Stuck Between Stations: Judge Tells Carr He's Stuck and Better Like It

Today, Herald columnist and radio show host Howie Carr went to Suffolk Superior Court Judge Allan van Gestel to try to stop WRKO from matching an offer from WTKK, the station where Carr wants to work.

The judge told Carr that Entercom, who owns WRKO, still has the right to match WTKK's offer, and he was underwhelmed with Carr's attempts to play the victim:

Carr is not, as he argues in his brief, ‘in essence, (subject to) a lifetime employment agreement’ with Entercom. And wherever he legally finds himself, it is of his own conscious doing. He has not, as he publicly claims, been placed into some form of high-paid indentured servitude by this court.

Loosely translated, that sounds like the judge thinks it's Carr's problem that he didn't read his WRKO contract. WRKO, meanwhile, is blowing online raspberries at Carr with a "Virtual Howie" website spotted by Universal Hub. The site features Carr as a puppet with a wide arm shoved up the puppet's business end.

The judge also noted that Carr could have waited until his WRKO contract expired before he started trying to move to WTKK. He may as well have because he's still off the air.

Given Carr's calling himself an "indentured servant" and WRKO's immature handling of the situation (are they allowed to use his likeness, anyway), maybe the host and the station deserve each other.

Image of puppet Howie from Virtual Howie.