• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

WEEI to lose Cape Cod simulcast

DavidZ said:
radioinsight.com

WEEI To Lose Cape Cod Simulcast

iHeartMedia is preparing to drop the simulcast of Audacy Sports 93.7 WEEI-FM Lawrence/Boston from 96.3 WEII Hyannis/Cape Cod MA. WEII
radioinsight.com radioinsight.com
Click to expand...
What I love about the job posting is that is states the salary is $40,000. Who can live on Cape Cod for that kinda' money?
 
Maybe iHeart will flip 96.3 to CHR. Maybe even make it a simulcast of Kiss 108. It will be Kiss 96.3 instead. I'm pretty sure for a short period of time, there was a simulcast of Kiss 108 on the seacoast of NH on 95.3.
 
From Lance's RadioInsight article linked in Post #1:

"The (job) posting states the station will continue to carry Sports programming following the end of the WEEI simulcast as duties for the job include co-hosting and producing a local sports talk show, anchoring hourly local/regional sports updates, and creating revenue opportunities that will expand local and regional coverage, including Cape Cod high school sports content, sponsorable features and podcasts."

Now if one does not believe the words of the above job posting, that's another issue.
All is open to interpretation, I suppose.
 
ssetta said:
Maybe iHeart will flip 96.3 to CHR. Maybe even make it a simulcast of Kiss 108. It will be Kiss 96.3 instead. I'm pretty sure for a short period of time, there was a simulcast of Kiss 108 on the seacoast of NH on 95.3.
Click to expand...
I'm not a big CHR listener. I wrongfully remembered Kiss 95.3 as being a direct competitor to Q97.9 from Portland, so it threw me off to realize that it was out of Portsmouth.

Would Kiss fill a demographic that is needed on Cape Cod?
 
DavidEduardo said:
What I love about the job posting is that is states the salary is $40,000. Who can live on Cape Cod for that kinda' money?
Click to expand...
That's what places like Taunton and Fall River are there for. "Gateways" to Cape Cod. I remember reporters leaving my paper in Meriden, CT, for jobs at the paper in Greenwich and having no hope at all of finding any sort of dwelling in Greenwich or surrounding towns. They chose to stay in the Meriden area and deal with the long commute.
 
Least said:
I'm not a big CHR listener. I wrongfully remembered Kiss 95.3 as being a direct competitor to Q97.9 from Portland, so it threw me off to realize that it was out of Portsmouth.

Would Kiss fill a demographic that is needed on Cape Cod?
Click to expand...
They already have Y101 but Y101 doesn't have a great signal. 😕 They need to cover the upper cape by Provincetown.
 
MVB13 said:
They already have Y101 but Y101 doesn't have a great signal. 😕 They need to cover the upper cape by Provincetown.
Click to expand...

no they dont..... the revenue there is very seasonal, theyd die 6 months out of the year, every year, plus theres one commercial station and one non comm up there... thats enough
 
CTListener said:
That's what places like Taunton and Fall River are there for. "Gateways" to Cape Cod. I remember reporters leaving my paper in Meriden, CT, for jobs at the paper in Greenwich and having no hope at all of finding any sort of dwelling in Greenwich or surrounding towns. They chose to stay in the Meriden area and deal with the long commute.
Click to expand...
Almost everyone at that paper is getting the axe. The Record-Journal sold out to Hearst. Earlier this year they bought the Journal-Inquirer in Manchester, shut down the Manchester office and axed most of the staff.
Click to expand...
 
CTListener said:
That's what places like Taunton and Fall River are there for. "Gateways" to Cape Cod. I remember reporters leaving my paper in Meriden, CT, for jobs at the paper in Greenwich and having no hope at all of finding any sort of dwelling in Greenwich or surrounding towns. They chose to stay in the Meriden area and deal with the long commute.
Click to expand...
You can't live in Taunton on 44K a year anymore. Not sure about Fall River, but definitely not here.
 
Another iHeart move involving a sports station it owns in New England: WUCS 97.9 Windsor Locks CT, near Hartford and ESPN's Bristol campus, had been carrying ESPN for years. Now it's Fox Sports Radio

>> it'll probably be a nearly 24/7 FOX Sports Radio simulcast

IHR's Premiere division syndicates FSR
As of now the 97.9 site still says ESPN at top but listen live at bottom says Fox Sports 97.9. In addition FSR picks up WAVZ 1300 New Haven according to RadioInsight
 
Last edited:
No ESPN affiliates left in New England? Maybe some play by play of major events could be on some stations. Satellite radio and streaming can provide ESPN (or distant AMs at night)
 
raccoonradio said:
No ESPN affiliates left in New England? Maybe some play by play of major events could be on some stations. Satellite radio and streaming can provide ESPN (or distant AMs at night)
Click to expand...
Can't speak for Hartford, but in a market like Boston that is heavily focused on the local teams, I'm not surprised that ESPN wouldn't succeed even on AM.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom