The same day it is announced that the NY Times is dumping the Boston Globe newspaper for a 96% loss to the owner of a sports team, the Boston Herald (Howie Carr’s paper) is launching an Internet only news/talk station. With WTKK-FM dead, there are several Boston area people looking for work – Michael Graham will be one of the hosts. Next time his contract runs out (maybe before), I could see Howie Carr showing up there. In general, the courts consider doing an Internet show as not competing with “real” radio.
So now we have come full circle – AM radio was mostly started by newspapers, and may well create what replaces them.
http://bostonherald.com/radioplayer/
The newsprint business is a real jungle…. with a huge river flowing read (sic) ink:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324653004578650390383666794.html
You only get one chance to make a first impression
– stream is stuttering
– phones were not working
– heavily dominated by female chatter
The first thing I heard was the women chatting about was would they have sex with Arod, and the consensus was “yes” since he has a lot of money they could take. Later on one of the women mentioned she just had a baby a few weeks ago.
Okay, we know what you are. We’re just haggling over the price.
Radio is not “TV without the pictures”. Being a Hot TV Chick will get you nowhere on radio.