Boston Herald columnist/WRKO squawker Howie Carr is experiencing an extreme bout of Howenfreude over the demise of FM talk station WTKK. (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff did a weekly segment on the Jim & Margery show.)
Today’s triumphant nyah-nyah from Carr:
Talk radio’s not dead, just moonbats’ radio
WTKK wouldn’t be turning off the lights next week if I could have just gotten over there back in 2007. No brag, just fact. And by the way, I’m still damn sorry I didn’t make good my escape from the AM band.
But here in Massachusetts, in the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. And you wonder why I dismember so many state judges. Payback is a bitch, you hacks.
Still, WTKK’s failure is not the end of talk radio in Boston. Nature abhors a vacuum, and having no talk station on FM is a gaping hole. Less than 20 percent of the radio audience ever listens to AM radio — and it’s a mighty old audience, too. They don’t call it “Ancient Modulation” for nothing.
In his gleeful victory dance, however, Carr gets his feet all tangled up . . .
Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
I actually agree with Howie. “Eagan and Braude” was as different from NPR as you can get, but it probably appealed to the same audience.
Once they tweaked the show to intrude more often with trafic, weather, headlines and of course commercials (underwriting messages on NPR stations like WBUR and WGBH-FM are commercials too but less objectionable for ther most part), the E&B show became unlistenable. If I’m listening to the radio while they’re on, I go to either Boston NPR outlet or NH’s WEVO-FM 89.1 (I live north of Boston).