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Pete Sheppard QUITS on the air - says he is fed up with WEEI

I heard the "Giant Part of the Order" promotion (where Giant Glass contributes to Make-A-Wish for any homers from Sox batters 3-4-5 in the order) on WEEI today while I was out. Guess Drinkwater didn't pull out of Sox games.
 
WEEI's biggest sponsor just pulled all their ads. They are in some shit.

Ummmm....who is WEEI's biggest sponsor and how much do they bill?

You obviously must know the answer to both questions or you wouldn't have posted the above. Sure glad you're not like the rest of those clueless jamokes who just post BS and/or just make things up out of thin air, but actually have some real, honest-to-God, numbers to back up your statements.

Inquiring minds what to know. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
TSB

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I certainly don't know Pete's financial situation, but after two divorces is he really in the Mo Vaughn (It's not about the money) class? This sounds to me like he had nothing to lose except a small part-time paycheck. If a full timer had done this, it'd mean a lot more. I don't know what weekend gigs pay, but can you live on it? He must be doing something else during the week.

If the on-air shenanigans haven't turned him into a leper in Boston, I 'd like to see him catch on with 98.5. He is a likeable buffoon. I'd certainly prefer him over Gresh.
 
Big O and Shep 10-2 on 98.5 would really blow MUTT and Merloni out of the water. Could lose Gresh any time, but Scott Zolack is pretty good. WEEI still had good clubhouse Chemistry when you still had Dale and Holly toghther at 10AM and Glenn Ordway and cohosts2to 6.
 
After pulling a stunt like this who would hire him? I'm not in radio so I don't know how it works, but, it would seem to me that other stations may be apprehensive about hiring him. Where is Jimmy Meyers these days, anyone know? He can be one nasty dude.
 
moonchild said:
After pulling a stunt like this who would hire him? I'm not in radio so I don't know how it works, but, it would seem to me that other stations may be apprehensive about hiring him. Where is Jimmy Meyers these days, anyone know? He can be one nasty dude.
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Jimmy is almost 65 so he's unemployable any way you look at it.

Jimmy did land at 'EEI a dozen years after his infamous Ch.4 meltdown. Of course, when he went
off on the Celtics ownership after Reggie died, he was done for good.

At least Jimmy had some talent. Pete is a talent-lacking, uneducated buffoon.
He won't get a second chance anywhere inside 128.
 
wickedwritah said:
A smart person doesn't do that unless he has something else lined up.
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Fixed.

Pete, unfortunately, just placed a brand on himself: Trouble-maker. These days, with the radio job market being what it is, no one is going to hire someone who has aired his company's dirty laundry in public. Not a smart move on his part.

There are ways to deal with what he perceived as a slight from management. This wasn't it.
 
TSBench said:
WEEI's biggest sponsor just pulled all their ads. They are in some shit.

Ummmm....who is WEEI's biggest sponsor and how much do they bill?

You obviously must know the answer to both questions or you wouldn't have posted the above. Sure glad you're not like the rest of those clueless jamokes who just post BS and/or just make things up out of thin air, but actually have some real, honest-to-God, numbers to back up your statements.

Inquiring minds what to know. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
TSB

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This would require insider information from two companies. A clueless jamoke couldn't possibly have this information. I don't understand your skepticism. ;)
 
Don't think this is the smartest thing to do. It does take guts though. Maybe he doesn't care about being on the radio anymore because after this move it probably isn't going to be in his future.
 
" He thinks in 8-12 months EEI could be "automated, maybe one local show...or sold"..."
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I forget the length of the RS deal. I believe 2016? They want to get out from under the contract but they're not going to trash the station and have "one ...show"?
 
This is actually kinda sad....Poor Pete Shepherd....bellowing away on a station whose signal is mostly aimed at the cod, lobsters, and other assorted creatures of the Atlantic Ocean.

As Cedric Maxwell would say: "Quack!......Quack!......Quack!......"
 
Throw away a career? LOL....lets scale it down a tad, huh? It's not 1960. He doesn't have three options in town to choose from. As long as the Internet exists, as long as there are podcasts, he, and every other person who wants one, will have a career in broadcasting or sports media. Some you proclaimed no station would ever touch Pete again, and a week later he's on another station. Regardless of it broadcasts to seagulls or people living only in Quincy...he got another job. On air. Burn all the bridges you want. Technology is building more of them then you can burn, so opportunity will always be there in one form or another.
 
StoJa said:
As long as the Internet exists, as long as there are podcasts, he, and every other person who wants one, will have a career in broadcasting or sports media.
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And exactly how much do bloggers, podcasters and Internet streaming personalities get paid? Is he going to be making anywhere near what he was making at WEEI? As my grandmother would have said: "You call that a career?"

StoJa said:
Some you proclaimed no station would ever touch Pete again, and a week later he's on another station. Regardless of it broadcasts to seagulls or people living only in Quincy...he got another job. On air.
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...by calling his buddies at 1510 who were also WEEI ex-pats. It's almost laughable to see a station filled with disgruntled ex-employees on a crippled signal trying to make a go of it. That's like entering the batter's box with a count of 0-2 before one pitch is thrown.

If Pete Sheppard broadcasts and no one can hear him, did he still broadcast?
 
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