WRKO is advertising for a full-time host:
Do you have what it takes to be in a top ten market, with 50,000 watts of power at your command and working under these legendary call letters that gave birth to the talk format? WRKO is looking someone who lives and breathes the news cycle. Not just politics, but pop culture as well. Can you discuss any topic with a passion; can you disagree without being disagreeable? Can you light up the phone lines, keep the conversation moving and interesting? Can you leave your ego at the door and work for a company that will give you the best and brightest minds in the industry to help guide you to success?
Via Bob Nelson.
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So why aren't you going for
By anon
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 11:14am
So why aren't you going for it Adam? You could run UHub from a tablet while on-air.
Alas
By adamg
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 11:18am
I have a voice that was made for print.
And RKO is Rush Limbaugh and Howie Carr
By jmeltzer
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 11:58am
or was the last time I had the misfortune to listen to it. Did Howie ever manage to break his contract?
Howie's still at WRKO
By Nancy
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 12:41pm
I admit that I listen to him for a segment or two on the ride home for some amusement but I can only take ranting about EBT cards and the other four topics (will he ever give up talking about Whitey?) he has in rotation for a very short amount of time.
Per Bob Nelson's link
By adamg
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 1:28pm
So is this for a replacement for Howie?
By Nancy
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 3:01pm
Or are they getting rid of that horrible person who does their morning drive time show? The one who said that people were out to get him and were using practices akin to the Stasi? The anti-immigration immigrant?
You left out
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 3:04pm
race baiting Islamophobe and disgusting homophobe. There, fixed it!
Howie's business
By bulgingbuick
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 8:41pm
partner killed more people than ISIS. Something RKO can be proud of.
I know someone who might apply for that job
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 3:03pm
after he loses the Sheriff's race...
Howie Carr's still alive?
By PeterGriffith5
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 4:33pm
Howie Carr's still alive? Maybe Virgin Boy can resurrect his show, "The Pitts"?
As to the ad's text, RKO didn't invent talk radio. WEEI was doing talk radio in the 60's.
Masseroti
By anon
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 7:42pm
That and his terrible on-air persona didn't stop Tony Maaseroti from being part of the top radio show in the market.
WRKO still exists?
By Neal
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 11:56am
I only remember it as a kid as a bunch of advertisements and headlines that would be broadcast through the earpieces of hung-up phones and elements of electric ovens of friends who lived near its transmission towers over off of Lexington St in Burlington.
That said, the fact that they need to advertise for a full time host is probably another sign that terrestrial radio is pretty much dead.
My thought, too
By bibliotequetress
Sun, 08/24/2014 - 1:55pm
I'm surprised WRKO is still around, but then again, there's still a corner of the population that's elderly, not computer literate, and listens to commercial talk radio non-stop. Someone's gotta buy the ShamWows & gold ingots.
And listen to the Andelmans dump on food trucks,
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 08/24/2014 - 2:32pm
insult restaurant hostesses, and make crappy racist jokes.
Oh, wait: they got the heave-ho, too.
Dave still turns up
By Brian Riccio
Sun, 08/24/2014 - 3:48pm
on Howie's show sometimes. When he has some ripoff event to plug. Listening to Dave Andleman discuss politics is like listening to monkeys at a typewriter.
All Market Basket, All the Time
By BostonDog
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 12:38pm
I'm going to pitch a "Market Basket Drama" show where we spend 4 hours each and every day discussing the supermarket chain.
Each Friday will be "Call in and bitch about cyclists Friday" where we open the phones to YOU to complain about how you saw someone running a red on Tuesday. For extra irony we'll give you extra time on-air if you are calling from your cell phone while driving.
To keep the show fresh each year from late October to sometime in April we'll focus entirely on space savers in South Boston. Who could get tired of people talking about that?
I figure I'm a shoe-in. Now to go polish up on my sexists remarks....
Let's not forget ...
By jmeltzer
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 1:54pm
the Storrowcam.
Some of these questions are hilarious
By MC Slim JB
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 2:26pm
"Can you disagree without being disagreeable? Can you leave your ego at the door?"
It's like these people never listen to their own talk radio programming, or any talk radio programming, for that matter.
Indeed
By perruptor
Sat, 08/23/2014 - 2:36pm
When I saw that "leave your ego at the door," I laughed. Based on the hosts they have now, the real qualifications seem to be "be an opinionated blowhard whose usual response when contradicted is badly-informed invective." Hmmm ... maybe I should apply.
Nah, I couldn't maintain that level of ignorance long enough to satisfy their audience.
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