WRKO morning host Jeff Kuhner isn't on the air this week because he has Covid-19.
All Access reports CBS plans to sell or swap the AM news station (and also 98.5 FM) as it merges with Entercom. Entercom, meanwhile, will unload WRKO and WKAF (97.7 FM).
Behold the following Twitter exchange between our resident professional crank and our resident mayor:
— Mayor Marty Walsh (@marty_walsh) January 26, 2017
H/t VinnieTesla.
The Globe reports local columnist Howard Louis Carr, Jr. has been granted a leave of absence from his radio show on WRKO.
Remember when talk-show hosts mostly weren't all angry, spitting screamers?
Oh, wait, sorry, no, they're just going to start airing Rush Limbaugh's daily bleats. Also, Michele McPhee will be taking Tom Finneran's old spot in the morning.
The Herald reports that Finneran and his toady Grover Dill are not leaving WRKO - they just felt like having some fun and making people t
The latest episode in Carr's WRKO saga takes a comedic turn as Our Hero runs to the state Attorney General's office because WRKO didn't give him a bonus - on top of his $1
There's one media outlet that isn't so sanguine about the Patriots' performance Sunday: WRKO-AM. They beg to differ:
Bob Nelson reports on the Boston Radio List that he was listening to Carr on WRKO this afternoon and the car dealer came on down and said:
- He is not the Ernie Boch III, who's calling for a boycott of Carr's advertisers on Blue Mass. Group (and on tried on Red Mass. Group, where the reaction was a bit less friendly).
- Flack Extraordinaire George Regan suggested he hire a private investigator to find out who III really is
- Boch thinks it's somebody at the State House
For trying to help him get out of his contract with WRKO. He hugs them and musses their hair and gives them a friendly "yer momma."
Boston Radio Blog reports that WRKO has now played the same exact Jerry Doyle show seven times over the past two weeks.
The Herald reports Reese Hopkins, recently laid off by WRKO, was arrested last night in Malden, where he now lives.
Reese Hopkins jettisoned for syndicated talker Laura Ingraham, Boston Daily reports. The Herald reports on additional cuts behind the scenes, including two of Tom Finneran's producers, the head of promotions, the head of national sales and a producer for Greg Hill at WAAF.
Save WRKO reports that station owner Entercom is in the middle of some serious cutbacks that include a wage freeze and the end of company contributions to employee 401(k) plans.
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