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Howie Carr ruling due today

D. R. Tucker said:
According to the Boston Herald...

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1032553&format=text

Any bets? I hope the courts don't taze him, bro... :)
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no favorites in this fight.

if howie promises not to write or say any more bad things about mass. liberal judges, they'll be tazing him with dunkin' donuts at 96.9 tomorrow morning. that's my bet, bro.

get ready for feinbore to pull a doubleshift today. howie ain't doing his goodbye show at wrko today no matter what the verdict is going to be.
 
Funny, that the 'quote Liberal' judges that carr rants against may actually rule to fatten his pockets.

Also, note the Channel 4 News's Lisa Hughes is doing and interview with carr tonight at 11. Its already in the can. Looks like it was done in his 'Swellesley' manse.
 
Casablanca said:
Funny, that the 'quote Liberal' judges that carr rants against may actually rule to fatten his pockets.

Also, note the Channel 4 News's Lisa Hughes is doing and interview with carr tonight at 11. Its already in the can. Looks like it was done in his 'Swellesley' manse.
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who's going to be fat boy's first guest caller tomorrow?
jerry williams thanking howie for giving wrko's afternoon slot back to the dean.
 
Too bad Howie didn't get Judge E. George Daher (the man who dubbed Billy Bulger "a corrupt midget").
Might be a bit sympathetic.
Jerry hasn't been down for breakfast for a few years; might as well try to get the late Thomas Speers
(Butch From The Cape) while you're at it.

>>Funny, that the 'quote Liberal' judges that carr rants against may actually rule to fatten his pockets.

Please, let it be so, or let what happened to Imus happen to Howie:
A $20 million settlement :)

It will be interesting to see if Howie is indeed on--first of all, might he be stuck at the courthouse (unless
proceedings end before 3) or would WRKO indeed bench him?
If Howie does make the jump what happens to the ads he's voiced for the station?

Can Howie get the howiecarr.com domain name back? he may have to get his own variation like
howiecarrshow or friedclamman.com
 
Unless we want to go back to indentured servitude I think the courts must rule in Howie Carr's favor. Like him or not, Carr has a right to work and make a living wherever he wants. His contract with Entercom ended; if there was an option, as reported, they did not pick it up.
Howie should go to WTKK if that is where he wants to be.

It would set a terrible precedent if Entercom were to win and to be able to restrict talent [ although I use the word "talent" with caution].
If the courts support Entercom today the "talent" you like tomorrow may suffer.

Entercom seems to have made all the mistakes...that is a real surprise. Now, they should live with their actions or inactions.

This time Howie Carr is in the right and the courts must support him.
 
A caller noted yesterday that Howie should say something outrageous so he can eventually get a huge
settlement like Imus did!
Even if Howie's off air for awhile he can still stay afloat via Herald and "book money"

>>Like him or not, Carr has a right to work and make a living wherever he wants.

That's very true--he would be forced to work where he doesn't want though I think that has
happened in the past to baseball players (traded, or see the Curt Flood case)

btw I haven't read Globe article yet but Gary at boston-radio-interest reported that the
station that wants to keep him is "WRKO-FM". ARKO-matic Howie! Be sure to tune in to
96.9 AM (LOL) tomorrow in case Howie wins his case! Not surprising, as this is the
paper which used to tell people the Red Sox game would be on "WEEI-FM 850" (sic)

The complaint Howie's lawyers had filed, btw, can be seen here (link via Boston Radio Watch)

http://www.bostonherald.com/multimedia/20070710/complaint.pdf

contract due to expire today
Howie signed a couple extensions to the "six month date" back in March but then they
failed to renew and once they heard of the WTKK offer they said they matched it and
had the right to do so. Howie's lawyers say provisions are unenforceable.
 
Someone will owe me my imaginary dollar when Howie isn't on WTKK tomorrow.

Certain posters need to brush up on their understanding of the law. If you care to check the Herald or the Globe you will see that the judge basically ruled the way I thought he would when I posted last week.

Hopefully Howie and Entercom can mend fences and we can get back to listening to his show without the drama.
 
true his lawyers may advise him to lay low while this is being settled but having one of those two
bones of contention going AGAINST him makes it much less likely anyway. who knows.
 
raccoonradio said:
true his lawyers may advise him to lay low while this is being settled but having one of those two
bones of contention going AGAINST him makes it much less likely anyway. who knows.
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his lawyers botched his debut. they didn't do their job before he signed greater media's offer sheet. i hope they're not billing him for all that extra time now that they have to somehow find a way to get him over to wtkk. of course, money talks and david field listens. proposed trade : mcphee, graham, o'reilly and cash for howie.
 
That sounds like a good deal (for GM at least)

btw it's up to debate whether HC's contract really expires after today. Just about everyone says it does
but Entercom feels he's in their employ till 9/30/12....is there any way Howie's lawyers can demand that
WRKO--in the meantime--remove his name from the site, etc.? I guess they can't take off the ads
he's voiced--would tick off their customers--but Entercom probably feels it still has the intellectual
property (OK, stop laughing) of Howie including the howiecarr.com domain name. And even if he's
no longer on the air and the thing finally gets settled months from now, it's still be "The Howie Carr Show"
(unless he does find a way to jump to FM, yet it seems he can't do that TILL it's settled)
 
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