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Herald: WTKK won't go after Carr again

I would expect Smyth to say that, but the picture may change at Greater Media by the time Carr finishes his sentence at MCI Entercom.

Now the next question is where does Mr 800 Grand go after WRKO? I don't think he can live on his Herald salary, I don't think it would pay his alimony to wife #1. There is (at the moment) nowhere for him to go. His syndication deal with ABC went bust after a while, his second syndication deal got stale and he got dropped, do you think anyone is going to pick up a second rate talk show host who covers the same 5 topics, and wants a million dollar a year package?

Maybe he packs up "Submit" and moves to Florida where he gets a job as a greeter at Legal Seafoods and does commercials for Gutter Helmet.
 
MRBIboredop said:
I would expect Smyth to say that, but the picture may change at Greater Media by the time Carr finishes his sentence at MCI Entercom.
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Based on Smythe's comment to the effect that he loves Don Imus, I would have to say that you should take anything Smythe says with a lot more than one grain of salt. I don't remember what format Greater Media's WPEN (AM) in Philadelphia was running when the I-man's syndicator was desperately trying to find a home in Philadelphia for Imus's AM-drive show. The program eventually wound up on Beasley's WWDB 860--a true daytimer with no pre-sunrise authority. The result is that in January, the station can carry only a bit more than two hours of Imus's program, and if I'm not mistaken, the network feed in the 9:00 to 10:00AM hour is a repeat. If Smythe likes Imus so much, why didn't he offer to put the show on WPEN, which in the meantime has upgraded its signal quite substantially.
 
The fact that Smyth is SAYING he has no interest in Howie means he damn well has interest in Howie. This article is the opening salvo in a negotiation that's basically saying that Howie ain't gonna get now what he was going to get the last time he and WTKK did this dance. Such a truth should be obvious to anyone; almost no talker in the biz is worth as much today as they were even two years ago. The market just won't support it.
 
As I mentioned elsewhere, will WTKK be smooth jazz again by the time '12 rolls around? Ratings not the best, hence the recent change that has put Smyth's pal Don-O in merely a two hour slot, only one hour of which, as I understand, is live

MRBIboardop: yes, I can't picture WBZ picking him up (would they want to give up some of their news-time by day?
Would he be too shocking for BZ, or could they tone him down slightly? His ratings recently were halfway decent though. The "Second rate talk show" recently finished #1, even doing better than the sports guys down the hall.
Whether that would keep up, I don't know, but suppose his ratings dropped and Entercom didn't renew him...
I could visualize a company like Salem perhaps (though VERY low possibility) trying talk again and you could have
Howie and a bunch of syndie conservatives, say, on a "Talk 590" or "Talk 950". Look at what happened to
Jerry Williams. He had short-lived efforts at "WMEX 1060" and WROL 950 IIRC, though Jerry was in the early stages of the disease that would take his life (Parkinson's, I think) and he wasn't having a very easy time on the air.

Howie does hint at a move to Florida, something el Rushbo has done--the latter to escape NY taxes. Howie says he could escape MA taxes, and weather. As for income he does say he has a second book coming out (not sure on
whom--the Kennedys?) and is pitching a third.

aaronread: good point--could be true!
 
Someone commenting on Herald article at Herald site said: "Howie will say he has no deal @ another station, let his contract lapse, & then go to WTKK." Could happen (link via link above)
 
raccoonradio said:
As I mentioned elsewhere, will WTKK be smooth jazz again by the time '12 rolls around?
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Something just worth mentioning, in the WTKK-is-expensive-to-run-and-ratings-are-not-the-best department. In 2007, Greater Media entirely reconfigured what was the existing WTKK studio (which was horrible for talk shows, it was built for WSJZ or maybe even WOAZ) and a spare studio next door into an entirely new facility built for talk programs. Not sure what the construction cost was but I was told the boards were $100k each. Obviously you can use a fancy facility for an automated music format, but it's a complete waste. Might that fact make them a little more willing to keep a talk-heavy format? Perhaps.
 
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