Posted on 01/06/2008 5:56:07 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr live thread for week of Jan 6, 2008 (we will start off with his column from today's Sunday Boston Herald about how Hillary is "so yesterday". For those unfamiliar, Howie is a longtime writer for the Boston Herald and author of "The Brothers Bulger" (cash register rings here)--and, since the early 90s, Boston-based talk radio host.
Howie can be heard weekdays 3-7 pm (hours vary depending on station) on WRKO in Boston and several other stations in New England (WRKO, WCRN Worcester, and WNTK in New Hampshire all stream). For the New Hampshire primary, Howie and his gang are right in the belly of the beast (the Hilldabeast!) and his show will be must listening the next few days. As it is always...FReep me to join the Howie Carr ping list.
Just keeping ratings in mind for WRKO, how can BC basketball attract more listeners than Michael Savage? Even if one does not like Savage the man does pull in the ratings. I cant imagine what share the BC game does - if any!
Contractual obligations. WEEI carries them and when
they have something else going on, like Celtics, they bump
them to WRKO.
I never understood broadcasting BC games, hell, I don't understand broadcasting any sports on the radio, I'm visual so "hearing" it doesn't cut it unless I'm seeing it! I don't mind hearing the scores, etc. but hearing a game is just so boring to me and YES it cuts into SAVAGE, I listen faithfully everynite, the man is so informative, one of a kind!
Dick Morris has no credibility! Dick predicted a total Democratic Party takeover of Congress in ‘02, which didn’t happen, and Dick also predicted that Hillary Clinton will win everything in ‘08, which now looks like that won’t happen. What is it with so many people still seriously believing that Dick Morris has any credibility when it comes to any political predictions?
The most used example is golf. Golf has a relatively low number of viewers, but most of those viewers can afford to buy the luxury goods that are advertised.
Ergo, the advertisers get the best value for their money in hitting that demo.
My guess is radio stations seize upon whatever local venue there is to grab the local listeners' attention whenever possible. Now they have a sports demo to sell to advertisers.
Plus, there's probably listener fatigue to take into account too. Nothing but politics wears one out.
I'm ready for another death pool, elevator-music-from-hell, some non-political author, or even a celebrity-promoting-a-charity/cause segment to get away from politics for an hour.
I justy got in. Have I missed chumps yet?
Howdy Rocki! how’s things goin?
I used to have a basset hound named TAG!!
Hey cheapskate! Long time......I’m fighting a cold, today the temp was 66 bleepin’ degrees and I just KNOW in a few days we’re gonna be shivering again......please say prayers for our FRiend and INFIDEL stephenjohnbanker, diagnosed with cancer..........
DAMN! Will do!!
No, no DP. I’m just sick of politics and was wishing Howie would go on the lighter side of talk for a change.
During the New Hampshire Primary? Not a chance!
Howie column ping
Long haul falling short for Mitt, bank account
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
Twenty million, 30 million, 40 million . . . pretty soon, Mitt Romney is going to be talking about real money here.
“Washington is broken,” Mitt said last night. Unfortunately, so is his campaign. Ann Romney stood behind him, wearing black, which seemed appropriate for the occasion. According to his staff, Mitt’s in it for the “long haul,” although that all depends on what the definition of the word “long” is.
This morning, how’d you like to be a Romney fund raiser? Or a Romney worker in Michigan? Or a Romney anything? On the Internet message boards last night, they were trying out a new name for him, “MittWitt.”
Personally, I like the guy. But it’s just not happening. His spokesman, Kevin Madden, was reduced last night to describing John McCain as an “incumbent” in New Hampshire. Cripes, Mitt’s the one who owns a house on Lake Winnipesaukee. It’s not on an island, though, which spares Mitt from being the butt of another joke - about being voted off the island.
Facts are stubborn things, as he told Mike Huckabee the other night. According to the exit polls, he lost to McCain not only among independents, but also Republicans. I repeat, he lost to John McCain, the Bob Dole of 2008.
Remember in 1988, when another Massachusetts governor, Mike Dukakis, won the Democratic primaries and then retired to the Berkshires to savor his victory, supremely confident that he could dispatch a guy, George H.W. Bush, with an accent like Frank Hatch’s?
The Duke had never had a real fight in the general election; once he knocked off Bob Quinn or Ed King, he was home-free. The Duke didn’t know how to run in November.
Mitt Romney has the reverse problem. He’s never really run in a primary. (John Lakian in 1994 does not count.) He’s always gotten a bye into the final, first against Ted Kennedy in 1994 and then against Shannon O’Brien in 2002. A presidential race is a tough place to get on-the-job training.
A woman in New Hampshire told me yesterday that she could never vote for Romney.
“He’s too perfect,” she said.
Too perfect? Mitt put his name on a book about his salvage job of the 2002 Winter Olympics - “Turnaround.” Saving the Olympics is a day at the beach compared to turning around his campaign. You might call it, The Impossible Dream.
How much money has he spent? He’s long since passed John Connolly and is now heading into Steve Forbes territory. I saw Mitt’s ghost of Christmas future in Manchester on Monday - Steve Forbes. He was working radio row for Rudy Giuliani, along with Paul Cellucci.
The most amazing number Ive seen was posted by National Review. One of the reporters said he’d been to WHO, the big clear-channel AM station in Des Moines where Dutch Reagan got his start.
The No. 1 advertiser on the station in 2007 was Monsanto, which produces fertilizers. No. 2 was Mitt Romney. Mitt dropped a million bucks on WHO in 2007 - on a radio station! The No. 3 advertiser was Bayer, another fertilizer company.
So it was a fertilizer company, Mitt, and then another fertilizer company. Fill in your own manure joke here.
How much more money can he blow in the next week in Michigan? It’s basically an open primary out there, which means more independent trouble, although he’s got enough headaches with his GOP base. If I’m Josh Romney out in Wyoming, looking to buy some more land out by the back 40, I wouldn’t sign any p&s’s. That money may have to go for the media buys in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
Ted Kennedy, Dukakis, Tsongas, Kerry and now Mitt Romney. Massachusetts is now 0-5 in recent presidential candidacies. A grateful nation breathes another sigh of relief.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1065416
Interesting moment last night when former Gov.
Paul Cellucci, the man whose great judgement
gave us Jane Swift, was on to plug Guiliani
and bash Romney, and Citizens for Ltd. Taxation’s
Barbara Anderson called in and slammed him.
Barbara was the force behind Prop 2 1/2 and,
with Howie and Jerry Williams, was one of the
“Governors” on WRKO for years.
I heard Barbara Anderson yesterday, she did not let up, kept pounding Cellucci, didn’t give him a minute’s peace, it was beautiful!
Turned me right off.
Wed. show ping. It’s the day after the night before, as
Jerry W. used to say.
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 9
1st Hour to be announced but prob NH primary talk
2nd Hour tba
3rd Hour
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4th Hour tba
Did you catch the end of Rush? Obama sound bite “Yes we can!”
I did hear the sound bite, when Howie played it. Yep,
stole from Deval—or Deval actually gave it to him.
Howie was slamming WRKO at the start of his show today (and having a bit of fun with it); mike broken
(at “the mothership”), lights out in studio, signal stinks after sunset, and they had a small booth to broadcast from in N.H. while “other stations” get auditoriums...
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