From: nhmas\@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
Subject: Boston radio scene and other stuff
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: _
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:38:19 GMT



Scott Fybush :

>more of a ratings force never came to pass.  Instead, the other talker
>in town, WRKO, bought WHDH, and is now remolding it as a satellite
>talker, with Gene Burns (late of WRKO and now of WOR in NY) on from
>12 to 3, Talknet at night and local talk in morning drive.

Gene is live from 3 to 5pm national and from 5 to 6 just for local WOR
audience.
*He's TD on WHDH from 6-8pm*. Rush Limbaugh airs 12-3 on WHDH live. 
3-6pm slot on WHDH is filled by couple of inept local talk-radio guys
(a local right-wing preacher and a left-wing columnist from a local week
ly newspaper) and I'm sure they get creamed in the ratings by Jerry
Williams who is on 2-6pm on a sister-station WRKO. In just released ratings
for September to November period in Boston for 12+group :

1.WXKS 107.9FM - CHR "New England's only 12-in-a-row station"(over over and
over..) 
                 KISS 108;
                 o&o by a recently formed by Boston Radio Group 
                 by parent owner Pyramid Broadcasting and Atlantic Ventures.
2.WBZ 1030AM - all-news before 7pm/talk all night
               o&o by Group W.(Congrats,Scott!)

3.WRKO 680AM - all-talk and Red Sox games
               o&o by Boston Radio Group(formely Atlantic Ventures)

4.WODS 103.3FM - all oldies all the time;OLDIES 103
               o&o by CBS Inc.

5.WBCN 104.1FM - AOR "The Rock of Boston"
               o&o by Infinity Broadcasting.

6.WZOU 94.5 - Top 40(WXKS' main competitor) "Z-94"
               o&o by Armand Broadcasting
  WMJX 106.7 - AC "Magic 106.7"
               o&o by Greater Media

8. WSSH 99.5 -  Soft AC; "WISH 99.5"
                (I forget who owns them)

9. WHDH 850AM - All talk;
                o&o by Boston Radio Group(recently purchesed)

> I expect when Larry King, who's now on WRKO, moves to afternoons,
> he'll end up on WHDH here.  He can't end up on WRKO, since Jerry Williams is
>contractually bound to the 2 to 6 slot there.

Same here. King will definetly be on WHDH as new owners,BRG, shape that
stations into a more of a syndicated talk outlet with Rush,King, and Gene in
their stable with
WRKO remaining very local-oriented.

>Just to recap for the Boston market alums out there, here's what the
>lineup looks like these days:

>WEEI (sports) 6-10 AM Tom Doyle and Craig Mustard
>             10AM-3PM Glenn Ordway (I think)

              10-1 Dale Arnold
              1-4  Glenn Ordway(Celtics' play-by-play guy) and Dave Shea

>             3-7 PM Eddie Andelman
              4-7 PM is for Fast Eddie

>              7PM-overnight local sports, then satellite sportstalk

              7pm-11pm Jimmy "Downtown" Myers unless pre-empted by
              a Celtics or a Bruins game.
 
              11pm-1am Sports By-Line(syndicated,out of San Fransico) with
              Ron Barr.

>WRKO         5-9 AM Janet Jeghelian and Mike Cuthbert
>             9-11 AM Victoria Jones (late of WXYT Detroit)

              9-11am Howie Carr(Boston Herald)

>             11-noon Victoria Jones and Howie Carr
              I crave for Gene more and more after I occasionally
              tune to listen to these two morons.

>             noon-2PM Howie Carr (Boston Herald)
              12-2pm Victoria Jones(I know more about England than
              she does about the States;I find her absolutely uninformed)

>             2-6 PM Jerry Williams
>             6PM-11PM Avi Nelson (I think)
              He was dumped after Pyramid&Atlantic Venture merger

              6-8pm SportsTalk with Dick Lutsk unless pre-empted by Red Sox
              8-11pm a new syndicated show(I forget the host's name)
              unless pre-empted by Red Sox.

>             11PM-5AM King

>WHDH          5-10 AM Marjorie Clapprood and Pat Whitley
>              10AM-noon The Money Experts (local business talk)
>              noon-3PM Gene Burns (WOR Network)
               12-3   Rush  Limbaugh
>               3-7 PM Mark Jurkowitz and the Rev. Earl Jackson
               these clowns lost an hour since Gene comes on at 6;
>              7 PM-5 AM Talknet
               8pm-5am Talknet : unlimitted wasteland of talk radio

-PPV Mark

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