I mean, come on! It’s not like they are selling plasma TV’s at a loss to draw a crowd on Black Friday! Why not try a novel approach and have TWO radio stations that are well run and profitable??!!!!???!!!

I believe raccoonradio is correct. WRKO IS being run as a loss leader. It sure as hell looks that way to me.

Media Biz

One more time, THERE WAS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN ELIMINATING THE NEWS STAFF AND THE HIRING OF TOM FINNERAN. It simply isn’t true no matter how many times Brian tells you it is.

I disagree with you 100% Mr. Mole! Although there may not be a financial connection between those two actions, there most definitely is a connection of another sort.

The decision to fire the news staff and bring in the dumbass Metro news hub and the decision to hire The Felon to do the morning show are both connected because they are indicative of very poor management. You can point out that the Metro news hub maximizes ad revenue while minimizing labor costs but there is more to quality radio than finding the cheapest labor.

Look at it this way: What has WRKO gained by putting these barely literate buffoons on the air to read the news? Yeah, they’re cheap! That’s because they suck. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys! WRKO has changed from a reliable news source to a laughingstock with news readers who can’t even correctly pronounce the names of the towns that they are reporting on. We’re not talking about some low watt station in rural Arkansas, we’re talking about a heritage station in one of the biggest media markets in the country. So while the Empress and Coffee Boy are busy dislocating their shoulders patting themselves on the back because of all the money they saved, their station has turned into a crapfest. WOW, what a bargain!

The hiring of the Felon is just one more in a long line of poor decisions from the Dynamic Doofus Duo. You cannot divorce the current state of WRKO from the “management” that has been at the helm. They have run this ship up on the rocks. If you are a Navy Captain and your ship runs aground, you are relieved of command - no questions asked. It doesn’t matter if it was the middle of the night and a junior officer was at the wheel while you were asleep in your bunk. It is your ship and it ran aground. Period. You are to blame - end of story.

This is the line that needs to be used when dealing with the 2 knuckleheads running WRKO. They have presided over a shipwreck and they need to be relieved of command. Period. You can dance around the issues all you want and say things like, “THIS situation has nothing to do with THAT situation”, etc. but at the end of the day there is no escaping the fact that WRKO is in the grip of some awful managers who have done nothing but screw it up.

The WRKO of today bears very little resemblance to the station prior to Coffee Boys ascension. It will not be a quality station again until he is gone.

So what I was listening to at 3 AM was taped 10 hours or so in advance.

No, but it sure is the place to go if you’re looking for a car dealer or a new living room set.

Diana’s death? You’re really grasping now. Tragic? yes…signifcant? hardly.

In the mid90’s Israeli PM Rabin was assasinated on a Saturday afternoon during WBZ’s all-sports weekend block. Guess what? They stuck with covering sports only doing their regular news updates at TOH. They went straight to broadcasting Montreal-Bruins game on that same evening.

WBZ hasn’t been about news for a long time.

“…it can be argued that WRKO was ahead of its time and stopped spending bad money after good long ago. Way to go Coffee Boy!!!”.

The comment above must be right AFTER rko signed felon to host fineran’s failure, and it stopped right BEFORE rko signed him again.

staffer you are funny! Thank you for the laugh this afternoon.