It’s the same judge that issued both rulings. Next stop: State Appellate court.
Yes, it’s partly about the money - but Howie really hates it there. It sounds like the contract that he signed 5 years ago is a standard Entercom one. Scotto said that he signed the type. Don’t forget that today’s RKO is a different station that it was 5 years ago.
there’s a lot more discussion on this on the Boston board
at http://www.radio-info.com
The consensus seems to be that Howie got lousy legal
advice and that the “right to match” in his contract
is iron-clad, and perhaps that he’ll have to crawl back
to ‘RKO with his tail between his legs. Even though ‘RKO
has been doing nice things like having its employees
vandalize the Wikipedia pages of former employees
despite having a “non-disparagement” clase
(see Miller, Scott Allen). Or putting felons on the air.