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Blute / Howie / WCRN talk debut

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DavidZ

In this morning’s Worcester Telegram & Gazette, there was an article regarding WCRN’s switch to a new format beginning Monday May 8th. Oldies are out and Talk is in with Peter Blute, Paul Healy, and Mike Roberts in the morning & Howie Carr for the full 4 hours in P.M. drive. Syndicated talk will occupy the remainder of the schedule with Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage the only hosts that were confirmed as being a part of the syndicated schedule.If Worcester Magazine publishes a story in this week’s edition, I’ll post the link from there. The T&G on-line site is subscribers only although you can pay a small fee to access individual stories.
 
Good to see that Peter Blute is back.Who owns WCRN and will that signal conflict with WRKO?Also, who are Mike Roberts and Paul Healy?Hope it won't be another wing-nut predictable talker. If so, it will be just another boring radio station.Any chance they could pick up Gene Burns at KGO in San Francisco on syndication ? Would really like to hear what Gene has to say on the issues of the day. Burns was never predictable but always thought provoking
 
I was able to get the article to show on my browser. Try: http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060504/ NEWS/605040820/1052WCRN is owned by Carter Broadcasting, which usually does gospel/black I thinkWRKO loses listeners to the west at sunset--changes pattern to avoid conflicts with other stations.Adding WCRN a plus for Howie. In Northern Worc. County, WEIM has been carrying Howie even thoughthey've changed to oldies (fmr. WRKO news guy Ben Parker is PD I think).Right-wing talk boring? Diff'rent strokes for different folks. Nobody listens to Rush or Hannity, otherthan 15 million people..Lionel's website says WCRN is a "new" affiliate (10 pm maybe)“It will be conservative, yes, but you’ve got a dominant liberal culture among a lot of the politicians here,” he said. “But there are also a lot of conservatives. This show will provide a give and take.” --Peter Blute
 
WCRN day coveragehttp://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WCRN&service=AM&status=L&hours=DNighthttp://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WCRN&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
 
The 10:00 PM show on WCRN will be Jerry Doyle, not Lionel.  I have some contacts over there and it all starts Monday.  Peter Blute is joined by the other 2 guys on the Frank Foley (no relation) show...Paul and Mike. Carter has 2 other stations which do Spanish, block and religion. They're not a religious ownership.  It's family owned.
 
Casablance said:
Also, who are Mike Roberts and Paul Healy?
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Don't know who Healy is, but I see that a handful of stations around New England including WCRN (but none in Boston proper) use "Mike Roberts Web Design" to construct their websites, and Roberts appears on-air in some form (news, sports or weathercaster, v-tracked DJ, etc... depending on station format) on some of those stations. He's also listed as PD on the WCRN website, and has been a regular newscaster on the Frank Foley morning show.
 
Oh, OK on Doyle; WCRN was listed on the Lionel site but maybe they'll be running him overnights tapedelayed, or on weekends. And yes I had heard that Jerry Doyle had been set to run on 'CRN, so therewe go, Doyle's on at 10.From Lionel site:"NEW MARKETSThe Lionel Show welcomes WWKB 1520 AM in Buffalo NY, WHNZ 1250 AM in Tampa FL, WOND 1400 AM in Atlantic City NJ, KTLK 100.3 FM in Minneapolis MN, and WCRN 830 AM in Worcester MA. Watch this space for announcements about new affiliates."
 
(previously)"...Don't know who Healy is....."On the morning show, Healy is referred to as the liberal voice to balance the conservative commentary from (former) host Frank Foley. Healy also handled play-by-play on some of the station's Worcester Tornado broadcasts last season. He may also be the same Paul Healy who was involved with the Marlboro Shamrocks games when they aired on the old WSRO in Marlboro some years back.
 
Here is the WCRN line-up from their website http://mikerobertswebdesign.com/wcrn/ Look Who's Talking!Announcing our new ON-AIR Line-up!Tune in weekdays for: 7AM-9AM: Peter Blute9AM-11AM: Money Matters/Barry Armstrong11AM-12PM: Your Money/Gregg Rennie12PM-1PM: Drew Mortgage Show1PM-3PM: Laura Ingraham3PM-7PM: Howie Carr 7PM-10PM: Michael Savage10PM-4AM Jerry Doyle4AM-7AM: Doug Stephan's Good Day NEW WEBSITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
 
Jerry Doyle for 6 hours? So they're running him twice in a row? Weird. Maybe Lionel is on weekends...Come next year if Sox indeed are on 'RKO (see sep. thread) and not WEEI (they could change their minds,you never know), Howie's show will end early on 'RKO frequently (6:25 pregame start). Adding WCRNis a great service for Howie fans. In fact there will be some 1 pm starts (some spring training andearly season games) on weekdays. People will tune to 'RKO at 3 pm and hear, "Here comes KevinYoukilis. He hit a single and struck out his first two times up." So they can switch to 'CRN>
 
The flip has apparently occured two days ahead of schedule (maybe warming people up to it?). A best ofLaura Ingraham show was airing today (Sat 6th) at 4:15 pm on WCRN.
 
Let's hope they move their studios soon, too. WCRN is currently located in Main South, one of Worcester's worst run-down neighborhoods, in a strip mall. The studios are in good shape and are kept in good repair, but getting there is...well, let's just say, interesting.
 
sids1045 said:
Let's hope they move their studios soon, too. WCRN is currently located in Main South, one of Worcester's worst run-down neighborhoods, in a strip mall. The studios are in good shape and are kept in good repair, but getting there is...well, let's just say, interesting.
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I hope their studio is better than their new web site. Wow. Awful.
 
A couple of points."Nobody listens to Rush and Hannity except 15 million people."Did you think that was a Slam Dunk? My Ass!A typical republican, moronic statementMaybe, but just for experiment sake, I would like to see all the right wings blowhards Like Rush,Hannity, Savage, Ingrahamswap frequencies with the mostly 5,000 watt Air America formatted stations for one year, and see if 15 million people can actually hear them!With Bush's approval rating at 31% and the obvious incompetancy and lies of the regime in power, I'll bet Lefty talk would fare better on the 50,000 watt stations that make up most of the affiliates for righty talk, nowAs for WEIM, it is Not an oldies station, but carries ABC's Hits and favorites, plus local shows, includingRay C in the morning, Dave Clark and Yankee trader on the weekends, All Red Sox Games, and Howie Carr. The station reaches parts of northern Worcester county and areas that WCRN doesn't cover as well. just wanted to clarify.Check your facts, do more listening and less talkingDon't let the facts get in the way of your rant.Stupid is, what stupid does
 
Norm Rosen said:
I'll bet Lefty talk would fare better on the 50,000 watt stations that make up most of the affiliates for righty talk, now
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I'll bet your wrong. In fact, if that were the case we would expect to have seen some of the 50,000 watt stations migrate to "Lefty talk" already - which hasn't happened.Your analysis is simplistic. The idea that Bush's approval ratings have some kind of connection to the popularity of shows like Limbaugh's really isn't supported by any available evidence.
 
There are some powerful Air America/prog. talk stations--I know one at 680 in Memphis that came in wellwhen I was there. Also on the west coast (Portland? Seattle?) And WKOX and WXKS aren't all that badsignal-wise, at least in the day.Put Franken and Schulz on 680 and Rush and Howie on 1200/1430; Rush and Howie will still win. If they(radio station owners) felt liberal talk would succeed, wouldn't they have tried it by now on more powerfulstations? Some feel that putting AAR on these smaller stations is the way companies like Clear Channelcan fend off attempts to bring back the (Un)Fairness Doctrine, and maybe make a LITTLE money whileat it. (Very little.)Even the libs are abandoning Air America, pronouncing it boring and shrill (Daily Kos thread about it);http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1629230/postsLib talk may not be working but there's still more than enough liberal bias out there on TV, newspapers,magazines, Hollywood, music, etc. Conservatalk thrives on radio because it's an alternative." "A group of venture capitalists are in the process of developing their own liberal radio network to counter conservative shows like Rush Limbaugh. They feel the liberal viewpoint is not being heard--except on TV, in the movies, in music, by comedians, in magazines and newspapers. Other than that, it's not getting out!"--Jay Leno--------------------------------------------------------From Daily Kos: I agree with the previous poster: Air Amrica is too heavy-handed. Lord knows, I wanted to like it. But it made me uneasy from the beginning. So i asked a friend to listen and give me his opinion, which was......."great, now we have Liberal hate speech. Forgive me if i don't applaud."He's right. Listening to Al Franken screech:"These people are liars!", moan loudly, then spit out "it's 25 past the hour" in a tone suggesting he is in the studio under duress.......well, it's neither entertaining nor useful.It's simply bad radio. And not many people want to listen to bad radio. -----------------------------------------------------
 
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