{"id":452,"date":"2018-03-09T11:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=452"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:33:28","slug":"on-the-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2018\/03\/09\/on-the-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Radio…"},"content":{"rendered":"

With apologies to Donna Summer<\/a>, you can find just about anything on the radio, including some outrageous sports talk…<\/p>\n

“Oh, I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered too<\/em>
\n If by chance you heard it for yourself…”<\/em><\/p>\n

You can find shockjock Howard Stern on Sirius radio, “Just shut up and dribble” Laura Ingraham is syndicated nationally and until just recently Mike Francesa ruled New York’s WFAN…In Boston you can find the unfiltered Kirk Minihane…<\/p>\n

“I hear voices in my head”, the WEEI morning drive host told the students at the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series recently…No one laughed…Minihane shoots first and asks questions later…Something he has paid the price for in multiple suspensions….Minihane co-hosts his show with self-proclaimed ultra conservative Gerry Callahan<\/a>\u00a0of the Boston Herald…Their show is many times very little about sports, something the Minihane readily admits works when it comes to ratings but not so much with listeners who want to talk nut and bolts…Not his favorite thing to do…<\/p>\n

Also attending the seminar was CBS Radio’s Amy Lawrence<\/a>…a veteran of both local and national talk shows, Lawrence has “fought and scratched” to get to her position, which includes a four hour overnight stint heard here in Boston on 98.5TheSportsHub…Like Minihane, Lawrence has her detractors…You just don’t hear them on the radio…But troll social media and it won’t take long to find them…Many openly challenge her sports knowledge, what could she possible know as a woman?…Tune in for more than ten minutes and you’ll quickly find out…<\/p>\n

But Lawrence, it says here, has found the right formula…Sculpt the show to your advantage, don’t rely on inane call ins and certainly don’t put yourself in a position, much like a good lawyer, to not know the answer\u00a0 to a question before it’s asked…(This is where a good producer comes in)…Lawrence did her show from Boston the night she visited, usually doing it from New York City, and told the students “play to your strengths”…In fact, the just completed show focused largely on pizza!…Hey, if it’s two in the morning who can’t use a good slice?…<\/p>\n

Which is not, in the slightest, to say Lawrence is a lightweight…She challenged Minihane on his treatment of Erin Andrews and wasn’t afraid to question his motivation and approach…<\/p>\n

In both cases, Minihane and Lawrence have hit on a brand….A brand that works for them and a brand that works for their stations…How many times have we heard this semester, “you can write the best story, break the big news, but if no one is listening(reading) you’re spinning your wheels?”…Yes, in the case of Minihane, some of it is objectionable…But there’s a simple solution if you don’t agree…<\/p>\n

Change the channel…<\/p>\n

It can’t all be like Beyonce sings it, “I think I’m in love with my radio<\/em>
\n‘Cause it never lets me down”…<\/em><\/p>\n

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With apologies to Donna Summer, you can find just about anything on the radio, including some outrageous sports talk… “Oh, I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered too If by chance you heard it for yourself…” You can find shockjock Howard Stern on Sirius radio, “Just shut up and dribble” Laura Ingraham is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}