Re: SO where are the women these days?

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Nelson" <raccoonradio@yahoo.com>
To: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>;
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: SO where are the women these days?


> Am surprised there isn't a move to put more
> female talkers on. But WRKO's Mike Elder is quoted
> in the Globe article as saying, "I have found that
> women don't always want to listen to women".
> So I guess he solved that by getting rid of the
> last two female hosts on 'RKO, eh?

That's a pretty simplistic analysis.  How did the show do in the ratings
compared to the other programming?  How was the quality of the show?  Should
WRKO hire women just because they are women?

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine