December 14, 2004
Nik Carter fired
At radio stations, the end of the year means the contracts expire and either DJs stay on or move out. Thus, sometimes it also means that those familiar voices quietly spin off the local dial. In the case of WBCN 104.1FM’s afternoon DJ Nik Carter, the veteran rock jock didn’t get a new contract and was shown the door earlier this week.
Carter, who broke into Boston radio in the early 90’s as a part-tmer at WFNX 101.7FM which led to a fulltime night-time gig, then had a brief stint at now-defunct WDGE-FM/The Edge in the Providence market in 1995, before joining WBCN in August 1996 as a new night-time jock(Howard Stern got bumped up to morning drive from nights(on tape-delay) in April of that year). When WBCN cut veteran afternoon DJ Mark Parenteau in November 1997, the Cambridge native became its new PM drive jock with his own show called “Afternoon Fiasco”.
He briefly became WBCN’s midday voice (August 2001-August 2002) when Opie and Anthony popped back into town for a quick hello via their syndicated afternoon show, but returned to his old slot when their show imploded with on-air stunt that pushed the envelope way too far..
So long Nik. Thx for some good radio.
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Lellan
02/19/2007 at 1:13 pm
Nik is doing just fine on 92.3 Free FM. He is on over the weekends. Does anyone have a web site for him?
boston bob
02/23/2007 at 11:53 am
let’s hope nik doesn’t come back to boston.
He was a ratings nightmare. a Howard stern rip off.
why don’t you people move on?
He was only a dj they are a dime a dozen.
Throw a rock and you’ll hit a better onw than nik
Denise P
03/06/2007 at 4:37 pm
Hi, Ken & Co.,
I guess we’ll have to be happy with hearing Nik as the new promo voice on WBOS!
I still miss his fab show, though!
Denise P
Ken 2
03/06/2007 at 5:08 pm
His show was a disaster.
We can all watch WBOS’s ratings drop now.
Radio person
06/16/2007 at 3:02 pm
Actually Boston Bob is completely wrong as I work for radio stations and unlike many I actually see all of the ratings. A ratings nightmare? he had really big ratings especially as he was fired. Why do you think they have hired two different afternoon shows since he has left and neither one has reached Nik Carter’s ratings since he left. Saying “Howard Stern ripoff” says it all it says you were not listening to teh show. There were really not any similarities between Nik and Howard except Bi day maybe and if your audience is young guys you give them what they want. If you did not like his show that is one thing but lying about ratings is another thing. I do agree with you that dj’s are a dime a dozen but you’re not really following your own opinion as you seem to have a lot of anti NIk feelings which are not based in any facts but just your opinion. Something to think about.
Jetsetter
02/08/2008 at 9:49 pm
BCN’s loss is NYC’s gain. I love listening to him in the mornings at K-Rock. He is one of the more intelligent on-air talents that I’ve had the pleasure to listen to and he is just a great guy to talk to in general. He’ll listen to your point of view and will make his opinion known without trying to step on toes. K-Rock made a very smart decision snagging him up. Besides, it’s quite evident that a jock is influential when so many people mourned his departure from Boston and then in NYC, he built a dedicated fan base insanely fast – which I am proud to be a part of.
Keep on rocking my mornings, Carter!
bobo
02/09/2008 at 4:51 pm
Boston is doing just fine. Nobody’s mourning a dj that got fired about a decade ago.
NY will wise up one day as well.
Krock snatched him up about 5 years after he was let go…that does seem like he was a hot property, huh.
You guys (NY) can keep him and the yankees too. We’re all set.
jaydub
02/18/2008 at 11:14 pm
I went away to college just before Nik Carter went off the air. I hadn’t thought of him in a while, but I still haven’t found a dj that I enjoyed listening to as much him. thank god someone knew how to blend music and talk without ending up as strictly a lame talk show like O&A or toucher &rich. best of luck nik and hope you are doing well
Jetsetter
02/19/2008 at 11:06 pm
Bobo, I don’t know what you’re talking about. He was let go less than 3 years ago and K-Rock hired him before they switched over to Free FM which was over a year ago. It’s quite obvious you don’t know much.
bobo
02/20/2008 at 12:08 pm
I know Boston radio is doing fine without Nik Carter.
I know you have questionable taste.
I know people around here were tired of his antics.
I know he was let go in 04 and now it’s 08 (which is not less than 3 years).
So now I know you don’t know how to add.
I don’t know much, but I know those things, Jetsetter.
Denise P.
02/20/2008 at 2:00 pm
Hey, everyone-
Im listening now on-line to the fabulous N-I-K on KROCK! (weekday mornings)
All radio now seems to be catering to ‘Short Attention Theater’ types-WBOS just announced the canning of several on-air personalities, including John Laurenti.
‘BOS had a great feature on Thursday nights-Laurenti and Steve Morse reviewing recent shows and previewing upcoming events…
Jetsetter
02/21/2008 at 7:39 pm
Bobo, we are in February of 08 and he was let go towards the tail end of 04. So now I know it’s YOU that doesn’t know how to add.
Besides, to make a generalization based on what Boston apparently liked or disliked is just childish. Obviously a lot of people (as shown on this site, for example) liked him and still do. Also, what are you doing looking him up on Google if you don’t like him?
rocket
02/22/2008 at 11:53 am
Jetsetter or Nik or jaydub or Nik or Radio person or Nik or Radio insider or Nik.
Nik you are not fooling anyone by responding to these posts using different names.
Obsessed much?
Jetsetter
02/24/2008 at 8:12 pm
Hahahahahahahaha! Are you kidding me? I’m not Nik. I’m a friend and listener of his. Nik hasn’t been on this site for over a year from what he told me.
rocket
02/25/2008 at 12:08 pm
Oh sure…nik hasn’t checked this site in over a year!
Let’s be truthful, Nik checks this site like most people have meals.
He is constantly looking for his name. (Which by the way he also googles on a daily basis.)
I still think you are nIk (I know radio insider and radio personality are him).
His ratings tanked and he was canned from BCN. It’s not a mystery it happens. djs don’t get fired for having all time high ratings…sorry.
Jetsetter
02/26/2008 at 10:24 pm
Obviously you don’t even know the half of it. He wanted higher pay, the station said no, so he left. Besides, I’m a chick, ya dumbass.
rocket
02/27/2008 at 12:07 pm
Ummm…no…you’re wrong…on all accounts…especially your last point…Sir.
Jetsetter
02/27/2008 at 10:49 pm
And you know this because you actually talk to Nik, right? And because you’ve worked at BCN and knew everything that went on, right?
rocket
02/28/2008 at 12:07 pm
something like that. Oh course Nik tells people he left because he needed more money…it saves face for him.
I don’t know why your panties are in such a bunch because some dj’s ratings fell and he got the boot, it happens all the time. People got tired of Nik. It happens.
the bigger question is what kind of a lady calls herself a “chick”. Obviously a classy one.
Jetsetter
02/28/2008 at 2:12 pm
Because class is something I care a lot about. If class is something I need to attract men like you, no thanks.
rocket
02/29/2008 at 6:21 pm
Interesting. Looks like I blew my chance with you.
You can get back to your fried pork rinds, PBR tallboy and Monster truck rally dvd.
(Keep the illusion going Nik. We know you are writing all these responses.)
Alpha Pest
05/06/2008 at 11:49 pm
You have to be kidding with this thread. People arguing that nobody cares about Nik Carter years after he left but care enough to argue about it on a message board years after he is in New York.He must feel like Bill Shattner at a Star Trek convention when he told the trekkies it was only a show, move out of your parents basement!
JS
05/07/2008 at 8:01 pm
I totally and completely agree. This is kind of ridiculous, considering the fact that they are still looking this thread up to come back and bash Carter some more. This guy is relaxing in his huge Manhattan apartment right now while the rest of these bashers most likely have never even seen a radio microphone in person.
pedro
05/08/2008 at 11:02 am
Nik would feel exactly like Bill Shatner if all the trekkies hated Capt Kirk.
(I agree with the guy that says Nik is posting all the pro nik posts himself or he has some intern do it.)
Funny story, I was at a party (at Marina Bay) and Tom Brady was there. Tom was telling someone how he hated going on the Nik Carter show. Because Nik was such a clown.
Oh well.
JS
05/08/2008 at 12:20 pm
Are you really so thick as to think that so many people on here who post pro-Nik comments are directly affiliated with him? Maybe they (myself included) really do like him as a person and on-air talent?
And Tom Brady really shouldn’t be talking about being a clown. The guy royally fucked up during the last Superbowl and also dumped his pregnant actress ex for Gisele. I’m pretty sure he’s the clown after he sucked Eli off back in February.
pedro
05/08/2008 at 12:30 pm
Aren’t you one sassy little lady.
(Gisele is a trade up in anyone’s book…can’t fault a guy there.)
You should probably get back to work, Nik needs another cup of coffee, intern.
JS
05/08/2008 at 12:36 pm
Gisele may be a trade-up, but the fault still lies with Brady for leaving his ex…after leaving her pregnant.
If I was his intern, I’d be in a much better position than you, at least. I’d have an incredibly talented on-air personality and voiceover teaching me the trade. And what would you be doing?
..Oh, that’s right. Looking him up on Google.
pedro
05/08/2008 at 12:55 pm
Oh I’m sorry….I was just making another multi-million dollar deal.
And you were telling me how your hero is teaching the intricate details of how to pull off the perfect “bi-day”.
Someday soon you’ll make someone a nice stripper.
Aim high Ma’am.
JS
05/08/2008 at 12:57 pm
You were securing another multi-million dollar deal, which is why you were eavesdropping on Brady’s conversation and not actually talking to him yourself. What a winner!
David C
05/08/2008 at 1:11 pm
I live in Jersey City I listen to Krock and met Nik at a few Krock events and he has always been cool and approachable. Who can sensibly assume that every pro Nik post was written by Nik? rofl he’s on the radio with thousands of people listening. it makes more sense to me that one person would be writing all of the ANTI Nik posts. Don’t assume if somebody’s obsessed with him he’d be obsessed with writing back.
stilts
05/10/2008 at 10:16 am
This is funny. I know someone who worked on the show. They said Nik does respond to these posts (under dif names like radio insider…get it?) He even has interns respond like fans.
It doesn’t make him a bad person.
All those dj dudes like themselves a bit.
That Brady shit is funny stuff too. Brady is the man (no matter what some ho in Weehawkin says).
Alpha Pest
05/10/2008 at 2:38 pm
HAHAHAHA!!!!! Pedro was at a party with one of the most popular sports figures in the world and he just happened to hear him complaining about Nik Carter? HAHAHAHAHA! What a tool!. No one believes that lie anyone who heard Brady on bcn knew he was having a good time!. He hated it so much he did it year after year, sure. Some local radio station forced Tom Brady to do something he did not like doing! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Pedro, another internet liar!.
JS
05/11/2008 at 8:45 pm
Well that’s funny, stilts, because I know Nik personally and talked to him about this site – which he said he hasn’t checked in a long long time. He does like himself quite a bit, but not so much as to pretend to be other people. He knows he has a lot of fans and if he wanted to state his case, he wouldn’t do it anonymously – but under his own name.
stilts
05/12/2008 at 10:59 am
Ummm…no he wouldn’t.
“Oh Hi Nik this is your “personal” friend JS…do you write responses on that site under assumed names? No…great…let me go write a post about how cool you are because you talk to me a lowly intern on your show.”
Sounds about right.
JS
05/12/2008 at 11:53 am
Okay, I don’t know what it is with morons on this site assuming I’m his intern, because I’m not.
I found this website a few months ago and saw some of the mean comments posted on here and also definitely thought that he tried to retaliate under names like “Radio Insider” so I asked him about it. He answered in all honesty that, no, it wasn’t him. Yes, he answered to some posts up here in the very beginning (under his own name), but he didn’t go out of his way to comment on here after that because he knew it was a waste of time since people are going to have a chip on their shoulder because of him no matter what.
I respect him very much and will try to defend him as much as I can because he’s had to go through a lot of shit in his life to get to where he is now and certainly doesn’t deserve it…especially not from idiots like you, stilts. You know, people that think they know exactly what he’s all about because they KNOW HIS INTERN.
Let me tell you something about interns: they don’t know shit. The only times they probably saw Nik was when they had downtime after folding all of the station t-shirts once a week. Trust me, that’s no claim to fame. So please, you and your intern friend can get over yourselves.
pedro
05/12/2008 at 12:01 pm
For the record…Tom Brady was not the super star he is today when he lived in Marina Bay. He went to parties. I was at one. Not a big deal.
Athletes often have to do things they don’t like to do (radio shows, interviews, appearances).
Is is to hard to believe that Tom Brady found Nik Carter annoying? Lots of people do. Read these posts.
I don’t care one way or the other about Nik. He’s a dj…no big deal. He was actually funny sometimes.
(Alpha Pest actually works for Kroq…click on his name, it takes you right to the kroq site….Nik’s station. He’s someone else responding because Nik asked him to…but then again…I’m a liar.
JS
05/12/2008 at 12:06 pm
Alpha Pest is someone who works for K-Rock, not KROQ (which is in L.A.) – get it right.
As for the posts where people bashed him, refer to David C’s post. He pretty much summed it up.
pedro
05/12/2008 at 12:13 pm
sorry…I got my call signs all mixed up. K-Rock…K-Rock, OK I got it.
Are you Alpha Pests intern as well?
Do you share a cubicle with David C?
(Nik you shouldn’t obsess so much, dude.)
David C
05/12/2008 at 12:21 pm
Alpha Pest is a ‘pest” it’s what the O and A fans are called. His link is O and A radio.com one of their fan sites they talk about a lot. If Nik was posting secretly why would he post krock web site as the link? that would not be smart. He’s a dj no big deal so why still bashing him when he is long gone? get over it.
pedro
05/12/2008 at 12:23 pm
me thinks someone doth protest much…et tu Nik?
JS
05/12/2008 at 12:24 pm
Because they have nothing better to do. Did he ruin your lives in some way or another? What’s the point of obsessing if you don’t even like him? I don’t get it…
David C
05/12/2008 at 12:35 pm
I am listening to him now on krock but if you are in Boston with Tom Choke artist Brady and he is in New York what is your beef?.
JS
05/12/2008 at 12:47 pm
Seriously. Cut it out, Joe Viglione. You are a fucking nutjob.
pedro
05/12/2008 at 1:15 pm
Who’s Joe Viglione?
(and there’s no call for language like that on this site, Nik.)