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Breaking: ESPN 24/7 on 850 Oct 5

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

acc to Boston Sports Media

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/#!

>>In a long-rumored move, Entercom radio announced this afternoon that programming on 850 AM will switch to all ESPN radio beginning on October 5th. The station will carry the full lineup of ESPN Radio programming.
Also announced was a tighter integration with ESPNBoston.com, the audio stream for WEEI 93.7 FM will be available through ESPNBoston.com and ESPNBoston’s video player will power WEEI’s video player with content from ESPN.
 
also via BSMW
>>Beginning Friday, October 5, the new ESPN on WEEI 850 AM ESPN lineup will be:
6 a.m. to 10 a.m. “Mike & Mike in the Morning”
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. “The Herd with Colin Cowherd”
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. “The Scott Van Pelt Show”
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. “ESPN Today”
7 p.m. to 10 p.m. “Hill and Schlereth” / ESPN Play-by-Play
10 p.m. to 12 a.m. “SportsCenter Tonight”
12 a.m. to 6 a.m. “SportsCenter All Night”

C's and Sox on 93.7 only I think. Baseball playoffs on 850 though I wonder if some will // on 93.7
 
Sports makes money. On the Boston dial:
WEEI (AM) 850 to be ESPN
WWZN 1510 NBC Sports
WEEI-FM 93.7 (question: what do they run overnight... // ESPN?)
WBZ-FM 98.5 Fox Sports, and I'd guess CBS Sports

What if (and I DOUBT this) CBS ditched Fox on 98.5 and CC decided to place it on the
now all comedy 1200?
If so
WXKS (AM) 1200, Fox! Five stations!

What if there were a centrally located station to cover the Hispanic community?
ESPN Deportes (on some AM station) Six! :)
 
Will "WEEI Boston" call letters be retained as the call letters of the 850 or move to something else? Will 93.7 change their call sign to simply "WEEI Lawrence" and drop the "FM"?
 
Maybe no call Ltd change...quick WEEI ston at top of hr. I hear it's called ESPN on weei ...93.7 legal ID prob stays same...weei Boston at other times
 
raccoonradio said:
acc to Boston Sports Media

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/#!

>>In a long-rumored move, Entercom radio announced this afternoon that programming on 850 AM will switch to all ESPN radio beginning on October 5th. The station will carry the full lineup of ESPN Radio programming.
Also announced was a tighter integration with ESPNBoston.com, the audio stream for WEEI 93.7 FM will be available through ESPNBoston.com and ESPNBoston’s video player will power WEEI’s video player with content from ESPN.
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Another radio format in Boston for Caucasian males!!! So glad this niche market is so well served. It's OK, no one else wanted to listen to the radio anyways!
 
Ciao9999 said:
raccoonradio said:
acc to Boston Sports Media

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/#!

>>In a long-rumored move, Entercom radio announced this afternoon that programming on 850 AM will switch to all ESPN radio beginning on October 5th. The station will carry the full lineup of ESPN Radio programming.
Also announced was a tighter integration with ESPNBoston.com, the audio stream for WEEI 93.7 FM will be available through ESPNBoston.com and ESPNBoston’s video player will power WEEI’s video player with content from ESPN.
Click to expand...

Another radio format in Boston for Caucasian males!!! So glad this niche market is so well served. It's OK, no one else wanted to listen to the radio anyways!
Click to expand...
If that's all the advertisers want to reach, what can radio do but march to Madison Avenue's well-researched tune?
 
I was told tonight that 93.7 has plans to go local overnight during the week if necessary.

What they are waiting for is to see what 98.5 does with JT Brick. If 98.5 is forced to take Sports Babe (CBS) , then 93.7 will clear FOX. If 98.5 stays with Brick overnight 93.7 will go local overnight.

850 will be ESPN 24/7/365
 
though maybe college sports pbp? Bumped sports (Sox,C's at same time)... maybe. They are to carry all baseball playoffs (well most as some games opp. each other)\

btw on Sun WEEI opts for Sun night baseball--can't carry Pats on SNF--then goes into real postgame show

Int. about local
 
I don't doubt there are quite a few blacks and Hispanics who listen to WEEI and 98.5; some women too, but yes it prob. is predominantly white males. Do we have enough hispanics for ESPN deportes? If we do, could they all be reached by one of those smaller AMs?
 
raccoonradio said:
I don't doubt there are quite a few blacks and Hispanics who listen to WEEI and 98.5; some women too, but yes it prob. is predominantly white males. Do we have enough hispanics for ESPN deportes? If we do, could they all be reached by one of those smaller AMs?
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ESPN deportes could work on 1150 AM - but

Inner-city Boston has another language block that is ignored - Portuguese - which is much stronger in than Spanish within 5 miles of downtown.
 
raccoonradio said:
What if (and I DOUBT this) CBS ditched Fox on 98.5 and CC decided to place it on the
now all comedy 1200?
If so
WXKS (AM) 1200, Fox! Five stations!
Click to expand...

Why wouldn't CBS dump Fox for its own programming on 98.5? The station is already running the CBS Sports Minute and I don't see the logic in not having the national network on one of its most successful sports stations.
 
Fenway1912 said:
Inner-city Boston has another language block that is ignored - Portuguese - which is much stronger in than Spanish within 5 miles of downtown.
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You didn't specify which dialect of Portuguese. Like Spanish, Portuguese is not a single format, but has within it different cultures and dialects.

The Brazilian Portuguese community is currently being served by the station in Ashland on 650.

As for Azorian/European Portuguese.....any radio with a decent FM section would be able to pick up New Bedford's 50KW "Class B" FM on 97.3. Though licensed to New Bedford, the folks there must have good reason to believe they reach a fairly wide audience.....In the top-of-hour ID, they're bold enough to proclaim themselves as "WJFD 97.3, New Bedford / Fall River / Providence / Boston".
 
From the news section of this site what will apparently be the new logo
http://www.radioinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/weeiespn-logo.png

It will be called "ESPN on WEEI" (the AM side). Maybe not necessarily "ESPNBoston" (maybe? on
the web at least) or "ESPN 850", no it seems to be "ESPN (on) WEEI/850". They want those call
letters in there. So listeners will think of them as "WEEI-ESPN" and the FM side is "WEEI/WEEI Sports
Radio Network". With PPMs you can tell which station people have on, AM or FM, right?
 
I suspect the simulcast will end right after the postgame show for the Red Sox season finale on the night of October 3rd, with a looped announcement on 850 running until 6 A.M. on the 5th to remind listeners that WEEI is no longer on AM.

WEPN-1050 New York did this earlier this month when the AM was flipped to ESPN Deportes.
 
They might but conceivably they may just go with what they have till midnight on Oct 4 into Oct 5,
when they go to ESPN anyway for overnight. While I suppose they could look at it as "we start
6 am on Oct 5", they do ESPN overnight so maybe at that time they start running announcements
saying "this is ESPN on WEEI, AM 850 Boston" during the overnight (that is, run the ESPN show but insert promos/liners) ...and Mike and Mike of ESPN
is to start, live from Gillette stadium, that day.
I would guess during the Big Show on 93.7 they could do a simulcast segment with Mike and Mike
and get people used to the fact that 850 would be all ESPN now.

As noted on bostonsportsmedia board, there hasn't really been talk about this by the hosts on
air, no "big announcements", not much on their website other than the press release that went out.
This could be kind of a soft launch.

(JonB writes on bostonsportsmedia.com: "Interesting that I didn't hear any mention of this on the WEEI airwaves today. Usually these "big" announcements are constantly hyped up on the air in the days preceding the news release (e.g. WEEI moving to FM last year). Not this time. I'm guessing the on-air talent at EEI isn't too thrilled. I think the writing is on the wall for Ordway - he's become increasingly irrelevant & overpaid, even after the pay cut - I see no way Entercom brass brings him back when his contract is up at the end of the year. The station desperately needs an infusion of younger, "hipper" talent..." )

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2012/09/850-am-to-switch-to-espn-radio-on-october-5th#comments
 
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