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Field's Contributions At Issue
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What's really behind the rapid implosion of Boston's longtime talk leader WRKO?
At SaveWRKO, Matt Margolis and your Radio Equalizer examine one theory: that the political contributions of Entercom CEO David Field may play a role.
It this the real problem?
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Field's Contributions At Issue
(Note: many new updates at SaveWRKO.com)
What's really behind the rapid implosion of Boston's longtime talk leader WRKO?
At SaveWRKO, Matt Margolis and your Radio Equalizer examine one theory: that the political contributions of Entercom CEO David Field may play a role.It this the real problem?
Your Amazon orders that begin with clicks here, regardless of what you ultimately select for purchase, greatly help to support this site's efforts. Thanks!
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published by Brian Maloney at
12:21
10 Comments:
Wow. WRKO considers adding ONE Democratic host andsuddenly the sky is falling (even though WRKO's recent ratings are up). Sad
By
Justin, at 10 January, 2007 12:57
Justin, you're repeating yourself.
Yes, the ratings increase is an argument for maintaining conservative talk, not switching to libtalk.
And the overall station plan is to remove all conservative talk as soon as possible. It's already largely been neutered.
By
Brian Maloney, at 10 January, 2007 13:19
Justin,
One outrageously overpaid, disgraced Democrat politician who has no experience at doing this job? Either you are ignorant of the facts or just another Liberal who doesn't care about anything but getting possession of the airwaves for the protection of Liberalism.
By
PCD, at 10 January, 2007 13:21
Possession of the airwaves? Ummm... ok. That's clearly my master plan.
My point is that all of this hubbub is really over nothing. Allen Miller has HORRIBLE ratings (even lower that Blute and Ozone once were), and a change needs to be made. WRKO is making a calculated bet that Finneran will be able to get high-powered guests, and even his detractors (which include me, by the way) admit that he knows local politics as well as anyone. To suggest Entercom is bailing on conservatives would be to ignore not only the rest of WRKO's lineup, but to ignore the morning show on sister station WEEI (even though they focus on sports). And the indictment is a red herring (not the legal case, but Brian's argument). He's be upset if ANY Democrat got the morning slot.
By
Justin, at 10 January, 2007 14:42
Justin:
The only calculated bet here is that Julie Kahn can slip one of her cronies onto the airwaves without major objections from corporate.
And you're ignoring that WRKO's other formerly conservtive programming has already either been yanked or is about to be. Dumping Rush has been on the table for some time.
By
Brian Maloney, at 10 January, 2007 14:45
Thinkcon:
You raise a lot of good points. I've already addressed some of them just now at SaveWRKO, I believe.
As for WRKO's alternatives, that's a subject we'll address shortly.
By
Brian Maloney, at 10 January, 2007 15:57
Joe:
On the contrary, they just moved Savage into a slot for which he will almost always be pre-empted by sports.
By
Brian Maloney, at 10 January, 2007 16:55
"On the contrary, they just moved Savage into a slot for which he will almost always be pre-empted by sports."
WOR, which was WRKO's sister station at one point, owned by RKO, airs Savage from 6-9, which can mean sports preemption--by Rutgers University football or basketball.
By
The Real Bob Anthony, at 10 January, 2007 18:35
WRKO has said that Savage airs at 7 pm and Doyle at 10; but on nights when there is sports, Savage would follow at approx. 10 pm. And on nights when the Sox or Celts are out West, you'd have Savage as a lead-in. Not that the Red Sox brain trust is probably happy
with any of that--see pictures of
Werner, Epstein, and Henry posing
with John Kerry over at BostonDirtDogs.com
If WRKO were to dump Rush, WTKK
or even little WTTT could pick him
up.
If you want to talk pre-emptions for sports, look at what happened at WPHT in Philly which got Jay Severin's now-defunct national
show--yet the Phillies almost
always pre-empted it.
Reaction is breaking to the Tommy
Taxes news at the WRKO messageboard on their site.All negative.
By
raccoonradio, at 10 January, 2007 19:46
WRKO had an on-air press conference
to announce that Finneran begins as morning drive host on Feb 12. Scott
Allen Miller will do the show until then and may wind up elsewhere with
Entercom (maybe in another city?)
Asked about whether he not has met Howie, like bumped into him in the men's room, Finneran laughed and said no. Finneran said that "Howie at one time may have thought I was a rising star. Now he feels I'm a fraud."
Finneran at the presser said that his new show will have politics and other subjects (perhaps sports on
occasion). Wolfe and Kahn said they wanted a local voice, not something piped in from LA or NY.
By
raccoonradio, at 11 January, 2007 11:41
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