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Howie Carr dances on WTKK's grave

Ha, not sure Rush was shopped to GM first...In early 07 Howie made fun of Imus situation, Rutgers remark...calls em WTKKK...(and Dershowitz got Howie a settlement after he made a remark about Howie's wife..
months later he tried to jump to TKK. Did interview on Ch 4 news..Carr bars were to be given away, TKK site redesigned.On air, Severin joked with Graham about new colleague..."can we say, drive my Carr?"...not allowed to go tho
 
ha! Some of it still will be on FM, if you want Emily Rooney on WGBH.
Isn't it weird though; in most places talk migrates to FM (political talk; we know about sports)
but here it survives on Ancient Modulation!
 
I'd hate to think angry is over---what about that clip Jerry used to play from Network? I'm as
mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

Hopefully Howie's anger comes with a dollop of humor. For some.

Not that 96.9 will stunt, but how about playing a continuous loop of a Canadian rock band
Donna Halper helped? Rush Radio! ha, ok maybe not.

And now...the best of Mike Barnicle!

(plays:)(...silence..)

Thank you!
 
I guess Howie could say he transitioned from TV to radio. I would say he failed at every TV gig he had, Ch 7, Ch 2 Ch 56. He couldn't even manage a regular fill in gig for his former call screener on Ch 25. I guess that glazed look in his eyes and the ever present stupid grin didn't go over well on TV.

I would hardly call TKK "Moonbat Radio." They broadcast as much conservative talk as Liberal talk. And, All Things Considered is a news program not a talk show. I listened to Smerconish almost every day and can not remember him constantly bragging about interviewing the President. He did talk about it before and after each of the interviews and I enjoyed hearing about the interviews far more than an hour of the Death Pool or a hour after hour of blaming all the worlds problems on Welfare recipients and undocumented aliens.

What FM station will Howie be on in this market when his contract is up at RKO? Does the FM that carries his show in New Hampshire reach Boston? I guess he expects another FM to switch to a talk format
 
Supposedly Rush's av' listener is 72yo. I don't know what--age-- Howie's average out at in drive time but that's pretty scary. Anger was great while it lasted though.
 
The FM affiliates for Howie are WXTK 95.1 on the Cape, WNTK 99.7 New London NH (not really
south enough to reach Boston)--also on 98.9 in W. Lebanon-- and WVOM 103.9 in Bangor/WVQM 101.3 Augusta ME

I know people on the left like my sister who love Jim & Margery.
As for the average age of Rush's listeners, ,maybe not THAT old, but they must have a lot of money to spend.
He makes about $59 million per year..."not too shabby"! Desired by advertisers...still.
(Heck even that old fossil Imus got re-upped.)
 
MEMOS FROM MONIQUE: Nobody is going to take an FM signal and build a station round a 60-something year old one-trick pony ... Dan Rea did radio before he ever saw a TV camera as the Young Americans for Freedom answer to Jerry on Saturday nights when Westinghouse was feeling heat from the Nixonites who needed to be courted to sell nuclear reactors. And you could look it up.

See ya, Monique.
 
Talk formats do indeed lean older and more heavily male....i.e.: 65% male, 35% female, core audience 50-64...if a talker is really strong they do OK in 45-49, and most all talk stations really dominate age 65+.

The most desirable money demos for national and regional ad buys are:

#1-women 25-54 (about 60% of all radio ad buys go to this demo)
#2-adults 25-54, (about 20% of radio ad buys go to this demo)

...there's some dollars in 18-34 men/adults (beer, soft drinks, fast food)...a few teen dollars, and a very few 50+ buys.

Talk radio...especially with local hosts...is an expensive format to operate. And, whether the talk station is on FM or AM doesn't seem to change the core audience demo that much.

Talk radio's biggest problem is indeed the too male/too old demos to acquire big national/regional ad agency buys. And, radio is about making the maximum profit at the lowest-possible cost.

That's why it's often better to pick a cheaper-to-run music format who's core audience leans female, and appeals to listeners in their 20's, 30's, and 40's.
 
Oddly enough there was talk that the "performance tax" would be passed and hit music
radio hard...thus talk radio would be a fallback. Big companies like Greater Media ran
ads against this effort by musicians to get paid for work they did (composers are, etc.)
So far the perf tax hasn't shown up. But for awhile it looked like talk radio would proliferate.

Agreed on the demos, etc. The me-too sports radio explosion is trying to reach slightly
younger people than pol. talk radio. The 25-40 yr olds (or as Tim puts it "18-34 men/adults (beer, soft drinks, fast food)") at sports bars and restaurants
that you see...what would they rather hear talk about, football playoffs or the fiscal cliff?
Attractive to advertisers.

>>the maximum profit at the lowest-possible cost.

Who needs DJs? We want computers that can print out money. Variety Hits anyone? Or
anything jockless...etc

I remember Dan Rea from his TV reporter days (I think he even played a TV reporter in a movie
like Reversal of Fortune) but supp. he was known before it as "Right Wing Danny".
 
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