OK the way I figure it Howie Carr's last day at WRKO should be any time now, and I'm really surprised there has been no word from either side ... Howie has not made any remark on air or on the website he controls (HowieCarrSHOW dot com) as to his situation, Entercom has not been putting "fill in" hosts in his or any other slot ( AM drive) to road test a potential new hire's abilility to connect to Boston, which is an unusual market to say the least.
We know Howie has hired someone to try to shop him around for a possible syndication deal, We know Bary Armstrong has hired a former WRKO exec to build his brand up, what is unknown is if there is a connection between Carr and Armstrong going on behind the scenes to put Howie on some of the signals he is LMA'ing.
Love him or hate him ( and NO we are not having that discussion in this thread, keep personalities out of it!) Howie Carr is the only thing WRKO has going for it, although I would opine "The Financial Exchange" is preyty good programming, but WRKO does not produce it.
Now as a tangent to this discussion, do you think Entercom will have to relinquish "HowieCarr dot com" to him when he leaves?
I think he would have a good case to be argued before the World Intellectual Property Organization. If Entercom holds it is it considered cyber squatting? Who was the WBCN DJ that had to sue to get his name dot com transferred to him a while back?
OK it is your turn
We know Howie has hired someone to try to shop him around for a possible syndication deal, We know Bary Armstrong has hired a former WRKO exec to build his brand up, what is unknown is if there is a connection between Carr and Armstrong going on behind the scenes to put Howie on some of the signals he is LMA'ing.
Love him or hate him ( and NO we are not having that discussion in this thread, keep personalities out of it!) Howie Carr is the only thing WRKO has going for it, although I would opine "The Financial Exchange" is preyty good programming, but WRKO does not produce it.
Now as a tangent to this discussion, do you think Entercom will have to relinquish "HowieCarr dot com" to him when he leaves?
I think he would have a good case to be argued before the World Intellectual Property Organization. If Entercom holds it is it considered cyber squatting? Who was the WBCN DJ that had to sue to get his name dot com transferred to him a while back?
OK it is your turn