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A Bronx cheer to WRKO: No Red Sox celebration

The Sox won tonight to bring the magic number down to one, and the players went into the
clubhouse to watch the end of the Orioles-Yankees game. In the 9th inning, ace Mariano
Rivera gives up three runs and the O's tie it, 9-6 (bases clearing triple)...it goes into extra innings
and the O's win it in the 10th on a squeeze play (you could almost hear Phil Rizzuto--"and it's
bunted, bunted down the third base line, the suicide squeeze is on! It's gonna be close,
here's the throw, here's the play at the plate--holy cow I think he's gonna make it!"

Yankees lose, theeeeeeeeee Yankees lose and there's pandemonium on the field at Fenway
where the Sox have just won the AL East division title for the first time since 1995! But
WRKO is not there to share the joy. Instead a Bronx born talk host, Michael Savage, is on.
Yes, yes, WEEI is there to carry the festivities and interviews...their sister station. Joe C
and Goofner are around to do interviews and dodge the champagne. Yup, it was on WEEI
but where was the Red Sox flagship station? (Maybe they figured there was no way
the Orioles could come back, etc. Maybe...)

(At work, I listened to the Sox game and then tuned to WEEI and heard them say the
O's had the bases loaded in the 9th. I had to strain to pick up WCBS--while the signal
would come in fine outside, it was tough at work due to machinery. I could barely
hear John Sterling say what had happened, etc.

I did listen to the celebration on WEEI, which does come in at work but there's a lot
of static due to machinery. Too bad it wasn't on WRKO.

A Bronx cheer to 680. And not for the first time.
 
Yeah, only a ballclub the station owners paid
millions to carry, and only the first AL East
title for them since '95. Nothing to see here,
move along. Savage is more important. Borders
language culture buy my book, borders language
culture buy my book, I'll be right back.
 
ehh... it's on WEEI... and while it's their first division win since '95, it's not the same as winning the World Series. It used to be teams didn't do those celebrations until they won it all.

On the other hand, I switched to 880 AM to catch the end of the Yankees/Orioles game. It kept fading in and out but I caught the end. Maybe WEEI or one of the other stations could have made arrangements to carry some or all of that game.
 
Just to double check, they did air all of the Red Sox game?

They're only in contract to air the Red Sox game and optional post game. However, they don't have to carry anything else remotely related.
 
They did air all of the game, but this was related. As it is, same company, and WEEI is the "other"
flagship but a station that promotes itself as the flagship but doesn't carry this moment...
 
Just to double check, they did air all of the Red Sox game?

Yes, they did.

I guess the problem is that they didn't kill time for an hour and ten minutes so we could be treated to a radio 'call' of Alex Cora spraying champagne on the crowd and the players seeing how many different ways you can say "we have a long way to go." Now that would have been compelling radio, especially for the person who was unaware the Sox were in a pennant race. Of course, if they had waited, the complaint would be that WRKO wasted an hour and ten minutes so we could be treated to a radio 'call' of Alex Cora spraying champagne on the crowd and the players seeing how many different ways you can say "we have a long way to go."

You must not understand the finer points of Entercom/WRKO/Geffner Derangement Syndrome.

Regards,
TSB
 
Done In The Name Of Science

You see, the reason WRKO had to drop the coverage of the Red Sox winning the AL East Division is that The Asylum from which Michael Weiner [he is such a savage] broadcast in San Francisco only allows a narrow window to let Weiner walk around the yard and hallucinate with a live microphone. Of course, The Asylum is on Pacific Time.

The Asylum calls it "Radio Frequency Therapy". They believe the charged radio waves to Weiner's brain may eventually shock him back to some distant sense of reality. So, we must understand that WRKO acted out of do respect to science and medical research with the faint hope that someday The Asylum might find a cure for Michael Weiner.
 
I'd guess that anyone who wants more Sox talk would switch over to WEEI until the game was decided and it thus made sense to do it there. I'm sure Savage has his fans. I don't think I'd want them in the same room as me but still... :D
 
SonicAl said:
I'd guess that anyone who wants more Sox talk would switch over to WEEI until the game was decided and it thus made sense to do it there. I'm sure Savage has his fans. I don't think I'd want them in the same room as me but still... :D

That's exactly it! I was listening (from exile in PA) to the game on the radio, then caught the end on MLB.com. Then I switched to watch the stream of the improbable extra-inning Yankees loss, disturbing the neighbors from my deck in the process. ;D As the wife was asleep and I am the lone representative of RSN in this God-forsaken land, I decided to tune in the official home of the Boston Red Sox, WRKO. Nothing at all - just Fox news then Savage. Unbelievable! Frankly, it sounded as if no one was even at the station - everything was automated.

So, I checked out WBZ and they were talking about the win - but casually in the studio. No surprises, but at least they were aware of it. Finally, I checked out WEEI's stream and got the live coverage that I was looking for.

This is probably the only such arrangement in the league! For example, I am sure that Cubs fans did not have to switch stations to hear coverage of the post-clinch celebration on WGN. I know that, if the Phillies win their division, WPHT will have live reports. So, as I have said from the start, putting the games on WRKO may make sense for a while on paper - from a business standpoint....but it's lousy PR.

And yes, carrying an event like the post-clinch party is part of what the team's official station should be doing. Things made a lot more sense when WEEI was the Sox' station and that was that. Now, it is a dysfunctional and schizophrenic arrangement with most games on 680, some on 850, Sox talk on 850, syndicated political talk on 680.
 
TSBench said:
Just to double check, they did air all of the Red Sox game?

Yes, they did.

I guess the problem is that they didn't kill time for an hour and ten minutes so we could be treated to a radio 'call' of Alex Cora spraying champagne on the crowd and the players seeing how many different ways you can say "we have a long way to go." Now that would have been compelling radio, especially for the person who was unaware the Sox were in a pennant race. Of course, if they had waited, the complaint would be that WRKO wasted an hour and ten minutes so we could be treated to a radio 'call' of Alex Cora spraying champagne on the crowd and the players seeing how many different ways you can say "we have a long way to go."

You must not understand the finer points of Entercom/WRKO/Geffner Derangement Syndrome.

Regards,
TSB

Thanks for clearing that up. You make the most sense.
 
>>Of course, The Asylum is on Pacific Time.

The liner we hear from Dana Hersey says "and now LIVE--Michael Savage!" Not quite. As in, 10 pm,
a good hour after MS finishes the show in San Fran.

"Boston connects with the Savage nation"--and disconnects from Red Sox Nation. They could have COME
BACK ON. Sorry Mikey, but the Sox and their fans are celebrating. Those of us who depend on radio
(and have a tough time getting WEEI) want to KNOW that Papelbon has a Bud Light box on his face
with holes cut out for his eyes! :)

>>Nothing at all - just Fox news then Savage. Unbelievable! Frankly, it sounded as if no one was even at the station - everything was automated.

I guess WBZ was talking about it, etc; their hockey voice (Dave forget-his-last name, Gautschier
or something) was on but they were talking Sox. Not WRKO.

>>This is probably the only such arrangement in the league! For example, I am sure that Cubs fans did not have to switch stations to hear coverage of the post-clinch celebration on WGN...
And yes, carrying an event like the post-clinch party is part of what the team's official station should be doing. Things made a lot more sense when WEEI was the Sox' station and that was that. Now, it is a dysfunctional and schizophrenic arrangement with most games on 680, some on 850, Sox talk on 850, syndicated political talk on 680. "

Yes. And yup we know, "if it isn't on one station it's on another" but it's still ridiculous to promote one
station as the Sox flagship and then have them not carry this.
 
Picture this: a decision is made to move WEEI to the FM dial--at 93.7, 97.7, 99.5 (Entercom owns half),
something like that. After a short period of simulcasting, the AM switches to something else.

Could it sound something like this? Live, from Detroit, it's CBS and its "train wreck" debut of WXYT
sports, not just on AM 1270 but on FM 97.1 as well (they dumped "free"). Listen for the dead air
and the guy asking, "I just came in here to see if I was going on the air or not?"

http://gregghenson.typepad.com/Bits/WKRK.mp3

Anyway, there's CBS for you. Entercom isn't the only bumblers out there.
 
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