Not surprising Howie Carr’s contract to bore listerners, lose advertisers, and shill branded low-brow junk on WRKO was not renewed. Unlike a few years ago when Howie unsucessfully tried to go back on his word and breached the RKO contract to sign for big bucks with the now deceased WTKK there is no market for him.
Poor bastard. Now that he’s officially on the downslide he’ll have to face the fact that he’ll be rememebered as a Father Coughln/Morton Downey, Jr hybrid with a fantastic memory and super agressive mean streak fueled by intense personal demons. (IMHO)
Howie says he may be back on WMEX. That’s super Howie. Good luck with that but why not give local cable access a chance. Better yet, you’ll get more listerners broadcasting over a CB radio. Think about it.
P.S. Attention WRKO, pleaee give a listen to my audition tapes. They’re in the mail.
P.P.S. How long can the Herald afford to keep you Howie? Your columns have really sucked for the past ten years. Seriously dude. Talk about not showing up. Yopu’ve been mailing in your radio and print work for so long you make the average state worker look like James Brown. (Get it? Hardest working man in show business. Get it? Get it?)
Patrick says
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jotaemei says
The phony Republican operative who lived in NYC and claimed he was an independent libertarian here in the Bean.
jconway says
But Paul Sullivan and David Broudnoy were excellent to listen to, even when I disagreed with them. Howie not so much-dad stopped listening to him after 9/11.
lodger says
I’d throw Gene Burns and Avi Nelson into that group as well. Most here would disagree with their politics but both were/are intelligent, logical, and in my opinion, honest.
nopolitician says
There is a place for what Howie Carr used to be – essentially a government watchdog, keeping people on their toes.
He changed, though, tried to mimic the successful conservative talk show hosts like Beck/Limbaugh. That made him pretty vile. For example, his bit where he read the names of Hispanics who were involved in car accidents, played “La Cucaracha” in the background, and then claimed that they were all illegal aliens. It was pretty disgusting.
His politics seemed to change too, to also lurch to the right. He seemed willing to excuse things that he once would have fought, simply because Republicans were doing them. In that sense he morphed from a goverment-suspicious watchdog to a Democrat-hating conservative.
Good riddance to him.
johnk says
So Howie will syndicate (or at least I think he will) his show and so far he has WMEX
staticsignal. I wonder who else will pick it up. Herald article today had Fox 25’s VB getting that ax. VB was Howie’s producer ….. maybe the replacement at WRKO.