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Predictions for Boston Radio in 2017?
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There are no significant "Spanish love songs" stations anywhere on the mainland US.
I have a feeling the poster's tongue was firmly in cheek. The major radio players in Boston are not blowing up a CHR, rhythmic CHR or hot AC to sell/lease it it to K-Love or Biittner (and his deep-playlist soft AC-plus format) or flip to any kind of foreign-language format.
Matt Siegel is signed with Kiss 108 through 2018: http://fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=2782607
Yes, contracts are made to be broken, torn up, terminated, bought out, etc. - but as long as Matty remains successful + healthy, I believe he'll likely be there until the current pact expires.
Also depends on the health of iheart media, of course - but that could be said for anyone working within the company.
Yes, contracts are made to be broken, torn up, terminated, bought out, etc. - but as long as Matty remains successful + healthy, I believe he'll likely be there until the current pact expires.
Also depends on the health of iheart media, of course - but that could be said for anyone working within the company.
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Declaring "the FM experiment is over", Entercom moves local sports talk and Red Sox games back to WEEI 850. FM 93.7 switches to classic country, starting off with Kitty Wells' "Dust On the Bible"
Pirate radio activity decreases after the Commonwealth successfully finds a way to tax them
The FCC mandates that AM stations that are foreign language must present English language versions of their programming on their FM "translator"..
Jeff Kuhner finally gets a second affiliate, a 500-watter in Montana that soon changes its calls to KUNR (AM)
Declaring "the FM experiment is over", Entercom moves local sports talk and Red Sox games back to WEEI 850. FM 93.7 switches to classic country, starting off with Kitty Wells' "Dust On the Bible"
Pirate radio activity decreases after the Commonwealth successfully finds a way to tax them
The FCC mandates that AM stations that are foreign language must present English language versions of their programming on their FM "translator"..
Jeff Kuhner finally gets a second affiliate, a 500-watter in Montana that soon changes its calls to KUNR (AM)
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Again ....and Again... and Again.....
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Howie Carr will pack up and go to Washington to become Trump's Director of Propaganda..
Don't think the president-elect hasn't had that idea whispered to him.
Howie has his sights on West Palm, not D.C.
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You mean retirement....? 'My heart feels like an aligator... ' to quote HLC. Whateverthehell that means ;-)
Don't know when Howie will retire.Thinking about what happened in 07...IIRC, early that year Don Imus had his Rutgers remark controversy.Howie poked fun at Imus' Boston affiliate, calling them "WTKKK".Months later though, word broke that Howie wanted to jump to 96.9 and he would have gotten that morning time slot. Judges ruled against him, though, even though he made a Sept. appearance on Ch 4 news and "Carr (chocolate) bars" were to be given away.(Howie later gave those away at appearances)
So Howie had to stick around at Entercom till he had a chance to start his own network.WMEX ran him for a few months then RKO took him back as an affiliate. 96.9 FM talk in the meantime dumped the format.
What if he had been able to jump?Would it have helped keep 96.9 as talk?Howie has gotten some 2 dozen stations to carry his show though he hasn't really gotten any outside of New England.He has been selling books and T shirts and enjoys all this, as he's a month away from turning 65.Would he do the show from Florida and keep it all the same, or give it up? He can still vacation in Florida for now at least, and supposedly got a condo there as a result of a settlement from a defamation suit against Imus. Like Rush, Savage, and Howie, Imus too continues in the talk biz.
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https://www.google.com/amp/www.nyda...ertainment/carr-blowing-horn-article-1.814689
>>Carr was talking about Imus because Imus defended Mike Barnicle, the under-fire Boston Globe columnist. Carr has no use for Barnicle in part, no doubt, because they both do the same job and neither answers to "Mr. Modesty... Imus retaliated by suggesting Carr's wife has had sex with heavyweight boxer Riddick Bowe. That's when Carr became indignant, suggesting Imus had gone too far and letting anonymous hints be dropped that he's talking with his lawyer
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From The Brothers Bulger by Howie Carr:
"Full disclosure..Alan Dershowitz...represented my wife in a 1998 libel action against two broadcast networks and radio talk show host Don Imus.That lawsuit was settled out of court"
So Howie had to stick around at Entercom till he had a chance to start his own network.WMEX ran him for a few months then RKO took him back as an affiliate. 96.9 FM talk in the meantime dumped the format.
What if he had been able to jump?Would it have helped keep 96.9 as talk?Howie has gotten some 2 dozen stations to carry his show though he hasn't really gotten any outside of New England.He has been selling books and T shirts and enjoys all this, as he's a month away from turning 65.Would he do the show from Florida and keep it all the same, or give it up? He can still vacation in Florida for now at least, and supposedly got a condo there as a result of a settlement from a defamation suit against Imus. Like Rush, Savage, and Howie, Imus too continues in the talk biz.
1998
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nyda...ertainment/carr-blowing-horn-article-1.814689
>>Carr was talking about Imus because Imus defended Mike Barnicle, the under-fire Boston Globe columnist. Carr has no use for Barnicle in part, no doubt, because they both do the same job and neither answers to "Mr. Modesty... Imus retaliated by suggesting Carr's wife has had sex with heavyweight boxer Riddick Bowe. That's when Carr became indignant, suggesting Imus had gone too far and letting anonymous hints be dropped that he's talking with his lawyer
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From The Brothers Bulger by Howie Carr:
"Full disclosure..Alan Dershowitz...represented my wife in a 1998 libel action against two broadcast networks and radio talk show host Don Imus.That lawsuit was settled out of court"
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I doubt Howie Carr is retiring any time soon. He just spent a lot of money on a brand new studio facility, and it's not in West Palm.
My comment on West Palm was not to suggest Carr was going to retire. I don't know him other than what I hear on his show. But rather to opine that if he is going anywhere it wouldn't be D.C. but rather West Palm
WAAF hiring comic duo for afternoons and we'll see if rumor of WKAF 97.7 splitting off is true (new format?)
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