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Howie Carr Going To Blow The Whistle on Entercom on Ch. 4 at 11 ?

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In the tease Channel 4 ran tonight with part of the interview with Howie Carr, Carr seemed ready to blow the whistle on Entercom and why he wants out of there. They say, and They are never wrong, that it has little to do with money.

It always has something to do with money.
 
The tease was all hype and not much substance.
All Carr said was that he thought going on AM Drive on a station with a larger audience would extend his career.

Seems to this observer that with few exceptions AM Drive chews out morning hosts by the dozens. Few have had long stays in the time slot.

Good luck to Howie for trying but it is not the cake walk he thinks it is. Just ask anyone who has done it. Not even the late, great JW ever wanted that slot and Jerry would have probably failed miserably in it.
 
The interview is summarized on Ch 4's site--and there's a 21 minute long raw feed of the interview.

http://www.wbztv.com

Howie said the most exciting thing about the move (whenever it is): "the AM band, it's tough to get
younger listeners...signal fades..better opportunity to reach a lot of listeners. An opportunity to
prolong my career...I don't know how long AM stations that aren't clear channel, like 'BZ, are
gonna be around."

He also said he will be at Felon Free Radio...with a "better lineup"
 
Still think it would be a better idea to kick Severin to the evening since in many ways he is like David Brudnoy and could hold that particular nightime audience and then put Howie Carr in the afternoon just where he is now. [ This is what WRKO did when it was THE talk station with Jerry Williams 2-6 and Bruds 7-12; WBZ did the same thing when Bruds went there and it worked.]

I don't thin the AM Drive slot is Howie's best outlet. Again, he is no Imus who let the show spin around him with a set of regular contributing guests and staff. Howie needs to be the star even though he said in the Ch. 4 interview he doesn't think he is better than anyone else. Not sure he can survive long term in the morning.

Just read below that OH Really is giving up his syndy radio gig [ no loss there]. So, Severin move to night time would fit right in.
 
That's right and you're right about Severin should move to 7 pm etc though he prob would not like that--he would like aft. drive. I do remember when WRKO ran Gene Burns--a syndicated version via WOR--
at 8 pm nightly and it worked well. (He got into some kind of dispute with the station or his producer or
something and for a time Gene was replaced by...Jay Severin--first time I'd heard him).

Later Severin would do something like 10-mid on WRKO but he would leave later saying he needed more
time for stuff like cable TV...and walking his dogs on the beach
 
If I am not mistaken the now News Director of WBZ Radio, Ed Walsh, was at WOR when Gene Burns was there and somehow sabotaged Gene's syndicated talk program. Perhaps, someone knows the exact details but fairly sure that Ed Walsh was involved.


raccoonradio said:
That's right and you're right about Severin should move to 7 pm etc though he prob would not like that--he would like aft. drive. I do remember when WRKO ran Gene Burns--a syndicated version via WOR--
at 8 pm nightly and it worked well. (He got into some kind of dispute with the station or his producer or
something and for a time Gene was replaced by...Jay Severin--first time I'd heard him).

Later Severin would do something like 10-mid on WRKO but he would leave later saying he needed more
time for stuff like cable TV...and walking his dogs on the beach
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That's right and you're right about Severin should move to 7 pm etc though he prob would not like that--

GM accountants probably wouldn't care for it much either, having a guy making 20Gs a week working a less important slot now filled for free.

One of the reasons WTKK went after Carr was to get him out of the way in PMD so Severin could earn his keep, and save money with Carr filling AMD for probably less than they were paying for Imus. Is the operative theory here that if having one (likely) talent starting for scratch is good, then having two starting from scratch is better?

I get the feeling that RacCasa Radio Consulting is in for some heavy rolls. You may want to hold off on hiring office staff for a while.

Regards,
TSB
 
If I am not mistaken

Well, I guess anything is possible, no matter how unlikely.

the now News Director of WBZ Radio, Ed Walsh,

I'm sure this will come as an unpleasant surprise to Peter Casey. Hope he hasn't made any long-term financial commitments.

Regards,
TSB
 
Sorry, if mistaken about Ed Walsh's title. Was Gary LaPierre just the WBZ Radio morning newsman, the position that Walsh assumed when Gary retired?
The point of the post was not the position Ed Walsh holds now but what he did at WOR.

TSBench said:
If I am not mistaken

Well, I guess anything is possible, no matter how unlikely.

the now News Director of WBZ Radio, Ed Walsh,

I'm sure this will come as an unpleasant surprise to Peter Casey. Hope he hasn't made any long-term financial commitments.

Regards,
TSB
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I know about Severin's big salary and while he wouldn't like being moved it also is true that WTKK would have him
make money for them during the day but he'd sound better at night.

WRKO btw may never have Howie on again but they're gonna keep calling it the Howie Carr Show even
if it's Todd for the next six months. As far as I'm concerned, it's the Not Howie Carr Show. WRKO should just
put Glenn Beck on 10-noon and have Todd or someone fill Howie's slot indefinitely and then when things
are cleared up, WTKK would have the REAL Howie Carr show. How are those ratings going to work out
with The Felon, and No Howie? And even if the Sox go all the way, baseball's over by the end of Oct.
(though Game 7 of WS may be Nov 2 or something)
 
Sorry, if mistaken about Ed Walsh's title.

Well, since the entire gist of your post was based on Walsh being in an upper management position at WBZ, that's a pretty big, shall we say, mistake.

Was Gary LaPierre just the WBZ Radio morning newsman,

LeFrog was the morning anchor

the position that Walsh assumed when Gary retired?

Ed Walsh is the morning anchor

The point of the post was not the position Ed Walsh holds now but what he did at WOR.

Since he isn't in a management position at WBZ, it doesn't matter what he was or did at WOR. See above.
Nice try, though.

Regards,
TSB
 
TSBench said:
If I am not mistaken

Well, I guess anything is possible, no matter how unlikely.


Regards,
TSB
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Ooooooo! Another condescending quote from the elite media expert! More popcorn, please!

You might also want to spend a little time--your Highness--explaining exactly how your 'addition by subtraction' works. Just because Carr might be gone from PMD does not mean that Severin can start serving cake and ice cream. If you alienate listeners--which Severin has--you don't just get it all back again because your prime competitor has gone to a different shift.

'Regards,'

Chris
 
Hey! What about me! I'm on a little weak signal, granted, but I'm the second most popular talk
radio host and I am "a great American". Now that Howie's gone, check me out--four hours a day (including TV show), that's all we ask. On 1150, Boston's Conservative Talk!

--Sean.. :)
 
I know about Severin's big salary and while he wouldn't like being moved it also is true that WTKK would have him
make money for them during the day but he'd sound better at night.

Good point. GM really doesn't care about making money, they care about sounding 'better' during the less important dayparts. I'd like to be an agency fly on the wall at that pitch...."well, we tank during the day, but after 7pm we are kicking Savages butt, qualitatively." Okay, sign us up for that 50 spot package at $50 a pop."

Heck, once they sell 20,000 spots, Severin is a salary wash. Then, for the last four days of the year, they start making some real coin.

GM is paying Severin a million bucks per because they think he sounds OK in PMD.

Regards,
TSB
 
If I am not mistaken
Well, I guess anything is possible, no matter how unlikely.

Regards,
TSB


Ooooooo! Another condescending quote from the elite media expert! More popcorn, please!

Well, in the event, it was definitely unlikely.

You might also want to spend a little time--your Highness--explaining exactly how your 'addition by subtraction' works. Just because Carr might be gone from PMD does not mean that Severin can start serving cake and ice cream. If you alienate listeners--which Severin has--you don't just get it all back again because your prime competitor has gone to a different shift.

I guess I could, but everyone capable of understanding already understands.

Regards,
TSB
 
I wasn't taking the viewpoint that GM would put him on nights to make more money, I said he'd "sound better" at night. And when I said "Burns worked well at night" I meant I enjoyed hearing him at night.
 
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