Finneran Goes On The Attack Against Carr On-Air

[Casablanca]

This morning Tom Finneran in response to a caller's complaint about the aftenoon guy being boring Finneran said "the guy in the afternoon has been mailing it in for 20 year."

Don't know if it is 20 but at least 10.

Nonetheless, "Mista Speaka" got it right this time.

 

[ChrisNH]

This morning Tom Finneran in response to a caller's complaint about the aftenoon guy being boring Finneran said "the guy in the afternoon has been mailing it in for 20 year."

Don't know if it is 20 but at least 10.

Nonetheless, "Mista Speaka" got it right this time.

That's OK. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in its life.

 

[TSBench]

This morning Tom Finneran in response to a caller's complaint about the aftenoon guy being boring Finneran said "the guy in the afternoon has been mailing it in for 20 year."

Don't know if it is 20 but at least 10.

Nonetheless, "Mista Speaka" got it right this time.

That's OK. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in its life.

A week ago you were mentioning how "The good news is that we'll still be able to listen to Howie", and now you agree that he's been 'mailing it in" for two decades?

Odd.

Regards,
TSB

 

[Casablanca]

Listening to howie is never good news. I want TKK to bring back Imus.

This morning Tom Finneran in response to a caller's complaint about the aftenoon guy being boring Finneran said "the guy in the afternoon has been mailing it in for 20 year."

Don't know if it is 20 but at least 10.

Nonetheless, "Mista Speaka" got it right this time.

That's OK. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in its life.

A week ago you were mentioning how "The good news is that we'll still be able to listen to Howie", and now you agree that he's been 'mailing it in" for two decades?

Odd.

Regards,
TSB

 

[NHRonin]

Wow, talk about boring and mailing it in. Imus was boring ten years ago, let alone when he was pulled off the air.

Finneran is a hack who has zero business being on radio and I predict that by this time next year, Tommy Taxes is back out in the dreaded private sector trying to make a living.

 

[Casablanca]

And what has Howie Carr become?????????? He maybe rich at this point and locally famous but when he dies he will never be listed as one of the major forces in talk radio. Small time guy who could never rise above his bourgeois prejudices.

Wow, talk about boring and mailing it in. Imus was boring ten years ago, let alone when he was pulled off the air.

Finneran is a hack who has zero business being on radio and I predict that by this time next year, Tommy Taxes is back out in the dreaded private sector trying to make a living.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

And what has Howie Carr become?????????? He maybe rich at this point and locally famous but when he dies he will never be listed as one of the major forces in talk radio. Small time guy who could never rise above his bourgeois prejudices.

Funny how the bourgeois-prejudiced Howie Carr is being quoted all the time in the trade magazines of the talk-radio business. For someone who "will never be listed as one of the major forces in talk radio" he sure is making a mark right now.

Funny how you aren't.

 

[Casablanca]

Carr's marks are inside baseball and no one outside in the real world will remember Howie Carr when he sheds his mortal coil.
He will just reaping what he sowed...drek

And what has Howie Carr become?????????? He maybe rich at this point and locally famous but when he dies he will never be listed as one of the major forces in talk radio. Small time guy who could never rise above his bourgeois prejudices.

Funny how the bourgeois-prejudiced Howie Carr is being quoted all the time in the trade magazines of the talk-radio business. For someone who "will never be listed as one of the major forces in talk radio" he sure is making a mark right now.

Funny how you aren't.

 

[TSBench]

Wow, talk about boring and mailing it in. Imus was boring ten years ago, let alone when he was pulled off the air.

I think you can trace the fall of Imus to one major event, the ill-recieved speech at the correspondents dinner where he was perceived as attacking the Clintons. Suddenly, all this liberal pals quit returning his phone calls, and despite his statements to the contrary, Imus really did care what these folks thought of him. To get back into their good graces, he essentially committed self-castration. Seemed to me to be a little overboard just to be on speaking terms with Frank Rich, the world's worst op-ed columnist, but too each his own.

By the time WEEI dropped him, the incessant references to the country's least-efficient charity, the Imus Ranch, the constant shilling for overpriced salsa and chips, the idea that he had somehow invented childbirth, and how great it was getting his ashes hauled by a younger wife, had just about sucked all the air out of the show.

Too bad, for I had been a fan of his going back to the 70s.

Regards,
TSB

 

[sp113]

....I predict that by this time next year, Tommy Taxes is back out in the dreaded private sector trying to make a living.

Just an observation....isn't he in the "dreaded private sector" now...?

 

[TSBench]

....I predict that by this time next year, Tommy Taxes is back out in the dreaded private sector trying to make a living.

Just an observation....isn't he in the "dreaded private sector" now...?

Has been since 2004.

Regards,
TSB

 

[jane grant]

tsbench, do you work for RKO or 96.9? it would be fair to let us know.

Casablanca has it right - David Brudnoy, Jerry Williams, Gene Burns are legendary names. Howie Carr can't shine their shoes. One can look at Jay Severin as the typical 2007 faceless personality. Both Carr and Severin get big bucks for little effort and no legacy. jk rowling is hardly worried about the Brother's Bulger. Gore Vidal writes book after book and Howie is still pushing a fifty cent amazon item.

 

[raccoonradio]

if the Globe's right about his salary, he's doing pretty well. HC is entertaining and usually the most
successful talk host in town (though Jay dethroned him for a couple ratings periods). Pine for the old
days with Jerry if you will, and I do acknowledge that he was a master and The Dean, but Howie
can't be ignored. Except by those who don't like him and have every right to bash him...as he laughs
all the way to the bank. "My heart feels like an alligator!"--HC

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

tsbench, do you work for RKO or 96.9? it would be fair to let us know.

Casablanca has it right - David Brudnoy, Jerry Williams, Gene Burns are legendary names. Howie Carr can't shine their shoes. One can look at Jay Severin as the typical 2007 faceless personality. Both Carr and Severin get big bucks for little effort and no legacy. jk rowling is hardly worried about the Brother's Bulger. Gore Vidal writes book after book and Howie is still pushing a fifty cent amazon item.

When you have some actual facts to back up your baseless claims, please let us know. Howie is all over the talk-radio press, just like his predecessors. He has a syndication deal which, while small by comparison to most, still gets him on more stations than David, Jerry or Gene were ever on, at any given time. He's the one the other media go to when Boston politics makes national news (how many times were David, Jerry or Gene on 60 Minutes?).

And Amazon lists Howie's book (paperback edition) for $9.99.

I wouldn't spend five seconds listening to his show, but facts are facts.

 

[NHRonin]

....I predict that by this time next year, Tommy Taxes is back out in the dreaded private sector trying to make a living.

Just an observation....isn't he in the "dreaded private sector" now...?

Sorry, you are correct. I meant the "real" dreaded private sector where you have to actually work for a living.

 

[TSBench]

tsbench, do you work for RKO or 96.9? it would be fair to let us know.

No, I don't, Cas....errr.....Jane. But, just wondering, would it make a difference if I did? I'd think you'd be champing at the bit to rip apart my error-ridden posts with your piercing logic, thoughtful arguments, and biting, well-turned phrases. Instead, this is the best you can do? Luckily, we all understand why you don't respond in a meaningful way.


[color=brown]Casablanca has it right - David Brudnoy, Jerry Williams, Gene Burns are legendary names. [/color]

One of the problems with associating with any special interest group (like this one) long enough is that you come to confuse the interests of the group as the interests of the public at large. Not so. Just about nobody under the age of thirty in this market knows who any of the folks we consider household names even are, and nobody under the age of 50 cares about any of them, either. It's just the way things go. Like them or hate them, the only two radio personalities of the modern era who made lasting contributions to the culture are Stern and Limbaugh, the two guys who actually changed the media landscape. Fifty or a hundred years in the future, they will be the two being studied by media historians, with everyone else only being mentioned in relation to them.

Both Carr and Severin get big bucks for little effort and no legacy.

Carr and Severin get big bucks for generating audience numbers which are attractive to advertisers. That is why it is called 'commercial' radio.

jk rowling is hardly worried about the Brother's Bulger. Gore Vidal writes book after book and Howie is still pushing a fifty cent amazon item.

Huh? Is this suppose to mean anything? That if you're not as successful as Rowling, or as prolific as Vidal, that you don't count as any author or as a success. I'm sure Hemingway would be amused.

Regards,
TSB