The contract dispute between WEEI and Dennis & Callahan have reached a new level. Bruce Allen and David Scott from Boston Sports Media Watch have broken the story that John Dennis & Gerry Callahan are not allowed to do their show until contract negotiations are settled. It meant that Craig Mustard and Larry Johnson were on in their place this morning. Scott spoke with Dennis and has a long piece this morning. And Jessica Heslam and Laurel Sweet have the story in the Boston Herald where Callahan is a columnist. As my Boston readers are aware, Callahan has been off the air since April due to a throat condition that made listening to him extremely difficult. He underwent surgery and WEEI has had various guest co-hosts to join Dennis in the interim.
A spokesman for WEEI’s parent company, Entercom, quoted in the Herald story says D & C are on vacation, but as you can read from Scott’s story, that could not be farther from the truth. With the botched situation on WEEI’s sister station, WRKO, with its star talk show host Howie Carr, Entercom did not want a repeat, thus the lockout of D & C. You can read more about the dispute between Entercom & D & C and Howie Carr at Boston Radio Watch.
I’ll have Monday links coming up.
Add The Sports Daily to your Google News Feed!
