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WRKO/BIGGEST CHANGES ARE ABOUT TO COME

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NO_SPIN

My INSIDE sources tell me that the morning show will be changed earlier than the planned November date (see my post dated 06/28/05) instead it now looks like the suits at Entercom have given the Order to start making the biggest changes in October. First to be gone is the "current" morning show. Originally the Master Plan from Entercom kept Carr & Savage safe...NO LONGER. I was just told that the new PD (not yet revealed/wait 2 weeks) has plans to axe everything and there are no sacred cows. The changes are across the board for ALL shows 7 days/week.

I've been lucky to work for this great station for all these many years now and look forward to these changes.

The new talent RKO is planning to hire will attract new listners and keep the current audience in place. Entercom is making this happen.Continue to listen!


(Carbery, Baker, & Elder are just the BEGINNING watch what is planned next...)
 
> My INSIDE sources tell me that the morning show will be
> changed earlier than the planned November date (see my post
> dated 06/28/05) instead it now looks like the suits at
> Entercom have given the Order to start making the biggest
> changes in October. First to be gone is the "current"
> morning show. Originally the Master Plan from Entercom kept
> Carr & Savage safe...NO LONGER. I was just told that the new
> PD (not yet revealed/wait 2 weeks) has plans to axe
> everything and there are no sacred cows. The changes are
> across the board for ALL shows 7 days/week.
>
> I've been lucky to work for this great station for all these
> many years now and look forward to these changes.
>
> The new talent RKO is planning to hire will attract new
> listners and keep the current audience in place. Entercom is
> making this happen.Continue to listen!
>
>
> (Carbery, Baker, & Elder are just the BEGINNING watch what
> is planned next...)
> <font color=green> So I'm assuming it's going to be heavy into syndicated programing </font>.
 
> > So I'm assuming it's going to be heavy into syndicated
> programing .


There is one word being passed down from the HIGHEST levels at
ENTERCOM the word is LOCAL.
 
> First to be gone is the "current"
> morning show.

But who, "H-W-O, who", as Freddy Langone once put it, will they put on?

Originally the Master Plan from Entercom kept
> Carr & Savage safe...NO LONGER. I was just told that the new
> PD (not yet revealed/wait 2 weeks) has plans to axe
> everything and there are no sacred cows. The changes are
> across the board for ALL shows 7 days/week.

Air America 680. The ratings are going up so something MUST be done!
If you thought the "new" WHJJ was great and a real ratings winner
wait'll you hear the new 'RKO!

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> > > So I'm assuming it's going to be heavy into syndicated
> > programing .
>
>
> There is one word being passed down from the HIGHEST levels
> at
> ENTERCOM the word is LOCAL.
>
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Dropping Peter Blute from the morning show is long overdue; On the other hand dropping Scotto would be a mistake. Howie Carr is still the most successful show on WRKO. Savage is a needed alternative to the Sox, Sean Hannity's predictability, and boring Paul Sullivan. WRKO needs a tuneup, not a towtruck to the radio junkyard.

> My INSIDE sources tell me that the morning show will be
> changed earlier than the planned November date (see my post
> dated 06/28/05) instead it now looks like the suits at
> Entercom have given the Order to start making the biggest
> changes in October. First to be gone is the "current"
> morning show. Originally the Master Plan from Entercom kept
> Carr & Savage safe...NO LONGER. I was just told that the new
> PD (not yet revealed/wait 2 weeks) has plans to axe
> everything and there are no sacred cows. The changes are
> across the board for ALL shows 7 days/week.
>
> I've been lucky to work for this great station for all these
> many years now and look forward to these changes.
>
> The new talent RKO is planning to hire will attract new
> listners and keep the current audience in place. Entercom is
> making this happen.Continue to listen!
>
>
> (Carbery, Baker, & Elder are just the BEGINNING watch what
> is planned next...)
>
 
> My INSIDE sources tell me that the morning show will be
> changed earlier than the planned November date (see my post
> dated 06/28/05) instead it now looks like the suits at
> Entercom have given the Order to start making the biggest
> changes in October.

Your claims intrigue me but I wonder if you can give us any evidence that would support what you've posted.
 
Well, it is about time. The slide of WRKO has been going on for more years than I can count. Hope there is a place for "Scotto" Scott Allen Miller. He is the only talent there who has much potential. A syndicated morning show won't work. Imus barely does and 96.9's local news is pretty limp. WBZ "the alleged" all news station would be the only one who would benefit from a WRKO morning syndy.
Well, DePetro at least had one birthday candle but I don't think there will be two although he might do ok on Sunday afternoon from 1 to 4.

Carr has been coasting for at least two years. He never had much of a fast ball and he is turning into another Shilling: not much of a closer.

Not that he would want to leave KGO and if ageism isn't a factor to the 60 year old Gene Burns but his return to Boston would really put WRKO back in the right direction.

When WRKO changed from music to talk in 1980-81 it was fairly well planned to build an audience through the day which used to be the way radio programmers would look at it. Today, with syndication there are only islands not really connected to each other. There is something to building a team, just like the Sox and the Patriots. You develop a strong sense that we are all in this thing together and if one falls we all fall. To be sure some of the early talk shows at RKO were dogs, such as shrink,Harry Sobel's "Thought Process". Remember, he wanted Jerry Willams to deal with his on-air anger... huh? but he didn't last long.

Well, looking forward to the changes and to whom do I send my CV ?

----------------------------
> > > So I'm assuming it's going to be heavy into syndicated
> > programing .
>
>
> There is one word being passed down from the HIGHEST levels
> at
> ENTERCOM the word is LOCAL.
>
 
> > > So I'm assuming it's going to be heavy into syndicated
> > programing .
>
>
> There is one word being passed down from the HIGHEST levels
> at
> ENTERCOM the word is LOCAL.
>
That's what outgoing guys wanted. Were shot down.

The word is CHEAP.
 
Re: Rumors Of Change At WRKO

Could Howie Carr be moved into mornings??

Could John DePetro find himself in a new time period (perhaps even afternoons)??

Could WRKO-680 look to hire away Jay Severin from WTKK-96.9??

If the morning show is axed, I wouldn't be surprised if 'RKO tries to hire away Severin and either move Carr to mornings and put Severin on in the afternoons, or to have Severin directly replace the current morning show.

On the other hand, I'm not completely convinced that there will be major changes in WRKO's lineup at this point.
 
Re: Rumors Of Change At WRKO

> Could Howie Carr be moved into mornings??
>
> Could John DePetro find himself in a new time period
> (perhaps even afternoons)??
>
> Could WRKO-680 look to hire away Jay Severin from
> WTKK-96.9??
>
> If the morning show is axed, I wouldn't be surprised if 'RKO
> tries to hire away Severin and either move Carr to mornings
> and put Severin on in the afternoons, or to have Severin
> directly replace the current morning show.
>
> On the other hand, I'm not completely convinced that there
> will be major changes in WRKO's lineup at this point.
>
Howie isn't going anywhere and Severin won't leave an FM for an AM.
 
Re: Rumors Of Change At WRKO

> Could Howie Carr be moved into mornings??

Sure, he honestly could make that move, but it wouldn't improve mornings one bit.


> Could John DePetro find himself in a new time period
> (perhaps even afternoons)??

how about the unemployment line, seriously.

>
> Could WRKO-680 look to hire away Jay Severin from
> WTKK-96.9??
>
> If the morning show is axed, I wouldn't be surprised if 'RKO
> tries to hire away Severin and either move Carr to mornings
> and put Severin on in the afternoons, or to have Severin
> directly replace the current morning show.
>
> On the other hand, I'm not completely convinced that there
> will be major changes in WRKO's lineup at this point.
>

Isn't Severin damaged goods from his escapades on MS-NBC or was that all swept under the rug? Aren't there other alternatives than recycling old news like Severin?

I liked the earlier suggestion of Gene Burns. Im really not too deeply interested in WRKO's success as a conservative radio station but I would like them to go kinda full service. In this day and age, that might work for Boston.

I could see a mix of a Dick Gordon-type who is neutral, Gene Burns, I would assume they would keep Rush, a Bernie Ward/Thom Hartmann-liberal type, and maybe Carr (if people insist) and some good hard news. That would provide WRKO with a lovely balanced schedule. There's no KGO-type station in this area...it might work. Its sort of back-to-the-future scheduling but in this area, it would be original thinking again. It might be wise to dump Savage before he implodes with his own rhetoric.

Im a liberal that actually could listen to Gene Burns in limited doses (still disagree with him a lot - but hes a very good host that can reasonably make a point and can hold a fair/evenhanded debate unlike Severin and others). I listen to him sometimes on KGO now and then..but would his timeslot allow him to drop into a spot on WRKO that needs to be filled?

Last but not least, if WRKO goes in a new direction, they should can "Mr. Independent Man". Let him fail somewhere else. If they stay mostly conservative, please keep him at 9am so he can continue to stink up the morning block.
 
Re: Rumors Of Change At WRKO

> If the morning show is axed, I wouldn't be surprised if 'RKO
> tries to hire away Severin and either move Carr to mornings
> and put Severin on in the afternoons, or to have Severin
> directly replace the current morning show.
>
Severin? Are you kidding?


> On the other hand, I'm not completely convinced that there
> will be major changes in WRKO's lineup at this point.
>

Best theory yet.
 
Never will happen, but. . .

. . .what if the "big change" at 'RKO was that it's going to FLIP FORMATS?

(Silly thought, so let's have fun with this!)

Maybe STAR will return as an AM! (That'd really be retro.)

Maybe the long-awaited spanish-language station to serve all of greater Boston!

How about comedy? "680 - The Big Joke!"

Naaaaaaaaaa.....
 
Re: Rumors Of Change At WRKO

> Could Howie Carr be moved into mornings??

I don't know--they figure he's great for afternoon drive. Howie tried
to syndicate nationally but his tendency to be regional (all that stuff
about Mumbles Menino) and the fact that Hannity was available in that same
time slot doomed that effort, to the point now where he's pretty much
confined to New England.

If he moved, where would he go (and still provide a syndie opportunity).
Morning drive? Too many other stations have their own shows or Imus.
9-noon? They run Glenn Beck or Laura Ingraham. 12-3? El Rushbo or
OhReally...6 pm-9pm? He'd be up against Savage in other markets and there's
this little thing 'RKO chained themselves to named the Celtics...

> Could John DePetro find himself in a new time period
> (perhaps even afternoons)??

His voice is too low key for that.

> Could WRKO-680 look to hire away Jay Severin from
> WTKK-96.9??

They used to have Jay on, 10-midnight, IIRC. If that happened
Jay could no longer make any references to AM talk as being
"fart radio".

> If the morning show is axed, I wouldn't be surprised if 'RKO
> tries to hire away Severin and either move Carr to mornings

Howie in the morning--what will "Submit" think? :)

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Re: Never will happen, but. . .

Some think WRKO is already a "comedy station" and "a big joke".




> . . .what if the "big change" at 'RKO was that it's going to
> FLIP FORMATS?
>
> (Silly thought, so let's have fun with this!)
>
> Maybe STAR will return as an AM! (That'd really be retro.)
>
> Maybe the long-awaited spanish-language station to serve all
> of greater Boston!
>
> How about comedy? "680 - The Big Joke!"
>
> Naaaaaaaaaa.....
>
 
The "New" RKO, Raccoon, might be aghast that right wing nut jobs are driving over crucifixes on Reverend Prairie Bush Road in Crawford Texas. Instead of blaming victims of the war - as Howie Carr shamefully did the other day - maybe there will be some outrage at firing a gun-shot in the air.

Remember the WCGY intern who was killed in New Orleans at the Mardi Gras,
early to mid 1990s, when some nut fired a gun in the air and the bullet came
down and hit her in the head? May she rest in peace, what a nice gal.

Howie Carr's shameful attacks on Cindy Sheehan - when his own daughters haven't
enlisted for the war effort - are like the individual running over the memorials for the fallen soldiers. The problem with this country today is when you, Raccoon, follow what they tell you with no independent thought of your own.

WRKO needs to clean house and start having some factual radio instead of this Republican garbage they spew in a very Blue state that really doesn't want to hear it.

It is called force feeding and it is a BORE. Good riddance to bad rubbish -
don't let the door hit Carr, Blute, Savage, Rich Carr-buried and the rest on the way out...


> > First to be gone is the "current"
> > morning show.
>
> But who, "H-W-O, who", as Freddy Langone once put it, will
> they put on?
>
> Originally the Master Plan from Entercom kept
> > Carr & Savage safe...NO LONGER. I was just told that the
> new
> > PD (not yet revealed/wait 2 weeks) has plans to axe
> > everything and there are no sacred cows. The changes are
> > across the board for ALL shows 7 days/week.
>
> Air America 680. The ratings are going up so something MUST
> be done!
> If you thought the "new" WHJJ was great and a real ratings
> winner
> wait'll you hear the new 'RKO!
>
 
Re THE TALK STATION

A real "talk station" is conversation, not just airing the calls that agree with the party line propaganda monologues forced on us by self-absorbed
Howie Carr types.


Some think WRKO is already a "comedy station" and "a big
> joke".
>
>
>
>
> > . . .what if the "big change" at 'RKO was that it's going
> to
> > FLIP FORMATS?
> >
> > (Silly thought, so let's have fun with this!)
> >
> > Maybe STAR will return as an AM! (That'd really be
> retro.)
> >
> > Maybe the long-awaited spanish-language station to serve
> all
> > of greater Boston!
> >
> > How about comedy? "680 - The Big Joke!"
> >
> > Naaaaaaaaaa.....
> >
>
 
well stated...

> Howie Carr's shameful attacks on Cindy Sheehan - when his
> own daughters haven't
> enlisted for the war effort - are like the individual
> running over the memorials for the fallen soldiers. The
> problem with this country today is when you, Raccoon, follow
> what they tell you with no independent thought of your own.
>
> WRKO needs to clean house and start having some factual
> radio instead of this Republican garbage they spew in a very
> Blue state that really doesn't want to hear it.
 
Re: Re THE TALK STATION

> A real "talk station" is conversation, not just airing the
> calls that agree with the party line propaganda monologues
> forced on us by self-absorbed
> Howie Carr types.

Howie, and all talk hosts, will take calls from people with other opinions.
Sometimes those are the most entertaining ones. Sure, they may give short shrift to them/make fun of them ,etc Hopefully more liberals will call in to
stations like WRKO, _and_ have conservatives call Air America, too.

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