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Matty In The Morning
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Matty is fulltime from Florida these days. He never came back to Boston during COVID. He then sold his Newton digs last September.
He goes into iHeart studios in Ft. Lauderdale to do his thing. He's going to ride out his contract and then retire. You have him for less than 2 years. Hopefully, there's plan B.
iHeart had the perfect replacement for him, Ramiro, but he is with Beasley now. They should make a play to get him back to replace Matty when he retires. Although it would have left a hole for WJMN to fill, Ramiro would have brought his audience to KISS from WJMN and the change could have been promoted since KISS and WJMN are both owned by iHeart. They could still do it now that Ramiro is at WBQT and I think they should.
They, Demi, needn't "shut up and sing." Like anyone, Demi has freedom to express themselves--Demi's platform happens to be bigger. And that's a good thing. When people in marginalized communities hear someone who express what they feel, what they experience, and gives voice and legitimacy to it, it serves a valuable purpose.
I agree, and just to clarify my post was in response to someone who said Demi should shut up & sing. But sure, everyone has freedom of speech, except when they say something someone doesn't like, and then they want to shut them up.
Gotcha. Reading comprehension on my part clearly not firing on all cylinders.
But, for critics to understand, on a show on a private radio or TV station or network, the show host and management have total right to decide what content is desirable. If a show wants guests to avoid political or politicized subjects, the guess has the right to not do the interview or to follow the rules.
I thought that the very nature of radio is public though. That is one the reasons when a station is up for a license renewal, they have to demonstrate that have acted in the public interest as a broadcater.
Only by having submitted quarterly statements indicating that they've broadcast programming addressing topics of community interest.
Broadcast stations in the US are privately owned, and there's decades of precedent establishing that they have very broad leeway to determine what content they choose to broadcast, or not to broadcast.
Neither the government nor any private individual can compel a station owner to broadcast any specific content (with the exception of national-level EAS alerts and tests.)
The burden of proof of that has been reduced by about 90% from the level of the 70's, for example.
When we had 3-year license renewals, we had to do "ascertainment" with community leaders (government, business, community, health, court system, etc.) to determine the issues facing our service area. Based on those, we had to show news, public affairs and "other" non-entertainment shows that addressed these issues. For AM, we were expected to have at least 8% of all airtime covering these areas with 6% for FM. A license renewal could typically be 6" to 8" thick and be hundreds and hundreds of pages of forms and exhibits.
When I did ascertainment in the late 60's and 70's, it could take a month for the manager just to do the community needs survey part, and one had to put up with the community leaders cursing out the FCC for making "all 30 station in the city coming to me every three years and wasting my time."
Today, the requirements are far less specific, and the programming is no longer burdened by the percentage metric. Ascertainment is minimal; a station can pretty much make up the needs and issues. Just look at the online public files; read Scott Fybush's post about the little quarterly reports that are about all that has to be done... most of the ones you see are nearly 100% copies of the prior five or ten quarterly reports.
There are no longer detailed financial reports and most of the paperwork is gone.
As long as you have not done something really dreadful that has been discovered and reported on by others, license renewal is almost automatic and for much, much longer than ever before.
Once you have a license, you can set restrictions on your programming however you like. If you don't allow live interviews, you can prohibit them. If you don't cover certain types of news, that is OK. If you don't want to take beer and wine ads, you can do that, too. Except for minimal conditions on political ads and "equal time", you can focus content of talk shows, morning shows and other non-music times however you want. It's private property, just with a government license.
As for Matty's show, Bex is returning to Philly
Bex Departs Matty In The Morning - RadioInsight
Rebekah ‘Bex” Maroun has announced her departure from “Kiss 108” WXKS-FM Medford/Boston’s “Matty In The Morning” and will relocate back to Philadelphia. Maroun joined Kiss 108 in September 2018 from Audacy’s 96.5 WTDY-FM Philadelphia where she was hosting afternoons. She had been with the...
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