Has Jason Wolf been fired at WEEI?

[SonicOverload]

Like the school yard bully he is, Howie enjoys nothing more than kicking someone when they are down. I couldn't believe when during the recent Michael Wiener scandal, which I found quite uninteresting, Carr kept demeaning NY Rep Jerry Nadler by calling fat and fatso.

pot... kettle... black!

 

[TSBench]

should have keep Jerry Williams on as the station's Andy Rooney doing short commentaries just like the old curmageon Andy Rooney.

Good idea. They could have taken credit for inventing the radio seance.

Regards,
TSB

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

The dumb asses at WRKO under Entercom - particularly Kahn and Wolf - together they may have had half a brain - should have keep Jerry Williams on as the station's Andy Rooney doing short commentaries just like the old curmageon Andy Rooney. No, they just threw the guy who made WRKO the then Number 1 Talk Station in the market on the street like yesterday's gar-barge.

Kahn wasn't even with Entercom at that time, and Wolfe had nothing to do with WRKO at that time.

 

[raccoonradio]

>>inventing the radio seance

Well maybe he meant while Jerry was still with us. Jerry left RKO in 1998 (after being exiled to mornings, weekends). He died in 2003. In his later years he fought disease but still wound up briefly on WMEX at 1060, WROL 950 etc. He got to do that one final show at RKO (I have it on cass.) with people like Barbara Anderson and Alex Beam calling in.

Good night and good luck, good night to you.

 

[raccoonradio]

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinio...return_to_its_boston_sports_roots_experts_say

Michael Harrison: "“It’s a mistake to try to go too young or too old. In sports radio, the key is to be good. Just be engaging and talk to that fandom."

Donna Halper says WEEI has lost its edge. "“It’s been awhile since we could say WEEI was doing something unique"

 

[Blackroc]

It all starts with the Am-drive. Until they get that straightened out they won't be getting any of those numbers back. They're tied up contractually so they've tweeked things a bit ( retired Meter, added a #3 in Kirk) but it changed nothing.

When numbers went down after the move to FM you knew EEI's problems were intractable.

 

[BoredModerator]

Heard Callahan utter "if we're still here in February" in regards to Spring Training.
I wouldn't be shocked to see them put on garden leave and switch to Minihan & Bradford or someone else on the cheap.

 

[EnterCommunicator]

I think people overlook the edge in production value 98.5 has over weei, particularly in the morning show. Rich's bits are quite often incredible...and makes the show an absolute hoot to listen to. Purely all sports all the time isn't going to lock in the audience anymore (not that D&C are purely sports, but it's still just basic talk). Pete Gustin is a talented guy, but I think he's been pigeonholed a little bit over there.
Listening to 98.5 everything just feels fresher, with more pop.

 

[Dave_C]

I lost a lot of respect for Howie after all his b*tching and moaning about Entercom. Granted, the way they ran the company was bad, but as one who has been unemployed for some time, I resent it when a man complains about a job for which he pulls down almost seven figures.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

He got to do that one final show at RKO (I have it on cass.) with people like Barbara Anderson and Alex Beam calling in.

...and again, Wolfe had nothing to do with that. Mike Elder was programming WRKO at that time, and had the grace to call Jerry in to do what turned out to be his final on-air appearance.

 

[TSBench]

Well maybe he meant while Jerry was still with us.

Let's try this one more time.....Jerry was DEAD before Kahn and/or Wolfe had any control over talent at WRKO. Get it?

By the time either of them could have, even if they wanted to, give Williams a role at the station, Williams was the one who was, literally, 'brain dead', not them. Get it?

Plus, just in case anyone has forgotten, William's anti-government, anti-establishment cred had taken a pretty good hit when he used his connections to get his girlfriend a gig at the Lottery.

Jerry's last years in the business weren't pretty.

Regards,
TSB

 

[raccoonradio]

I meant whomever was running RKO at the time. As noted, Mike Elder gave Jerry that last show.

>>Williams was the one who was, literally, 'brain dead', not them.

True and he sounded out of it at WROL/"WMEX 1060" etc but maybe a couple years earlier before his illness started to get the better of him...the sunburn I got at the Gloucester Blues Fest may have seeped into my brain, sorry...

 

[wickedwritah]

Minihan has grown on me, and provides a fresh voice.

Let's be honest, WEEI got reallllly stale over the past six or seven years, even before 98.5 flipped. It didn't matter when there was no true competition, but once there was ...

 

[FM 100 Means Music]

Somewhere in L.A., Bill Simmons is smiling right now. With the exception of Dennis & Callahan, all of his enemies from his 1998-2001 feud with WEEI are gone from the station.

The Boston Sports Guy is a big time producer, columnist, and podcaster, and Ordway and Wolfe are now totally irrelevant.

 

[dyeingeye]

Somewhere in L.A., Bill Simmons is smiling right now. With the exception of Dennis & Callahan, all of his enemies from his 1998-2001 feud with WEEI are gone from the station.

The Boston Sports Guy is a big time producer, columnist, and podcaster, and Ordway and Wolfe are now totally irrelevant.

The feud extended well beyond 2001. Simmons was banned from Twitter by ESPN for something he said about The Big Show just a few years ago.