WUFC/to be WMEX--daytime range
Nighttime (he has other affiliates like WCRN, WXTK and online...
Posted on 11/13/2014 5:45:25 AM PST by raccoonradio
If you’ve been reading NorthEast Radio Watch all along (especially our detailed analysis of Howie Carr’s future on Monday), you know changes are coming in a big way to the Boston talk scene. Now we have a much better sense of what’s about to happen – and how quickly it’s all coming together.
After more than 20 years at WRKO (and a few years before that at WHDH until its programming was merged into WRKO), Howie Carr finally caught that car he’s been chasing all that time: he’s now a former WRKO employee. The no-surprise-at-all announcement came on Wednesday, with no word being offered up about who’ll fill Carr’s afternoon time slot. (Guest hosts have been in place all this week, as they were for most of last week after the auto accident that ended Carr’s WRKO run a few days earlier than planned.)
So is it just coincidence that a former WRKO talker also came on the market Wednesday? Doug Goudie was “Virgin Boy” as a producer/sidekick for Carr back in the day, and “VB” as the personable co-host of WFXT (Channel 25)’s morning news. And no sooner had Cox Media Group taken over from Fox Television Stations as WFXT’s owner than word came out that VB was off the lineup at Fox 25. Coincidence? It might be – but Goudie’s sudden availability may be the best news out there for WRKO as it tries to figure out what’s next.
Carr, for his part, wasted no time finding a new Boston outlet. If he was unhappy with the night signal of WRKO all those years, he’s going to be even more miserable after dark on WUFC (1510), which is expected to announce today that it’s picking up Carr’s new syndicated show alongside the other Boston Herald Radio content it now carries. And that’s not the only announcement coming from 1510: back at the end of October, it quietly applied to change calls to WMEX, a heritage callsign it could start using as early as today.
Can a revived WMEX break through the static to get any traction in a radio market that’s quickly migrating from AM to FM? The WMEX calls were last heard in the market around the turn of the millennium on a quickly-forgotten talk incarnation of Natick’s 1060 – and they were last on 1510 in 1976. Even a teenager who rocked out to “X-15″ then (and didn’t leave Boston somewhere along the way) is already out of the 25-54 sales demo at this point, so it’s hard to imagine that “WMEX” on 1510 is going to bring much of a heritage factor to the table aside from whatever diehard audience follows Carr up the dial. Even that’s a little doubtful; remember what happened when Clear Channel’s WXKS (1200) tried to pull the Rush Limbaugh audience over from WRKO a few years back?
WUFC/to be WMEX--daytime range
Nighttime (he has other affiliates like WCRN, WXTK and online...
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As much as radio and TV personalities like to think they are the news, who gives a hang?
Throws a good strong signal out over the Atlantic Ocean!
It gets dark in Boston quite early these days.
Fybush is right. Howie is not gonna like that signal.
Well Duhhh....... maybe those that like and listen
The domain name 1510wmex.com is now parked at Godaddy
He’s ok. He hit a guardrail on the Mass. Turnpike driving home late from doing election coverage on the 4th. Just bruises.
Howie list ping
On Wed (after he had been up late watching election returns) he went to Boston Herald radio to help out with the reg. Wed. show, then got on the Pike to head toward WRKO. Maybe dozed off, but he wound up colliding with a guardrail (and one other car; no injury) and his car got totalled. Flipped over. He was wearing his seat belt and I’d suspect if he hadn’t we would be mourning him now.
He was taken to Mass General for observation then came back home. A pic appeared on twitter of him in his kitchen, wearing an MGH shirt and holding up one of his pugs. On Thu during the first hour, he was hooked up to RKO via an ISDN line. He did the whole show Fri. from his kitchen, same setup.
I had heard it was about 1:30 (or 1:30) _pm_. He had been at Herald radio from their studios at Seaport District and was heading to RKO to do his show, so it was a Wed afternoon thing not late Tue night. It sounded like Sandy was saying this was a last minute thing, Wed afternoon...
I haven’t been able to listen to WRKO since we moved in 2002. I’d love it if Howie was on FM.
I listen to Howie on FM radio here in Maine....
WVOM FM 103.9 out of Bangor, Maine.
No such luck here in MA west of 495.
He’s a fool. He just brought his listening audience down to 3 people.
I think this move will hurt him since at least half his show is Boston centric and the othe half is split between Massachusetts and Maine.
For years, especially with VB, his shows fixated on animal destruction, Maine a**hole humor, fart jokes, gluttony gags, misogyny, wizard of ahs, and mumbles. Two are gone and the rest won’t go over nationally. This will test his skills. He has expanded his programming however. He wastes a few hours speaking to a veterinarian and a TV reporter. Yea, that is must listen to radio.
Well, this at least will give him four hours a day to pitch his books.
Howie’s on FM in...
—Bangor ME WVOM 103.9
—Augusta ME WVQM 101.3 (was listening while in NH
the other day, N Conway etc)
—105.5 FM Portland ME (repeater of WGAN?)
—WNTK 99.7 New London NH
—WUVR’s repeater at 98.9 Lebanon NH
—107.5 in Keene NH (repeater of WKBK 1290)
—WXTK 95.1 Hyannis/Cape Cod
If you have an HD radio (portable about $50, in cars, etc) WRKO is on the HD2 of WEEI-FM 93.7, but of course Howie is gone from there
Thanks, raccoonradio, but I live not far from the Rhode Island border.
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