• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him up?

Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

He copped a plea to avoid going to the clink.

How many politicians claim they're guilty? ::)
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

Interesting development on 'RKO site:

5-6 am TBA (it was reruns of talk shows)
9-noon TBA (will a host ever be named)
7-10 pm TBA (what? had been Feinburg's local show, though the
weekend syndie version is still there)
10 pm-1 am Mike Savage

Not sure what this means! Dare we say...Finneran after all? Where will Feinburg wind up? Will it be
Glenn Beck at 9 am, or Stephanie Miller, or a local talker? What's at 7 pm, a syndie like Jerry Doyle?
Hmm.
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

raccoonradio said:
Interesting development on 'RKO site:

5-6 am TBA (it was reruns of talk shows)
9-noon TBA (will a host ever be named)
7-10 pm TBA (what? had been Feinburg's local show, though the
weekend syndie version is still there)
10 pm-1 am Mike Savage

Not sure what this means! Dare we say...Finneran after all? Where will Feinburg wind up? Will it be
Glenn Beck at 9 am, or Stephanie Miller, or a local talker? What's at 7 pm, a syndie like Jerry Doyle?
Hmm.
Click to expand...

Two other things:

1) If you go to Todd Feinburg's page on the 'RKO site, it lists Saturday - Sunday 1-4 pm. http://www.wrko.com/showdj.asp?djid=20270. It used to list Monday - Friday 7-10 as well as Saturday and Sunday, until it got messed up a few weeks ago. This change was made in the last day or so.

2) Scotto's Bloggo - on 1/2/2007 Scott had a post about why successful media personalities leave radio and television stations ... See Didn't get the memo on Chikage. He lists the following reasons:

...they hate the company they work for.
...they hate the people they work with.
...the people they work with hates them.
...they get an indirect pay raise by leveraging their larger market experience for better-than-average pay in a market that's less expensive to live in.
...they hate the market and want to live somewhere else.
...they like the market but need to live elsewhere due to family concerns.
...the program is successful, but the station doesn't know how to monetize (sell) it.
...the station is selling the program fine but it's still not enough to justify the company's ROI (return on the investment).
...the company sacrifices some of its edgy personalities sothat the FCC will green light the sales/purchases of somestations.
...the station changes format.
...they are the "wrong" gender for the show/station lineup.
...they are the "wrong" race for the music format or the show/station lineup.
...they are the "wrong" age for the target audience.
...they need a break from the business, or just hate it completely and want out entirely.
...Wall Street analysts say the parent company's payroll is too big and budgets have to be cut.
...new management or owners want to hire "their" people, not the previous manager's, to execute "their" vision.
...management doesn't like the political opinions of the personality.
...they can outsource the job through syndication or voice tracking/sharing employees with a sister station.

He also says: "I've also learned that the official explanation for why a personality was let go is usually only partly true, if that. Sometimes the station's explanation is gospel truth, sometimes it's a complete fabrication, and sometimes it's somewhere in between. Ditto for the explanation given by the personality. You just never know, and that's just how it is."
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

Well I think Todd may have been doing the show from a studio in his own house (think I read he lives in
Manchester-by-the-Sea--is that town attractive to talk hosts?) so he may not have had to go into
the 'RKO studios at all, so the bit about "doesn't like co-workers" may not necessarily apply.

I also went to the left links part of the 'RKO site and it only mentions weekends...could it be another cutback
(going syndie in mornings AND 7 pm slot) to save money due to Red Sox rights price being so high? But I'd
think they'd go local in mornings...we were laughing off the possibility of Finneran going to 'RKO the other
day but the timing of the Finneran news and the 'RKO site change...makes you go hmm..
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

RKO is programming in 2007 by reading Radio-Info.com/Boston
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

Well, Jerry W, Barbara A, and Howie C used to be "the Governors". Maybe radio-info.com Boston board
is "The Program Directors"
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

raccoonradio said:
Well I think Todd may have been doing the show from a studio in his own house (think I read he lives in
Manchester-by-the-Sea--is that town attractive to talk hosts?) so he may not have had to go into
the 'RKO studios at all, so the bit about "doesn't like co-workers" may not necessarily apply.
Click to expand...

Sorry, wasn't clear enough. I wasn't suggesting that Scotto was talking about Feinburg or that Scotto's list applied to him. Rather I was speculating that Scotto was writing about himself.... That he's trying to frame the speculation about why he's leaving WRKO in advance. It's complete BS on my part, but I thought the timing of his post was interesting given what we know is going on at the station.
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

Well I think Todd may have been doing the show from a studio in his own house (think I read he lives in
Manchester-by-the-Sea--is that town attractive to talk hosts?) so he may not have had to go into
the 'RKO studios at all, so the bit about "doesn't like co-workers" may not necessarily apply.
Click to expand...

Interesting, considering the departure of most of the morning personalities in recent times (Ozone, Blute, etc) and how management released partial details at best.
 
Seems to this poster that a convicted felon is the appropriate person for Entercon to hire. I am sure that the suits there want to work with someone at their own squalled level.

Even have a name for Finneran's new show on WRKO
"The Mud Room"
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

In today's Globe, the story on Finneran mentioned that WRKO had been considering him for a "drive
time" talk show. Now 9-noon could conceivably be called drive time given the traffic around here, but I
would think that means the 6-9 shift (would Scotto be moved to 9-noon and Tom F. be placed before
him? Has been suggested.)

>>His future at the council is unclear. In recent months he has been negotiating a contract with WRKO radio to host a drive-time talk show. The contract was being held up until he resolved his legal problems. Finneran has filled in over the years for other talk show hosts, displaying his sharp tongue and agile mind.

>>convicted felon

Tom Leykis' national talk show has opened with him saying that it was a show "not hosted by a convicted
felon or a right-wing wacko, no..." (What about the incident with the Mrs., Mr. Leykis? Not convicted, I guess...)
I assume he meant G. Gordon Liddy for the former part.

Peter Blute does the morning show on WCRN. Could it be worked out that a "Blute and Finneran" show be
aired on both 'RKO and 'CRN?
 
What I find interesting is how much time is spent on this board discussing WRKO, which is essentially a dead radio station. It's on the AM dial (dead), it's not in the top 10 25-54 (other than Carr, and he's slipping) and the programming decisions thus far are making things worse. Finneran, Scotto and Feinburg? That's a losing line-up in market 179, and a disaster in a Top 10 market.

Meanwhile, the stations like WEEI, WTKK, Magic, etc. that actually have listeners in the demo are rarely mentioned on this website. More people listen to them on their worst day than listen ALL day on WRKO.

Why is WRKO so fascinating? Is there a political subtext here?
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

>>WRKO, which is essentially a dead radio station.

Not once the Red Sox season starts. Howie and Sox

By the way while some of you scoff at what the Radio Equalizer writes, be aware that he has written
another piece on them you may enjoy, Con Job, and he promises more in the future. (He has worked for
them in the past but now considers them a lost cause or at least for the time being, he says they're
going through woes...

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com
 
Disgruntled ex-employees? Now this blog is starting to make sense.

And yes, the Red Sox will be as big as ever. But that's a blessing and curse to a talk station. What happens when there's news that's bigger than the Sox during baseball season. Admittedly, that's a rare event in Boston, but think "Big Dig."

Then there's the AM problem, as WEEI adds FMs around the area. They get it.

Granny loves AM radio, but has anyone checked Howie's 25-54 numbers lately?
 
Wow, two WRKO threads on almost the same subject!

In other news, yesterday it rained!
Was it WRKO's fault?
Let's discuss....


Varulven said:
Hey, if Peter Blute can witness a young lady lifting up her shirt on the clock...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/04/guilty_plea_no_jail_time_expected_for_finneran/

The plea agreement marks a turnabout for Finneran, who had insisted he was innocent and had declared he would not be "losing any sleep" over the federal case against him.
Click to expand...
 
Damn your eyes; Julie Khan, for bringing down the wrath of the rain god.

"KHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!"
-James T. Kirk
 
A clean legal record is hardly a requirement for on-air work. You can't argue the political credibility Finneran brings to the table.

What about those days when politics is not the main topic (it's happened once or twice)? That's where a co-host would be a saving grace.

Speaking of Roddenberry's universe, Lucy, half the posters on this board seem to have the same venom in their hearts for RKO that Khan had for Kirk. It's not hard to see a certain poster in Ricardo Montalban's role, hissing at Julie and her Entercom bosses -- "For hate's sake..I spit my last breath at thee".
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

half the posters on this board seem to have the same venom in their hearts for RKO
Click to expand...

The "venom" is toward Julie Kahn's incompetence. Nothing more.
 
Re: Finneran to plead guilty, can't run for political office; will WRKO pick him

Let's role play - we're Julie's bosses, and we're deciding whether to fire her immediately after reading all the scathing commentary from the Elsworth Tooeys obsessed with her success. Perhaps we've missed something. Let's review:

Are we mad because WAAF is kickin' butt, that MIke has been growing into a very successful station after a slow first year, that WEEI is the number 1 sports station in the country, or that WRKO, after 7 or 8 years of being ignored, is still performing well in the ratings against a tough FM competitior and is being rebuilt by a guy who is considered one of the best PD's in the business? Or is it because all this is happening while payrolls have been deeply cut with the elimination of 2 GM's and 2 PD positions?

Looks like she stays.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom