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WTKK "96.9 FM Talk" Finally Admits The Truth

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Today (October 14th) on their homepage, WTKK-96.9 has admitted that Jay Severin will not be back on their station until and unless WTKK becomes the Boston affiliate for his new nationally-syndicated talk-show.

Unless Infinity plans to flip one of it's existing FM stations to "mainstream" talk, there is a chance that Severin may continue to be heard on WTKK, provided the live feed of his show is during daytime hours. If that's the case, WTKK will no doubt adjust it's program schedule in order to carry his show live.

But if Severin's live show is in the evenings or overnights, it will be on WBZ-1030.

Of course, should Infinity decide to launch a "mainstream" talk format on one of it's local FM stations, then Severin will be heard there and not on either 'TKK or 'BZ.
 
Does this mean Sean Hannity is permanent ????


> Today (October 14th) on their homepage, WTKK-96.9 has
> admitted that Jay Severin will not be back on their station
> until and unless WTKK becomes the Boston affiliate for his
> new nationally-syndicated talk-show.
>
> Unless Infinity plans to flip one of it's existing FM
> stations to "mainstream" talk, there is a chance that
> Severin may continue to be heard on WTKK, provided the live
> feed of his show is during daytime hours. If that's the
> case, WTKK will no doubt adjust it's program schedule in
> order to carry his show live.
>
> But if Severin's live show is in the evenings or overnights,
> it will be on WBZ-1030.
>
> Of course, should Infinity decide to launch a "mainstream"
> talk format on one of it's local FM stations, then Severin
> will be heard there and not on either 'TKK or 'BZ.
>
 
> Does this mean Sean Hannity is permanent (in the weekday 3-6 P.M. slot)????

It probably would, unless the live feed of Jay Severin's new syndicated show is from 3 to 6 P.M. ET and the show gets picked-up by WTKK-96.9.
 
Big news!

With its ace slugger in a contract dispute, it looks like Team TKK is
brining in Michael Graham to pinch hit. He was on this week 10 pm-1 am
and the 'TKK site says he'll do 6-7 pm Tue-Fri (with Eagan and Braude
on Monday night). Curiously, at the end of his show tonight he said
he'll be back Monday at 6, which contradicts what the site says.

If Severin goes to WBZ, could Graham be either a)the "new" 3-6 pm host,
or b)they'd run Hannity live 3-6 and give the 10p-1a slot to Graham.
He also could be part of the WTKK bench, filling in when needed.

> But if Severin's live show is in the evenings or overnights,
> it will be on WBZ-1030.

Not sure yet when Severin's show will air nationwide. I kind of doubt
he'd do morning drive. 9 am? He'd be competing with Glenn Beck and
Laura Ingraham (and yes, the various lib talk hosts). Noon? Up against
El Rushbo, Franken, O'Reilly. 3-6 pm? Up against Hannity who has
quite a few affiliates--is there room for stations to run Severin?

6 pm? He'd be competing with Savage (4th most popular host I believe)
Or maybe a bit later--8 to 11 pm?

It's interesting that part of the problem is that Severin's slot for
the nationwide show has yet to be decided (or it has, but has yet to
be announced).

What is preventing WTKK from running Severin at night, if his show
does indeed wind up airing after 6 pm? Is it simply determined that
WBZ would most likely be awarded the show if it airs at night?
 
> Does this mean Sean Hannity is permanent ????

Permanent until the decision is reached, at least; if Severin goes to
WBZ, I would think they'd continue to run Hannity live UNLESS they wanted
to go local (Michael Graham?) 3-6 and run Hannity tape delayed as they have been.
Yes, you'd have a syndie host for afternoon drive but he's the second most
popular talker in the nation (and they could always throw a local host on
at 6 pm). Kind of counter-programming WRKO: a national host vs. a host who's
New England-centric (Howie)
They could get good ratings and ad buys because Hannity's show draws well.<P ID="signature">______________
I am the REAL raccoonradio (2 c's). Accept
no substitutes!</P>
 
> Big news!
>
> With its ace slugger in a contract dispute, it looks like
> Team TKK is
> brining in Michael Graham to pinch hit. He was on this week
> 10 pm-1 am
> and the 'TKK site says he'll do 6-7 pm Tue-Fri (with Eagan
> and Braude
> on Monday night). Curiously, at the end of his show tonight
> he said
> he'll be back Monday at 6, which contradicts what the site
> says.
>
One oddity- Graham's whole act is being a "southern redneck", does that fly in New England??
 
Severin on AM?

> But if Severin's live show is in the evenings or
> overnights, it will be on WBZ-1030.

I wish I had a tape of Severin putting down AM, saying he would never do it. If he does end up on BZ, it would be a hoot to play it back for him on his "pro-groom."
 
Re: Severin on AM?

> > But if Severin's live show is in the evenings or
> > overnights, it will be on WBZ-1030.
>
> I wish I had a tape of Severin putting down AM, saying he
> would never do it. If he does end up on BZ, it would be a
> hoot to play it back for him on his "pro-groom."
>
I haven't heard Jay much (these days, neither has anybody else...) though I do remember him saying, on his WTKK show, that "you could be listening to
'Fart Radio'", referring apparently to WRKO. Mr. Severin did not mention
that he used to work there himself (a 10-midnight slot if I remember,
and he also was on WRKO when Gene Burns used to do a syndie show out of
WOR in New York at night--8-11 pm I think? Burns abruptly left the show
after a dispute with management and Severin, who had done fill ins for
him once or twice, was brought in.

Then I remember him announcing that he'd be leaving the WRKO show because he was so busy with his MSNBC gig (or was in CNBC at the time) and various other things,
plus he needed time to do things like walk his dogs on the beach. A year or
so later when WTKK debuted, he was one of the first jocks.

What was then WSJZ played smooth jazz, and picked up Imus after WEEI dropped
it. Eventually they did move to all talk, with a call letter change. I think
a guy named Stu Taylor was the first talk host they had, doing 10 am to
noon or something, with Severin also starting that day.<P ID="signature">______________
I am the REAL raccoonradio (2 c's). Accept
no substitutes!</P>
 
Who knows. Heck, if it doesn't work out at WTKK he can just go down the hall
to WKLB and be a DJ there. At a station where they play BOTH kinds of
music, country AND western :)

> One oddity- Graham's whole act is being a "southern
> redneck", does that fly in New England??
>
<P ID="signature">______________
I am the REAL raccoonradio (2 c's). Accept
no substitutes!</P>
 
A Severin detractor weighs in on the matter:

http://www.jayseverin.org

"Presumably, Jay would be welcomed back on TKK's airwaves tomorrow if he could just give them some assurance that he will use them as his Boston affiliate next year. Failing that assurance, the station is apparently willing to sacrifice precious ratings now rather than suffer a sudden ratings meltdown in January."

(The webmaster says that Severin "trash talked" his website on the air once,
but that only helped his site, as curious listeners checked it out...
and he went from being on page 18 on Google's search results to #1. Of
course having "jayseverin" as part of his domain name probably helps too.)

(To the tune of "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego Theme",
parody lyrics by me)

Well he used to do his show from his basement in Long Island/
He has been missing lately so we've got Sean Hannity/
Best and brightest wanna know, are they ever gonna find him/ Tell me/
Where in the world is...Jimmy Severino?
 
Hannity's show will soon be following the White House poll #s. Sean is looking silly speaking to the "base". Of course, if sheep want to tune in and hear his preaching the Gospel of Bush, they can still get the ad revenue, but it is all a joke at this point. WTKK needs something of substance. Most of us ignore Hannity, not because of his leaning waaaay right - but because he is just bad radio. Yawn.

> > Does this mean Sean Hannity is permanent ????
>
> Permanent until the decision is reached, at least; if
> Severin goes to
> WBZ, I would think they'd continue to run Hannity live
> UNLESS they wanted
> to go local (Michael Graham?) 3-6 and run Hannity tape
> delayed as they have been.
> Yes, you'd have a syndie host for afternoon drive but he's
> the second most
> popular talker in the nation (and they could always throw a
> local host on
> at 6 pm). Kind of counter-programming WRKO: a national host
> vs. a host who's
> New England-centric (Howie)
> They could get good ratings and ad buys because Hannity's
> show draws well.
>
 
> Who knows. Heck, if it doesn't work out at WTKK he can just
> go down the hall
> to WKLB and be a DJ there. At a station where they play BOTH
> kinds of
> music, country AND western :)
>
> > One oddity- Graham's whole act is being a "southern
> > redneck", does that fly in New England??
> >
>
yep, Graham's background's in S. Carolina, Richmond, Charlotte, small southern places.
 
> Hannity's show will soon be following the White House poll
> #s. Sean is looking silly speaking to the "base". Of
> course, if sheep want to tune in and hear his preaching the
> Gospel of Bush, they can still get the ad revenue, but it is
> all a joke at this point.

13 million people who tune into Sean each and every day. Quite a base.

WTKK needs something of
> substance. Most of us ignore Hannity, not because of his
> leaning waaaay right - but because he is just bad radio.
> Yawn.

Bad radio. Not like Franken, eh? Franken's surely in the top 20 list of
most-listened to shows...OK, I got the list. Looking...looking. Nope.
Even Franken's listeners are starting to abandon his show since his
co-host fled the coop. There were a bunch of posts on Democratic
Underground saying that the show isn't worth listening to anymore...If you
want to talk about a talk host losing HIS base, you're talking
Stuart Smalley.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4236619

"I've had it with his show. I like him as a person, a comedian and as an author - I bought his two books and thoroughly enjoyed them both, but his radio show is almost totally unlistenable. He spends much of his time dissecting O'Reilly's various (BLEEP) and blunders, but the thing is, he repeats and repeats and repeats the stuff over and over again as if we hadn't got the point in the first place.
The "Oy Oy Oy Show" is neither funny nor enlightening.
And today he brought out the concept of a slide whistle to illustrate the percentage of unemployed since the 70's. You get the idea - the note was low for a low unemployment rate and slid higher as the rate went up.
It was the most unbelieveably dire piece-of-(ca ca) radio I have ever heard.
I feel sorry for his co-host, because she has to rein him in the whole time, telling him when the commercial breaks are due, and basically shutting him up when he's waffling."--Start of a thread on Democratic Underground

Hannitized FOR YOUR PROTECTION!
 
Re: Severin on AM?

> What was then WSJZ played smooth jazz, and picked up Imus
> after WEEI dropped
> it. Eventually they did move to all talk, with a call letter
> change. I think
> a guy named Stu Taylor was the first talk host they had,
> doing 10 am to
> noon or something, with Severin also starting that day.
>
Do you mean the Stu Taylor who is a building contractor in Lexington and who buys time for a show on WBIX (8:00 to 9:00 AM M-F plus some more on weekends)? I believe that six or seven years ago, that Stu Taylor was on WBNW 1120 (or it may still have been WADN at the time) doing an afternoon/early evening sports-talk show with another guy (who called himself "the Captain") but has since died (two or three years ago, IIRC). The WBIX Stu Taylor is right-wing enough to easily make Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage happy--although Taylor himself is probably the only person who considers Taylor a major-market talent.
 
Re: Severin on AM?

Oops! I think I meant Stacy Taylor, who is at KLSD (progressive talk)
in San Diego these days. From his website: "(he) has also made numerous appearances at KSFO in San Francisco, KABC in Los Angeles, WXYT in Detroit and Boston’s 96.9 Talk Radio"

That's probably him, NOT Stu Taylor. Apologies :)


> Do you mean the Stu Taylor who is a building contractor in
> Lexington and who buys time for a show on WBIX (8:00 to 9:00
> AM M-F plus some more on weekends)? <P ID="signature">______________
I am the REAL raccoonradio (2 c's). Accept
no substitutes!</P>
 
Re: Severin on AM?

> Then I remember him announcing that he'd be leaving the WRKO
> show because he was so busy with his MSNBC gig (or was in
> CNBC at the time) and various other things,
> plus he needed time to do things like walk his dogs on the
> beach. A year or
> so later when WTKK debuted, he was one of the first jocks.

no, severino jumped from 'Rko to 'Tkk in the same year. he was lancing
at'rko stirring up some smoke at night. imus the **** recommended him
to gm. rest is history. the execuse he gave to entercom about him being all worn out was typical political consulant's bs line. the guy popped
up on Wtkk two months later. same Isdn line, different address.
 
Re: Severin on AM?

Ah OK--wasn't sure on the timeline. I wanna say 'TKK debuted in Sept. of 99...
Yes, he had said "all worn out, no time to do it all" on the air.
2 months later...wow, didn't think it was that quick but now that you
mention it..!


> no, severino jumped from 'Rko to 'Tkk in the same year. he
> was lancing
> at'rko stirring up some smoke at night. imus the ****
> recommended him
> to gm. rest is history. the execuse he gave to entercom
> about him being all worn out was typical political
> consulant's bs line. the guy popped
> up on Wtkk two months later. same Isdn line, different
> address.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
I am the REAL raccoonradio (2 c's). Accept
no substitutes!</P>
 
Re: Severin on AM?

> Ah OK--wasn't sure on the timeline. I wanna say 'TKK debuted
> in Sept. of 99...

"Imus in the Morning, Smooth Jazz All Day" began on August 22, 1999.

Severin, along with the majority of the initial hosts, was named sometime between September 10 and September 17 (thanks to NERW archives).
 
> Today (October 14th) on their homepage, WTKK-96.9 has
> admitted that Jay Severin will not be back on their station
> until and unless WTKK becomes the Boston affiliate for his
> new nationally-syndicated talk-show.
>

One down, hannity to go......

there is a god....good bye severin for now at least......

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