a bad idea on so many levels and typical of Entercom Boston. They should just hire him to be the third wheel on Dennis and the other one and completely stir the hornet's nest once and for all. Entercom again living by the idea that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
 
TowerBuzz said:
Simple:

This is just such a bad idea on so many levels and typical of Entercom Boston. They should just hire him to be the third wheel on Dennis and the other one and completely stir the hornet's nest once and for all. Entercom again living by the idea that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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Now, this has the makings of an interesting discussion.

Why is it such a bad idea? If they are going after the former Imus audience, McGuirk is already a known quantity to them, and most are probably predisposed to like him. The only question is whether he, with a cleaned-up act, can hold his own with more of a foreground, rather than background, position, in which case it makes sense to find out. But, whenever McGuirk took his standup show on the road he always packed them in, so he might have some potential as 'the funny guy" (because its a safe bet that Finneran is never going to be a barrel of laughs) And, if the reaction is overwhelmingly negative, (meaning other than that on SaveWRKO, where Maloney has already decided he is going to suck - that story just about writes itself) you kiss him off after three days. So what is the downside?

What are some of those other 'bad ideas typical of Entercom Boston' ? Firing Miller, firing DePietro,
giving Todd Feinburg a slot, signing the Sox and putting most of the games on WRKO, replacing Imus with D&C, or just the usual 'hiring the felon' meme?

I don't follow the Entercom FMs, so if it has to do with them, I'll have to plead ignorance on anything concerning the music formats.

Regards,
TSB
 
Again, Mc JERK is an Hibernian Bigot. Only the likes of EnterCON would think of hiring that creep.
 
TS Bench, it is wrong for many reasons, not the least of which is they are sending out the wrong message.
They are picking up the garbage that other syndicators/conglomerates/stations are discarding because the cost in terms of advertising and image isn't worth the gamble.

Why has Howie Carr been such a protected species? Because he "really doesn't hate gays", he just says stupid things to get a big niche audience of other right-wing bigots?

Finneran is disgraced and gets tons of cash from Entercom.

Now the guy that started the "ho" joke gets hired too.

Entercom would hire O.J. Simpson if they thought his "provocative and enlightening program" showed us the inner workings of the mind of a murderer. Phil Spector and Robert Blake can be the guests (or fill in).

So now that WRKO has gone down the slippery slope where does it end?

you can't get a little pregnant and WRKO was pregnant the moment Howie Carr was grandfathered in.

There is Karma because the ratings of a Jeff Katz or a Tom Finneran certainly reflect it.
 
TS Bench, it is wrong for many reasons,

How so?

not the least of which is they are sending out the wrong message.

What message? They are pitching McGuirk to people who already like him. You'll have to do better than this.

They are picking up the garbage that other syndicators/conglomerates/stations are discarding because the cost in terms of advertising and image isn't worth the gamble.

Sorry, but this is just meaningless babble.

you can't get a little pregnant and WRKO was pregnant the moment Howie Carr was grandfathered in.

You don't like Carr. Start a thread about why Carr sucks and you'll probably get a lot of reaction. I assume you must know more about Carr than you do about McGuirk, Finneran, or Entercom.

Regards,
TSB
 
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