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Howie is also on WPOP 1410 Hartford.
WTIC as has been said is going with
Tom Shattuck 10a-2p then Todd Feinburg
at 2 pm.
Tom used to work with Boston host
Michael Graham who called him Great and
Powerful Tom.He worked at Boston Herald
and Lowell Sun. Talked with him very
briefly at a college radio conference
but haven’t really heard him.

In 2007 Feinburg was in for Howie for
several months as Howie was attempting to
jump to an FM station. That failed but
he “got control of his show” in late 2014.
Feinburg was ok but no Howie.Todd also
did mornings on WRKO for awhile.

Thanks for that info, FRiend. When I used to live in the Hartford area, WPOP 1410 came in loud and clear. We're about 20 miles NW of Hartford now - WPOP doesn't come in at our house at all, but fortunately WHYN 560 AM is very clear.

As I said upthread, the formerly great WTIC 1080 sucks. It has REALLY gone downhill over the past few years with their local programming, in my opinion.

I thought WTIC would at least pick up the new EIB / Clay Travis/Buck Sexton show in the usual 12-3 "Rush" time slot. Instead they're changing their entire talk radio format with all *very boring* local programming.

I'd say Tom Shattuck is a 3rd rate local talk show host at best.

The conservative talk show hosts in the 9am - 12 noon slot at WTIC used to be very good: Jim Vicevich, then Pastor Will Marotti. Vicevich had health problems, and had to leave the show. Marotti took over and kept the show afloat for several years, with Vicevich's loyal regular callers. Now Pastor Will Marotti is leaving because he has to focus full-time on his megachurch and school in Wallingford, CT.

Tom Shattuck and several other potential hosts filled in over the past couple of months during the 9-12 noon slot for Marotti. Shattuck was one of the worst, IMO. Several of the regular callers would criticize him on air, or they just disappeared altogether. So what does WTIC do? Reward Tom Shattuck with his own show in a prime slot! I fully expect The Tom Shattuck Show to crash and burn.

Todd Feinburg is OK, but whines about the same thing all the time: How bad the state of CT is, how bad the governor and state legislature is, yadda yadda yadda. Connecticut and the northeast is hopeless, politically. Why tune in to hear such misery day after day??