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97.5 Flips to Sports on Monday

Mike said:
95.7 would have been a wiser choice for this is i think
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I know some people on here have complained about the 97.5 signal...if they want to take a run at the Phillies or Eagles they might indeed be better off with sports on 95.7 and Ben moved to 97.5.
 
A 94.3 WIBG type station would do well....really?


Pre sports this station did oldies and it failed miserably.

GM is investing $$$ in this new FM Sports Talker, especially if they make a grab at some of the pro sports franchises. 950 will now be an afterthought. Running ESPN 24/7 and some play by play would be the inexpensive way to go for 950.
 
oasisrulz said:
... where would you go for the fantastic Christmas music 97.5 dished out last season... or maybe 97.5 will bring it to their HD-2, or MGK's HD-3...
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Yeah, that's a great idea, Christmas music on an HD-2 channel. I don't think I could find as many department stores with an HD radio hookup, let alone human beings.
 
The WPEN/WNUW simulcast is no surprise...neither would be a WIP/WYSP simul. I love the speculation of doing other things with 950, or other stations...but gang...when you can fire talents and sell two properties with one person...last I checked it was 2009. Nature of the beast. It's the fourth quarter, and the overrides for those in the nicely carpeted offices are being calculated. Expect no real investment in anything anytime soon, unless someone wakes up and actually does what we ask of our clients...invest in the business!
 
Seltzer said:
This will be great. And IP definitely needs to find an FM home now. YSP is the logical choice.
Two FM sport talkers in Philly. How wild would that be.
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That's not a far-fetched idea. Remember back in the late '80s when WOGL and WIOQ switched to oldies within a week of each other? I don't remember which one did it first, but it seemed like an all-oldies station on FM was a new concept... a natural extension of those popular Saturday night oldies shows that used to be heard on Magic. The bandwagon was ripe for jumping on. The interesting thing now would be to see if WIP would make the move relatively quickly or wait it out to see what happens.
 
Keep 97.5 as local as possible. Keep 950 a partial simulacast of 97.5 but break-away for ESPN national content MLB baseball, college football and over-flow. Buy or LMA 97.3-ESPN radio in Millville, N.J. to expand the coverage in South Jersey.
 
HarveyBrowning said:
I have heard it will be

Steven A. Smith with Dan Schawrtzman from 10-to-noon
Harry Mayes and Vai Sikahema from noon-to-three
3-7 - Mikey Miss
Phillies baseball coming soon.
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I doubt the Phillies will be coming back to 950. Remember the signal issues they had while the games were on that station. I expect the Phillies to remain with 1210 next season.
 
Mike said:
he did not say 950 julius he was talking about 97.5

read the post
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Sorry. Misread that.  corrected: I doubt the local broadcasts of the Phillies  games will be on 97.5. I expect CBS radio to keep the Phillies on 1210 next season or maybe move the games to WIP.
 
HarveyBrowning said:
I have heard it will be

Steven A. Smith with Dan Schawrtzman from 10-to-noon
Harry Mayes and Vai Sikahema from noon-to-three
3-7 - Mikey Miss
Phillies baseball coming soon.
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I don't think that Greater Media will get the local broadcasts of the Phillies back. I think that CBS radio wants to keep the local broadcasts of the Phillies games on their stations.
 
GM can certainly drive up the Phillies rights by aggressively going after them.

Having a quality team on the field is one way to attract younger fans. Putting the games where the younger fans will find them would also be a good move...on FM.

Funny...CBS fired the first shot in Boston creating a sports station on the Patriots flagship. Entercom followed within a couple weeks.

You almost wonder why, in a sports crazy town like Philly, they didn't see this coming and pre-emptively put 610 on 94.1 when football season began.

Crazy times we're in.
 
aindik said:
How about Preston and Steve as the new local morning show on 97.5? Put something with a lot more music in the morning on MMR (maybe the current afternoon show?). Then leave weekday morning/afternoon ESPN programming on 950. Simulcast the ESPN stuff on both stations in the off hours.

So what do people think? Do P&S fit better on a rock station or an FM sports station?
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I don't know how well of a fit P & S would be at 97.5 as opposed to 93.3, but I just keep going back to the early 90's, when WMMR was trying to get one last shake out of the John DeBella money tree by teaming him up with Eskin for 'Sportsrock' in morning drive. I know that we're 15 years in to the future and radio is completely different now. I just think moving an established rock morning show out of their element to sports is a bad move. I somehow don't see (or hear) Preston, Steve or Casey answering calls and discussing why it's a smarter move to start Hamels over Lee in Game 4...
 
I wonder if CC is going to flip WISX to Hot AC to take over some of Now's listenership and change over My106.1 to something similar to KBIG (104.3 MyFm) like in LA. As far as ESPN on 97.5, it's probably not going to last long if they don't have any games on the station. The only reason why FM Sports stations like WXYT in Detroit are scoring good grades on the PPMs is because they have the rights to almost every sports franchise in Detroit.
 
radiojomo said:
The only reason why FM Sports stations like WXYT in Detroit are scoring good grades on the PPMs is because they have the rights to almost every sports franchise in Detroit.
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Maybe, but only while those teams are playing, and only if they're winning. Broadcasting a losing team isn't big for ratings. It's better for a station TALKING about the losers.

The point isn't beating WIP (which they won't) but beating what they got before on WPEN or WNUW.
 
radiojomo said:
I wonder if CC is going to flip WISX to Hot AC to take over some of Now's listenership...
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NOW's listeners will migrate to MY 106.1 anyway. Why tweak a station for a small fraction of the market?
 
K-Tel said:
radiojomo said:
I wonder if CC is going to flip WISX to Hot AC to take over some of Now's listenership...
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NOW's listeners will migrate to MY 106.1 anyway. Why tweak a station for a small fraction of the market?
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Let me fix this up. *some* of NOW's listeners will...
 
DG02816 said:
GM may try for the Phils to counterbalance the Eagles on WYSP.
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I think that CBS radio would be crazy to give up the Phillies radio broadcasts again.
 
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