Rod Fritz is fired, who is next?

[Kevin Vahey]

This has been an ongoing problem at WBZ-AM for decades.

Larry Glick had millions of listeners in the 70's but Westinghouse could
not find advertisers as no rating service could prove it. 50 years the all
night show at WABC was heavily sponsored by a clothing store in a strip
mall in Union, New Jersey who paid the whopping amount of $700 a week.and
people drove hundreds of miles to go to that store.

David Brudnoy had a huge following on WBZ but was preempted by Bruins radio
and station execs admitted the Bruins were a huge profit center for them.

6 years ago we saw CBS Radio blow up WODS which had a loyal following from
1987 until 2012 but they couldn't sell it because of demographics.

Nobody at iHeart in San Antonio cares about the legacy of WBZ - they just
see it as one of 4 AM stations in Boston that they now own.

https://www.iheartmedia.com/iheartmedia/stations?city=Boston

When Entercom bought CBS Radio they decided that WBZ-AM was expendable over
other properties they had but none of us saw the swap with iHeart coming.




On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 8:58 PM, <adamnw@aol.com> wrote:

> Can someone speak to the economic benefit or lack there of, of laying off
> Dan Rae and Bradley Jay. Does saving a few hundred thousand (at most)
> really benefit Iheart? Between advertising dollars and bad will, doesn't
> cost more money not having them on?
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>
> To: 'Donna Halper' <dlh@donnahalper.com>; 'Kevin Vahey' <kvahey@gmail.com>
> Cc: 'Boston Radio Group' <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 10:50 am
> Subject: RE: Rod Fritz is fired, who is next?
>
> Sources within WBZ say that the rumor in house is that Dan Rea and Bradley
> J will be the next on the chopping block....with syndicated programming
> running from 7pm til 5am.
>
> Gary Francis
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-
> bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org
> <boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org?>] On Behalf Of
> Donna Halper
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2018 1:10 AM
> To: Kevin Vahey
> Cc: Boston Radio Group
> Subject: Re: Rod Fritz is fired
>
> On 3/30/2018 6:43 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> > Here is the memo
> >
> > Hi-
> >
> > We want to make you aware of a change here in the newsroom. Rod Fritz
> > is moving on and will no longer anchor here at WBZ.
> >
> >
>
> I think it's outrageous the way it was handled. Given his many years
> there, you'd think the memo would have been a little warmer & more
> courteous, but I guess iHeart doesn't care about longevity, am I right?
>
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