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Callahan gone from EEI

Cap-n Spackle

Cap-n Spackle

Gerry Callahan@GerryCallahan
Well, that was fun. After 20 years in morning drive, I did my last show on WEEI this morning. Thanks to all who listened. Unfortunately, this ain’t a movie. Sometimes the bad guys win. Much more to come.
 
People already speculating Ent could make AAF country or pop soon enough.
(Just came from Pitt. where Entercom does sports on a 93.7 and country on a 107.9)
 
raccoonradio said:
People already speculating Ent could make AAF country or pop soon enough.
(Just came from Pitt. where Entercom does sports on a 93.7 and country on a 107.9)
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Go listen to the Real K & C podcast from Monday. Some seculation about AM show "after Gerry leaves."

Who knew what, when?
 
TheBigA said:
Interesting speculation, although WROR seems more vulnerable now with the change in mornings.
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Very unlikely. WROR is still, so far, top in the market even with the heritage morning host departures. Their recent format tweak to skew somewhat younger by dropping all '60s music (except for one song, "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison for some reason), and adding '80s pop and dance hits to their '70s classic pop/rock hits seems to have helped their numbers rather than hurt them as some here predicted.
 
pjc1961 said:
"This is all on ENTERCOM. They let BOB MURCHISON call the shots. A disgrace. Shameful.
I’ve been unfair to GERRY the last few months for sure -- misplaced anger. This is just bullsh-t."
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Ask Howard Stern what happens when you offend a listener.
 
TheBigA said:
In the context of the two other choices presented (country & pop) which is more likely? Or does WAAF just continue as the weakest link?
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I think the competition for both formats in Boston proper would be too much. WAAF has a mediocre signal in Boston proper and the immediate Boston suburbs within Route 128, and not enough people have HD radios to hear it on WWBX HD2 (Boston) and WEEI-FM HD2 (Boston and north of Boston). It's signal is best in the Metro-West suburbs beyond Route 128, and toward Central MA and its original home town Worcester.

For pop CHR in Boston, it would be foolish to go against high-rated WXKS "Kiss-108" and lesser-rated but co-owned WODS "Amp 103", though they may get some ratings in Worcester with it because Worcester doesn't have its own CHR. But, at times in history, Boston had several Top 40 stations on at once, so who knows?

For adult pop (AC), they would not go against high-rated co-owned heritage WMJX "Magic 106.7", and iHeart has AC locked up in Worcester and Central MA with longtime 96.1 WSRS.

For adult pop "Hot AC", Boston has co-owned WWBX "Mix 104.1", and Metro-West/Worcester has 104.5 WXLO (with several Boston area signal boosters).

For Country, I don't think they'd do much in Boston against Beasley's strong established 102.5 WKLB and iHeart's lesser challenger 101.7 WBWL "The Bull". They may get some Country traction in Metro-West beyond Route 128 and North Central MA against "Nash Icon" 98.9 WORC-FM Webster, MA that has a mediocre signal in Worcester and to the north.

None of those options look to me worth giving up being the only "Rock" station (not "Classic Rock", not "Alternative Rock") in the Boston/Metro-West/Worcester market (excluding NH and RI "rock" stations that are even weaker signaled in Boston), but what do I know?
 
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For all the carrying on about activists and El Globo neither had any effect on me not listening. I just didn't like the radio. Simple: surprised it took this long after T&R took the lead.
 
If I remember right, WEEI, formerly at 850 of the Ancient Modulation band, had Imus in the Morning followed by the Fabulous Sports Babe--then Dennis and Callahan debuted at 10 am.Later Imus was dropped, finding a home on WTKK 96.9 and D&C went to morning drive

Wiki:
>>WEEI dropped The Fabulous Sports Babe after the October 3, 1997 broadcast, leading to the launch of Dennis and Callahan on October 6. Dennis and Callahan became the station's morning show on September 7, 1999, after the station dropped Imus in the Morning in August due to declining ratings
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(WTKK would feature Imus, Mike Barnicle, Severin etc)
At one time an all sports station was unthinkable but the Fan in NY made it work.WEEI became a success. CBS went ahead in 09 with an all sports FM, WBZ-FM including the Bruins and Pats and later the Celtics. 2 full years later, WEEI migrated to FM.

But yes WEEI at one point did syndie in AM drive and midday (Imus did well but later faltered) then later plugged in local talent.Competition posed a problem for WEEI. The Entercom-CBS merger could have put both stations in the same company but regulations about market share forced them to trade 98.5 for
WMJX and trade some stations to iHeart in exchange for stations in other markets.
 
>>For Country, I don't think they'd do much in Boston against Beasley's strong established 102.5 WKLB and iHeart's lesser challenger 101.7 WBWL "The Bull"

Country may do well for both 102.5 and 101.7 but would there be room for another station? 101.7 may also have some signal problems but if (and it would be a risk for Entercom) say, a 107.3 went CW and did well, iHeart could drop country and bring WBZ newsradio to 101.7.(But would they keep it on 1030 as well?)

In Pittsburgh CW is on Entercom's WDSY 107.9 and iHeart's WPGB 104.7 AND Forever's Froggy (new country) and Willie (classic country) stations.
But Pittsburgh isn't Boston.

Greater (now Beasley) made country work with WKLB and iHeart jumped into the pool, too, with WBWL..so what are Entercom's options with 107.3? Perhaps keep as is?
 
raccoonradio said:
>>For Country, I don't think they'd do much in Boston against Beasley's strong established 102.5 WKLB and iHeart's lesser challenger 101.7 WBWL "The Bull"

Country may do well for both 102.5 and 101.7 but would there be room for another station? 101.7 may also have some signal problems but if (and it would be a risk for Entercom) say, a 107.3 went CW and did well, iHeart could drop country and bring WBZ newsradio to 101.7.(But would they keep it on 1030 as well?)

In Pittsburgh CW is on Entercom's WDSY 107.9 and iHeart's WPGB 104.7 AND Forever's Froggy (new country) and Willie (classic country) stations.
But Pittsburgh isn't Boston.

Greater (now Beasley) made country work with WKLB and iHeart jumped into the pool, too, with WBWL..so what are Entercom's options with 107.3? Perhaps keep as is?
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Those on this board who work in the buisness identify that classic rock brings in the greatest listenership and revenue out of all the rock related formats.

Pop? Entercom already owns Amp (one of a small group to not be flipped) and Mix. Then going toward the older side, they own Magic. In the ideas tossed around here, I would say that Country sounds more likely than Pop.

If they stay the course, who takes over mornings? They already dumped their afternoon show and Bob Hannah has been running the timeslot as a temp. Is Mike Hsu staying? He joined the morning show because he was displaced from middays when the (now canceled) afternoon show forced Carrie to middays. Could Hsu and Carrie do a show? It's all just speculation.

But the way I'm reading this and the way WAAF is only promoting Hill's departure with no info on the future of WAAF, I believe that a flip is eminent. I don't like saying it, but that's the impression that I get.
 
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