Free Republic: "WRKO Jumped Shark" and Globe on Howie/Finneran party

[raccoonradio]

thread on Free Republic from a disgruntled WRKO listener

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796910/posts

also from today's Globe: Howie and Tommy show up at a WRKO party

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/li...ko_hosts_on_air_fight_leads_to_off_air_laughs
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"Bad blood can make for good ratings, and many have wondered whether the on-air feud is a stunt to get attention for the station. Certainly it made last night's InterContinental Boston party, at which the station formally introduced its talk-radio lineup, more than your typical corporate affair."

 

[Casablanca]

The whole stunt is as phoney as Julie "The Executioner" Kahn and Shorty as radio executives.

 

[Smoke]

WRKO Radio Boston now has an ex-politician running a morning talk show. This ex pol was convicted of lying to a jury in a redistricting scheme. He has special protection that only Democrats enjoy, although they get convicted, they don't do time. You know, like Sandy Burglar. Instead, he gets a lucrative talk radio show, Finneran’s Felons Forum.

The big rub is the idiots or left wing hit men have now signed up the Boston Red Sox. They are preempting the station’s biggest attraction, Boston’s long time talk show journalist, Howie Carr. Are the station managers idiots or is the vast left wing conspiracy moving in to squash successful conservative talk radio. My cynical instincts tell me the CEO and talk managers are big Clinton supporters and they are not idiots. They are making a sneak attempt at killing talk radio. The host of Finneran’s Felons Forum has been a long time target of Howie Carr. Tom Finneran runs with the pack of corrupt politicians bought by big business. This felon is attempting to marginalize Howie Carr. More evidence that the WRKO managers appear to be gunning for Howie.

Instead maybe this will light a fire under Howie and he'll improve his show.