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There’s something about the AM dial. It remains an important medium for all sorts of talk radio and sports, but still gets fuzzy anytime you’re too close to power lines or transformers. Even the MP3 players that include a radio tuner don’t include AM, it’s all frequency modulation, all the time. But for the faithful of the amplitude a new, old, familiar voice will be taking the airwaves in mid-February. On Sunday the Herald told us to hold our breath. Today we can exhale as the deal has been sealed. The artist formerly known as Mr. Speaker will be taking over the 6 to 10 am morning show on AM 680 WRKO. You may now know him now as Justice Obstructer #1 Tommy Finneran.
Last Friday Tom Finneran plead out a deal that allowed the charges of perjury to be dropped in exchange for a guilty plea on obstruction charges – letting Finneran walk with a fine, some restrictions on his political life (which was essentially dead anyway). Once the most powerful man in Massachusetts politics, Finneran has been officially disgraced (the Herald loves to call him “convicted felon Tom Finneran”), lost his $400,000 job as top man for the biotech lobby (with a meager severance of $100k+) but has bounced, ever so quickly, into a job spinning politics and talk on the radio. He’ll take the slot over for Scott Allen Miller who will reportedly be moving to a market outside of Boston for WRKO’s parent station. The Finneran show will fill in some of the time left vacant after the firing of John “Grace Ross is a Fat Lesbian” DePetro. We’re sure there will be much to follow about the Finneran installation at WRKO in the coming month before he takes to the air. It’s likely that the proponents of ‘RKO keeping some of it’s conservative tendencies on the AM dial won’t be toning it down anytime in the near future as a Democrat takes over the morning show. The push to Save WRKO marches on.
Image is the header ripped directly from the WRKO website.
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Love Chunks Miller and the long goodbye! Take off already, Scotto. You're not the only person to ever have lost a job. These talkshow hosts are galling- they must be control freaks and arbiters of opinions, just check out scotto's Blog, it's hard to get a mildly critical comment in edgewise. He "claims" he allows for negative comments. These talkmeisters blabber 3 and 4 hrs. a day so naturally you have more than enough information to praise or zing, but man, are they thin skinned! Underneath all that blubber though, is a real, libertarian, pontificating heart. Very often, when someone challenges the old Amish looking Scotto he gets to the ad hominem level of criticism, often when they hang up-so how about a dose of your own medicine, Scotty... All the carpetbagger did was derided the bible fundamentalists for 3 years in snide references, yet now he's suddenly got religion. Your political views are as sickening as you-get hot or cold and consistent in your ideology like Howie, stop trying to tickle everyone's fancy for higher ratings. Try cyber shredding this, S.A.M., Mike, new hampshire ( a secret admirer)