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Sileo maybe doing some radio on 1510AM...spoke to him last week

Did some fill in work on WEEI. Former Tampa Bay football player

http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/this-just-in/21266551/mashup-dan-sileo-fired-speaking-my-mind

From March:
>>South Florida radio station WQAM fired sports talk show host Dan Sileo after a number of controversial comments during his 11-months with the station, including a Twitter attack on Fox Sports broadcaster Erin Andrews...Sileo, who was fired from his previous job at Tampa’s WDAE after referring to three black NFL players as “monkeys,” was suspended two days in January after starting a Twitter war with Andrews.

From TALKERS Aug 2
>>Dan Sileo Takes Over Midday Program at WMEN, West Palm Beach. Florida sports talk personality Dan Sileo – most recently midday host at WQAM, Miami – moves into the 10:00 am to 1:00 pm slot at JCE Licenses’ WMEN, West Palm Beach “640 Sports” effective Tuesday, August 6

http://www.talkers.com/tag/dan-sileo/
 
So......roughly translated....this guy can't be trusted to be on radio at any legitimate operation.....so......brokered radio here he comes!

This story has been told any number of times before.....just substitute the name of your favorite example of toxic/controversial personality.
 
Thanks for the info. I don't think I will be tuning in to this guys program if he makes it to Boston I only listen to The Diehards on 1510. I find, John Sapochetti one of the co-hosts very knowledgeable, personable and very entertaining.

BTW, Raccoon, I know it pains you to hear this, but Jeff Santos is still heard on several stations around the country and continues to offer an alternative to the insipid, sophomoric, drumbeat of many conservative talk radio hosts who believe that calling politicians they don't agree with names and parroting Fox News talking points makes for quality broadcasting.
 
After hearing some of his EEI stint, it's not what he says it's how he says it. Not a Boston type.
But what wouldn't work in Boston might play well in ...Philadelphia.
 
Sileo on 1510 Thu 6-8 am, he tweets.

As for Santos good luck to him..just
wish he'd update his sites. You'd
think a Dem stronghold like Boston
would have embraced lib talk radio.
Which is kind of like NPR, only with
commercials..er, I mean public
service announcements! Yeah Howie
runs em too in unsold slots like
the guy teaching his toddler about
colors..."red, like my shirt, but is my shirt
a car? Look, guy in the red car is going
to meet the guy in the blue car, get himself
a pretty pink ticket..."

--
"In five years we'll be on 500 stations"
--Jon Sinton, Air America, 2004
 
raccoonradio said:
Sileo on 1510 Thu 6-8 am, he tweets.

As for Santos good luck to him..just
wish he'd update his sites. You'd
think a Dem stronghold like Boston
would have embraced lib talk radio.
Which is kind of like NPR, only with
commercials..er, I mean public
service announcements! Yeah Howie
runs em too in unsold slots like
the guy teaching his toddler about
colors..."red, like my shirt, but is my shirt
a car? Look, guy in the red car is going
to meet the guy in the blue car, get himself
a pretty pink ticket..."

--
"In five years we'll be on 500 stations"
--Jon Sinton, Air America, 2004



Yes Air America was poorly run and poorly executed but over many years and continuing into today many Liberal and Moderate talk hosts continue to succeed in key demographics. If you combine the BUR and GBH audience it blows away RKO. BUR beats RKO in every key demo and RKO did not realize much of a bump after the demise of WTKK.

I analyzed the RKO 18-34 and 25-54 numbers after I heard the whack job who presently occupies the revolving RKO morning slot crow about how his ratings were going through the roof. RKO has about the same audience as some College stations in key demos and are tied with a station in New Hampshire.

The only demo that they have anything to speak of is with males 35 and 55 +. The average RKO listener is a white male who sits around with other older white males in Mall Food Courts passing around a single copy of the Herald, complaining they never got to vote of Marriage Equality and there is always a a second collection at Sunday Mass. Around noon they jump into their Crown Vics and race home to watch Gunsmoke on ME TV.

Unlike Conservatives who rely on FOX News and Conservative Talk Radio to form their position. Progressives use a wide variety of media sources for their information. For the most part talk radio has not been a preference. The recent cancellation of NPR's Talk of the Nation is a case in point. Liberals prefer news, features and interviews over call in programs.
Click to expand...
 
It's true AAR was poorly run and it was a quick attempt to catch up to conservative hosts like Rush (in places like Boston that are mostly on the left side of politics, some conservative hosts did well because it was a "fight the power" type of thing). Jerry Williams was seen as liberal but later pronounced himself a populist, or maybe anti-statist...years ago liberals were anti-big government,
more personal freedom, and today's libertarians are sometimes called classical liberals. No matter
what party controls a state there's the possibility of corruption, greed, waste, fraud, and abuse.
You know...state Senate presidents whose brothers are gangsters and who attempt to get
corrupt former FBI agents appointed as chief of police, FBI agents who look the other way when
their informants literally get away with murder...

And that was where Howie came in, though Jerry in his last couple decades was fighting against
such things as seat belt laws, prisons in New Braintree, a congressional pay hike (with help
from Ralph Nader), fees, fines and taxes. It's why a woman called up and sang "Unelectable.."
to the tune of "Unforgettable" when Mike Dukakis ran for President. It's why Jerry got Howie
and Barbara Anderson to do their "Governors" thing on Tuesday afternoons.

>> If you combine the BUR and GBH audience it blows away RKO

Very true and when people say "oh WBZ doesn't do full time news", well go to FM and you'll find
at least some news/talk shows in the wee hours, when BZ is giving you Jen Brien....maybe not
live talk, but maybe more news headlines, or the BBC or whatever.

>>The only demo that they have anything to speak of is with males 35 and 55 +. The average RKO listener is a white male who sits around with other older white males in Mall Food Courts passing around a single copy of the Herald, complaining they never got to vote of Marriage Equality

I wouldn't eat at a Mall Food Court, I'm 51, and on the social issues like gay marriage or abortion I lean left--more of a libertarian deal. We "unenrolleds" are the biggest category in MA voters.

>> Crown Vics and race home to watch Gunsmoke on ME TV.
Toyota...and no Gunsmoke for me!

>>Liberals prefer news, features and interviews over call in programs.

Some conservatives do too and some libertarians, etc. One shouldn't paint with a broad brush
and assume conservatives and liberals only listen to certain shows or watch certain shows. If the
ratings of the Fox News Channel night talk shows are accurate, then most people in this country
are conservative. FNC trounces the other channels, though it may have the right to itself.
What's more likely is even liberals may listen to Rush or watch O'Reilly despite not agreeing with their views.
 
News channel ratings via TV Newser...
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/category/ratings
Under "August 9"
Note the primetime numbers (and overall) for FNC, MSNBC, CNN, and HLN. I won't give numbers--look them up--but Fox News gets more than MSNBC and CNN combined. In both categories.
Judging by that can we say most people in this country are conservative because Fox News does
so well? Again, they probably have the Right to themselves...but consider some on the Left
may watch BOR or Hannity, while some on the Right may check out the other channels. But
no matter what, FNC does pretty well...
 
If you believe the mantra that all other media with the exception of Fox News and Rush ET All, are left leaning and in the tank with POTUS, then Fox is the only place to hear the "truth." This is all based on my opinion but I never hear conservatives say they consume media that they disagree with. All i hear is MSLSD, the All Obama Channel etc.

And Bob you are far from the average RKO listener. :)

BTW, what is up with Hannity and Greta I hear Megan K is getting her own show?
 
Some conservatives feel Fox is too liberal...no doubt some on the left feel liberal talk radio is too conservative! As I've said before where you are on the political spectrum will color your view--on conservative messageboards, Mitt Romney, Bill O'Reilly, and John McCain were described as
Republican in Name Only; too liberal, etc. So actually not all conservatives feel "Fox is where you'll hear the truth". (The same people often say a third party should be started which would be totally conservative. That would be great news for the Democrats as it would split the conservative
vote and ensure Democratic wins...)

Some conservatives admittedly will check out some left-leaning shows, etc. "for laughs" while some
on Howie's show say they do tune in to liberal shows just to be fair. I myself occasionally listen to Harry Shearer's Le Show. But I do generally listen to conservative/libertarians, etc. True. (Howie and Rush WILL have liberals call in and they're often made fun of, or their opinions are disputed. Howie has one caller who may well be a setup--"Bill from East Hartford" who hasn't really worked for decades, loves getting welfare--" I want, I want, I want, gimme gimme gimme gimme..." Again that could well be a shtick.)

For every "MSLSD" (or MSDNC) you hear there are those who say "Faux News" :) (In his book
Mugged, Juan Williams says that while their nighttime personalities are conservative, "you can
hear all views on Fox", as in the guests O'Reilly will have such as him. Some say Olbermann
hardly had any conservatives on his show on MSNBC...but who knows.)

Yes FNC is saying M Kelly is getting the Hannity slot but they also say "everyone will still be here"
meaning Sean is going somewhere else but where? Do they bump O'Reilly to an earlier slot and
give Hannity his slot?

From Fox News: "Romney supporters banned from (conservative) Free Republic"
http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2011/11/01/romney-supporters-banned-free-republic

>>Free Republic founder Jim Robinson has a message for supporters of Mitt Romney: go away.
"Free Republic is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site. Governor Romney is none of the above. His record is that of an abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government, mandate loving, constitution trampling, flip-flopping liberal progressive with no core values."

There you go. Mitt Romney, ultra liberal. Later when he became the nominee, Romney was
reluctantly embraced...
 
"Howie has one caller who may well be a setup--"Bill from East Hartford" who hasn't really worked for decades, loves getting welfare--" I want, I want, I want, gimme gimme gimme gimme..." Again that could well be a shtick.)"

As someone who has seen the workings of commercial talk radio close up, and I can tell you that many of these callers are inside shills playing a role in order to substantiate the stereotype put forth by the host.

And often happens regardless of right or left-oriented program host, by the way.

Most of these programs are synthetic but, sadly, the formula works since the most shtick-laden programs are the most successful in the ratings, partly due to the "entertainment" factor of hearing patsies being beaten up in a sort of WWF atmosphere of easy "good guys and bad guys", where brighter shows like Dennis Prager tank in the ratings because actual political discussion between equally qualified individuals is pretty dull to most people, who seem to want blood.

However, these WWF style shows seem to be on their way out. The demos on Rush and Hannity and old and getting older with no substantial younger listeners coming in on the other side, Shultz is not setting the world on fire, and the Randy Rhodes/Hartman/Stephanie Miller, etc etc, group has spotty ratings at best, without a lot of growth.
 
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