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Re: Severin beating out Howie Carr?

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Bill O'Neill wrote:
> whenever a Boston area topic or story takes the stage.  OVer the past
> few months, that's been rare.  Carr's ABC net committment - gotta
> wonder if he's playing it right by deemphasizing the local market that
> put him on the (albeit Swiss cheese) radio map.  Think of the many

That's similar to WOR's Bob Grant here in New York.  Since WOR started
syndicating him, he's turned into this sedated bore of a show.  Kind of
like someone had pumped him full of quaaludes.

Syndication does not do good things for a radio show, especially one that 
was local to begin with.

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