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Boston herald: More woes for WRKO radio

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Panago

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"November 21st, 2006
More woes for WRKO radio
Posted by Jessica Heslam at 9:37 am

WRKO’s telephone lines have been on the fritz since yesterday.

Callers are getting a busy signal because only one line is open.

That’s not good for talk radio hosts, who rely on their listeners to phone in.

WRKO’s Todd Feinburg, who has been filling in for fired talk jock John DePetro, is on the air right now pleading with callers to keep hitting the re-dial button.

Feinburg says the toll free number isn’t working and a “telephone line malfunction” is to blame.

That’s annoying — even more so than some of the people who call in."
 
when one thinks of the utter nonsense WRKO has issued against its critics, this is truly their come-uppance.

Time to implode the station. It is useless. Feinburg is less than useless.


Anyone notice how keeping John DePetro too long seems to have started a domino effect of the station
totally unraveling...
 
On the "Fritz". Interesting choice of words...don't ya think ?
 
I am new to this board, but it only takes a brief reading of your posts to see that you don't like either WRKO politics or talent. Assuming you make a distinction between those two points, is there anyone currently on the air that you would say does great radio (from either the right or the left)? And, if there isn't anyone, why is it that no one that you consider to be great is on the air? I'm not talking about the past - I read all those posts. I'm talking about right now.

Suggestions from others are also welcome.
 
This question was addressed to Varulven (sorry),

I am new to this board, but it only takes a brief reading of your posts to see that you don't like either WRKO politics or talent. Assuming you make a distinction between those two points, is there anyone currently on the air that you would say does great radio (from either the right or the left)? And, if there isn't anyone, why is it that no one that you consider to be great is on the air? I'm not talking about the past - I read all those posts. I'm talking about right now.

Suggestions from others are also welcome.
 
To answer your question, FINN:

Little Walter and Barry Scott do great radio. They are currently on weekends.

Alex over at WMBR does great radio. Terry Gross does great radio on NPR.

Excellent jocks currently on the air in Boston - Audrey Constance, Julie Devereaux, David Allen Boucher, Dale Dorman, Paula Street, JJ Wright, Dale at WEEI (both Boston Dales...). The Dale & Eddy Show was excellent, too bad they imploded - they balanced each other nicely. Michael Holly and Neumy are / were good replacements.
Neumy just signed a big TV deal, didn't he?

There is some superb stuff out there - the BBC, RadioParadise on the internet. Unfortunately one has to go lookings as Boston radio is not intent on hiring great voices with wit and knowledge. WRKO, WBCN, WZLX have lowered their standards terribly. It's not that hard to find and hold on to talent. Stations like Entercom are looking for the bottom line and nothing else. No one told them that great radio can be good for the bottom line.
 
Panago said:
Callers are getting a busy signal because only one line is open.

That’s not good for talk radio hosts, who rely on their listeners to phone in.
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The only people that's not good for are the persistent critics who hog this message board. The net effect on the listeners (only a tiny percentage of whom call in) and the hosts is, actually, zero. If there's only one line, there will always be a caller on it. Feinburg had no trouble getting callers on the air today. I know that because I actually listened to the show (excruciating though it was).

Panago said:
Feinburg says the toll free number isn’t working and a “telephone line malfunction” is to blame.

That’s annoying — even more so than some of the people who call in."
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The callers are a walk in the park compared to the wannabees on this board, consisting of armchair critics who've never had to program a radio station but, of course, know better than anyone else how to do it, and former employees nursing grudges for over two decades. Note the gleeful predictions of gloom and doom yesterday when the phone lines malfunctioned. Well, the phone lines are fixed now. Entercom didn't kill them off and didn't fail to pay the bill. I know that just galls all the tombstone dancers who live here, expecting WRKO to die (and I'm not holding my breath waiting for them to acknowledge they were wrong). I'm not defending WRKO (which would be an impossible task anyhow)...just trying to point out that the world doesn't revolve around this message board's airy pronouncements about radio. The oft-used comparison between opinions and a certain bodily orifice is apt.

Besides, what exactly would you do if WRKO were to die? Which station or personality would be your next scapegoat?
 
>>>Besides, what exactly would you do if WRKO were to die?

it already did
 
I predict it will remain a talk station, or--you heard it here first--talk from 6 am to 7 pm and sports thereafter.
As in, Sox or Celts and when they aren't on maybe they could try for ESPN affiliation (pull it away from 890/1400;
ESPN would have to decide if it'd like to be on a stronger station but it wouldn't be full time). Even Noory's
ratings have been down so you could conceivably have: morning show (with who knows what host);
another local host (Finneran?), Rush, Howie, and then Sox/Celts or ESPN, and ESPN ovenights. Yes, in a way they'd be competing
against themselves--WEEI--but by putting the Sox and Celts on 'RKO, aren't they already doing that?
 
Panago said:
>>>Besides, what exactly would you do if WRKO were to die?

it already did
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Uh-huh. That would, of course, account for there being no programming, no commercials and no billing on WRKO.

Try answering the question.
 
>>> Try answering the question.

geez, you been listening much lately??? hear the anger in Howie's voice?? it's dead & gone!!
 
Panago said:
>>> Try answering the question.

geez, you been listening much lately??? hear the anger in Howie's voice?? it's dead & gone!!
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my prediction : enterbum will sell or trade wrko in a year to greater media. sox, celts, bc and revs slide back to weei. since gm is not capable of coming up with any original programming, it will rename wtkk as wrko-fm and simulcast 680 and 96.9. savage will replace graham. rush will replace o'reilly. howie will be gone.
 
Varulven said:
The Dale & Eddy Show was excellent, too bad they imploded - they balanced each other nicely. Michael Holly and Neumy are / were good replacements.
Neumy just signed a big TV deal, didn't he?
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Repeat after me: E-D-D-I-E!! In any case, Dale was making fun of Eddie today... remembering when they'd do the 'turkey gobble' show... You still get some of the contrived "good cop/bad cop" with Michael Holley but it's a much better show...

Neumy just signed a deal with NBC sports to cover different events.
 
Panago said:
>>> Try answering the question.

geez, you been listening much lately??? hear the anger in Howie's voice?? it's dead & gone!!
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Yet another one who doesn't know when Howie is kidding.

It's obvious that WRKO will never want for listeners. The denizens of this board, with way too much time on their hands, must feed their obsessive hatred for WRKO by listening to it, so that they have something to complain about.

You still haven't answered the question.
 
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