Herald: WTKK, Greater hires Tom Baker (ex-Entercom)

[raccoonradio]

Former Entercom Boston bigwig is back in town, now overseeing the Greater Media properties

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/n...008/12/17/redos-replacement-at-greater-media/

He left Entercom due to, what else, cost cutting. He takes over for Phil Redo. Some on http://www.savewrko.com have the opinion that Baker built up WEEI but Kahn took the credit.

 

[DJbobo]

Former Entercom Boston bigwig is back in town, now overseeing the Greater Media properties

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/n...008/12/17/redos-replacement-at-greater-media/

He left Entercom due to, what else, cost cutting. He takes over for Phil Redo. Some on http://www.savewrko.com have the opinion that Baker built up WEEI but Kahn took the credit.

Maloney's entry reads like a script to Ocean's 11. He's implying GM unearthed Baker so that they could poach WRKO/WEEI's advertisers, grab Ordway away from Entercom, convert 92.9 to sports, etc.

 

[raccoonradio]

One of the papers yesterday said same thing; Baker's exp. with sports could lead to a GM station
switching to "FM sports talk" (most likely WBOS; not WMJX, prob not WROR or WTKK or WKLB). Prob
won't happen but who knows? Greater could hire Ordway, use Jimmy Myers and Andleman, grab
ESPN affiliation away from 890/1400...
And wouldn't it be funny if they did this: move sports to 102.5 and switch country to 92.9. This way
not only would country be back on 92.9 (it had been there before) but it would be yet another
freq move for WCLB/WKLB (105.7, 96.9, 99.5, 102.5). It could set a record for being such a
"wandering minstrel" in terms of diff. frequencies!

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

If Baker is back, does this mean that Jay will compare Obama (who, remember, is NOT Severin's president) to escaped gorillas? (A D&C bit during the Baker era, JIC anyone forgot.)