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Did a quick inquiry and found the domain www.jayseverin.com is parked care
of the studios at Morrissey Blvd.
Under the name James Severin.
I think Jay will return to 96.9, due to the amount of Benjamin's his show
pulls in. I believe he will fit in the the drive time and either adapt with
a fill in local time show(similar to Laura Ingraham's 7-9 on WABC) to appease all. How about this...Jay making a surprise on stage appearance in a few weeks at the 96.6 Town Hall meeting?
 
> Did a quick inquiry and found the domain www.jayseverin.com
> is parked care
> of the studios at Morrissey Blvd.
> Under the name James Severin.

According to a WHOIS search:
Record created on 09-Feb-2000.

He's registered the domain name back then and done nothing with it? (It's
possible he registered the name but later it was put in "care of"
greater media.) I checked the past history of the site via archive.org
and found that it's always been a "Coming Soon!" type of site. Either
a squatter registered the name (and Severin later "claimed it" as his
intellectual property, a la howiecarr.com) or Severin did, and nothing
was done to the site for well over 5 and a half years.

Meanwhile http://www.jayseverin.org is a site by a detractor.
And jayseverin.net has apparently been registered by a squatter who hopes
to sell it, etc.
 
> He's registered the domain name back then and done nothing
> with it?

Someone probably reserved the domain to protect it from ..... let's say, non-fans. For a while, someone else owned howiecarr.com and put up a site with the same WRKO wrapper but the content was anti-Howie. Then when it expired, Howie got it back again.
 
Who is Jay Severin ???



> Did a quick inquiry and found the domain www.jayseverin.com
> is parked care
> of the studios at Morrissey Blvd.
> Under the name James Severin.
> I think Jay will return to 96.9, due to the amount of
> Benjamin's his show
> pulls in. I believe he will fit in the the drive time and
> either adapt with
> a fill in local time show(similar to Laura Ingraham's 7-9 on
> WABC) to appease all. How about this...Jay making a
> surprise on stage appearance in a few weeks at the 96.6 Town
> Hall meeting?
>
 
> Who is Jay Severin ???
>
>
>
> >
hmmmm, well he's a man who got his start in the Boston area after a radio station gave him a shot. Then when he moved on, he proceeded to refer to the station that gave him his start as "Jurassic Talk" He then developed an uppity accent out no where, i.e..."I cahhn't" "New Hahmpshire" And marketed himself as a studly young single guy from Boston who hits on anything in a skirt when, in reality he was a 50 year old married guy who lives in New York and tricked the Boston audience into thinking he was Live and Local. And like most (R)'s, if you follow his way of thinking....you're good....If you don't, you're the one who's wrong, not him.

Does that help?
 
> the station that gave him his
> start as "Jurassic Talk"

he also called them "Fart Radio"

He then developed an uppity accent
> out no where, i.e..."I cahhn't" "New Hahmpshire"

And now is the junior Senator of the Commonwealth :)

And
> marketed himself as a studly young single guy from Boston
> who hits on anything in a skirt when, in reality he was a 50
> year old married guy who lives in New York and tricked the
> Boston audience into thinking he was Live and Local.

50? or closer to 60. Raised in Poughkeepsie, attended Vassar when
it first went co-ed, lives in Sag Harbor and has a wife named
Renee.

And
> like most (R)'s, if you follow his way of thinking....you're
> good....If you don't, you're the one who's wrong, not him.

Which I why I guess I'm an (I)--independent, or Unenrolled. Plus this way
I don't get the Dem. and Rep. junk mail

But we can't forget the man's Pulitzer Prizes. Also the extreme dedication
he has to his work. The last time he was on air was Sept 15, 2005.

STATEMENT FROM JAY SEVERIN (_satire_):

Dear Best and Brightest:

I'm sorry I've been off the air this long and you've had to endure Sean
Hannity, or even the Master of Fried Clams and Tar-Tar Sauce over on
Fart Radio. It is in our best interest that, like a baseball free agent,
I negotiate the highest possible salary so that I keep affording the high
standard of living I have here in...Marblehead. Yes, it's not easy being
a swinging single with a Pulitzer Prize to his credit, let alone being
a highly desired political consultant.

Surely I would love to be able to drive into Boston to the wonderful studios
of WTKK and do my show again (and those people out there saying I am
really a married man living on Long Island are simply liars). I know there
are millions of you out there who miss me, as well as some get-a-lifers on
radio boards who like to make fun of my stage name and my accent. But admit
it: you just can't wait for my new national show, Jay Severin Has Issues,
which will soon begin airing somewhere in town. While you wait for this,
I am now marketing Best of Jay Severin CDs for the low low price of
$29.99 (per CD; length approx 43 minutes). I also am starting up the
Severin Letter and Jay Severin 24/7, which you can subscribe to for
$150 a year. Don't delay. Call today. (/satire)
 
> > He's registered the domain name back then and done nothing
>
> > with it?
>
> Someone probably reserved the domain to protect it from
> ..... let's say, non-fans. For a while, someone else owned
> howiecarr.com and put up a site with the same WRKO wrapper
> but the content was anti-Howie. Then when it expired, Howie
> got it back again.
>
Well the man, Phil from Salem (1918.com) claims that he was willing to
"give them the domain name" but Entercom lawyers came after him so it was
now "well! So much for me being nice enough to give you the name." A settlement
was reached saying that HowieCarr was apparently a copyrighted intellectual
property (OK, here come the jokes) of the man and of Entercom, so thus
the pride of Portland/Somerville/Deerfield/Wellesley got his .com...


By the way an enterprising domain name squatter, Domain Names by Proxy of
Arizona, has apparently registered jayseverinhasissues.com
 
> > Who is Jay Severin ???
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> hmmmm, well he's a man who got his start in the Boston area
> after a radio station gave him a shot. Then when he moved
> on, he proceeded to refer to the station that gave him his
> start as "Jurassic Talk" He then developed an uppity accent
> out no where, i.e..."I cahhn't" "New Hahmpshire" And
> marketed himself as a studly young single guy from Boston
> who hits on anything in a skirt when, in reality he was a 50
> year old married guy who lives in New York and tricked the
> Boston audience into thinking he was Live and Local. And
> like most (R)'s, if you follow his way of thinking....you're
> good....If you don't, you're the one who's wrong, not him.
>
> Does that help?
>

Actually he was someone who had failed before in radio in both New York and a brief stint in Boston on wrko. He then reinvented himself as a "libertarian" commentator ( basically a hipper form of conservative republican) with a penchant for vocabulary words that were polysyllabic and made his audience feel as though they were not as educated as he. He then christened them "the best and brightest" in a blatant attempt to curry favor with said audience and insult the blue collar slob and his aaudience that he was in direct competition with. In turn his audience being called the "best and brightest" bought into his act and began to believe that listening to his show somehow elevated their status in society and made them into something more than what they were which in actuality was angry blue collar listeners who unlike Jay's competitors audience aspired to become something more than just angry blue collar slobs whereas the competition's audience embraced their lot in life.

Jay's act paid off garnering him great ratings and riches which he could spend happily in his Long Island home.

That help?.
 
Wow...that sums it up. Yes!

Also add that he "uses" hard-rockin' bumper music so he can seem younger/attract
younger listeners...
other shows do this, too, in an attempt to get a younger audience (Savage,
Carr...remember when they changed Howie's theme from the Stones' "Satisfaction"
to something a bit more recent?)

Or should I say, used; the last time Severin did a show, it was about 35 degrees
warmer outside, the Red Sox were in the stretch drive for the division title...

> (
> basically a hipper form of conservative republican) with a
> penchant for vocabulary words that were polysyllabic and
> made his audience feel as though they were not as educated
> as he. He then christened them "the best and brightest" in a
> blatant attempt to curry favor with said audience and insult
> the blue collar slob and his aaudience that he was in direct
> competition with.
 
With all the storms brewing in Washington the last thing we need is a blowhard like Severin taking up what little radio space is left.

Radio has issues.



> > > He's registered the domain name back then and done
> nothing
> >
> > > with it?
> >
> > Someone probably reserved the domain to protect it from
> > ..... let's say, non-fans. For a while, someone else
> owned
> > howiecarr.com and put up a site with the same WRKO wrapper
>
> > but the content was anti-Howie. Then when it expired,
> Howie
> > got it back again.
> >
> Well the man, Phil from Salem (1918.com) claims that he was
> willing to
> "give them the domain name" but Entercom lawyers came after
> him so it was
> now "well! So much for me being nice enough to give you the
> name." A settlement
> was reached saying that HowieCarr was apparently a
> copyrighted intellectual
> property (OK, here come the jokes) of the man and of
> Entercom, so thus
> the pride of Portland/Somerville/Deerfield/Wellesley got his
> .com...
>
>
> By the way an enterprising domain name squatter, Domain
> Names by Proxy of
> Arizona, has apparently registered jayseverinhasissues.com
>
 
> With all the storms brewing in Washington the last thing we
> need is a blowhard like Severin taking up what little radio
> space is left.
>
> Radio has issues.

Am not into Severin myself, but he has a right to be on-air for the listeners he has, be it a couple dozen or millions. I could easily take that first sentence
and substitute "Franken" but I won't.

The marketplace decides who succeeds and who doesn't. If people like his show
then he gets affiliates and a nationwide reach. If people don't (including if
people would consider him a fraud) he winds up on a 250-watt daytimer in the
boonies. All that said, I'm not quite into him but am amused by all this...
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no substitutes!</P>
 
You're sounding like the one "C" racoon here, Raccoon.

YOU SAY:
The marketplace decides who succeeds and who doesn't. If people like his show
then he gets affiliates and a nationwide reach."


You gotta be joking? The marketplace put John Depetro on the air?

The marketplace gave us Jeff Katz for a very long time? The marketplace gave the world Nik Carter? Radio 101, Raccoon, Corporations and Program Directors force their opinions onto the market place as easily as Judith Miller writes a fake story for the White House in the New York Times.

Nik Carter wasn't voted in, and as I predicted, he didn't last in this market the way Mark Parenteau, Charles, Wharfield and other personalities bounced from station to station and remained on the air.

There is some great talent out there that "radio can't get along with".
Though LISTENERSHIP is down across the board, more people on the planet than 30 years ago, but less tuned into the radio, it is easy for big Corporations to take people with questionable talent and "market" them.

Many of Stenopad's ramblings are pretty accurate - but you won't find Ed Schultz on 96.9 or Randi Rhodes. Hey, Al Franken is a bore, so is Rush Limbaugh. Rush has his dittoheads, Jimmy Buffett has parrotheads - but can either "entertainer" draw across the board? NO.

Give Franken a bigger platform and even he, with his yawns and his pauses, will develop a following. He has very good guests. It's not awful radio, it is just too dry for me. I like Stephanie, Randi, Schulz, and none of them seem to be taking their clothes off for the boss or in parking lots scoring Oxycontin.

There was a time a disgraced Rush Limbaugh with his lies and smear tactics would be bounced for his addiction. People on this very board were defending him for his fake "hearing loss", which I immediately said was suspect. Come to find out he's abusing narcotics - the very thing the hypocrite denounced when the shoe was on the other foot - any foot but his.

You keep attacking Al Franken - specifically because you don't like his politics. In defense of Franken, it is refreshing to hear interviews with legitimate guests rather than Rush Limbaugh's slanted lie-filled monologues.

Severin is the by-product of the Rush syndrome. In ten years people are not going to believe those clowns actually got an air shift. You can say they have an audience, I say their monopoly of the airwaves is what is partially to blame for audience evacuation - pushing the customer to other forms of media.

Radio did it to itself. Jay Severin is a symptom of this nonsense.


______________



> With all the storms brewing in Washington the last thing
> we
> > need is a blowhard like Severin taking up what little
> radio
> > space is left.
> >
> > Radio has issues.
>
> Am not into Severin myself, but he has a right to be on-air
> for the listeners he has, be it a couple dozen or millions.
> I could easily take that first sentence
> and substitute "Franken" but I won't.
>
> The marketplace decides who succeeds and who doesn't. If
> people like his show
> then he gets affiliates and a nationwide reach. If people
> don't (including if
> people would consider him a fraud) he winds up on a 250-watt
> daytimer in the
> boonies. All that said, I'm not quite into him but am amused
> by all this...
>
 
Oh, you mean Jimmy Severino from Pougkeepsie !


> > Who is Jay Severin ???
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> hmmmm, well he's a man who got his start in the Boston area
> after a radio station gave him a shot. Then when he moved
> on, he proceeded to refer to the station that gave him his
> start as "Jurassic Talk" He then developed an uppity accent
> out no where, i.e..."I cahhn't" "New Hahmpshire" And
> marketed himself as a studly young single guy from Boston
> who hits on anything in a skirt when, in reality he was a 50
> year old married guy who lives in New York and tricked the
> Boston audience into thinking he was Live and Local. And
> like most (R)'s, if you follow his way of thinking....you're
> good....If you don't, you're the one who's wrong, not him.
>
> Does that help?
>
 
> You gotta be joking? The marketplace put John Depetro on
> the air?

Yes.



> Give Franken a bigger platform and even he, with his yawns
> and his pauses, will develop a following.

Unlikely.



> Severin is the by-product of the Rush syndrome. In ten
> years people are not going to believe those clowns actually
> got an air shift.

In ten years, Limbaugh will be thought of as the prime mover in the development of modern talk radio and will still have millions of listeners if he chooses to stay on the air, whereas you will still be a public access show host.
 
> > Give Franken a bigger platform and even he, with his yawns
>
> > and his pauses, will develop a following.
>
> Unlikely.

Admit it: NOBODY can shuffle papers on air the way Rush does :)


> In ten years, Limbaugh will be thought of as the prime mover
> in the development of modern talk radio and will still have
> millions of listeners if he chooses to stay on the air,
> whereas you will still be a public access show host.
>
Rush--and the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine--helped talk radio
take off. Someday the liberals may get "their Rush" but I get the
feeling Stuart Smalley isn't that person...

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no substitutes!</P>
 
> Wow...that sums it up. Yes!
>
> Also add that he "uses" hard-rockin' bumper music so he can
> seem younger/attract
> younger listeners...
> other shows do this, too, in an attempt to get a younger
> audience (Savage,
> Carr...remember when they changed Howie's theme from the
> Stones' "Satisfaction"
> to something a bit more recent?)
>
> Or should I say, used; the last time Severin did a show, it
> was about 35 degrees
> warmer outside, the Red Sox were in the stretch drive for
> the division title...

Sadly it has worked really well!.
 
> Did a quick inquiry and found the domain www.jayseverin.com
> is parked care
> of the studios at Morrissey Blvd.
> Under the name James Severin.
> I think Jay will return to 96.9, due to the amount of
> Benjamin's his show
> pulls in. I believe he will fit in the the drive time and
> either adapt with
> a fill in local time show(similar to Laura Ingraham's 7-9 on
> WABC) to appease all. How about this...Jay making a
> surprise on stage appearance in a few weeks at the 96.6 Town
> Hall meeting?
>
What's this?
Severus has a website?
 
> You're sounding like the one "C" racoon here, Raccoon.

> You gotta be joking? The marketplace put John Depetro on
> the air?

Of course. Did you think Entercom was trying to run their station into bankruptcy?

>
> The marketplace gave us Jeff Katz for a very long time? The
> marketplace gave the world Nik Carter? Radio 101,
> Raccoon, Corporations and Program Directors force their
> opinions onto the market place

Please. The suits don't care about the politics on the air, they care about the station's bottom line.



> There is some great talent out there that "radio can't get
> along with".
> Though LISTENERSHIP is down across the board, more people on
> the planet than 30 years ago, but less tuned into the radio,
> it is easy for big Corporations to take people with
> questionable talent and "market" them.
>
> Many of Stenopad's ramblings are pretty accurate - but you
> won't find Ed Schultz on 96.9 or Randi Rhodes. Hey, Al
> Franken is a bore, so is Rush Limbaugh. Rush has his
> dittoheads, Jimmy Buffett has parrotheads - but can either
> "entertainer" draw across the board? NO.

Limbaugh draws in about 20 Million people weekly. Not too shabby by my book, perhaps it is by yours. So what do you think of Air America's numbers?


>
> Give Franken a bigger platform and even he, with his yawns
> and his pauses, will develop a following.

That's very unlikely. Again, contrast with Limbaugh who started with one station and grew. Franken started with a bunch of stations, and despite stealing money from boy's clubs and whoever convenient, hasn't really taken off to date.

He has very good
> guests. It's not awful radio, it is just too dry for me. I
> like Stephanie, Randi, Schulz, and none of them seem to be
> taking their clothes off for the boss or in parking lots
> scoring Oxycontin.

??

> There was a time a disgraced Rush Limbaugh with his lies and
> smear tactics would be bounced for his addiction. People on
> this very board were defending him for his fake "hearing
> loss",

So now you're saying that he faked his hearing loss.

>which I immediately said was suspect. Come to find
> out he's abusing narcotics - the very thing the hypocrite
> denounced when the shoe was on the other foot - any foot but
> his.

When did Rush ever denounce being addicted to painkillers? Please explain as you appear to be creating your argument.

If you knew somebody who became addicted to painkillers they needed to manage chronic pain, would you have same disdain?

>
> You keep attacking Al Franken

And you keep attacking Mr. Limbaugh, so what?

>- specifically because you
> don't like his politics.

But somehow I don't think politics are very far removed from your dislike of Limbaugh.


>In defense of Franken, it is
> refreshing to hear interviews with legitimate guests rather
> than Rush Limbaugh's slanted lie-filled monologues.

Again, your bias is spewing forth. What "lies" are you referring to? Name some specifics, please. If you have any data, that is. It's also interesting to hear that Franken is no longer slanted!

> Severin is the by-product of the Rush syndrome.

Yes, topic based talk radio and political talk, something that Rush bought to the forefront of the entire industry.


In ten
> years people are not going to believe those clowns actually
> got an air shift. You can say they have an audience, I say
> their monopoly of the airwaves is what is partially to blame
> for audience evacuation - pushing the customer to other
> forms of media.

Monopoly????? Again Rush started with 1 station and worked his way up to where he is today, 20 Million listeners. People aren't going to listen to something just because it's broadcasting on air. Franken proves that.

> Radio did it to itself. Jay Severin is a symptom of this
> nonsense.

???
 
> You're sounding like the one "C" racoon here, Raccoon.
>
> YOU SAY:
> The marketplace decides who succeeds and who doesn't. If
> people like his show
> then he gets affiliates and a nationwide reach."
>
>
> You gotta be joking? The marketplace put John Depetro on
> the air?
>
> The marketplace gave us Jeff Katz for a very long time? The
> marketplace gave the world Nik Carter? Radio 101,
> Raccoon, Corporations and Program Directors force their
> opinions onto the market place as easily as Judith Miller
> writes a fake story for the White House in the New York
> Times.
>
> Nik Carter wasn't voted in, and as I predicted, he didn't
> last in this market the way Mark Parenteau, Charles,
> Wharfield and other personalities bounced from station to
> station and remained on the air.

Charles worked at two stations WBCN and WZLX, Mark Parenteau worked at two stations WCOZ and WBCN, Nik Carter worked for two stations, WFNX and then WBCN, you really dont know what you're saying. Where are Warfield and Parenteau today? we all know the latter!.
>
> There is some great talent out there that "radio can't get
> along with".
> Though LISTENERSHIP is down across the board, more people on
> the planet than 30 years ago, but less tuned into the radio,
> it is easy for big Corporations to take people with
> questionable talent and "market" them.

Less radio listenership is an absolute truth but you're not factoring in Cable, the internet, DVD, CD's VCR, Mp3, Ipods etc, these things have all contributed to the erosion of radio listenership but mentioning this might contradict your politics and how they color all of your posts.
>
> Many of Stenopad's ramblings are pretty accurate - but you
> won't find Ed Schultz on 96.9 or Randi Rhodes. Hey, Al
> Franken is a bore, so is Rush Limbaugh. Rush has his
> dittoheads, Jimmy Buffett has parrotheads - but can either
> "entertainer" draw across the board? NO.

Rhandi Rhodes is a bore too and posesses one of the most intolerable voices in radio whether you agree with her politics or not she is tough on the ears. SHe had no real track record of success before Air America and she is far from the star of that "network" Ive read interviews where she touts her years of huge ratings success as a liberal talker, sure in nowhere Florida market number what?.
>
> Give Franken a bigger platform and even he, with his yawns
> and his pauses, will develop a following. He has very good
> guests. It's not awful radio, it is just too dry for me. I
> like Stephanie, Randi, Schulz, and none of them seem to be
> taking their clothes off for the boss or in parking lots
> scoring Oxycontin.
>
> There was a time a disgraced Rush Limbaugh with his lies and
> smear tactics would be bounced for his addiction. People on
> this very board were defending him for his fake "hearing
> loss", which I immediately said was suspect. Come to find
> out he's abusing narcotics - the very thing the hypocrite
> denounced when the shoe was on the other foot - any foot but
> his.
>
> You keep attacking Al Franken - specifically because you
> don't like his politics. In defense of Franken, it is
> refreshing to hear interviews with legitimate guests rather
> than Rush Limbaugh's slanted lie-filled monologues.
>
> Severin is the by-product of the Rush syndrome. In ten
> years people are not going to believe those clowns actually
> got an air shift. You can say they have an audience, I say
> their monopoly of the airwaves is what is partially to blame
> for audience evacuation - pushing the customer to other
> forms of media.
>
> Radio did it to itself. Jay Severin is a symptom of this
> nonsense.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Im not a fan of either of them either but I also am objective enough to understand that they both have followings and they are successes and it has little to do with some vast conspiracy of corporations trying to force them on us. It's about commerce and the desire to make a buck. YOur ramblings do not bode well for the liberal cause, the average radio operator would read your nonsensical, non linear arguments which cannot ever follow and rational thought process and they would think that this is not an audience that we want to cultivate. Not affluent, not particularly stable sounding, not someone we could make any money from which is the bottom line. Who doesnt know that?. Politics in radio are nothing new they wont go away anytime soon, Your politics are pretty obviously completely controlled by your personal experiences with certain radio talents if you're friendly with them you like them, if not you even though you cannot offer any logical arguments against you will anyway.

Wake up radio is a business and if radio operators thought they could make money by broadcasting static laced with satanic messages in them that is what you would be hearing it is that simple.
>
>
> ______________
>
>
>
> > With all the storms brewing in Washington the last thing
> > we
> > > need is a blowhard like Severin taking up what little
> > radio
> > > space is left.
> > >
> > > Radio has issues.
> >
> > Am not into Severin myself, but he has a right to be
> on-air
> > for the listeners he has, be it a couple dozen or
> millions.
> > I could easily take that first sentence
> > and substitute "Franken" but I won't.
> >
> > The marketplace decides who succeeds and who doesn't. If
> > people like his show
> > then he gets affiliates and a nationwide reach. If people
> > don't (including if
> > people would consider him a fraud) he winds up on a
> 250-watt
> > daytimer in the
> > boonies. All that said, I'm not quite into him but am
> amused
> > by all this...
> >
>
 
No I think it was just set up so nobody could get their hands on it...though someone found a way around it and set up an anti-Jay site called jayseverin.net

I'm sure, though, that now that he will have a national show he will be encouraged to set up a website on that domain name.
> What's this?
> Severus has a website?
>
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