In early 1967, when WRKO changed format to top-40, the station's new management wanted to build the new radio station around a well-known local radio figure, and Ginsburg was their first choice.
John DePetro, a talk show host on WRKO in Boston, was fired on November 3, 2006, after calling Ross a "fat lesbian" on his talk show.
Samples from the song "Light at the End" have been featured as buffer music for The Laura Ingraham Show and WRKO's Red Sox coverage.
After the record was added by influential radio stations on the East Coast such as WKTU in New York and WRKO in Boston, it entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart and went on to peak at #61 (reportedly it would have charted higher but for a typographical error which showed the song dropping down the chart after a promising start, leading the label to pull all promotion on the record).
WRKO, a radio station (680 AM) licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which formerly used the call sign WNAC
WRKO hired Metro Networks to provide hourly news updates, including traffic and weather, during the day.
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Since the layoff of the news department in November 2006, Metro Networks has provided traffic reports, still styled "Skyway Patrol," with reporters Malcolm Alter, Bruce Adams, Joe Stapleton, Steve Hartman, Scott Pike, Mike Riley and Lisa Jackson.
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Massachusetts state trooper Grant Moulison, who for 21 years reported to WRKO listeners on the morning and afternoon drivetime situations, left in April 2006 after retiring from the force with 32 years of service behind him.
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On January 11, 2007, former Massachusetts House Speaker Tom Finneran replaced Miller as the morning drive-time host.
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In December, 1942, announcement was made of the sale of Winter Street Corp., the holding company for Shepard family interests, to General Tire and Rubber for $1.24 million.
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In February 2012, Faraone debated conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart on WRKO, a talk radio station in Boston, over the legitimacy and motives of the Occupy movement.
From 1981 to 1986, he appeared on former Top 40 station WRKO, which was now news and talk, before moving to local stalwart WBZ.
At WRKO, "Mitchell" preceded Boston radio legend Dale Dorman as the morning personality (on one of his first days on the job, he was preempted by coverage of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy), and was the successor to another Hub radio luminary, J. J. Jeffrey, in the afternoon drive slot.
After a stint in Pensacola, Florida, he returned to Boston in March 1967 as the afternoon-drive personality for WRKO, which — as NOW Radio and, later, The Big 68 — dominated New England's teen market in the late 1960s.
He was then a radio talk show host for WRKO Boston from 5:30 to 9 AM, co-hosting with Andy Moes from 1999 to 2001, John Osterlind from 2001 to 2003, and Scott Allen Miller from 2003 until he left WRKO on October 3, 2005.