Silly Season on Boston talk radio

[Bob Nelson]

 First the WRKO morning show was inundated with callers saying that they heard Tom & Todd
would be cancelled and Joe Malone and Steve Sweeney would be taking their place. The hosts
played along, saying the program director could be called and people could call Howie's show or
start a Net group to get them back. Then we found out...it wasn't true. Malone and Sweeney were
on WTKK last Fri and joked about getting a show of their own on "a different station". 

Maybe true, but probably not. In the meantime Blue Mass Group blog picked up on it and reported it as fact. The WRKO facebook fan page had many outraged comments.

Then Michael Graham says a "big programming announcement" would occur today at noon. Just before noon he amended it to "a big announcement about the Michael Graham show". Turns out
this massive, important breaking news was...he's getting married. Well, good luck to him and his
bride to be, but a bit of bait and switch,no? 

In politics they call it silly season. This is talk radio silly season...