Emily Rooney Goes After Entercom and Julie Kahn on Greater Boston

[Casablanca]

Tonight, Emily Rooney had WBZ Radio's Paul Sullivan on to talk about his recent operation and recovery. Paul is amazing. He must be on anti-inflamatory drugs because other than looking a little heavy he sounds and looks great.

After a discussion of tomorrow's election talk turned to John DePetro, Entercom and G.M. Julie Kahn.

Emily Rooney quoted Kahn as saying that it was okay to call Senator Hillary Clinton a "Bitch" on an Entercom station because that was somehow acceptable. Basically, calling Julie Kahn a hypocrite Rooney asked the unanswered question as why what John DePetro said was unacceptable and what Howie Carr gets away with and others on WEEI [ Metco Gorrilla] were either acceptable or not acceptable.

Not that there is anything wrong with it, as Jerry Seinfeld would say but what is Julie Kahn's sexual preference?

This poster thinks it is just another glaring example of a general manager coming out of the sales department and not the programming department. Kahn is probably just another Bob Fish...in a dress. But then again from that individual's own stories he was in many a dress.

 

[Varulven]

There is no rhyme or reason to their programming other than the mantra Republican... yawn.

 

[SonicOverload]

it just makes the WBZ shows look a lot classier, which they are... I'm glad Sully is back to work.

 

[Neggy]

I know WRKO has a "republican" lean to it, but they do not represent all republicans. There was an interesting peice in the Globe recently about how some of the big name blue blood republicans (cabots, saltonstalls, et al) have abandoned the party and gone D.

Look at Christine Todd Whitmans book "It's My Party Too" that laments the direction the G.O.P. has taken, and recalls her involvement in a much diferent G.O.P. i her youth, before it was hijacked by the religious right.

There is also a PAC of the same name, that Jane Swift is involved with.

As my friend Richard Tesei said recently, Republicans need to be libertarian when it comes to social issues, and conservative when it comes to financial ones.

I miss David Brudnoy.

 

[Lucylu]

It's so odd that Rooney would go after Entercom after signing a contract with TKK... :

 

[SonicOverload]

It's so odd that Rooney would go after Entercom after signing a contract with TKK... :

ohhhhh.... VERY good point. I was tired when I read the first post in here and, finally, dawn is breaking over (my) marblehead

 

[johnwas5]

I think rooney is sincerely one of the elite who think that the ruff and tumble of talk radio is overall distasteful.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>It's so odd that Rooney would go after Entercom

And the man whose show will feature her, Jay Severin, used to work at WRKO but upon moving to FM
talk wound up calling his former station "(pass gas) radio"...

 

[SonicOverload]

I think rooney is sincerely one of the elite who think that the ruff and tumble of talk radio is overall distasteful.

My wife refers to Emily as Ms. Unctuous... she definitely has that snotty, elitist air. I do like the "Beat The Press" segment. John Carroll is a great copy-writer. His stuff is hilarious...

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

This poster thinks it is just another glaring example of a general manager coming out of the sales department and not the programming department. Kahn is probably just another Bob Fish...in a dress. But then again from that individual's own stories he was in many a dress.

...and this poster thinks you had your head buried in the sand for all those years you were supposedly working for WRKO. Rare is the GM who DOESN'T come from sales. The #1 objective for any radio station is to make money for its owners. Sales people are the ones who have proven that they can do it. I'm not here to defend WRKO or its management, but facts are facts. Radio is, first, last and always, a business.

 

[Casablanca]

That is true. As Jerry Williams always said, he was in the advertising business. Still, that does not excuse the lack of programming skills that is demonstrated here by someone who can sell Budweiser and Bufferin but is a programming zero. It may not be an example that is on all fours but would you want the director of surgery of a major hospital -- say the Mass General - to come out of the pharmacutical sales division of a drug supplier to the MGH or a board certified surgeon. No, radio isn't brain surgery or any other kind of surgery but when you have the ilk of the Julie Kahn's and Bob Fish's of the world of WRKO screwing up the health of the station one might ask if time salesmen are out of their element and do more harm than good. After all time sales is not brain surgery either. A trained monkey ... well you get the point. Besides, most animals are not known for their general sleezeness and moral bankruptcy.

 

[TowerBuzz]

yeah but also remember the Dean comes from a different era of talk radio. The money was nowhere near what it is today, the gravity of talk radio was nowhere near what it is today, as good as he was he was part fo the old guard that came up before the medium really took off. So anything the Dean says is based on his experience THEN< god rest his soul. Also Dumber than a box is right on point, the average GM was once a GSM, and before that a sales grunt, they are sales people, they are not programmers although most think they are both.

 

[radiodouble]

yeah but also remember the Dean comes from a different era of talk radio. The money was nowhere near what it is today, the gravity of talk radio was nowhere near what it is today, as good as he was he was part fo the old guard that came up before the medium really took off. So anything the Dean says is based on his experience THEN< god rest his soul. Also Dumber than a box is right on point, the average GM was once a GSM, and before that a sales grunt, they are sales people, they are not programmers although most think they are both.

hey, lay off us sales guys. mel karmazin came straight from sales. and he was a brilliant programming guy for years when he ran infinity/cbs. he knew how things clicked.