Rush Limbaugh back on WRKO Monday; Talk 1200 ends

WRKO ^ | 8/6/12 | raccoonradio

[raccoonradio]

WRKO welcomes back Rush Limbaugh on Monday. Coast to Coast might return too. It looks like Talk 1200 will end; supposedly the local hosts have been shown the door. The WRKO lineup will pair Todd Feinburg and Michele McPhee mornings followed by the Financial Exchange, Rush at noon, then Howie

[SamAdams76]

I don't understand the problem some have with Michele McPhee's voice. Maybe it's because I lived in Boston most of my life and this is just the way a lot of people talk - especially from the East Boston area.

She's not as conservative as I would like but on most issues, she's okay.

[rockabyebaby]

I was born and raised in Roxbury many many moons ago - I have lived in MA all my life (except for 8 years) and she is only the second person I’ve ever heard with that God awful voice. I’ve never heard anyone from Eastie who sounds like mcphee! It’s worse than nails on a blackboard. I wonder how long before Todd leaves!

[GOPsterinMA]

C2C is a joke. It’s like the John Edwards Show (the guy that can ‘speak’ to the dead, not the disgraced pol), only on the radio.

That drivel makes money?

[GOPsterinMA]

“I think Howie realizes that this is the best station for him, especially with Rush coming back to lead into his show. He's on for two more years at least and I wouldn't be surprised if he was to extend his contract further.”

Let's not forget that a Romney victory will be a HUGE boo$t to Howie, the Herald and ‘RKO.

For better or worse, Howie did a lot to get Mitt elected here in MA...I can see Howie getting exclusive interviews with POTUS Mitt at a minimum.

I foresee Howie staying with ‘RKO as long as Mitt is POTUS. Between Mitt and Whitey, Howie’$ a wealthy man who's going to get wealthier.

[ConservativeStatement]

It's not the accent so much as the pitch. She overcompensates by raising her voice. While I rarely listen to sports radio or watch ESPN (Linda Cohn is a national example), 98.5 has a guy named Tony who is also a screecher. He gets too excited for talking about whether the starting pitcher faced one too many batters the prior night. Important stuff there. It's a matter of taste, different strokes for different folks.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I listened to whatever that crap that was on 1200 at 8:00 am this morning. They had some woman and man driveling on about some woman who was arrested for leading cops on a topless car chase. Not listening to that again.

Mark Levin might be worthwhile, but Jay was only 3:00-6:00 anyway. Hannity doesn’t do it for me.

Too bad. Let me know if another job is created for Jay somewhere.

[raccoonradio]

Tony Massarotti aka “Tony Soprano”? :)

Again for me the kicker was 1/19/10. Scott Brown’s election night. One of her colleagues at 96.9, where she worked at the time, enters F1 Boston where they were doing a live remote and she loudly screeched MICHAEL GRAHAM IS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!
my ears are still recovering

[raccoonradio]

Clear Channel was having a tough time making money with 1200. They wondered if taking Rush off RKO (for it WAS their decision, they syndicate him) may have been a mistake. So here’s what they do: they go to RKO and ask if they want Rush and C2C back. RKO says YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! They didn’t want to lose them in the first place. CC tried to do local talk with Jeff and Jay but the decision now is apparently to cut them out (Severance pay, or Severin’s pay :) if you will!) and do national talk. More likely they try to find other stations to run Beck, Hannity, Levin etc. (96.9? 1510? who knows) at which point 1200 maybe goes Spanish,
sports, who knows.

From Someone Who Knows, it’s been said the chances of 1200 going prog talk are about as likely as Menino eating at
Chik Fil A. It failed at 1200 before and would fail again.

[maryz]

Clear Channel was having a tough time making money with 1200. They wondered if taking Rush off RKO (for it WAS their decision, they syndicate him) may have been a mistake.

I'm not getting the logic here . . . OK, I knew Rush was syndicated by a subsidiary of Clear Channel, and I figured that was why they moved him to a Clear Channel station when one became available in the area (did this happen elsewhere in the country?). What I don't understand is why they think 1200 can make more money without Rush than with him, unless this isn't the point at all and it's just a going-out-of-business sale of sorts. Oh well, I don't have a business type mind, as the most cursory glance at my bank account will attest! ;-)

Is RKO keep the Wall Street Journal Report at 5:00 a.m.? I really can't abide Coast to Coast (it gives me the creeps, especially early when I'm all alone and it's still dark out --LOL!), so I hope it doesn't run until 5:30!

[raccoonradio]

RKO has a better signal. They want Rush on a powerful station. The 1200 station didn’t live up to expectations and now they’re just running their shows to get them out there and hope for the best. For all we know it could change format
sometime

In Prov CC moved Rush from Cumulus’ WPRO 630 to their own
WHJJ 920, etc

A tweet from Mark of Boston Radio Watch:
“680 was a pretty strong Rush affil b4 CC plunked him away in 2010. They damaged 680’s revenue and their own profits. Stupid move”

Wall St Journal report may still be on. I’m hearing Coast 2 Coast will be 1-5 am, Mcphee and Feinburg will start at 5:30, so would guess Wall St Journal show continues in
current slot.

[maryz]

Thanks!