Word: wrko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credited with helping scuttle the pay increase. Now several of these hosts are leading the protests against Exxon's slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston's WRKO-AM, has invited his fellow talk hosts to a convention in June. The aim, he says, is to "see what we have in common and see if we can get together on some issues...
...does Jerry Williams, 65, a cantankerous veteran of more than 30 years of talk shows and a fixture at WRKO in Boston since 1981. A onetime liberal who now calls himself a populist, Williams often had Malcolm X as a guest during the '60s; today he spends much of his time inveighing against Governor Michael Dukakis. Before his role in the pay-raise controversy, Williams' most notable on-air campaign was against Massachusetts' mandatory seat-belt law: he helped gather 40,000 signatures on a petition calling for a referendum, which led to the law's repeal...
Radio listeners who tuned in to WRKO-AM yesterday evening heard a lot of static, but it wasn't because of technical difficulties. It was Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and one of his most vocal critics, talk show host Jerry Williams, trying to talk over one another...
Less than a month later, a petition drive led by WRKO radio talk show host Jerry Williams has gathered enough signatures to challenge the law by referendum. Williams and his followers contend that the seatbelt law in fringes on citizens' personal rights...
Some, like WRKO Talk Radio Producer Alan S. Tolz, said they would like to see the referendum vote binding. "The law is the law, and it will be that was until November," said Tolz, a member of the citizen's group Voxpop (Voice of the People) which opposes...