WRKO Making moves

[wadio]

I'm sure if Kuhner wanted to work on a holiday, no one would stop him. It's a paid holiday, it's in his contract, and he's entitled to the time. If the company forced him to work on a holiday, they've be seen as corporate slave drivers. If they ran tapes of old shows, people would complain. In fact people would complain regardless.

LOL!

 

[Methuselah]

Many years ago, a talk show host (I cannot remember his name for the life of me) used to work most holidays and times when you normally see people take time off (e.g. the week between christmas and new years). When asked about it, he remarked (paraphrasing) "Many of my listeners are shut-ins, I'm the only normalcy they have in their lives"

 

[Cap-n Spackle]

Many years ago, a talk show host (I cannot remember his name for the life of me) used to work most holidays and times when you normally see people take time off (e.g. the week between christmas and new years). When asked about it, he remarked (paraphrasing) "Many of my listeners are shut-ins, I'm the only normalcy they have in their lives"

Bob Katzen, perhaps?

 

[brassband]

Bob Katzen, perhaps?

Mo Lauzier used to say that, if I recall correctly.

 

[Methuselah]

Mo Lauzier

Very well could have been. Timeframe would have been correct, as I was listening to Providence talk radio and he was on HJJ back then.

 

[Amplitude]

I'm sure if Kuhner wanted to work on a holiday, no one would stop him. It's a paid holiday, it's in his contract, and he's entitled to the time. If the company forced him to work on a holiday, they've be seen as corporate slave drivers. If they ran tapes of old shows, people would complain. In fact people would complain regardless.

He was back today, saying the station gave him two weeks off. That's completely plausible but not well communicated. I was still working the whole time but I would think will so many people off work at the end of the year, they have more time to tune in. It also seems like a great time to give someone else (like Sandy/Nancy) a shot a covering a whole week.

 

[TheBigA]

It also seems like a great time to give someone else (like Sandy/Nancy) a shot a covering a whole week.

I think the focus was to relaunch the station with the new shows today.

 

[Tired Of It All]

Heard today...

The guy who has been filling in for VB's slot this week (Jessie Kelly) is taking over Bachelor's slot in a few weeks.

He's going to fill that slot until February when they're moving Joe Pags from 7-10 to the 10-1 slot, and then this Jessie dude is taking Pags' 7-10 slot.

Why you'd replace Pags live show w/ Jessie Unknown is baffling to me, but suffice to say, I'll be listening to Pags on his stream instead of listening to WRKO now.

Ok, so that answers the question of WTH am I listening to...(last nite)....10 o'clock news ended and all of a sudden some guy is rambling on...no intro to the show at all, it just started in mid sentence, SMH...iheart screwing up - again......also, there was dead air here and there especially after 12:30am...SMH....plus....the commercial breaks were interesting...Jesse would speak for about 3 minutes and then go to a break, he'd come back, speak for 20 seconds, go to a break...????

 

[QED]

I'd say Moe has been off-air in this market for at least 10+ years. Fall River or New Bed IDK?

 

[Methuselah]

Ok, so that answers the question of WTH am I listening to...(last nite)....10 o'clock news ended and all of a sudden some guy is rambling on...no intro to the show at all, it just started in mid sentence, SMH...iheart screwing up - again......also, there was dead air here and there especially after 12:30am...SMH....plus....the commercial breaks were interesting...Jesse would speak for about 3 minutes and then go to a break, he'd come back, speak for 20 seconds, go to a break...????

I wish I understood what motivates program directors. I'm going to guess Jesse Kelly costs RKO less to carry than Bachelor. Bachelor may be dry but he always had excellent guests and his program was informative. I'm not sure what target demographic RKO is trying to capture w/ Kelly. He may be more dynamic than Bachelor but certainly not as informative. So my guess is its purely an economic decision.

 

[raccoonradio]

The ad breaks..reminded of how a friend mentioned how he liked Coast 2 Coast but couldn't stand the ads loaded up at bottom of the hour. Waiting, waiting for it to start again.
Moe has been off awhile; he wrote a book about his life in radio and for a time it was online for free.
Moe had Saturday mornings and sometimes when there was something like a big blizzard he'd go on RKO with special shows at 7 pm for a few days.

 

[raccoonradio]

Lauzier was let go in March of 2008
A post at that time here on RadioDiscussions
by ZRXOA 5248:
"Last weekend he was told 15 minutes into his show that it was going to be his last one.
He put A notice on his blogspot page by 8 AM and the Boston board, as well as Savewrko.com and radioequalizer.com has been running with it since. It also made Fybush's NERW on monday, as well as Jessica Heslam's Herald column"

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/moe-lauzier.527133/

 

[Tired Of It All]

I wish I understood what motivates program directors. I'm going to guess Jesse Kelly costs RKO less to carry than Bachelor. Bachelor may be dry but he always had excellent guests and his program was informative. I'm not sure what target demographic RKO is trying to capture w/ Kelly. He may be more dynamic than Bachelor but certainly not as informative. So my guess is its purely an economic decision.

Agreed....Bachelor was dry as hell but, he was extremely informative and, always, always, had interesting and articulate guests. This kelly guy must be geared to the same audience that probably listens to the twit at noon time.