Profitable "Garden Guys" leave WRKO for WTKK

[raccoonradio]

Media Biz column in Herald says the Sunday morning "Garden Guys" are leaving WRKO for
WTKK

http://bostonherald.com/business/me...Opens_drive-through_cafe/srvc=home&position=3

Jessica Heslam (Howie's Press Agent? )says it's a blow to RKO as they brought in lots of ad dollars.
No word officially if this means WTKK dumps Paul Parent (who knows). One of the garden guys is
Jim Zoppo, who used to co-host a Sunday morning gardening show on 'RKO with Moe Lauzier.
http://www.wrko.com/pages/1572998.php

 

[Cap-n Spackle]

Before that he was a Geography teacher at Dedham Jr. High and caretaker of the Endicott Estate.

 

[Deleted User]

Paul is widely syndicated, and his show is heard on 5 other MA stations including WCRN that covers much of WRKO's territory.. just ask Howie. I think the people who want to hear him will migrate to the other stations.

Now IIRC Paul was tied up with Whitley who helped syndicate him on many of the same stations that carried the Restaurant Show, but I think the partnership was short lived and that is how he ended up off of WRKO and on WTTK, but I could be wrong. Paul is on a lot more stations than Whitley, who has WRKO and WSMN Nashua who until I looked them up on
Radio-locator dot com I'd never heard of, and from the looks of their predicted coverage map , 5000 watts on 1590 its no wonder why.

http://www.paulparent.com/listen.php

 

[DanStrassberg]

Paul is on a lot more stations than Whitley, who has WRKO and WSMN Nashua who until I looked them up on
Radio-locator dot com I'd never heard of, and from the looks of their predicted coverage map , 5000 watts on 1590 its no wonder why.

For the last few years--and who knows for how much longer, WSMN has been running a lot less than 5000W by day and probably only a handful of watts at night. After WSMN lost its transmitter site (the towers were plainly visible from Route 3), the license was bought by the owner of what is now WGHM (is his name Tom Monaghan?) and has been operating ND under STA from the WGHM site. With the financial collapse of the condo project that had been planned for the original WSMN site, there have been rumors that the station would return to that site and build a new three-tower DA identical to the old one. However, I've heard nothing of that rumor for several months now. Anyhow, the current ND signal isn't much, and at night, it's hardly anything.