For at least the last two hours, WEEI-AM has been playing a loop of clips from the Motor Racing Network. One is the end of the Daytona 24 Hours and the others are the ends of NASCAR races. There are some id's for MRN, but there is also a message from Westwood One about if there is trouble with a receiver to contact Westwood at a phone number or web address.
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WEEI-AM 850: What is going on?
- Thread starter justgladtobehere
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It just stopped and ESPN Radio resumed. I had just sent a message to the engineer through the WEEI.com site.
Asleep at the switch or stepped out for awhile? Reminds me of a time when I was in Conn. and scanned the dial and heard Yankees network on WPOP 1410 saying game had been rained out. So WPOP winds up airing WCBS (flagship at the time) news. I forget how long it was but eventually and abruptly WPOP switched to Fox Sports or ESPN or whatever. Maybe the board op went out to grab some food or was "asleep at the switch". Another time when Sox were on either WEEI or WRKO, back when Jerry Trupiano was Castig's partner,, game ended and I started hearing studio chatter: "Yeah I think we'll be heading off to the airport now" for a couple minutes till someone noticed...
I remember hearing half an hour of looped Red Sox network contact info running on WHYN Springfield one Sunday afternoon when a Sox exhibition in Florida had been rained out. Probably only a lone engineer on duty with no authority to open the mic and no idea what to put on as alternate programming. So the listeners all discovered a Sox network phone number only insiders were supposed to know. I wonder if any of them called it.
If the game was rained out and there was nothing on the Redsox Network why wouldn't you just air what normally airs in the time slot when there is no game?
P.S. On several occasions when The Yankees have been rained out WICC 600 in Bridgeport has played automated Oldies Music. Then again they still play Oldies Music weekly.
P.S. On several occasions when The Yankees have been rained out WICC 600 in Bridgeport has played automated Oldies Music. Then again they still play Oldies Music weekly.
890 ESPN was a clown show. There would be half hours of silence, paid programming for touts would come on in the middle of ESPN weekend shows. There was other stuff like hearing the update guy talk to the producer during commercials.
Even 850 is a little bit of a joke. Last week I heard ID's being played over commercials. Before that, I was listening to an ESPN Radio game broadcast and ID's would be played in the middle of the game.
Even 850 is a little bit of a joke. Last week I heard ID's being played over commercials. Before that, I was listening to an ESPN Radio game broadcast and ID's would be played in the middle of the game.
perhaps they hired the clowns that used to work at 890
Automation sloppyness. Happens a lot on talk/sports stations. I run a talk station with 5 or 6 different sources. If something runs long or goes short, the automation system has to be adjusted.
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