Howie Carr leaves hostile WRKO to host WTKK’s morning show
The Boston Herald’s Jessica Heslam is reporting that Boston talk-show host Howie Carr is leaving WRKO to take over WTKK’s morning show. I guess WTKK’s management isn’t overly bothered by Mr. Carr repeatedly having called their station WTKKK for airing Mike Barnicle and Don Imus.
I speculated almost a year ago that Mr. Carr would be pushed out of the increasingly anti-populist and decreasingly entertaining WRKO. True, the process that lead to Mr. Carr’s leaving the station wasn’t at all like the one I described, and he has yet to get canned by the Herald, as I also speculated, but the outcome is nonetheless that Mr. Carr soon won’t be coming down for breakfast at WRKO, as he himself might put it.
Mr. Carr’s move sets up a head-to-head battle between him and Tom Finneran, the host of WRKO’s morning show.
Update: The Radio Equalizer reports some amusing gossip from inside WRKO. It involves broken glass and a choice curse word. Link via Universal Hub.
