Today’s Tom Taylor newsletter is full of bad news.
Dow Jones has pulled the plug on Wall Street Jornal this morning and related programming. The program was distributed by Compass Media Networks, who is making noises about putting together a replacement – but without access to the reporters of the Wall Street Journal, I don’t know how you do that. Bloomberg and Doug Stephan are the obvious replacement.
My theory about Howie Carr appears to be correct. His “national syndicated show” was a negotiation ploy with WRKO, nothing more. His contract is over, and November 7th was his last show. This might put a different significance to his car accident.
Radio One had an 8% drop in revenue. Money going for political ads wasn’t spent on their all black stations. When 93% of black voters vote for every Democrat no matter who it is, you don’t need to pay any attention to them.
Of course, all of the above is the fault of Rush Limbaugh.
Howie has announced that he will be back on the air at 3 pm on Monday the 17th…with VB and Sandy. No word on syndication or the station, so you may be right about that one.
Boston.com says he may be talking to WMEX-AM – there is no such radio station. The only radio station called WMEX is a Low Power FM station in New Hampshire.
Unless Entercom approves, I doubt he can be on radio – he probably has a non-compete contract – so he may be “back” on a stream in his web page, like Mancow or Tom Leykis. Let me know if you hear anything more specific
Entercom owns howiecarr.com – Howie’s own web site is howiecarrshow.com
This is probably who Howie is talking with – the station changed its name frm WMEX to WUFC in 2012
http://1510wufc.com
Perhaps it will be an internet only show like many hosts who lost their gig.
He apparently is bringing along some coworkers from the past – but they probably want to get a paycheck. An internet-only stream might be able to work, but it requires a lot of patience and working capital until you attract the audience. Getting people to pay to hear your wonderful thoughts is a tough sell.
Yep…you nailed it. From Northeast Radio Watch:
“…Carr, for his part, wasted no time finding a new Boston outlet. If he was unhappy with the night signal of WRKO all those years, he’s going to be even more miserable after dark on WUFC (1510), which is expected to announce today that it’s picking up Carr’s new syndicated show alongside the other Boston Herald Radio content it now carries. And that’s not the only announcement coming from 1510: back at the end of October, it quietly applied to change calls to WMEX, a heritage callsign it could start using as early as today.”
Compass Media, which handles the ad sales and syndication is reported to be trying to find a way to produce a replacement show themselves keeping Gordon Deal as host.