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WFAN live game conflicts

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Rollo-Smokes

On Friday (10-25) WFAN did this to get through a three-way conflict, created when the Yankees advanced to the World Series:

The Nets @ Orlando contest (6:30p pre-game) was moved to WXBK (94.7 the Block), and ran there for its duration.

The Rutgers @ USC game, with an 11:00p kickoff back East (and pre-game show), was moved to WINS (AM). WINS-FM continued with the news.

World Series Game 1 was on both WFAN-AM-FM. Rutgers was JiP'd after the game ended (and what a game it was!) on 660, and 1010 returned to the news just before Midnight. Yankees post-game aired exclusively on 101.9.
 
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Take note: If the World Series goes to a sixth game on Nov. 1, ESPN NY will have a three-way conflict of its own to deal with. The Knicks and Rangers are both playing that evening, so Good Karma may need to farm baseball out to someone (unless MSG is forced to find a taker for basketball or hockey).

The Nets are scheduled on 11/1 also, but WFAN would move them to either 94.7 (the likely choice) or 1010 if the Yankees are playing.
 
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Rollo-Smokes said:
Take note: If the World Series goes to a sixth game on Nov. 1, ESPN NY will have a three-way conflict of its own to deal with. The Knicks and Rangers are both playing that evening, so Good Karma may need to farm baseball out to someone (unless MSG is forced to find a taker for basketball or hockey).
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Seems to me this has happened to them before. As I recall, they farmed something out to WPAT AM or a similar AM station. I imagine Bloomberg would be willing to air sports at night after the markets closed. The former Bloomberg station in San Francisco used to run Oakland A's baseball after the markets closed.

I now see WBBR is actually carrying the Monday night Giants game from WFAN. So they appear to be open to sports at night.
 
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TheBigA said:
Seems to me this has happened to them before. As I recall, they farmed something out to WPAT AM or a similar AM station. I imagine Bloomberg would be willing to air sports at night after the markets closed. The former Bloomberg station in San Francisco used to run Oakland A's baseball after the markets closed.

I now see WBBR is actually carrying the Monday night Giants game from WFAN. So they appear to be open to sports at night.
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Throughout the 90s into the 2000s, conflict games on WFAN 660 were either carried on WEVD 1070 or then WWDJ, later WAPP 970.

Some games were also sent to 1130 WBBR.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
On Friday (10-25) WFAN did this to get through a three-way conflict, created when the Yankees advanced to the World Series:

The Nets @ Orlando contest (6:30p pre-game) was moved to WXBK (94.7 the Block), and ran there for its duration.

The Rutgers @ USC game, with an 11:00p kickoff back East (and pre-game show), was moved to WINS (AM). WINS-FM continued with the news.

World Series Game 1 was on both WFAN-AM-FM. Rutgers was JiP'd after the game ended (and what a game it was!) on 660, and 1010 returned to the news just before Midnight. Yankees post-game aired exclusively on 101.9.
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Does that Disqualify 1010 WINS AM as an all news station ? Such was said when the recently Departed WCBS AM 880 when they picked up the Mets
 
Always interest said:
.No Just from a listeners standpoint
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I guess it depends on the listener. Even when WCBS carried the Mets on 880 AM, they were still staffing and reporting all news on the stream. So the content was always available. That's the case here as well. All news is still on the FM and the stream.

At the same time, when 880 became ESPN, some listeners talked about the demise of the "all news station," as thought it hadn't added the Mets a few years ago. So as I say, it depends on who you ask.
 
TheBigA said:
I guess it depends on the listener. Even when WCBS carried the Mets on 880 AM, they were still staffing and reporting all news on the stream. So the content was always available. That's the case here as well. All news is still on the FM and the stream.

At the same time, when 880 became ESPN, some listeners talked about the demise of the "all news station," as thought it hadn't added the Mets a few years ago. So as I say, it depends on who you ask.
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Alright Thanks for replying I appreciate your take on that
 
Always interest said:
Does that Disqualify 1010 WINS AM as an all news station ? Such was said when the recently Departed WCBS AM 880 when they picked up the Mets
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If airing football games disqualifies stations from being alll news, WBBM in Chicago wasn’t all news from 1977-1984 and 2000-2022 when they were the Bears flagship.
 
Let's not go down this road again.

There's no legal definition of "all news." Nobody regulates radio formats.

A station that does 164 hours of news every week and breaks for four hours for a football game on a Sunday afternoon is still functionally an "all-news" station.

End of story.
 
fybush said:
Let's not go down this road again.

There's no legal definition of "all news." Nobody regulates radio formats.

A station that does 164 hours of news every week and breaks for four hours for a football game on a Sunday afternoon is still functionally an "all-news" station.

End of story.
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A comparable case was at my first job in radio. WJMO-1490 in Cleveland was R&B all week for the Black community. On Sundays the sold 6 AM to noon to groups like Poles, Italians and Greeks. Nobody would say that WJMO was anything other than an R&B station.
 
I wonder what the numbers are for the national radio broadcast of the Yankees game in NYC vs local radio (announcers) broadcast on WFAN? If barely anyone is listening maybe ESPN just streams the game in NYC rather than look for another station if there is a game 6.
 
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Does that Disqualify 1010 WINS AM as an all news station ? Such was said when the recently Departed WCBS AM 880 when they picked up the Mets
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Entercom/Audacy speak: FM > AM.

101.9 is WFAN's primary stream now. Same goes for WINS at 92.3, in spite of the branding.

On a larger scope, we could see more of this in the years to come with no more 880 for WFAN to lean on. I'm sure they will keep the need to use 1010 for sports overflow to a minimum so as to not interrupt the news.
 
Presumably Audacy will want to keep sports coverage on WINS AM to a minimum, not only to not interrupt AM listenership, but also to stay within the limit of non-simulcast hours to have WINS-AM/FM show up as one station in the ratings
 
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