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	WRKO host suspended for calling Turnpike chief a derogatory slur - The Boston Globe
		WRKO suspended talk-show host John DePetro today for using a slur for "homosexual" in reference to Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew J. Amorello.
		WRKO suspended talk-show host John DePetro today after he used a derogatory term in referring to Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chairman Matthew J. Amorello.
		The conservative talk-show host, who's been on the air at WRKO for three years, made the comment while talking about Amorello's decision to bring his wife, Charlotte, and spokeswoman, Mariellen Burns, to the funeral of Milena Del Valle, the woman who was killed when the ceiling panel collapsed.
	www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2006/07/18/wrko_host_suspended_for_calling_turnpike_chief_a_derogatory_slur (259 words)

	WRKO suspends talk show host John DePetro after homosexual slur - The Boston Globe
		Radio station WRKO suspended talk-show host John DePetro yesterday for using a slur for homosexual in reference to Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew J. Amorello.
		The comment outraged St. Guillen's parents and made headlines, but WRKO did not punish the host.
		The station just signed a deal estimated to be worth between $13 million and $14 million a year.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/19/wrko_suspends_show_host_after_homosexual_slur (547 words)

	The Boston Radio Dial: WRKO(AM)
		WRKO flipped to talk in the early 80s, and with the addition of Red Sox baseball broadcasts, became an important player in the growing news-talk field.
		WRKO and the other problem properties were sold to Entercom in August of 1998 for $65 million and two Florida stations.
		WRKO continued to struggle with its talk lineup in the early years of the 21st century, replacing Blute with Scott Allen Miller, then dismissing him in early 2007 in favor of former Massachusetts House speaker Tom Finneran.
	www.bostonradio.org /stations/1902.html (1068 words)

	The WRKO shuffle - News - The Phoenix
		If a hypothetical WRKO loyalist left Boston a year ago and returned today, odds are that he or she would have trouble recognizing the station in its current state.
		WRKO’s in-house news team is gone too, fired en masse in a cost-cutting move.
		Maloney, who wrote this purple prose, is a former Entercom employee whose previous guest-host stints on WRKO failed to land him a job.
	www.thephoenix.com /article_ektid32343.aspx (1049 words)

	American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: WRKO Fires Host Who Called for "Eradication" of Palestinians
		Former Congresswoman Oakar wrote to WRKO on August 19, "Certainly, we commend your action in removing Mr.
		However, we also strongly feel that it would be unwise, and even irresponsible, to return him to broadcasting after the two-week suspension is concluded in a few days.
		Osterlind's genocidal tirade is his dismissal as a broadcaster for WRKO.
	www.adc.org /index.php?id=2079&type=100 (402 words)

	WRKO \| Universal Hub
		Hub Politics marvels that WRKO allegedly canned John DePetro for calling Grace Ross "a fat lesbian," yet thinks its OK to give new felon Tom Finneran a radio show (hmm, anybody of the Rhode Island variety remember which station Buddy Cianci got a show on after his first conviction?).
		Will sue WRKO if he doesn't get his job back, but in exchange for his job, willing to undergo sensitivity training and give Grace Ross an hour a week on the air.
		The Outraged Liberal doesn't believe for a minute that WRKO really fired DePetro for his Ross cracks; not when Carr has been uttering the same sort of thing for years.
	www.universalhub.com /taxonomy/term/588 (1733 words)

	REELRADIO:JOHN ROOK COLLECTION:Mark Rivers, WRKO Boston, 1970
		From this aircheck, it seems that WRKO either had a very aggressive "Club Special" spot package or Boston was The Ultimate Place to Party.
		It sounds like WRKO had a piece of every hot club in the metro.
		Whatever, this is 1970 formula "Drake" done the overnight Boston way on the RKO mothership.
	www.reelradio.com /rook/mrwrko70.html (146 words)

	WRKO
		The Boston Celtic's Heroes Among Us Award is presented to an individual or individuals who, through their unique commitment and humanitarian spirit, have made exceptional and lasting contributions to our community.
		On Wednesday, March 28th, WRKO's Kevin Whalen of Pundit Review Radio will be honored for the heroic work he has done on behalf of our troops and their families.
		We congratulate Kevin and are proud to be associated with the kind of selflessness and dedication he has displayed to earn him this great honor.
	wrko-am.fimc.net (291 words)

	RT40RR - The Shel Swartz Collection!
		He was part of the dream team WRKO hired when it cleaned house top to bottom (Dale Dorman excepted, of course), to get itself out of the station's doldrum "album" days.
		Justin Clark was told his job would remain at WRKO in some form, but shortly after his PD and friend Charlie Van Dyke left and the station turned to talk, Justin was canned as well.
		WRKO could have survived today, if only the station had taken advantage of its FM way back when.
	www.reelradio.com /ss/index.html (813 words)

	Entercom - News
		WRKO and the Boston Celtics have a long history as the games were broadcast from 1981–1987 on WRKO during the Celtics Championship banner seasons.
		We are very excited to return WRKO, where we’ve achieved some of our greatest success, to provide Celtics fans with an equally exciting radio broadcast experience” stated Rich Gotham, Executive Vice President for the Boston Celtics.
		WRKO will provide a tremendous platform for the broadcasts, and with the promotional power of WEEI, give the Celtics a fantastic two for one combination on the radio” said Director of Programming and Operations Jason Wolfe.
	www.entercom.com /newsPage.php?id=1 (335 words)

	Hub Politics: DePetro In Trouble Again (UPDATED)
		Looks like WRKO is upset again at John DePetro for a remark he made yesterday about Grace Ross.
		WRKO talk jock John DePetro is back in the hot seat and fighting for his job after calling gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on his radio show yesterday.
		WRKO believes that talk radio is an informative media that benefits all of us by providing a forum for public discussion.
	www.hubpolitics.com /archives/001185.php (1689 words)

	Free Press : WRKO Axes News Division
		WRKO radio today eliminated its entire news staff in a dramatic move station officials said is aimed at focusing full attention on its efforts to build an all-star talk lineup.
		Sources confirmed to the Herald that WRKO brass has been talking to former House Speaker Tom Finneran about a possible on-air role.
		Finneran was indicted last year on federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice and the case goes to trial in January.
	www.freepress.net /news/19225 (655 words)

	WRKO FM and Other Boston Top 40 Radio Memories
		Previously it was "WNAC and WRKO FM, your RKO General stations in Boston with 15 minutes of news every hour".
		Four hits in a row at the top of the hour and seven in a row at the bottom of the hour were still evident at times until a five minute newscast was added, airing at about 20 minutes before each hour.
		Around 1970, with WRKO well in the lead for top 40 audience, WBZ discontinued Top 40 and went to an all news format which it has to this day.
	users.aol.com /ajaynejr/arco.htm (3275 words)

	Greater Boston: WRKO Fires News Staff
		One by one the seven news staffers at WRKO radio were called into the general manager's office yesterday and given their walking papers.
		What WRKO listeners will hear instead is top of the headline news provided by Metro Networks and Fox News Radio.
		On the phone, WRKO General Manager Julie Khan said, "We can't compete with WBZ on the news front...and had to get back to our core business strategy, talk."
	greaterboston.tv /features/btp_20061117_wrko.php (179 words)

	ADC Update: WRKO Fires Host Who Called for "Eradication" of Palestinians
		Former Congresswoman Oaker wrote to WRKO on August 19, "Certainly, we commend your action in removing Mr.
		Osterlind's genocidal tirade is his dismissal as a broadcaster for WRKO.
		There can be little doubt that had his call for 'eradication' been directed towards most other national or ethnic groups, had he directed them, for example, towards people of African, Jewish, Irish, Italian, Japanese or Hispanic descent, his career as a radio talk show personality would have been at an end on August 12.
	www.adckazoo.com /news-193.htm (416 words)

	WRKO / The Big 68 Remembered
		He was, however, teary-eyed as he recalled his days and his beloved listeners at WRKO.
		With all his on-air ego and powerful voice, "The Mover," in real life, was "just plain Bill." I only wish Bill had opened up tp me so that I could have been there for him.
		See the entire survey plus hundreds more WRKO surveys at the official WRKO music survey Website!
	www.wrko.org (244 words)

	Hub Politics: WRKO Jokes About The Firing of John DePetro
		John DePetro, the recently dismissed morning show host on WRKO, is stunned that Steve Bailey of WRKO is joking about his firing.
		AM talk-radio station WRKO is starting its search for a replacement for fired morning show host John DePetro, who was given the boot after calling Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a "fat lesbian" just days before the election.
		Jason Wolfe, executive vice president of Entercom Boston, which owns WRKO, said he wouldn't call any of the upcoming fill-in spots "tryouts," but said they are looking at their options.
	www.hubpolitics.com /archives/001336.php (530 words)

	Mass State Lottery, WRKO Radio, and the Boston Celtics "Mass Lottery Lucky Row" Official Rules \| Celtics.com
		By entering this sweepstakes, entrants accept and agree to be bound by these rules and the decisions of Mass State Lottery, WRKO Radio and the Boston Celtics, which shall be final on all matters.
		Sweepstakes not open to employees or immediate family members (spouses, parents, siblings and children) of employees of the Boston Celtics, Mass State Lottery, WRKO Radio, the National Basketball Association and its Member Teams, NBA Properties, Inc., and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, governors, owners, employees and agents.
		Winners will be selected by random drawing on a monthly basis and be notified by phone or by being the winning listener on WRKO 680 AM In the event a winner cannot be contacted within three (3) business days of drawing date or declines the prize, another winner will be selected by random drawing.
	www.nba.com /celtics/promotions/rules_mass_lottery_lucky_row.html (675 words)

	WRKO...OFF THE AIR?
		WRKO went off the air at about 630pm and has not yet returned.
		In Reply To WRKO went off the air at about 630pm and has not yet returned.
		I had a friend in middle and high school who lived near the WRKO transmitter towers whose electric oven broadcast the station through its elements.
	www.wickedgood.info /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=130504 (449 words)

	A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond
		WRKO's history is one of the most interesting of any of Boston's radio stations.
		In 1981, as the golden age of AM top 40 drew to a close, WRKO dropped the music and went talk - and flourished again as the home to voices such as Jerry Williams and Howie Carr, not to mention many seasons with the Red Sox.
		ARS was sold to Infinity, which then had to spin off WRKO and WEEI (and what was then WEGQ 93.7) to Entercom, which has owned the stations since 1998.
	www.fybush.com /sites/2004/site-040611.html (957 words)

	wbztv.com - Finneran Gets New Job As Host At WRKO
		Terms of his WRKO deal were not released.
		At a news conference at WRKO to make the announcement, Finneran said he made a mistake and is now paying the price for it.
		Finneran won't be the first public figure to find refuge on the radio after a fall from grace.
	wbztv.com /topstories/local_story_011080132.html (418 words)

	In Newsweekly: New England's Premier GLBT Media Company -.- News -.- 'Fat lesbian' comment gets WRKO's DePetro canned
		John DePetro, formerly of WRKO, who was fired for calling Mass.
		In July, station management had suspended DePetro after he referred to Matt Amorello, former Massachusetts Turnpike Authority chairman as "fag Matt." At the time, DePetro was warned that "any further comments of this kind would be dealt with in a severe way," said WRKO program director Jason Wolfe at the time of the incident.
		WRKO has not yet announced who will fill the 9 a.m.
	www.innewsweekly.com /innews/?class_code=Ne&article_code=2979 (699 words)

	WRKO terminates news team - Boston Business Journal:
		AM radio station WRKO has layed-off its entire news team according to media reports published Friday.
		WRKO, which is located in downtown Boston, is owned by Pennslyvania-based Entercom Communications Corp.
		The elimination of the news department is part of Entercom's strategy to focus on its talk radio identity and build-up a stable of well-known hosts and personalities, reports said.
	www.bizjournals.com /boston/stories/2006/11/13/daily68.html?from_rss=1 (516 words)

	Media Log - Showdown on WRKO
		But apparently WRKO talkmeister John DePetro and Boston Herald cop reporter Michele McPhee had a real donnybrook today over the Imette St. Guillen case.
		As you may know, DePetro has enjoyed a nice run of publicity for his comments that the victim was asking for trouble by drinking alone late at night.
		She stiffed WRKO for a scheduled appearance on the DePetro show, then claimed it was because her job is more important than a "shock jock".
	www.thephoenix.com /MediaLog/CommentView.aspx?guid=a9682c45-1e25-49bb-88c5-06a3726c4b48 (456 words)

	The Official Site of The Boston Red Sox: Official Info: Press Release
		WRKO broadcast Red Sox games starting 1983 through 1994.
		The Red Sox also have an option (but not an obligation) down the road to acquire a minority interest in WRKO.
		When the broadcasts switched to WRKO in 1983, Joe Castiglione became the lead announcer, with Jerry Trupiano joining him 10 years later.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20060508&content_id=1443455&vkey=pr_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos&partnered=rss_bos (646 words)

	Where Are They Now?
		There are many Johnny Darks, but WRKO's Johnny confessed to me that when he came up with the name, he had no idea there were others.
		As a youth living in South Florida, he’d hang out at the studio of a pirate broadcaster, where every jock was known as Johnny-Something.
		From his WRKO days in the mid-seventies, neither his captivating voice or on-air personality have changed.
	www.teddwebb.com /showcase/where_are_they_now/johnny_dark.html (853 words)

	Greater Boston: Beat the Press Blute and Carr/WRKO 11.16.02
		Bailey says one of Taylor's investigators was also taking booze cruise photos that day and allegedly shot some videotape.
		The issue heated up this week when Herald columnist and Blute's fellow WRKO radio host Howie Carr told Blute the videotape might surface on the Internet.
		Peter Blute believes the Herald was caught up in the sting.
	www.greaterboston.tv /features/btp_wrko_111601.html (277 words)

	Boston Radio News
		When I spoke with him during his low points- -when he was doing his "Extravaganzas" on weekends at WRKO, I told him that one day he'd be the morning guy at WRKO.
		The old Dr. Laura show never was live on WRKO from 9 am to noon.
		During the "election crisis", WRKO inserted the lovely Darlene McCarthy and the incredibly annoying Michael Goldman in her time slot to talk "politics".
	www.pmpnetwork.com /Boston_Radio_News.html (2024 words)

	internet128.com » Blog Archive » On WRKO, Hub of Hicks gets the news from the big city
		As the Boston Herald reported yesterday, Entercom-owned Boston radio station AM-680 WRKO has canned its entire newsstaff.
		Now the news are delivered by Fox News Radio, “Live from New York” as the feed happily informs WRKO’s listeners in the Puritan hinterlands.
		WRKO is reportedly getting ready to shake up its roster of talkers to turn around sagging ratings and take advantage of the audience boost that will come when the station starts broadcasting Boston Red Sox games next year.
	internet128.com /index.php/archives/2006/11/17/on-wrko-hub-of-hicks-gets-the-news-from-the-big-city (117 words)

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