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Howie Carr: I want off AM and I do not want mornings

Thanks, listening now. AM radio dying, etc. though he does say he has no prob with WGAN
airing him...but at some point he thinks stations like WGAN will have to migrate to FM, too.
 
Howie knows that AM radio has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel (including the stations still doing reasonably well at the moment) and he's thinking about the future. And for the record, WGAN's ratings have declined precipitously.
 
F.M.Hertz said:
newsbot said:
And for the record, WGAN's ratings have declined precipitously.
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Maybe because of Mr. Carr. It seems as if his schtick is getting old.
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The whole "I hate my employer and want out" thing is getting old, but I have a feeling once he's at a new place that'll go away and it'll be the same ol' Howie

So if he wants off AM and doesn't want AM drive (rightfully so, he'd loose his affiliate base) that leaves only ONE station (for now) that he would/could go to...
 
Highly paid athletes can do this kind of whining too..

The 2 year bit was mentioned in the Herald article. Howie has been heard to say "I hope they don't sign me again" right on the air. It's possible he may wait till the contract expires, then maybe there's a 90 day period when he's off and then he can sign with someone else. The trouble he had
in 2007 was around June or July the word came out he did sign with 96.9, to start on Oct 1 or
even slightly earlier. Ch 4 interviewed him in Sept of that year and he said he was looking forward
to the new station. Then came the legal trouble...locked out mid-Sept. to mid-Nov., then back
on WRKO. Apparently the right to match was triggered.

According to Mark of bostonradiowatch, in a tweet to me, Entercom had "3 days to match. They
took 24 hours." Not sure of the exact terms he's under now. Some of his tweets:
--Howie can still end up at 680 after all is said and done
--Not sure how the renewal clause is structured in his current deal but in '07, Greater Media(96.9) offered him a 5-yr $6.75ml
--Howie signed it before his 680 deal expired.His attorney wasnt aware that there was an automatic match clause that kicked in
--Entercom had to match it with 3 days. They matched it within 24 hours which automatically locked him at Entercom for 5 yrs
--All Carr had to do was not sign any deal with anyone until his deal at 680 had expired. Granted, he would've had to sit out
--for 3 months(90days) as part of a non-compete which was also in the old deal but he got too greedy and had an idiot attorney

{note the last part; not sure what is in current deal re: non-compete}

Mark's hunch is that he'll wind up on "crappy AM" WRKO for 2 more years. Would Ent.
bother to // WRKO on, say 107.3 (keep WAAF on 97.7)...is it worth doing that? How much
money would be made with an FM talk simulcast (something going on all over the place)
and would it be worth losing one of WAAF's signals? They also had to agonize over losing
Mike FM to // WEEI but that had to be done. Still, Mike made money, but WEEI needed to hit FM.

https://twitter.com/#!/bostonradio
 
The trouble he had in 2007

The trouble your hero had in 2007 was that he didn't understand his own contract. Unfortunately for him, Entercom had some folks who did understand what was in his contract, and held him to it.

Listening to Carr calling the folks who outsmarted him morons is pretty funny, but eventually wearisome.

If Howie stays in the market, it will be at WRKO. Unless you think he's one of those principled types who'll put a huge paycut where his mouth is. If you think that, you are wrong. Is Brian Maloney still mad at him for not falling on his sword five years ago. Thinking that he would put the ole Radio Equalizer in the moron column.

Regards,
TSB
 
Once a hack, always a hack - regardless of the station involved. Who really cares? Like a comedian who only has one joke, Howie has been phoning it in, for years now. Howie should give Christopher Lydon a call. He's another one who believed his own publicity, and who got left out in the cold...big deal..
 
The problem with "simply" waiting out his existing contract before he signs a new one is that the moment his old contract expires, he loses a ton of leverage with any new employer. Any other station can suddenly say "Hey Howie, we said we thought you were worth $5mil. Guess what? We think you're worth $50k. Take it or leave it." And he'll have to take it because the alternative is no airshift at all. And if he's off the air for more than a few weeks, he'll rapidly start losing audience, permanently.

I, too, would say he's like Manny Ramirez, because he must be on drugs to think he's gonna get even a fraction of what he got last time in his next contract. If he gets one at all. WTKK, I'm told, has minimal interest. Where else is Howie gonna go? Clear Channel? Maybe, but I seriously doubt they'll give him much cash to do it, and he'll still be on an inferior AM signal. (unless 101.7 becomes a simulcast of 1200, which is not a sure thing)
 
Howie being 'elected' into that farce of a Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago still bothers me.

Who actually owns the syndication rights to Howie????? I know for a couple of years he was on in Seattle but seriously ....

Howie actually has a nice hard core following with anglophones in Montreal via WVMT ............but does he really have a hard core audience in Burlington, Portland or Springfield???

Howie's attacks on Entercom just bothers me. Yes Entercom is tough to work for, and over the past few years many talented behind the scenes people were axed in budget cuts.

He may well be the second highest salaried employee in the Boston market ( I suspect Matt Siegel is #1 )

But how exactly has Entercom hurt Howie????







aaronread said:
The problem with "simply" waiting out his existing contract before he signs a new one is that the moment his old contract expires, he loses a ton of leverage with any new employer. Any other station can suddenly say "Hey Howie, we said we thought you were worth $5mil. Guess what? We think you're worth $50k. Take it or leave it." And he'll have to take it because the alternative is no airshift at all. And if he's off the air for more than a few weeks, he'll rapidly start losing audience, permanently.

I, too, would say he's like Manny Ramirez, because he must be on drugs to think he's gonna get even a fraction of what he got last time in his next contract. If he gets one at all. WTKK, I'm told, has minimal interest. Where else is Howie gonna go? Clear Channel? Maybe, but I seriously doubt they'll give him much cash to do it, and he'll still be on an inferior AM signal. (unless 101.7 becomes a simulcast of 1200, which is not a sure thing)
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Nice that Maloney has updated his Save WRKO blog. (He did renew the domain name)

>>The Globies: Minor League Players?
Posted on April 26, 2010 (most recent post)

Yeah who knows, Howie could just wind up back at RKO and there's no guarantee he'd be making the big bucks (just ask Ordway) or that he'd clean up at Greater or CC, either. At least he has the column and the books.

Howie is pretty much syndie by WRKO itself but he could do his own syndication, dealing with
stations who carried him before (other than RKO) should he move. CC could put him on
their stations. "Steve From Montreal" would be heartbroken if WVMT dropped him (could
listen online though)

>>Take it or leave it

Yes, could be a problem

>>calling the folks who outsmarted him morons is pretty funny

I don't think he calls 'em morons, he just complains about pre-emptions, using original
Marconi equipment etc
 
Fenway1912 said:
Howie being 'elected' into that farce of a Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago still bothers me.

Who actually owns the syndication rights to Howie????? I know for a couple of years he was on in Seattle but seriously ....
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Entercom handles the syndication and has for a few years. The first syndication of the show was done via ISDN to other New England stations, then ABC was syndicating it for a while, dropped it and Superadio had it for a couple of years. Now it's all Entercom.
 
Howie has a personal relationship with the stations that simulcast him, so I assume it wouldn't be a problem to get the network back together if he moves to another station.
 
Broadcast non-competes are unlawful here in the Commonwealth.

Carr's mistake was in not letting the contract lapse, since one it did the right to match (which he freely signed) would have been moot.

So yeah, he had a dumb lawyer. And he was even dumber himself.
 
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