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2006 flashback: "Done deal" had Sox going to WBOS

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raccoonradio

In 2006 a deal was ALMOST made (fell apart?) to move the Sox to FM...Greater Media's WBOS 92.9.
"Sports radio.. WBOS!" (Or at least Sox games...Sox would have bought much of station)

BOSTONRADIOWATCH.com, April 2006:
>>"Red Sox, Entercom, and Greater Media are all about to end playing hardball any minute now. While Sox and Greater Media managements remains mum, some of their personnel are now openly bragging around town that the Sox broadcasts will move from WEEI AM 850 after 12 years. The shortly-to-be-announced "done deal" has the Sox purchasing a majority interest in WBOS 92.9FM with Greater Media retaining a remaining share of the station. A Sox source tells BRW that the deal may be announced as soon as Monday(4/24)."
 
A month later, Ent. had a deal with games to be split between WRKO and WEEI. In '09 right after Sports Hub debuted, Ent. shifted most games to EEI

http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/496355/sox_games_to_be_split_between_wrko_weei_in_radio

>>During the Sox’s monthslong negotiations for radio rights, executives got very close to signing a deal with the owner of WBOS-FM, Greater Media Inc., in which the team could have taken up to a 25 percent stake in the station.
 
It was a good bluff by RS. They didn't want to get into the radio biz and Entercom paid up. Didn't D&C want to leave around the same time?
This market wasn't going to have a single sports station (I don't count 890 or 1510). It was only a matter of time before somebody put up an FM challenge to EEI.
 
Forget when, but D&C were being lured by Nassau to a possible sports station on 99.5 but
Entercom got them back and eventually WGBH bought 99.5 to put classical there. The Nassau
deal would have included a network of their stations around New England.
 
I don't pay much attention to sports, but even I could tell you that the WBOS call letters on a Boston sports radio station would have been pretty cool.
 
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