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Boston's WRKO-AM 680 to Debut The Grace Curley Show

Grace Curley Show Adds Three Affiliate Stations. The Howie Carr Radio Network announces that it has signed three new affiliates for the “Grace Curley Show.” The 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm talk show joins Saga Communications to air on news/talk WGAN-AM, Portland, Maine and WKBK-AM Keene, New Hampshire leading into the 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm “Howie Carr Show.” The “Grace Curley Show” will joins Saga’s WFEA-AM, Manchester, New Hampshire in early April. Portland Radio Group president Phil Zachary says, “Grace Curley is no wannabe. Her approach to talk radio is fresh, female, and fearless. And because Grace learned at the right hand of Howie Carr, we know she’s more than ready to command her own daypart.” Howie Carr adds, “Grace’s show is exceeding expectations which is why she has picked up so many new affiliates quickly.” For affiliate information, contact Kathy Carr at [email protected].
 
Cap-n Spackle said:
Curley's having difficulties staying on the air so far today.

"Howie Carr Network Happens"
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Does anyone know if the telcos still provide high-quality ISDN links for hosts, such as the late Jay Severin, who broadcast off-site? I believe when Gary Lapierre did the 'BZ morning news from FL during the winter, there was no degradation in audio quality or audio disconnects such as we have today.
 
I did tune in briefly yesterday to Curley and as Cap'n said iHeart was having difficulties--the show would drop and it sounded like at times the fill-in-for-the-late-Rush, airing on sister WXKS 1200, was thrown in temporarily.
Right around the time the news about Curley's new affiliates was announced, WRKO had another two shows/ads at once moment happen.
 
rocket21 said:
She's also a heck of a lot better than K0000nah
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She's also a heck of a lot better looking than K0000nah.

there's that's better.
 
nowradioguy said:
Does anyone know if the telcos still provide high-quality ISDN links for hosts, such as the late Jay Severin, who broadcast off-site?
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does anyone use ISDN links any longer? I would think running IP traffic over dedicated EVPL circuits would be the technology used today.

Heck, my wife and I use our home comcast internet for 99% of our work now, as we've both been remote for a year, and we almost never experience disconnects or dropouts. It isn't as if VOIP takes a huge amount of bandwidth.
 
Methuselah said:
does anyone use ISDN links any longer? I would think running IP traffic over dedicated EVPL circuits would be the technology used today.

Heck, my wife and I use our home comcast internet for 99% of our work now, as we've both been remote for a year, and we almost never experience disconnects or dropouts. It isn't as if VOIP takes a huge amount of bandwidth.
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When Entercom owned WRKO, Barry Armstrong's Financial Exchange was connected to 'RKO by some low bit rate link that would frequently go out-of-frame and/or require a reboot of the equipment at one end of the link or the other. But from what folks are saying here, 'RKO's remote hosts are experiencing even worse audio screw-ups than ever, perhaps because the hosts are using their own laptops - I assume this is possible - with HW that's not really suitable for high-quality use over an extended interval of time. This problem only arises on 'BZ for the traffic reporters, though, and not for the news anchors who are very likely reading the news from their homes. I'm suggesting that not all IP links are created equal, and corners are allowed to be cut where management feels it will likely have the least impact. While I dislike a lot of what's allowed to happen on radio these days, I'm sure I will be scolded and reminded that radio is a business, times are tough, revenues are down, radio's barely surviving, etc. Of course.
 
Grace and Howie's shows are delivered by Westwood One over satellite. Barry Armstrong as well. IP codecs are used to get them Westwood and maybe to get them to their studios from Florida.
 
nowradioguy said:
I'm suggesting that not all IP links are created equal, and corners are allowed to be cut where management feels it will likely have the least impact.
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Keep in mind that outside shows, such as Howie Carr and Barry Armstrong, are responsible for their own distribution. They pay that cost, not the station. So if there's cost cutting happening, it's from the show, not the station.
 
Howie HAD (past tense) a deal with Newsmax to use their facilities when he was in Florida, I bet that went away when they tossed him under the bus (DeGenova?) a while back.

I don't know what Westwood One is charging for time on their birds, but I don't get why Howie, Barry, et al would use that from sites that are far away from the uplink instead of just feeding the stations AoIP/ACIP.... unless a station is really cheap or in a place where 2 tin cans and string are used to move packet traffic in order to keep the cost down. How many programs had a dial in number for the audio in case of ISDN ( RIP ISDN no new lines have been installed in the northeast since 2013) or other distribution failure. Damn I miss loop lines !

Cripes I am running 300Mbps up and down with low latency from SWF to a Comcast server in Boston and I could get more speed if I wanted to pay for it.
 
It's always great radio when the two people doing the show crossover can only be heard by the listeners, and not the two hosts themselves.
 
Tech difficulties today--Howie kept going out so Grace (in a diff. location) jumped in. Then dead air. "Hopefully not a bunch of problems today;
we've already had some, right out of the box".

When listeners can hear hosts but they can't hear
each other. Right.
Once a Sox game on WRKO ended but Trupiano's mic was still on for a couple minutes. "Oh, I'll grab something to eat on the way to the airport."
 
Tired Of It All said:
???? Do tell!
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Where Howie is is no longer on Newsmax, I don't see why they would let him use their facilities.... I was told that was the deal when he started spending more time in Florida, and it came right from his mouth.

He could do the same thing from the comfort of his Bradley Place condo... with a green cloth hanging in back of him and a couple of lights.... how many weather people (Shari Spear) were doing their segments from their basements... btw Shari's basement studio can be seen in her FB posts, it is pretty neat, and the morning weather guy on NECN (after 7 AM ) is doing it from his house in iirc Quincy hence the ocean and Harbor Islands in the background of his morning segments.

Howie is also hosting his live show on YouTube, which costs him nothing and depending on the viewers he may be getting short money from them

Now the question is does he feed YT direct from his Florida location and send a second feed to the MA studio or does it all bounce thru Needham or wherever he is
 
MRBIboredop said:
Where Howie is is no longer on Newsmax, I don't see why they would let him use their facilities.... I was told that was the deal when he started spending more time in Florida, and it came right from his mouth.

He could do the same thing from the comfort of his Bradley Place condo... with a green cloth hanging in back of him and a couple of lights.... how many weather people (Shari Spear) were doing their segments from their basements... btw Shari's basement studio can be seen in her FB posts, it is pretty neat, and the morning weather guy on NECN (after 7 AM ) is doing it from his house in iirc Quincy hence the ocean and Harbor Islands in the background of his morning segments.

Howie is also hosting his live show on YouTube, which costs him nothing and depending on the viewers he may be getting short money from them

Now the question is does he feed YT direct from his Florida location and send a second feed to the MA studio or does it all bounce thru Needham or wherever he is
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I get the impression from the streaming set up that he returned to the Newsmax studio a few weeks ago (after a couple of months in the phone booth-sized set up). He's also been doing appearances on the network, so perhaps there's some sort of arrangement set up.
 
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