Boston Radio: Glenn Ordway OUT At WEEI

Ready for the most #honest radio show I've ever done @2 on WEEI
— Glenn Ordway (@BigOWEEI) February 13, 2013

Glenn Ordway

Chad Finn at boston.com was first to report a seismic shakeup at sports radio station WEEI 850 AM/93.7 FM . Longtime host Glenn Ordway being replaced on its afternoon drive program by Mike Salk, a Boston native who has co-hosted a program on 710 ESPN in Seattle since 2009.

Ordway confirmed that he was leaving the show in the opening segment of Wednesday's program.

Multiple industry sources have said that Salk has been heavily pursued by WEEI to replace Ordway, a staple on the Boston sports radio scene since the '70s, and that he will accept the job.

It is uncertain when the change will take place.

Mike Salk

It's expected that Salk will be paired with Ordway's current co-host, Michael Holley, in the 2-6 p.m. time slot. The pairing of Salk and Holley, who was moved from middays to afternoon drive in February 2011 when he signed a new multi-year contract, would give WEEI a program that would logically trend younger.

WEEI has typically been overwhelmed in the younger Arbitron demographics by rival WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub.

Ordway has been at WEEI since 1987. Ordway signed a five-year contract worth a reported $1 million per year in January 2009, but there were out-clauses if certain ratings benchmarks weren't met.

In September 2009, Entercom, WEEI's parent company, cut his salary in half after the program failed to finish among the top three stations in the Boston market for a particular demographic in a specific number of consecutive Arbitron books.

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