Howie Carr live thread 5/11/07

Howie Carr live ping

UPCOMING GUESTS

Today, May 11
Style guru Thom Filicia (you remember him from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) currently the host of the Style Network’s Dress My Nest will be in town for a one-day, interactive workshop on interior design - working with Karastan carpets and rugs. The workshop proceeds are going to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Tickets can be bought on line at karastan.com.

May 14
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has co-authored a novel with historian William R. Forstchen entitled Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th, Book One of the Pacific War Series. This new book covers the full spectrum of characters and events from that historic moment, from national leaders and admirals to the views of ordinary citizens caught in the chaos of war.

May 17
Regular TV political analyst Bay Buchanan has a new book out entitled The Extreme Makeover of Hillary (Rodham) Clinton in which Bay reports how Hillary has carefully put away the trappings of a liberal and wrapped herself in a cloak of moderation. What do you think of Hillary’s chances...

May 18
Comic legend Norm Crosby will join us in studio. Norm is in town for a special performance featuring Don Gavin, Tony V, Brian Kiley and Patty Ross. One performance only at the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Saturday, May 19, 2007 8 p.m. Tickets $25 - $45 are on sale now at Telecharge.com, or by calling (800) 233-3123. For more information, call the Box Office at (617) 824-8000.

May 22
Former legendary District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi will be in studio with us to discuss his new work Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A question or two about Charlie Manson would also not be out of place....

May 25
Music collector maven Mighty John will be with us to talk about classic music albums. Call in and ask Mighty John about the treasures you have stored in your attic....

June 5
We will joined by New Ipswich, NH Police Chief W. Garrett Chamberlain who has earned a reputation for being tough on illegal immigrants in his state.

Here’s a piece I wrote for the Boston Radio Blog about
the Sox Radio Network...note that Howie benefitted from
those Spring Training games. He lost an hour of his show
but some Sox listeners stayed tuned to 680 and got to hear
the Fried Clam Man

Entercom feels WRKO and WEEI both helped by Sox

by raccoonradio

The Globe’s Susan Bicklehaupt writes that Entercom is pleased with how the Red Sox broadcasts are doing on the new flagship station of Red Sox Baseball, WRKO, and sister station WEEI (which carries Wednesday night and weekday afternoon games). She also
quotes Jason Wolfe, Entercom Boston’s VP of AM Operations, as saying that “both of the new guys have been very well received so far”.

However criticism of Glenn Geffner has been expressed at sites such as the
38cliches.com blog and radio-info.com’s
Boston board. It has been said that Geffner talks too fast and too much, and
SurvivingGrady is quoted as saying that he “brings nothing to the table”.

Last year, Jerry Trupiano’s contract was not renewed; in his place are Geffner,
who has worked with Red Sox bigwig Larry Lucchino in the past, and Dave O’Brien,
who cannot do every game due to work conflicts with ESPN. (This writer agrees
with the comments about Geffner’s rapid-fire delivery. He sounds young, perhaps
a bit too young, almost as if the Sox had grabbed an announcer for a minor league
team (maybe a “Single A Short Season”) and thrust him into the spotlight. It has been suggested that Geffner might do better as someone updating listeners on the
out-of-town scores, though the Sox Radio Network already has someone for that.

Bicklehaupt’s Globe article does say that the weekday afternoon games that had
aired on WRKO during Spring Training in March did manage to help out Howie Carr.
The afternoon drive talker, who would be joined in progress around 4 pm when
games were on, went from a 5 share to a 6. So the Sox may have proved a good
lead in for Howie, though from henceforth weekday afternoon games are on WEEI
instead.

Entercom feels that putting Red Sox games on WRKO helps gain them new listeners
(promos running for talk shows during the game, etc.) while WEEI can still
carry some games and talk about them before, during, and after, otherwise. (WEEI even
extends “Sox talk” until 1 am on weeknights when there are games, with
“Red Sox Review”, thus depriving the area of one precious hour of Yankee
superfan “JT The Brick”...

poll
Two men who planted electronic devices in a botched television promotion, prompting a bomb scare that briefly paralyzed Boston, apologized today and were sentenced to perform community service. Should they have received jail time?

yes
79%
no
21%

They were “performance artists”—oh, like that woman that used to smear excrement on herself on stage?

1st Hour
Two men who planted obscene electronic devices that prompted a widespread bomb scare and paralyzed Boston in a botched promotion for the Cartoon Network apologized today and performed community service to resolve criminal charges against them. Should they have done jail time?

2nd Hour

3rd Hour
CHUMP LINE! Call 617-779-3469 and leave Howie, Sandy or Happy a message about today’s stories or anything else buzzing around your bonnet and we may play it back on the air!.

It is Police Blotter Fax Friday! You can fax (617-779-3467) or e-mail your funny police/accident/crime stories from your local papers to Sandy. Make sure to include your name address and phone number on your entry and if faxing that it is a copy and not the original! If Sandy picks yours as one of the two big winners you will win a fabulous prize!

Style guru Thom Filicia (you remember him from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) currently the host of the Style Network’s Dress My Nest will be in town for a one-day, interactive workshop on interior design - working with Karastan carpets and rugs. The workshop proceeds are going to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Tickets can be bought on line at karastan.com.

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