Michael Graham To Sub For Howie Carr Thursday

[Bob Nelson]

Could be...btw good article about the WTKK format change on Boston Business Journal

 http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/2013/01/greater-media-ceo-talks-about-wtkk.html?ana=twt

 >>strong ratings didn’t last. Smyth says WTKK dropped out of the top 10 in the past two years, and showed no signs of recovering. He cites a number of factors, including the emergence of CBS Boston’s 98.5 The Sports Hub, which drew a number of male listeners away, and a widespread frustration with politics during the budget impasses in Washington. It was getting tougher to sell ads for WTKK, a problem that Smyth says reflected a broader industry trend: Middle-of-the-road talk stations were losing listeners, and advertisers were increasingly shying away from controversial left-leaning or right-leaning stations.

 It goes on to say launching FM news would be expensive and he didn't want to put on yet another sports station,
 so they went for music.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Watson
Sent: 01/16/13 04:23 PM
To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Michael Graham To Sub For Howie Carr Thursday

 Howie Carr announced at the beginning of his show today that he will be off tomorrow to tend to a family matter, and filling in for him will be former WTKK host Michael Graham. Michelle McPhee is the usual fill in host for Howie, maybe Graham filling in could be an audition for a spot on WRKO's roster? Mark Watson