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Finance Talk noon on RKO, replacing first hr of Charley Manning

According to bostonradio.org, What is now WEZE 590, orig home of WEEI: CBS sold WEEI 590 to Helen Broadcasting (Papa
Gino's) in 82, kept it all news, then it was sold to the Celtics in 1990. It stayed all news
till Labor Day of 1991 when "WEEI scrapped the all-news format to become Boston's first all-sports station". News people laid off and the likes of Andleman hired. "A morning show featuring Andy Moes failed to catch fire" and they picked up Imus. Celts, B's (Sox were on WRKO I think?). Back
Bay Broadcasting got station in 94...then in late Aug the "intellectual property" of WEEI moved
from 590 to 850 and I think American Radio Systems had both "WEEI 850" and WRKO (which
got the former WEEI aft lineup of Rush Limbaugh and Howie Carr...Howie's site had a sound clip
of him interviewing the "Chappaquiddick diver" and you hear Jim Cutler doing the intro of
"the Howie Carr show...on News Talk 850, WHDH". A couple weeks later, Howie and Rush
moved to 680.)

http://bostonradio.org/stations/3594

Then WEEI's sports lineup on 850 took off with Imus, Dale Arnold, etc

So anyway, you do have the period where WEEI had Andy Moes doing an unsuccessful show there in mornings...

>>Perhaps it was after the sale, which belies the suggestion that the Celtics immediately took it all-sports.

The article above mentions it was around Labor Day of 91 when they went all sports. Celts-owned.

When WEEI moved to 850 around Labor Day weekend of 94, you had the famous toilet flush of the WHDH calls.

http://bostonradio.org/stations/1912

>>At midnight, August 28, the last WHDH programming came to an end, and an anonymous board operator sent the station to the history books with a recorded toilet flush.

Clip of Jim Cutler bumper for the Howie Carr show on "WHDH 850"
http://howiecarr.freehostia.com/Howie/Cutler850.mp3
 
Just heard RKO play promo for new Lunch Money show: "starting Sept 9". Starting on a Thu? You would think they'd roll out a new show on a Mon., yeah OK today's Labor Day so maybe Tue...but Thu? Checked RKO's site incl the Complete Sched page--sure enough, it starts Thu...so Manning's 3 hr show gets 3 more days till it becomes 2 hours.
 
I only tune into RKO to listen to Howie and they've been playing the lunch money promo for a couple of days - I don't listen to manning anymore so I'm not sure if he's made any reference to his show being cut by an hour -
 
Armstrong owns a radio station and gives a soft sell on his morning show. I'm happy to see him get his chance on WRKO. Maybe the brains at WRKo see that WBNW has come a long way since the walden1120 days. The programming has improved, and the station seems to be making money.
 
DanStrassberg said:
But it would be interesting to know how many stations whose mainstay is conservative talk also carry Dave Ramsey's financial-advice program. Ramsey doesn't often talk politics, but when he does, he makes it clear that he is as conservative as some of the most rabid right-wing talkers. I don't see Ramsey hurting any station that mixes him with the best-known conservative talkers. And if Ramsey is a good blend with conservative talk, then I argue that so is Armstrong. If you are looking for people to blame for WRKO's death spiral, I think you need to name the no-talent "personalities" they've lined up and the management that decided to bet on them, not the guy who is buying one hour a day to run what I expect to be a pretty decent financial talk show.
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Hey Dan, I'm curious to what your thoughts are so far about this Lunch Money program. I had a chance to listen again today and I must say, if you're not willing to admit yet that this program will be the death of WRKO, I still have some patience left!! Certainly not the broadcasting standards set, developed and followed by WRKO itself for many, many years!!!
 
OreoJoe417 said:
Hey Dan, I'm curious to what your thoughts are so far about this Lunch Money program. I had a chance to listen again today and I must say, if you're not willing to admit yet that this program will be the death of WRKO, I still have some patience left!! Certainly not the broadcasting standards set, developed and followed by WRKO itself for many, many years!!!
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I have listened to Armstrong's Mon-Fri show on WRKO only once and then for only a few minutes. Program seemed to be filled with financial news and brief telephone interviews of guests. It did not seem to be a traditional financial call-in show (a la Bob Brinker or Armstrong's former Money Talk show on WBNW et al). My impression is that the program is closer to the Bloomberg financial news and commentary fare on WBBR (available to any station via a satellite feed, I believe). I don't consider such a program to break WRKO's format. Somebody else posted here a month or two ago (before WRKO announced the forthcoming debut of Lunch Money) that several major market stations (including maybe KMOX and, I believe, one in LA--KFWB?) are doing financial talk during the noon hour. If that report is correct, I would say that Lunch Money might be consistent with those formatics. I wonder if those other noon-hour financial-talk shows in other markets are leased time--as I believe Lunch Money to be. If no, Entercom is one up on the other guys because Lunch Money assures WRKO of a steady stream of positive cash flow, which conventional sponsorship would not.
 
Don't know if it will happen but there are rumors some Salem stations may switch to biz talk and one domain name registered was something like MoneyRadio950.com (WROL? from religious
to money talk?)
 
raccoonradio said:
Don't know if it will happen but there are rumors some Salem stations may switch to biz talk and one domain name registered was something like MoneyRadio950.com (WROL? from religious to money talk?)
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You'd have to find a list of all of the 950s that Salem owns. Good chance that WROL is not the only one. But my impression is that WROL is making good money with the existing preaching/teaching format. Maybe the Radio Luz LMA of 1150 is coming to an end and Salem is getting ready to move the preaching/teaching from 950 to 1150. That would open up 950 for business talk. WROL has by far the superior daytime signal but a very poor nighttime signal. But if that's what's on Salem's mind, I have to wonder why they wouldn't simply flip 1150 to business talk. WBNW 1120 (not owned by Salem) does business talk at night but its night signal is very poor. A simulcast of 950 and 1120 at night would be better than either of the two by itself, but wouldn't a nighttime simulcast of 1120 and 1150 be better yet?
 
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