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Ted tributes begin

raccoonradio

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WBZ first had some pre-recorded (I'd think) info about Ted's life, then at 2 am then went into an ABC Radio News
special report with more.

WRKO probably had George Noory talking about the Senator boarding a UFO.

WTKK: Phil Hendrie was live and did mention the news though mostly was into some kind of CIA topic.

Surely Howie will have a little fun with this news tomorrow, from a death pool to maybe a memorial
"Wizard of Uhs".
 
Ed Walsh is doing a pretty good job on WBZ. As a New Yorker, I'm familiar with his work on another AM blowtorch, WOR.

Conversely, it will be interesting to hear how the popular national conservative talkers, as well as the locals (Severin on WTKK, and Jim Vicevich on WTIC) cover this story...
 
DToTheJ said:
Conversely, it will be interesting to hear how the popular national conservative talkers, as well as the locals (Severin on WTKK, and Jim Vicevich on WTIC) cover this story...
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I'm most interested in how Howie Carr is going to handle it. Nobody has been more unstinting in his mean-spirited condemnation of Sen Kennedy than Carr has been. Seems as though, if he is neutral or laudatory, Carr will be accused of being a hypocrite. If he is his usual sarcastic, vitriolic a!!@#$e self, he will be playing to a large percentage of his a!!@#$e listeners. But he is sure to be rightfully condemned by others for being disrespectful. I think Carr has painted himself into a corner this time. Of course, he always gets out of corners. Also, Carr has had plenty of time to consider how he would play the story of Sen Kennedy's death, so presumably he won't be involved in making any snap decisions that he could later regret.
 
WRKO will be live and local all day, it seems; rather than running Ingraham they matched Todd Feinburg with Avi Nelson and suggested this would continue (not sure who'd be on during Rush's show)

Howie no doubt will say "my heart feels like an alligator", etc. He has a site called fatboy.cc that has various pix,
sound bites ("the Mike McGuire and Sammy Sooser (sic) of the White House"), and other stuff about Ted. When the news broke of the brain cancer he debated whether or not to take the site down and got people to give their input.

As for how this is treated, I'm sure there will be some vitroil from the right as much as there was vitriol from the left when Reagan died (one lefty columnist wrote something on the order of 'Ronald Reagan dies, descends to hell') Ted admirers and detractors know where they'll be listening, and whom they will tune out. It's to be expected.
 
When I heard Howie on this morning with Avi and (not) Tom (there was a fill in), he was pretty much "I'm not going to say anything bad, but I'm not going to say anything good either." He was more into the sideshow that's going to crop up with the upcoming election and the attempt to change the succession law.
 
Someone heard Howie's show is extended till 9 pm tonight. As it is tonight marks the beginning of Sox only on 850
(even if that decision hadn't been made, WEEI had been carrying Wed night games anyway so either way they'd
have em)
 
I awoke just before 4 this morning to "WBZ's special coverage, the death of Senator Ted Kennedy". At first, I was impressed that 'BZ had marshaled their news resources so quickly. . .Walsh, Deb Lawler, Rod Fritz all there. After a few minutes I realized that it was a canned, prerecorded loop. If 'BZ were still running Jon Grayson out of St. Louis, I'd understand the decision to go with the locally originated recording. They have an overnight guy though, with a fairly extensive news background. I'm curious as to why they didn't stick with LeVeille, who could have taken calls and reaction throughout the night, with the ABC News breaks? I thought "New England's Newswatch never stops"?
 
I was at work and tuned in to Leveille at the start of his show. A short time later as we were dispatching the mail (putting trays on conveyor belts) someone said, "Hey, I heard Ted Kennedy died". A bit after that I was in my car
and heard them running the tribute and I thought, this is obviously pre-recorded. Just like how many newspapers probably had articles at the ready, available to put in print editions and online once the news finally did break. Then
to the "ABC Radio News Special Report" which was prob. also pre-recorded (mostly, maybe an anchor was live...)

The ABC news report started running around 2. So I guess someone drove Steve home and they let the prerecorded
stuff run. Am sure there will be Rea & Leveille with reaction tonight; before that, WTKK and WRKO will have their own local hosts with their take.
 
I was going to record LeVeille last night but then decided not to. I woke up just as LeVeille said there was going to be an announcement and by the time the PC was booted and recording they were already into the ABC news so I left it recording and headed back to bed. I could have sworn later as I slipped in and out of sleep that I heard LeVeille and Dan Rea talking after the initial ABC newsbreak (I'd have to check the recording to be sure).

Just after starting the radio recording I noticed the TiVo was on "channel 4" so I thought I'd hit record to save the 30 minute buffer. The TiVo rebooted.
 
Leveille said tonight that last night the news came about 1:15 pm or so and then went to the pre-recorded tribute which he said was an hour long. He said about 2:15 he came back on w/ Rea and they took calls til 4 or so
 
Speak no ill of the dead. And use no undue influence tactics on hundreds of millions who did not know the dead, except for who he was.
 
raccoonradio said:
Avi Nelson and Tom Finneran are on till Howie
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Which means Rush was pre-empted. In Boston, a good decision. Although Rush wasn't really that hard on the late EMK on Wednesday's show, as he was the day after...
 
Supposedly Rush, Howie and even Michael Savage get the best ratings on RKO. They did want to go with a local angle--and let's face it, on THAT day they knew people wanted to hear the talk re: Ted. Definitely a good decision--
not nec. in terms of Rush being a bad or unpopular host; no they wanted the local perspective and knew people would want to hear it. They also extended Howie to 9 pm

In some situations WRKO would pre-empt national hosts for local when necessary, like a few yrs ago when we had a big snowstorm and it took a few days to dig out--Moe Lauzier or other hosts would come in and do weeknights.
 
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