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Another New England Rhythmic station hits the graveyard,Entercom WEEI did it.

rapking said:
Look like Entercom killed another Rhythmic ( Hip Hop and R&B ) station. http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,107150.0.html Im a WEEI fan, but this really S*cks. WRED is a very good station, and the only station that playing Rhythmic music in Portland ( and all of Maine ). Different formats on the radio dial, is soooooo yesterday :mad: .
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I may not always agree with you, but here, you're right on! This WEEI invasion on to FM's doesn't make sense to me. Why not put the sports signal on an AM station?
 
Holy crap. If you're going to assign blame, blame the right people, will ya? Entercom isn't killing another rhythmic station (despite your protests, they haven't killed one in Boston either...that was Radio One that pulled the plug on WILD...Entercom merely bought the signal).

Entercom has nothing to do with WRED flipping at all. Atlantic Coast Radio owns WRED and is the one that is making the decision. While I, as someone who lives in Maine for work but is a Masshole at heart, am ecstatic to have a more local signal carrying WEEI, I do have to question the wisdom of ACR. They already own the only sports station in the Portland market that has local content (WJJB - The Big Jab/SNR) and now they're bringing in competition on a sister signal. In a more curious move, they're flipping their other two stations' FM signals. WJJB moves from 95.5 to the stronger 96.3 and WLOB (news/talk) goes to the weaker 95.5. So they're strengthening the reach of their own sports content while expanding a competitor's reach into the market at the same time.

Personally, I'll probably stick to the local content on WJJB for the morning drive, then switch to WRED for Dale and Holley, then go back and forth between WJJB's afternoon show and the Big Show (guest hosts probably will fuel my decisions). Best of both worlds for this sports radio listener.
 
Is WLVP-AM 870 still running off-the-bird sports? The latest 'Trons didn't include WLVP at all. Dropping lib tyalk was DEFINITELY the smartest move they could make!
 
MUGrad said:
WJJB moves from 95.5 to the stronger 96.3 and WLOB (news/talk) goes to the weaker 95.5.
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That's been changed. Now, WEEI will go to both 95.5 (north of Portland) and 95.9 (south of Portland), WJJB stays on 1440 AM and moves to 96.3 on FM, and WLOB goes to 1310 AM only.

Laurence Glavin said:
Is WLVP-AM 870 still running off-the-bird sports? The latest 'Trons didn't include WLVP at all. Dropping lib tyalk was DEFINITELY the smartest move they could make!
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Nassau is indeed still running a 24/7 ESPN feed on both 870 Gorham/Portland and 1470 in Lewiston. With WEEI coming to Portland, I doubt they'll make another Arbitron appearance.

rapking said:
WRED is a very good station, and the only station that playing Rhythmic music in Portland ( and all of Maine ).
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I'll definitely miss WRED's classic hip-hop lunch block. Pretty sure that's the only place The Click and Coolio are still getting airplay.
 
btw I don't know if anyone noticed or mentioned this but Boston Sports Media said, in an entry on
the 14th, that Tony Massarotti left the Herald for the Globe and thus had to leave WEEI...I don't
usually listen to The Big Show (well, once in a while) but I'd be surprised if someone here didn't mention it
 
KML-224 said:
This sucks! Isn't there a Red Sox radio affiliate in Portland already?
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The Red Sox were not part of the package. Strictly the WEEI programming was offered.

And the company that is picking up WEEI is also the same one that has the other sports station in town, WJAB, which is the Red Sox affiliate up here.
 
Re: Another New England Rhythmic station hits the graveyard,Entercom WEEI did it

I may not always agree with you, but here, you're right on! This WEEI invasion on to FM's doesn't make sense to me. Why not put the sports signal on an AM station?
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Well, completely separate from the original discussion, I'd imagine it's because generally speaking people listen to FM over AM. I mean, it's not hard to see why...no AM signal is ever going to be able to compete with FM for audio fidelity (HD Radio be damned :) ) and the AM band as a whole is under continuous assault from new sources of unintentional interference every day.

Taking that concept to the next level, it means you can charge more for your ad spots on an FM station, in general, because the time is perceived as more valuable. So in most cases, why wouldn't you put your strongest programming on an FM instead of an AM? There's a reason why there's been so much chatter about the Sox games moving to (at various times) WBCN and WBOS.
 
Re: Another New England Rhythmic station hits the graveyard,Entercom WEEI did it

in 1975, WBOS carried the Red Sox-As ALCS games. WHDH contracted with Sox expired at the end of the regular season 1975. The ALCS was on 1510 WMEX and WBOS 92.9. The World Series in 1975 was on WCOP 1150AM (NBC Radio affilate in 75 and WMEX 1510.
 
Perhaps this move has something to do with the increase in coverage area/ hence hiking the amount of $$$ Entercom can charge (future) advertisers for spots during Red Sox games?

Or maybe it will be an added incentive for potential "high-end" clients that are on the fence on whether or not they want to plunk down all that dough to advertise during Sox games (just "throwing" that out there,or am I completely "off-base" on that?... no pun intended! ;) )
 
This is the WEEI SportsRadio Network and does not include play by play. Red Sox (and Celtics) are separate deals. The Red Sox Radio Network already exists and yes, Entercom already receives a premium for network spots. An advertiser can buy spots on the flagship (WEEI/WRKO), the Entercom O and O's (WEEI/WRKO, Providence, Worcester and Springfield) or the full network.
 
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Well, completely separate from the original discussion, I'd imagine it's because generally speaking people listen to FM over AM. I mean, it's not hard to see why...no AM signal is ever going to be able to compete with FM for audio fidelity (HD Radio be damned ) and the AM band as a whole is under continuous assault from new sources of unintentional interference every day.
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If there's programming that people want, they'll find it, be it on AM, FM, satellite or internet. While cable and satellite have made TV pretty linear, you'd never hear someone say, "I won't watch (fill-in-with-a-show-name) because it's on (let's say) UHF." You'd tune to where the show or program was you wanted to see. If the Red Sox are only on an AM station with a crappy signal, you do your best to listen if that's all you have available. So, if the Red Sox can get coverage on an FM station in that same area, doesn't that signal best serve the potential listener, and advertiser as well? The listener nowadays has options for his or her ears and they're making the most of them. (Did I make the point I was going for clear?)
 
Whichever company is responsible, it's another sign of the end of truly local radio.

Stations in each market have their own flavor, their own personality. They lose that when they become absorbed by a network feed, even one as time-tested and as good as WEEI is.

Someone else said it in this thread, People will find what they want, be it on radio, satellite, internet, etc. If this is what the people truly want, then it's a good business move, and if more advertisers were buying the former incarnation of that station, this might not have happened.
 
As noted on radio-info's front page today, WEEI's manifest destiny continues (yes, they're speading from coast to coast..of New England at least). In addition to the Portland signal(s), they'll wind up in Bangor and also
on 93.5 in (new COL) Swanzey (nr. Keene) NH.
 
kms575 said:
I just hope they keep their mitts out of Southern Connecticut. This is Yankees country! :)
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they probably will, the only markets listed in the press release from yesterday that don't have affiliates...yet are Augusta/Waterville, Burlington, Montpelier, Lebanon NH and Hartford
 
Mainedude2007 said:
Hartford
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In driving throughout the area though, WVEI-FM (105.5) has a pretty decent signal throughout the Hartford-Metro north area.
You can hear them, in HD, in downtown Hartford without an issue.
 
necrat123 said:
Mainedude2007 said:
Hartford
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In driving throughout the area though, WVEI-FM (105.5) has a pretty decent signal throughout the Hartford-Metro north area.
You can hear them, in HD, in downtown Hartford without an issue.
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And once you get south of Hartford you're most definitely in WFAN country anyway.
 
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