Great News: Pundit Review’s Radio Slot Doubled
PunditReview.com has announced that WRKO in Boston (680 AM in Metro Boston, web site here) has expanded Pundit Review Radio’s time slot on Sunday nights to two hours.
I was on with Kevin and Gregg on a special Saturday morning edition a couple of weeks ago (on-page audio is at this link, my recap is here). By the time they got to me they were well into the third hour and still going strong, so they’ll have no trouble doing two solid hours every week.
Pundit Review Radio also go a nice write-up today in the Boston Herald. Way to go, guys.
WRKO is no slouch station. It’s the Boston home of Rush, Michael Savage, and regional legend Howie Carr. It is Number 7 in the Boston market. While the talk format is flat in a lot of markets, WRKO has gone from a 3.9 share to a 4.5 in the past year, even though much of the year-ago period was during the heat of the 2004 presidential election and its aftermath.
Nobody listens to Howie Carr.
Comment by Kevin Irwin — January 19, 2006 @ 6:36 pm
Ok, I could only listen to twenty minutes of it. A couple items to note
Why does the media focus on negative economic news? Simple. Happiness doesn’t generate ad revenue. If there were real biases, wouldn’t GE, Disney, Westinghouse, and AOL Time Warner rein their journalists in? I’m not so sure that there is an ideological bias so much as there is a need to focus on revenue generating content. What is unethical about satisfying the demand of that market?
You raised a good point about real estate. Naturally NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, SF Chronicle, et. al. are going to focus on housing bubbles. Expansion and contraction in the housing market is a local issue for those papers. I haven’t read the Enquirer or Dispatch lately. Do they mention a bubble in Ohio? I was a little upset to hear the host cut you off for a commercial by dismissing the locality issue as partisanship.
When I get a chance, I’ll listen to the 90’s economy discussion in greater detail.
Comment by Kevin Irwin — January 19, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
#1 and #2
– I was worried that Howie was going to have to wait until I visited Metro Boston again to have a listener. :–>
– Thanks for listening to part of the audio. I wish I would have had a better chance with the housing issue and the deficit issue, which also got pushed out by a commercial. The local OH papers cover real estate, but they don’t talk about a housing bubble, because there really isn’t one. Prices are going up nicely but not hugely. Interestingly, in a 50-50 GOP-Dem focus group I was in locally, about 1/3 thought there was a national housing bubble in the making, and about 1/6 thought there was a local one too.
I think, I made my point about the 90s relatively early but I may be wrong. The very end had something about the underplayed stats on coal mine safety improvement in the past 4 years.
Comment by TBlumer — January 19, 2006 @ 7:30 pm