Howie Carr should move to WBCN and change his routine

[Varulven]

Why settle for Scott Allen Miller when you can have...Opie & Anthony?

Why let Jimmy Severino get the FM airwaves when you can have - Afternoon Drive

Howie needs to reinvent his show - and it is easily done. Bring Sandy Shack and her
dual personality, Nancy Shack, on as co-hostess. Have Nancy lean all the way to the
left with Howie swinging where he already swings - far right. It's kind of like
Hannity & Colmes only Nancy - bless her - is cuter than Colmes. The only one
uglier than Colmes is John Holmes, but he had other attributes.

Howie's routine is totally wornout. Time for a new shtick - get Shick to sponsor. The Shick Shtick!

Seriously, it's time for Carr to move off of AM and put his 800 lard ... I mean 800 large (and his cash as well)
on the Frequency Modulation side of things.

The big upside is that he can tell Jason to play the Red Sox anytime - 5 PM, 2 PM, voila - since Howie isn't
on during Sunday football games it's a perfect fit.

Also, since WBCN has a license with BMI, ASCAP and probably Sesac, Howie can spin records so we
don't have to hear him sing. A little music on the Carr show would be advisable. Howie doesn't have
much in the music knowledge department, but he is a fan, so when he does an interview with Ian Anderson
he can actually play some Tull.

This makes too much $ and sense for it to happen, but Carr should jump ship before RKO goes all sports
and tells him to take his talk to AM 1430

 

[weee]

The big upside is that he can tell Jason to play the Red Sox anytime - 5 PM, 2 PM, voila - since Howie isn't
on during Sunday football games it's a perfect fit.

I never thought about this with the move to 'RKO, has Howie voiced his opinion on being pre-empted with afternoon games?

 

[Varulven]

It can't make him happy. Sure, after all these years he probably would like the time off, but not in the middle of a show, or if you have a great guest on the air that you have to shut down because it's a pre-game show or something. If he's their biggest show, which he probably is, he'd be better off doing morning drive - which probably is not what he wants, or moving to FM and another station. Howie seems to be a "team player", but this is certain to create some kind of inside problem. It'll be fun to watch.

 

[Neggy]

How many afternoon games are there? Not many.

I remember the days of my youth, and trips to Fenway with the YMCA, CYO, Parks Dept, etc for afternoon games.

Those days are gone. MLB wants night games for the TV and radio revenues. Even if he is pre empted on 680, he still has to feed the affiliates that are not part of the Red Sox Radio Network. There is something to be said for streaming audio.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

I remember my first trip to Fenway - the Sox lost to the Washington Senators.
I was there with my Cub Scout troop!

Talk and/or sports are not the highest and best use of FM frequencies. Overall,
not a good business practice. Yea, stations want the games on in primetime,
when they can draw the largest possible audiences.

As for HC - he is a one-joke comic, and the joke ain't all that funny anymore, if, indeed, it ever was.
Make like Seinfeld, and pull the plug while you're still on top, and go out gracefully.
Stick a fork in him, he's done...

 

[raccoonradio]

Those games prob will be on WEEI. As for the majority of starts which happen at 7 pm, either WEEI would
run the 6:30 (6:25, whatever) pregame and people would switch to 'RKO for the game OR Howie would lose his last half hour on 'RKO. In which case people could tune to WCRN. But wait--they're picking up the Sox too!

The 1 pm starts/afternoons are mostly during the start of the season and for getaway days (most likely
a Wednesday) or a rare makeup game. Note that the Sox home opener is a 2 or 3 pm start, I believe, as is
their opening game of the season (they're away)--those two might be on WRKO not WEEI.

 

[raccoonradio]

Red Sox sched is here:
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/tentative.jsp?year=2007&c_id=bos

note: opening day at KC, 4:10 pm April 2. Fenway opener 2 pm start 4/10. Sox play Mariners 2 days later
at 4 pm, but I think that's it for weekday afternoon starts in April--except for the Patriots Day game.

As for Howie, I think he's still funny. Right now he's playing some stuff from my favorite comedian, as Kerry
does his mea culpa tour. "Look at this, we have full lines..."

Howie on 'BCN? Don't know, but if 'RKO ever let him go I'm sure WTKK would grab him and maybe have him
do a show there. (Does Howie do anything for 'BCN's younger demo btw? He's almost 55 years old you know
and many of his listeners are in that age range--myself included, 45 in Feb...)

 

[bostonrose]

you people act like he can just get up and leave, go wherever he wants..

ignorance is bliss I guess :

you talk about it like it could happen...


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[EDIT-namecalling]

 

[Lucylu]

He could, if the morals clause in his contract with WRKO works both ways. ;D

 

[radiodouble]

Those games prob will be on WEEI. As for the majority of starts which happen at 7 pm, either WEEI would
run the 6:30 (6:25, whatever) pregame and people would switch to 'RKO for the game OR Howie would lose his last half hour on 'RKO. In which case people could tune to WCRN. But wait--they're picking up the Sox too!

The 1 pm starts/afternoons are mostly during the start of the season and for getaway days (most likely
a Wednesday) or a rare makeup game. Note that the Sox home opener is a 2 or 3 pm start, I believe, as is
their opening game of the season (they're away)--those two might be on WRKO not WEEI.

congrats, you've become an [EDIT]on this board. no facts, all rumos and speculations. just shooting your mouth off like you know everything. pre-game and post-game will stay on weei so your boy howie can bore you with the same deathpool contests until 7.



[namecalling]

 

[TowerBuzz]

you people act like he can just get up and leave, go wherever he wants..

ignorance is bliss I guess :

you talk about it like it could happen...



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[EDIT-namecalling]

Or as though Howie would even WANT to move, plus he's too old to work for WBCN (idiotic idea) even if he changed his act and became and O and A clone. You may as well say Unicorn's should come from venus and give us the cure for aids. That scenario makes about as much sense as the premise of this thread.

 

[raccoonradio]

Excuse me Radiodouble: No facts? It was in several sources that WEEI will carry some afternoon games
and even Friday nights. And the game times I mentioned came right from the Red Sox site. May I have permission from you to speculate that since it's the WRKO Red Sox
Network that the opener and home opener might be on 680? I can't speculate, I can't offer an interesting
possibility that may or may not come true? I don't know what you called me because it was edited out.
Whatever it was, I wouldn't call you anything offensive enough to be edited out.

I think I had read that pre-game and postgame would be on WEEI but I wasn't sure, and Howie isn't
boring me. Boy, RadioDouble says I can't offer speculations, NormRosen says I should get a life.
This is why I love this board--you're so NICE to me!
Also Howie usually does death pools only in the 3 or 4 pm hour. 6 pm is local stuff including
Wizard of Uhs and Mayor Menino clips.

 

[Varulven]

no one said WBCN would stay in the youth market. O & A could stay, but if CBS brought Carr on board to they could re-vamp the entire line-up, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz, Howie Carr would certainly be no less of an
Oedimess that the station still hasn't recovered from.

 

[TowerBuzz]

And who do you think would listen to that besides you?. Ed Schultz has no numbers and nobody cares about him, Randi Rhodes has no numbers at all, plus it would be completely convoluted ideologically with O and A, Howie, and the other two you suggested. Wbcn is not in "the youth market" they are at best a male 18-34 station but they obviously try to skew much higher if you listen between all of the pink Floyd and Led Zep. Oedipus has been out of there a few years and despite your desire to blame everything but the Kennedy assassination on those you dont like personally. Any failure of WBCN is on current management shoulders whether you like it or not. It is realty, not opinion based on personal feeling.

 

[bostonrose]

no one said WBCN would stay in the youth market. O & A could stay, but if CBS brought Carr on board to they could re-vamp the entire line-up, Randi Rhodes, Ed Schultz, Howie Carr would certainly be no less of an
Oedimess that the station still hasn't recovered from.

yeah, ed shultz and randi shodes....that'll work :

 

[TowerBuzz]

The whole idea expressed in the title of the thread could, would, should, never happen. Someone Just talking to be talking.

 

[NHRonin]

Come on, this is nothing more than Valvoline thinking he's being clever by pairing Howie, a proven AM conservative talk host in Boston, with two Air America hacks that couldn't get ratings in one of the most liberal towns in America.

AA is dead...the format doesn't work. It's time to "move on."

 

[Varulven]

A.A. is not the "progressive" format, it is a progressive format that paid Al Franken too much money and took too many "token" spots like AM 1430. That's not how you launch a movement.

As we've discussed elsewhere, you need a Bill Maher to start a network, and Bill can't be greedy and take
3 mill a year from a start-up unless one of the billionaires like Forbes wants to fork out the cash without
hurting the business.

 

[NHRonin]

A.A. is not the "progressive" format, it is a progressive format that paid Al Franken too much money and took too many "token" spots like AM 1430. That's not how you launch a movement.

As we've discussed elsewhere, you need a Bill Maher to start a network, and Bill can't be greedy and take
3 mill a year from a start-up unless one of the billionaires like Forbes wants to fork out the cash without
hurting the business.

I honestly wish they would then it would stop the left from crying about equal access.

The message shouldn't be "Bush & Republicans Suck" it needs to be a message of hope, not rhetoric and empty promises. I'd listen.

 

[TowerBuzz]

A.A. is not the "progressive" format, it is a progressive format that paid Al Franken too much money and took too many "token" spots like AM 1430. That's not how you launch a movement.

As we've discussed elsewhere, you need a Bill Maher to start a network, and Bill can't be greedy and take
3 mill a year from a start-up unless one of the billionaires like Forbes wants to fork out the cash without
hurting the business.

Air America never defined themselves as "progressive" that is basically a BS title much the way libertarian has become one. Define if you will the difference between Air America the self professed "liberal" network, and what a "Progressive" network would be?. You love the no talent Randi Rhoades who never succeeded anywhere, as she shrieks she has, where was it? Talahassee where she worked last and claimed huge numbers? and Ed Schultz who has no real track record in syndication, so what would progressive radio sound like?. You've described yourself over and over as a "progressive"...........What in your mind is the difference.