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WRKO (680 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England.Owned by iHeartMedia, WRKO is a Class B AM station that provides secondary coverage to portions of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine during the day, but is highly directional at night to protect a number of clear ...
J.J. Wright is an American disc jockey, originally from Louisville, Kentucky, who has been broadcasting in Boston, Massachusetts since 1973. [1] Starting on WRKO (680-AM), he went to briefly to WBOS (92.9), then KISS 108 when the station first went on the air in 1979, there he stayed for nearly 20 years. [2]
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.
Jeffrey hosted WRKO's weekly "Now 30" (later called "Big 30") countdowns on Thursdays and was famous for his high-energy style and catch-phrases such as, "This is J.J. Jeffrey, whippin' my great, Greek-god-like body into a frenzy for ya." He left Boston on October 31, 1969, and became the afternoon drive DJ for Top 40 station WFIL in Philadelphia.
Brien formerly hosted her own show on weekdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on WRKO in Boston, Massachusetts. She was replaced by Michele McPhee, who returned to WRKO on June 11, 2012. [2] Brien was named as the "permanent replacement" for the retired Steve Leveille on weekends from midnight-5:00 a.m. on WBZ in Boston.
Reese Hopkins is an American radio talk show host also known as E. Reese Hopkins. Hopkins was a news anchor and news director for the Star and Bucwild show. [1] From December 2007 to October 2008, he hosted a midday show for Boston station WRKO.
In 2012, he began hosting his own show on WRKO, still called The Kuhner Report. Initially, he had two disconnected morning hours; [ 15 ] in October 2012, the show moved to the 6 to 10 am time slot, [ 16 ] in July 2015, the show moved to the midday slot (noon to 3 pm) as WRKO stopped carrying Rush Limbaugh , [ 17 ] and on 26 November 2018, the ...
The Scott Allen Miller Show maintained a strong news presence through Miller's interviews with newsmakers and updates from WRKO's news anchors. Miller was fired from WRKO [4] in 2007, [5] to be replaced by former Massachusetts Speaker of the House Tom Finneran. Miller's last day on the station was February 9.