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What Station Will Pick Up The Reinstated Imus In The Morning ?

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It was reported that Don Imus will return to radio on WABC in New York. No word if he will be syndicated. What Boston radio station would pick him up? Perhaps, WRKO and put Tom Finneran in the Old Howie Carr spot.

Bet Imus would bury the old and stale Howie Carr who hasn't had an original idea in years.

Imus can be boring but he would get better national guests than Carr who has alienated just about every political figure out there. Why would the go on Carr's show and give him any credibility.

What other stations would pick up Carr?
 
Ridiculous. Howie would easily beat the corpse in a cowboy hat, especially since he's local and funny.

>>Carr who has alienated just about every political figure out there.

You'll hear from all the GOP Presidential candidates and maybe even some Dems. Romney, Guiliani,
Hunter, etc.
Guests from Howie's past shows, political:
Mitt Romney
Andy Card
John Sununu
Tom Tancredo
Duncan Hunter
Ann Coulter
Dick Morris
Rudy Guiliani
Bay Buchanan
Richard Miniter
Col. David Hunt
William Bennett
John McCain
Tom Delay
Cong. Connie Mack III
Terry McCauliffe
NH Cong. Charles Bass & Jeb Bradley
State Rep. Bradley Jones
Pat Buchanan
Geraldo Rivera
Christy Mihos

And of course, via tape:
Ted Kennedy (Wizard of Uhs)
Mayor Tom Menino
 
Talk about a Republicrat Hackarama ! Howie cannot get beyond his own political prejudices to make a morning show interesting. Howie is an osteoporosis has been and at 58 he is only a few moons behind Imus...and if you have seen Howie's behind on TV lately it is not a pretty site. Imus will probably outlive Carr by many years. Howie belongs in his own "Death Pool".

raccoonradio said:
Ridiculous. Howie would easily beat the corpse in a cowboy hat, especially since he's local and funny.

>>Carr who has alienated just about every political figure out there.

You'll hear from all the GOP Presidential candidates and maybe even some Dems. Romney, Guiliani,
Hunter, etc.
Guests from Howie's past shows, political:
Mitt Romney
Andy Card
John Sununu
Tom Tancredo
Duncan Hunter
Ann Coulter
Dick Morris
Rudy Guiliani
Bay Buchanan
Richard Miniter
Col. David Hunt
William Bennett
John McCain
Tom Delay
Cong. Connie Mack III
Terry McCauliffe
NH Cong. Charles Bass & Jeb Bradley
State Rep. Bradley Jones
Pat Buchanan
Geraldo Rivera
Christy Mihos

And of course, via tape:
Ted Kennedy (Wizard of Uhs)
Mayor Tom Menino
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It's called a response to the Democratic hackerama (this state is about 98 per cent Democrat,
office-holder wise). Even without an Air America affiliate, there are plenty of chances for people
to hear Dems (look at The Deval Patrick Show, part of Eagan and Braude on WTKK--and for that
matter he's on a bunch of ads that run on WRKO, esp. during Sox games). TV, some radio (NPR especially),
newspapers (the Boston Globe-Democrat; The Boston Phoenix), magazines, movies (Al Gore, Michael Moore)...all dominated by liberals. Only conservative
talk radio offers a small bit of balance. And if libs get to be as successful, fine with me; one day they'll
stop putting unfunny comedians, conspiracy theory ranters, and NPR-style snoozers on lib talk
radio and someday they'll be as successful as the conservatives.

Keep in mind there are many people here in MA who may be liberal in some ways but conservative in
others. They are turned off by the Dem party (and, frankly, the Repubs haven't been much better).
These people welcome hearing something besides the paradise of socialism, Comrade.

I am proud to be UNENROLLED.

The Dems are scared to appear on conservative talk radio.
 
And your point is ....?



raccoonradio said:
It's called a response to the Democratic hackerama (this state is about 98 per cent Democrat,
office-holder wise). Even without an Air America affiliate, there are plenty of chances for people
to hear Dems (look at The Deval Patrick Show, part of Eagan and Braude on WTKK--and for that
matter he's on a bunch of ads that run on WRKO, esp. during Sox games). TV, some radio (NPR especially),
newspapers (the Boston Globe-Democrat; The Boston Phoenix), magazines, movies (Al Gore, Michael Moore)...all dominated by liberals. Only conservative
talk radio offers a small bit of balance. And if libs get to be as successful, fine with me; one day they'll
stop putting unfunny comedians, conspiracy theory ranters, and NPR-style snoozers on lib talk
radio and someday they'll be as successful as the conservatives.

Keep in mind there are many people here in MA who may be liberal in some ways but conservative in
others. They are turned off by the Dem party (and, frankly, the Repubs haven't been much better).
These people welcome hearing something besides the paradise of socialism, Comrade.

I am proud to be UNENROLLED.

The Dems are scared to appear on conservative talk radio.
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While I think it's great that IMUS had the opportunity to work again, does every radio in Boston (or any other market for that matter) revolve around D.I. that much?

What were his overall ratings prior to being yanked off the air? Was there an average or did it vary on the size of the market?

While I think the I-MAN can be very clever at times...does the world really miss his sarcastic (aka occasionally disgusting) personality enough to switch over?

Or are the affiliated stations who have signed up to take the new show being given AN ESCAPE CLAUSE THEIR CONTRACTS after the first 90 days? ???

argytunes
 
Supposedly WEEI got rid of Imus to go local with D&C and got better ratings but Imus was said to do
well in billing for 'TKK.

And my point about "Republican hackerama" as Casablanca called it is that Howie has the guests that he gets,
and other pols make appearances elsewhere (Billy Bulger had been known to turn up on WBZ at night)...
who knows, maybe offers are made to Dems to appear but they must turn it down (lest Howie get a bit
too probing). Both parties stink but I agree with conservative politics a bit more...not that the GOP is
any great prize either, but the evil of the two lessers one might say.

Michelle, ma belle, Malkin due up with Howie after 4 pm.../
 
As I said the aging Howie Carr can only get the guest [Republicrat Hacks] that agree with his hate radio approach to talk radio.
That makes him a boring, and predictable has-been. If Howie ran reruns of his shows from 5 years ago - don't think the listeners could tell the difference. Same crap, different day. Maybe the osteoporosis is softening his brain. Say what you will Don Imus has proven that he is totally unpredicatable and that makes interesting radio. Howie has never been and never will be interesting radio. He has become a talk radio hack just like the pols he rants against.


raccoonradio said:
Supposedly WEEI got rid of Imus to go local with D&C and got better ratings but Imus was said to do
well in billing for 'TKK.

And my point about "Republican hackerama" as Casablanca called it is that Howie has the guests that he gets,
and other pols make appearances elsewhere (Billy Bulger had been known to turn up on WBZ at night)...
who knows, maybe offers are made to Dems to appear but they must turn it down (lest Howie get a bit
too probing). Both parties stink but I agree with conservative politics a bit more...not that the GOP is
any great prize either, but the evil of the two lessers one might say.

Michelle, ma belle, Malkin due up with Howie after 4 pm.../
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>>a boring, and predictable has-been

to YOU. To others he's a must-listen, as he gets great ratings. If he were boring, predictable, and a tune-
out, he'd be on some 1,000 watt daytimer in East Overshoe and not making potentially a million bucks.
Have you been able to bring in a million bucks a year? Consider his column, that book, the radio show.
If the figure Entercom leaked was correct, Howie is a huge success (prob loses a good deal of it
to taxes of course).

A has been that two major media companies are fighting over. Are you getting paid 790 large these days?
 
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