Jason Wolfe out at WEEI

BradfordPatsFan · Aug 15, 2013

goheels22002 said:
Brilliant move by WEEI. Just the guy you want programming Bill Belichick's Monday afternoon post-game interview show.

He'll probably have ol' lobster-face Steve DeOssie paired with Ron Borges to do those interviews. You'll have to dodge all the radios being thrown out of cars on the Mass Pike and 128 on the way home!

Jonathan Kraft has mentioned more than once that he'd like all Patriots programming on one outlet. I'm not sure if the Patriots.com media site counts but that makes me think that when the contract is up (it was extended in 2008) that moving Patriots Monday/Friday to 98.5 is possible.

goheels22002 · Aug 15, 2013

BradfordPatsFan said:
And Kevin Graham is a life long Jets fan. Check out his twitter feed. He has loads of hate for Brady and the Pats. I'm not saying you have to be a fan of the market you work in but this guy seems like a real tool.

In today's starting lineup for WEEI, #24 in the green, Kevin Graham:

p8ryts · Aug 15, 2013

FredFromDartmouth said:
it is about time. As I said before, he should have been canned, not The Big Show & the Big O. The Big Show was the best sports talk on radio, but it was not good enough for the profit mongers in management so they tried to replace it and the results were a disaster....

Longtime WEEI program director dumped amid ratings plunge | Boston Herald

never heard of him

IcyPatriot · Aug 15, 2013

FredFromDartmouth said:
it is about time. As I said before, he should have been canned, not The Big Show & the Big O. The Big Show was the best sports talk on radio, but it was not good enough for the profit mongers in management so they tried to replace it and the results were a disaster....

Longtime WEEI program director dumped amid ratings plunge | Boston Herald

About time they canned the right guy ...

Jason wolfe is a choad ... hopefully they can blowhard Salk and bring Dale Arnold back.
Can Mutt and can Minehan also while they are at it.

IcyPatriot · Aug 15, 2013

goheels22002 said:
In today's starting lineup for WEEI, #24 in the green, Kevin Graham:

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Just what we need a choad replacing a choad ... how about someone with talent. :idea2:

belichick010405 · Aug 15, 2013

If the executives at Entercom were smart, they would bring back someone like Julie Kahn, Tom Baker or Tim Murphy to run WEEI along with a wide cast of the personalities that they use to have on the show.

I would try to lure back Meter, Mustard, Wallach, Stearns, Lenny and of course Ordway, Pete while moving Mike Adams to the 10 to 2 slot or have Meter in that slot.

I would still run D & C from 6 AM to 10 AM

I would run Meter and Merloni from 10 AM to 2 PM

I would run the Big O, Pete and his show from 2 to 6 PM

and I would run Mikey from 6 PM through the end of the night.

And then I would continue with the same format that was kicking ass in the 1990s and 2000s. This is the lineup that EEI needs and if this is what happened, I would start listening again and back in the day, I was a big fan of what EEI was doing.

Thank god Wolfe is gone. He was a bonehead. I don't remember who was running with the Big O back in the day but whomever SHE was, they had it going on (memory recall, it was Julie Kahn). They knew what they were doing. Their ratings were great back then and their ad revenue was just tremendous.

goheels22002 · Aug 15, 2013

belichick010405 said:
If the executives at Entercom were smart, they would bring back someone like Julie Kahn, Tom Baker or Tim Murphy to run WEEI along with a wide cast of the personalities that they use to have on the show.

I would try to lure back Meter, Mustard, Wallach, Stearns, Lenny and of course Ordway, Pete while moving Mike Adams to the 10 to 2 slot or have Meter in that slot.

I would still run D & C from 6 AM to 10 AM

I would run Meter and Merloni from 10 AM to 2 PM

I would run the Big O, Pete and his show from 2 to 6 PM

and I would run Mikey from 6 PM through the end of the night.

And then I would continue with the same format that was kicking ass in the 1990s and 2000s. This is the lineup that EEI needs and if this is what happened, I would start listening again and back in the day, I was a big fan of what EEI was doing.

Thank god Wolfe is gone. He was a bonehead. I don't remember who was running with the Big O back in the day but whomever SHE was, they had it going on (memory recall, it was Julie Kahn). They knew what they were doing. Their ratings were great back then and their ad revenue was just tremendous.

You should apply for the job.

Tunescribe · Aug 15, 2013

DarrylS said:
I would love to have sports radio sans drama...

We can only hope that approach will fall out of fashion someday.

Oswlek · Aug 15, 2013

belichick010405 said:
If the executives at Entercom were smart, they would bring back someone like Julie Kahn, Tom Baker or Tim Murphy to run WEEI along with a wide cast of the personalities that they use to have on the show.

I would try to lure back Meter, Mustard, Wallach, Stearns, Lenny and of course Ordway, Pete while moving Mike Adams to the 10 to 2 slot or have Meter in that slot.

I would still run D & C from 6 AM to 10 AM

I would run Meter and Merloni from 10 AM to 2 PM

I would run the Big O, Pete and his show from 2 to 6 PM

and I would run Mikey from 6 PM through the end of the night.

And then I would continue with the same format that was kicking ass in the 1990s and 2000s. This is the lineup that EEI needs and if this is what happened, I would start listening again and back in the day, I was a big fan of what EEI was doing.

I can honestly say that I disagree with pretty much everything in this post. Meter is a joke, Pete is a buffoon, Ordway was rightfully canned and should have been years ago, Mikey as absolutely worthless other than mocking drunken callers and D&C's lopsided intelligence:arrogance ratio is one for the record books.

All the other guys mentioned are non-entities. They bring nothing to the table, but at least they aren't shards of glass in your ears like those other clowns.

belichick010405 · Aug 15, 2013

The thing about the shows that they use to have back in the hey-day is that at least the hosts had quality guests, quality content, quality themes, and that is why EEI was as successful as it was.

I understand that everyone have opinions about each host. You have to remember that back then people like Wendy Nix was a guest on the show back then as well as guys like Massarotti and Felger.

After a period of time, they move on to bigger and better things from a career perspective.

Does Bradford and Buckley still appear on WEEI?

All I am trying to say is that media talent get better career opportunities and they move on or in the case of the Big O, they get rich and then get lazy.

In my view, EEI should try and replicate that programming model with entertaining and quality talk that they use to have.

Right now, it appears that there is a gap in talk show guest talent unless you have members of the professional teams that they interview (i.e. Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox and Bruins).

Tunescribe · Aug 15, 2013

Oswlek said:
I can honestly say that I disagree with pretty much everything in this post. Meter is a joke, Pete is a buffoon, Ordway was rightfully canned and should have been years ago, Mikey as absolutely worthless other than mocking drunken callers and D&C's lopsided intelligence:arrogance ratio is one for the record books.

All the other guys mentioned are non-entities. They bring nothing to the table, but at least they aren't shards of glass in your ears like those other clowns.

I agree with most of this, especially Adams being worthless. I don't understand how Adams in particular has survived so long. Holley and Arnold are the only two they've had in recent years that I can tolerate.

Oswlek · Aug 15, 2013

belichick010405 said:
In my view, EEI should try and replicate that programming model with entertaining and quality talk that they use to have.

This we can agree on. But it won't be those tired old hacks, it'll be someone new, the same way they did with Merloni and Holley the past few years.

belichick010405 · Aug 15, 2013

Oswlek said:
This we can agree on. But it won't be those tired old hacks, it'll be someone new, the same way they did with Merloni and Holley the past few years.

It is going to be hard because the kind of talent that EEI use to have is few and far between.

EEI was the best brand of sports talk not just in New England but in the country.

That is saying something and if you think that the hosts were that bad, then EEI achieved that despite the hosts on their four shows.

Oswlek · Aug 15, 2013

belichick010405 said:
It is going to be hard because they kind of talent that EEI use to have is few and far between.

EEI was the best brand of sports talk not just in New England but in the country.

That is saying something and if you think that the hosts were that bad, then EEI achieved that despite the hosts on their four shows.

They are that bad, which is why 98.5 started sucking up EEI's audience immediately, and continues to do so.

EEI may have once been great, but they maintained their numbers largely due to a wide, passionate fanbase and lack of other options. Now that they are getting genuine competition, we are seeing how strong they really are.

Brady'sButtBoy · Aug 15, 2013

Relieved to see so many note Salk is unappealing to say the least. Canning Ordway was one thing for Wolfe, but replacing him with a whiny, uninformed, grabbing-for-straws, motor mouth like Salk was his undoing.

It's been almost embarrassing listening to Salk with Curran at his side this week while Curran glibly wheels and deals with a sharp witted tongue and Salk ah-ah-ah-ah's his way to another absurd 'observation.'

And when Holley isn't on vacation? Well, all you do is wonder what ding dong told Salk he was the one who should talk the most and direct the conservation. Oh yeah, that ding dong just got fired.

Never like to see someone lose their means to make a living but once I got a listen to the guy (Salk) Wolfe hired to replace Ordway I felt this day was inevitable.

Joker · Aug 15, 2013

I liked listening to Curran this week.

I posted on this board MONTHS ago...Rock,Chalk, Mike Salk...he belongs in Kansas, looking up Dorothy's skirt and gettin' bit in his azz by Toto. Do any of you realize this unbelievably anal retentive space alien devoted a full hour one afternoon to #splitsontrees? Like the little kid oddball dweeb we all had in one of our classes, geeking and gaa gaaing over THIS...

#SplitsOnTrees by Todrick Hall (featuring Unterreo Edwards) - YouTube

if there was a way to holographically reach through the ether of cyberspace I would have throttled this turd until he disintegrated.

This clown openly stated the first week of his run "I don't get the Whiner Line"...a human being living in N.E. that DOESN'T "get" the Whiner Line. Wolfe should have been fired and shot by firing squad THAT friggin' week.

belichick010405 · Aug 15, 2013

It would take guys like Tom Curran and Paul Perillo to go to EEI and start re-shaping the conversation that is going on over there.

Tunescribe · Aug 15, 2013

Joker said:
#SplitsOnTrees by Todrick Hall (featuring Unterreo Edwards) - YouTube

The de-evolution of Western culture continues at an alarming rate.

Oswlek · Aug 15, 2013

belichick010405 said:
It would take guys like Tom Curran and Paul Perillo to go to EEI and start re-shaping the conversation that is going on over there.

Perhaps, but the fact that they broadcast Red Sox games is a non-trivial factor. They will always get top billing, but I'd be fine with that if they had some genuinely intelligent football talk instead of just riding hot buttons over and over again.

PatsDeb · Aug 15, 2013

I'm in the minority, but I like all the shows on 98.5 the Spotrs Hub, even Felger & Maz. I find Felger rather hilarious. Unless they are talking football, I can't listen to any of them for too long though. They all tend to repeat the same stuff over & over. Turned off the EEI dial long ago. Once in a great while I switch over there to see what they are discussing, but I usually switch back or to music pretty fast. Michael Holley doesn't thrill me. Heck I was mad when he replaced Bob Nuemeier. Glad they are trying to improve, but they probably won't win me back any time soon, no matter what they do.

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