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WTKK 96.9 DOES NOT CENSOR JIMMY MEYERS

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Casablance

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Here's to 96.9 FM for allowing Jimmy Meyers to go on WTKK 96.9 this afternoon and discuss the dismantling of WILD-FM and the loss of that station to the Black community.

It is not often the a station has the intestinal fortitude to allow someone to mention other station call letters on their station let alone discuss a controversial issue. [ See discussion on WMRE's 20th "Memorial" anniversary in topic below.]

Good work 96.9. Let's hear more of this.

Don't always agree with Jimmy Meyers but that's what makes talk radio interesting.
 
Didn't really hear--other than maybe a few seconds, because I got into my car at 1 pm and heard his voice
very briefly, at the tail end of his show--but ironic, given the article I posted about another GM property who
parted ways with Laquidara over censorship. 'BOS apparently wants more "control" over its jocks than 'TKK
over its talk hosts

(btw in a sep. post, I posted a link to an article in yesterday's Herald: tapes of 'TKK's Michael Graham show have been subpoenaed by a group seeking to build an Islamic mosque, in that group's "routine evidence gathering for its defamation case against The Boston Herald, WFXT-TV (Fox 25) and advocacy groups that have questioned the mosque")

And speaking of mentioning other call letters, a few years ago WTKK let Christopher Lydon fill in for Severin
and he did an hour or so about radio; mentioned some call letters but those weren't filtered out...
 
Time for grown up radio again. Mentioned above...or below when I had my talk show on WMRE 8-12 we were "encouraged" to name names and other call letters. Really gave you a sense of being in the real world - not this fiction that other radio station or personalities don't exist or if you mention them the listener will get confused or turn the station.

Surprised the 96.9 is breaking this ground since Margery Eagan can't mention Howie Carr's name or her show even though he is a colleague of her's at the Herald. Seems pretty juvenile to me.
 
Casablance said:
Here's to 96.9 FM for allowing Jimmy Meyers to go on WTKK 96.9 this afternoon and discuss the dismantling of WILD-FM and the loss of that station to the Black community.

It is not often the a station has the intestinal fortitude to allow someone to mention other station call letters on their station let alone discuss a controversial issue. [ See discussion on WMRE's 20th "Memorial" anniversary in topic below.]

Good work 96.9. Let's hear more of this.

Don't always agree with Jimmy Meyers but that's what makes talk radio interesting.
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Wow, sorry I missed it! Can you give us any insight as to his comments?
 
His complaint was that WILD-FM was the only talk radio station that served the Black community and now it has left a void in the community.

Look how many complained at the prospect of losing the only commercial classical music station in Boston, WCRB-FM 102.5. A compromise of sorts was reached and in the Fall 'CRB will move to 99.5.

The Black community should have the same opportunity.

Here in the South Shore of Boston we lost the only community radio station when Jay Asher sold out to some Spanish religious station and WJDA went silent. Of course, Asher sold out on the community years ago and WJDA was a disgrace as a community radio station. Asher's father James D. Asher [ 'JDA ] must be 'spinning' to see what his son did.

So, not unusual for radio station owners to sell out for the almighty buck and to hell with serving the community on the public airwaves.

Hope Jimmy Myers keeps up the fight.
 
Casablance said:
Here in the South Shore of Boston we lost the only community radio station when Jay Asher sold out to some Spanish religious station and WJDA went silent. Of course, Asher sold out on the community years ago and WJDA was a disgrace as a community radio station.
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It is a shame about WJDA (and sister station WESX), but as for the "only" community station on the South Shore, wouldn't WATD be considered a surviving community radio station? I know it's a few towns farther south, but it's still on the South Shore.
 
I believe WILD has a lot of white listeners. It probably isn't, and should not, be a racial issue but an issue about quality music being pushed aside so one format can monopolize two signals. WTKK, being Entercom's competition, benefits by backing WILD while keeping the focus off of the Classical Music debacle. It took WCRB a very long time to generate great ratings.
 
Jane, thank you for the kind words someone told me (via e mail) that you posted about me (didn't see them).

That being said, I don't think there's a "conspiracy" re: Greater Media backing WILD. It might be a good idea for WTKK to chat about the Classical Station and its importance to the region. Or maybe it is time for a Let's Talk About Radio to go over the current checkerboard status of Boston radio.
 
jane grant said:
I believe WILD has a lot of white listeners. It probably isn't, and should not, be a racial issue but an issue about quality music being pushed aside so one format can monopolize two signals. WTKK, being Entercom's competition, benefits by backing WILD while keeping the focus off of the Classical Music debacle. It took WCRB a very long time to generate great ratings.
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Jane, I agree with you on that point about monopolizing 2 signals. The big thing here is that we have a limited # of signals in this market and we've lost another one simply to simulcast something we already have on another signal. This means less choice on the dial. I don't think the motive behind the switches was racial, but I do think it's worth nothing that in the last 18 months, it was the Hispanic audience that got pushed aside to make way for another sports station (WAMG to ESPN) and the black audience that got pushed aside to make way for WAAF's simulcast. There's less variety on the dial and more of the same, and it was the minority audiences that really took the hit.
 
Weird choice for a fill in on that station Jimmy Myers doesnt seem like their type of talent for loads of reasons.
 
TowerBuzz said:
Weird choice for a fill in on that station Jimmy Myers doesnt seem like their type of talent for loads of reasons.
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For all the talk on the radio dial, I'm surprised by the lack of minorities, expect on the former WILD-AM of course. I think it's good that WTKK aired Jimmy Myers. It's time for Boston to mix it up a bit.
 
Yes I always thought Jimmy was a really dynamic character in the media but I didnt figure he would be their kind of guy. Not really their cup of tea. IM glad for him tho.
 
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