Howie Carr list ping.
btw Howie is now 60...
This may explain why talk radio is getting less local or even doing things like what just happened to “Talk 1200” in Boston: They put Rush and Coast 2 Coast back on WRKO, and AM 1200 is now ALL COMEDY.
Sports is also a popular choice for talk radio because there’s a broader and younger demo. Ask most people the following question and see what answer you get:
“Which would you rather hear on talk radio?
a) Romney’s running mate
b) The NFL”
Hmm.
>>In Clear Channel’s case, its 2008 sale to Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners has left the radio group, which owns 850 stations and has the largest reach in the country, $20 billion in the red,
Blame Romney! No wait he left Bain...
Simply amazing how they weaseled that little nugget in there, isn’t it?
I know some of the “higher ups” at Hot 92.3 in L.A. as I used to work for them and still buds. They knew exactly what they were doing when they had the younger lead in’s like Jimmy Rey, become the voice of the station even though Art Laboe is the soul of that station.