FROM BOSTON RADIO WATCH
Developing : WRKO pursuing Finneran for AM drive
Boston Herald's website is reporting this afternoon that Entercom's talker WRKO AM 680 is still very much interested in hiring former speaker of Mass. House of Representatives speaker Tom Finneran. Negotiations are still on-going between Finnearan and WRKO. However, the Herald's report states that Finneran is seeking a morning-drive slot and not, as earlier reported, the vacant early midday slot(9am-12pm) previously held by John DePetro. It's not clear whether Finneran would become a co-host with the current morning driver Scott Allen Miller or would become station's new solo AM-drive personality.
Arbitron's winter survey period begins next Thursday(1/11) and market's two fulltime talkers - WRKO and WTKK - are in the process of putting together and rolling out their new line-ups. WTKK 96.9FM has already announced this week(BRW 1/3) that will unveil its reshuffled all-live&local morning and afternoon line-up starting on Monday(1/8). Depending on how much longer the Finneran negotionations take, WRKO should also be announcing its revamped line-up any day now. WRKO will also become a new Red Sox flagship in April and its weekday night-time schedule, except for Wednesdays, will be taken up by sports.
Deval has a nice voice and everything, but even in the bits Howie's playing, his voice just goes by in waves and nothing he said leaves an impression. Weird.
Fung Wah is Chinese for "The Bus Is On Fire"