You can bet your bottom dollar that were "Farid Suleman" named "Fred Smith" no one would even blink. But because he has an ethnic name and is a person of color, he is targeted. Shameless. Typical right-wing attack!
Hey Celtic...
Please drop dead and get out of the way with your stupid liberal nonsense. How much of an egomaniac are you, anyway? Oh, wait...I know....you consider ANY attention paid to you, whether positive or negative, a good thing. Narcissism is unbecoming. And you're a boor.
Suleman is a creep, no matter what his ethnicity.
Sorta like YOU!
Why is Howie forbidden to utter the words "satellite radio", "Sirius" or "XM" (although he seems to be able to skirt the issue by saying "magic radio"), but can spend five minutes exulting on the below-$3.00 price of Entercomm stock? It IS great radio though.
Yes Bob...great post! CF your act has worn thin and everyone here knows what you're about now so you're not foolin' anyone. You are still so lonely and post here 24/7...get a life and ask a liberal to help you since they are supposed to be so tolerating...Conservatives will tell you straight up to get lost bacuse we don't have to be phoney about it we are at ease with calling losers out asap!
America is not (yet) colorblind, or sexual-persuasion indifferent, etc.
You are a lily-white straight American if you think otherwise. Sorry, but that's the truth!
Howie can't say satellite radio or XM or Sirius because entercom is insecure and afraid everyone will bolt to the competition. It's like not being able to say another station's call letters, however, letting Howie rant on and on about the stock is priceless, it's very entertaining, I'm not sure what or if entercom can do anything about that, stock is stock, it's not a competitor so what can they say? LOL! Howie is taking full advantage of it and I love it, he sticks it to entercom every chance he gets, it may not be professional but it sure is entertaining especially knowing all the details of what transpired between Howie and entercom!
JSYK, Talk about an ACT that has worn thin!
Radio has fired everybody.
Radio has used up good clients and relationships.
Radio has junked up and bastardized their products.
Radio over promises and unbelievers.
Radio screws stockholders
The chickens have come home to roost.
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/video-jeremiah-wright-chickens-coming-home-to-roost-september-11-full-sermon/
Look for more pay-to-play restaurant, gardening and finance shows.
Howie is forbidden to say "satellite radio" or mention XM or Sirius...because management is baffled by the concept. They don't not know how to deal with Howie, so they quietly demonize him behind his back, pretend they love him to his face, and continue to have a deep grumbling contempt for him, rather than realize he's been the franchise of the station for a very long time. Howie brings in the most WRKO dough by a wide margin. Ditto his ratings. The sales staff is caught in the middle and told to promote Finneran and Reese to the advertisers. Poor saps!
Love him or not, imagine WRKO without Howie Carr. That right...NOTHING left.
Management broke Howie's spirit, treated him like dirt because they don't like his sarcastic political views, blamed HIM for the contract problems when he wanted to leave, and then WRKO made everything worse for themselves by siding with the "beautiful people"...the Democrats Howie ridicules because of their failed policies and corrupt politics. Staff people say Howie was told "if you mention satellite radio, your producers will get the axe." Great management huh? Howie was also told not to refer to his employment as "indentured servitude". And they wonder why Howie wants OUT.
RKO management is no different than the dopes that run this state. They're too dumb to recognize they've made some very bad moves, and too stubborn to admit they were wrong when the shite hits the fan. So instead, management continues to treat Howie like the offender, makes HIM their enemy and wonders WHY he wants to leave so badly.
And now, in this dark economy, you'd think they'd finally realize what they have in Mr. Carr...but no. WRKO management would rather go down with the ship than simply PARTNER with Howie's side of the aisle and possibly change the course of their pre-determined doom.
Howie brings the only value to the station. No one else at RKO can compare to Howie's performance on the air, or the amount of revenue he generates for the station and his advertisers.
So what does RKO do? They "push" Reese, or glorify Finneran. And the station continues to sink...er, stink, while Howie succeeds in spite of it all.
SAVE WRKO? Since Wolfe was appointed VP of programming, nothing he's done at WRKO has worked. Nothing. And the sales staff remains caught in the middle, working like beaten and abused sled dogs every day to meet their numbers. So, who's the problem at RKO?
RKO staffer, God help us, MORE finance shows, oh sure, we just can't get enough of those and yes yes yes, please add another gardening show, keeping you down to earth, up to date and on the air, and please let there be THREE hosts who talk over each other......also, please add more colon cleanse promos and vitamin shows, those are VERY stimulating.
LOL at the above post by the real Barbara, but in fact with the deteriorating economy, the finance shows have become pretty interesting as they scramble to keep up a good front.
