People on WTKK’s e-mail list received the following e-mail on Saturday, May 30:
On Tuesday June 2nd, at 3 p.m., Jay Severin will return to the weekday afternoon timeslot on Boston’s Talk Evolution 96.9 FM-WTKK. Jay regrets the remarks for which he was suspended and understands that his comments were indeed wrong and hurtful to the [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Jay Severin thanks us; he still has a job
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Jay Severin, new and improved?
Check out this interesting report from WGBH’s Beat the Press and subsequent comment by News Platoon. A less sarcastic and hyperbolic Jay Severin? Hard to imagine. And hard to take seriously, since Severin repeatedly professed absolute belief in the radical views he has offered.
Severin has often expressed admiration for Mitt Romney. Will Severin now be [...]
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Jay Severin misinforms and miseducates
That’s what Salem News columnist Brian Watson thinks, and I agree with this characterization. However, I don’t agree with Watson that Jay’s suspension should be permanent because “he is insulting, disrespectful and inflammatory.” Jay may be all of those things, but those things alone don’t disqualify someone from the job of talk radio host; indeed, [...]
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Will Jay Severin’s sponsors seal his fate?
Excellent news in today’s Boston Globe. It seems that some of his prime sponsors – the ones paying for his $1 million salary – may have reached the tipping point.
I have the same question for the sponsors that I do for Severin’s bosses: Have you ever listened to his show? Why is it that the [...]
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Adam Reilly understands
Regular readers of SeverinWatch will find familiar themes in Adam Reilly’s blog for the Boston Phoenix.
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Jay Severin is still not dead
Tuned in today just to see how WTKK was playing the suspension thing. Anyone who’d missed the developments last week would think that Jay is just on vacation. They still have hosts “filling in for” him, and they’re still running commercials that Jay recorded. Today’s host was Doug VB Goudie from the local Fox affiliate. [...]
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Best Jay Severin news ever
His ratings are down.
And this just days after he was heard crowing that the Boston Globe was losing its audience while Jay’s audience was steadily growing.
A number of folks are suggesting that Severin’s suspension may turn into a firing. Few are convinced that there was anything Severin said last week that was any more hateful [...]
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Jay Severin suspended for the wrong reason — maybe
I have been looking forward to the day when Jay Severin was taken off the air. But not like this.
We don’t know yet exactly why he was suspended – I have an alternative theory below – but it appears that it was related to his most recent (but certainly not new) comments about Mexicans.
Here’s some [...]
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