Supposedly they have to pay to carry Rush and Savage (though I thought Savage was "free" to them) and this may be part of
cost cutting...Who knows.
I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to bring back
Peter Blute who now does mornings for WCRN in Worcester. May also wind up bringing syndicated Glenn Beck (they now run him Saturday nights) aboard. WRKO is kind of the "affiliate"
for Premiere, who has Rush, Noory, Drudge, and Beck.
It sounds like they're already doing lots of sports:
Celtics, Red Sox, and BC football, etc. with sister
station WEEI around to TALK sports.
Sports is hot talk radio--many stations who are
dropping Air America are picking up ESPN or
Fox Sports (cheap to run, yet makes ad money!)
Lots of discussion on this topic at link below. Be
forwarned: lots of anti-RKO posts (people who like
to dump on them all the time). Some posts by me...
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,54644.0.html