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Big Troubles coming down the track at WPRO

RE "I've always liked DePetro"

ME TOO.

The first time I met him, I was being-introduced-to a backyard-ful of DePetros.

John told me that, when he was a kid, he was the correct caller and had won the Boston album from me.
His mother drove him to the station to pick it up.
"You're welcome, " I quipped.
"It skipped," he replied.

TRUE STORY.
 
Skynet74 said:
Well I've always liked Depetro, (I realize that it's difficult to tell that fact from my latest postings here). But I'm the type of person who will rip my best friends head off for lying to me. I have zero tolerance for dishonest people. Don't play games with my head. It pisses me off. Depetro...... take an honesty pill in the morning and then call a press conference. It's really up to you to come clean about this whole thing. YOU are the subject. You need to fess up and tell the whole truth.
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He had a planned vacation, heard it mentioned early in the week, before this fiasco. Unless something big happens, like Arbitron publicly announces it was in fact him, and even then, you probably won't hear from him.
 
What a relaxing vacation this will be for him. A solid week of thinking how he is going to handle this situation when he gets back. Absolute Worst case scenario is Citadel thinking he has become a liability and no longer allowing him back into the building. He has had enough bad experiences in radio where he's got to be feeling a bit insecure right now. It will be interesting to see what happens.
 
If Jim Hummel DOES end up on radio...

If Jim Hummel does get a radio job, he'll want to accomplish a transition common for TV-people-who-migrate-to-radio: tighten-it-up.

It's common to read, in PR announcing that a-TV-name-is-moving-to-radio, that the host is looking forward to "how much more TIME you can devote to" a guest or topic, because "radio is so much more relaxed than television." We heard this from CNN's Lou Dobbs, whose radio launch I worked on.

NOT TRUE, as they discover when they GET on radio.
"You weren't kidding," Dobbs told me several days into his radio clock.

Not to get all McLuhan-esque on ya here, but it's the old "cool medium/hot medium" thing.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY)

Radio channel surfers have a MUCH quicker trigger-finger than TV viewers.
Many are DRIVING...so, to put it mildly, their attention is divided.
The INSTANT what-you're-doing starts-to-repeat-itself, they're gone.

This morning, Hummel let RI Obama State Chairman Ray Sullivan handle him.
Sullivan was smart-enough to:
1. Say "Tara" twice. He can read the room.
2. Make his canned speech off-the-top until the host interrupted him.
3. Then make it again later.

Arbitron is a memory test.
Getting-quoted-over-lunch -- even if the-person-quoting-you doesn't say "WPRO" -- is a home run for the WPRO morning show.
Why: The-person-quoting-you REMEMBERED listening.
Some of those people are diarykeepers.
If the-person-quoting-you DOES mention-hearing-something-on WPRO, it's a grand slam.
Because one-of-the-other-people-at-lunch might be a diarykeeper.

Hummel should have asked Sullivan: "Have you ever MET Senator Obama?"

If Sullivan said yes, follow-up: "What is the-most-surprising-thing he said to you?"
(A durable stock question that consistently knocks shills off-message.)

If Sullivan said no, the follow-up could've been "Have you ever spoken to him -- one-on-one -- by phone?"

This would be utterly in-character with TV Jim Hummel, minus the rude made-for-promos blocking-someone's-path gag.

Instead, we got two "Taras" (although she did not appear in the segment) and two scripted "WE'RE NOT TAKING ANY STATE FOR GRANTED"s.
 
RE "Is it 10:00 yet?"

HOW COOL WOULD IT BE if radio-info.com could put a countdown clock in-the-corner-of-the-screen on the Providence board, like CNBC has on-screen when the market is about to open or close for the day...
 
So here is where the rubber meets the road...A25-54 for WPRO-AM goes from 4th (10,800 persons, 6.9 share) to 9th (4,600 persons, 3 share).

Of course the change is more drastic in the 25-34 cell, but that little demo is not nearly as important. (For the record they go from 1st (6,500 people, 13.2 share) to a tie for 23rd (200 people, .4 share). Ouch)

Of course this does not prove that Citadel/DePetro had any direct involvement in the tainted diaries.
 
You'd expect with all of the attention they paid to it when it happened that after doing the weather re the storms in the area today, Ch 6 would be ALL OVER the story on the noon news....not one peep about it.
 
12 had it at noon.

wknd92 said:
You'd expect with all of the attention they paid to it when it happened that after doing the weather re the storms in the area today, Ch 6 would be ALL OVER the story on the noon news....not one peep about it.
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Nothing on ABC6 at noon?

WPRI had it, but I didn't hear it.
Saw the super which said WPRO "dropped 5 places" in the ratings.

FYI: Arbitron will issue a press release to the trades @ 3, embargoed until 5.
 
I think it's a set up...

For Gods sake!! How do we know it's not Buddy and Ron that set Depetro up????
Buddy was bragging to Federal hill people he had something to cause Depetro to lose his job.
Just 2 weeks ago Buddy said to Hummel, he was going to make space for him at WPRO.. I think the chance is soooo great, Buddy and John should be ASKED to take a ploygraph test. I just think it's a set up. NO WAY Depetro is that insane!!
 
Why wouldn't John deny it if Buddy did the dirty work ? How about the address on the diaries? Wouldn't JD want that made public? Where's the outrage or denial from him or Citadel?
 
I wonder what the 3 PM press release said? I guess it can be released to the public at 5, just in time for a live shot on the early news.

Does JD own a gorilla suit?
 
Holland...if you are on the People's Republic of New Shoreham, batten down the hatches....some nasty Thunda Boomahs heading your way....and when you get hands on press release and some actual numbers (I've been scouring and haven't seen anything yet and most sources in the building are mum (the others are not talking ;)) because of the situation).
 
RE "I wonder what the 3 PM press release said?"

ZRXOA 5248 said:
I guess it can be released to the public at 5
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When you see the new numbers, recall how, in various threads here, I've noted the importance of Bristol Co. MA
 
"For the latest Weather Channel forecast for Block Island, hit BlockIsland.TV"

wknd92 said:
Holland...if you are on the People's Republic of New Shoreham, batten down the hatches....
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LITERALLY!

While rich renters are yukking-it-up in my house until Labor Day, I'm traveling half-the-time, and spending the-other-half-of-my-summer aboard the proud, proud sailing vessel Undaunted, on a mooring ball in The Great Salt Pond...where last night's thunder-and-lightning was BIBLICAL.

And there's NO place I'd rather ride-out a raging electrical storm than at-the-bottom-of a 52' metal mast.

But it could be worse.
Week-before-last, lightning STRUCK what-used-to-be The Captain Willis House B&B, which, after 8 sitcom-quality seasons, I sold in 2004.
 
So you have to wonder, with the ratings re-released this morning, the uppers must have been scouring those ratings to see how much they were in fact scathed. And by the looks of it, they might have been meetings concerning the future of the 90,000 dollar man.
 
who are top 3 stations 6-10 in the 12plus demo? That is what I want to know. Who has the top 3 morning shows.
 
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