DePetro could not be dumb enough to sandbag the ratings like this, could he?

I mean, if you are going to cook the numbers, at least make them appear to have some basis in reality. Not women 25-34 going from 0 to 12.1% and men 25-34 going from 1.7 to 14.1%!

Who did he think he was going to fool with that nonsense? Did he let one of his kids fill out the book? I don't believe DePetro could possibly be involved in a lame-brained scheme like this.

I have seen some pretty radical swings from one book to the next but nothing anywhere close to this. There has to be a better explanation because no one can be this stupid to believe they could pull this off without people noticing. Good God, have we fallen so far as a society that we can't even cheat properly anymore? And in Rhode Island, no less, where corruption is as natural as mother's milk.

DePetro: "Just imagine if I could get my Mom's house loaded with six of those diaries and they all reflected listening to me! I could be KING OF THE WORLD! It would be almost IMPOSSIBLE to determine that I stacked the deck, even if all six people listed the same address. Bwahahahahahahah!"

Talk about someone being a few French Fries short of a Happy Meal.

We all know one thing-DePetro didn't cook the books up here in Boston. Or if he did, he didn't do a good job.

You all know (or can imagine) how I feel about that homophobe and his occasional lunatic ravings while at RKO. In fact, my husband was instrumental in organizing protests after his transgression against peoplekind.

Yet there is some entertainment value in JD as one wants to tune in to see what over the top position he will espouse next (kind of like looking at an automobile or train wreck).

Like that snarky Severino and many other radio "personalities" I think that Depetro is pure shtick and none of it is real. The last personality who was himself was (IMHO) the late, great Andy Moes. Sigh, there was a larger than life personality!

I fail to see how 6 out of 2160 (0.3%) diaries could have much of an effect on JD's ratings. There has to be other factors responsible for his huge increase in ratings.

I gotta agree with Kevin how can 6 diaries make this big of an impact? There must be something more to the story or perhaps Brian you can give us all a crash course in how the ratings work in radio and how 6 diaries out of over 2000 can skew the numbers that bad.

Depetro's character and actions are an embrassment to WPRO and all talk radio. They'd do well to get rid of him quickly, though letting him squirm and invent more ridiculous excuses would be entertaining. And since he's thrown his wife under the bus (typical), he can visit divorce court on the way to the unemployment office. Using his kids as a shield was a nice touch, too.
This should serve as a warning to any station that is considering let one of their sales guys be an on-air personality just because they want to be a celebrity. The best talk hosts have some experience with life outside of radio.
All in all, it's an appropriate end to a guy who has always tried to elevate himself by denegrating everyone around him.