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BRW: 3 sports teams on FM Sat.; Pats and WEEI

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

In various tweets to me, Mark S. of Boston Radio Watch notes:
--This Sat night, look for 3 of Boston's teams to be on FM at roughly same time:
Pats on 98.5, B's on 100.7 (bumped), Celts on 93.7

--He also says under new rules should the Pats advance to the AFC title game and Super Bowl
WEEI 93.7 CAN carry game (as well as 98.5's Pats network). Westwood One.
 
WEEI is indeed mentioning (on facebook etc) that they too will carry next Sunday's AFC championship game
from Foxboro due to a rule change...no more blackout. If Pats defeat their opponent (Balt. or Hou.) and go to the Super Bowl, they would also be allowed to carry the Westwood One feed there too.

WEEI facebook:
>>WEEI 93.7FM will have the broadcast of the AFC Championship Game next Sunday, with kickoff at 3PM. Feeling confident that the Patriots will be making a return to the Super Bowl?
 
raccoonradio said:
WEEI is indeed mentioning (on facebook etc) that they too will carry next Sunday's AFC championship game
from Foxboro due to a rule change...no more blackout. If Pats defeat their opponent (Balt. or Hou.) and go to the Super Bowl, they would also be allowed to carry the Westwood One feed there too.

WEEI facebook:
>>WEEI 93.7FM will have the broadcast of the AFC Championship Game next Sunday, with kickoff at 3PM. Feeling confident that the Patriots will be making a return to the Super Bowl?
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That's great, too bad people will be more interested in hearing the LOCAL broadcast, voices that have been on the air for years and years. Not the WW1 crew.
 
True, I'm just saying that they are making a big deal out of the fact that they do have it, even if it isn't Gil and Gino.

"The home of New England Patriots... talk.." (and, for once or twice, the game...) :D
 
no thanks onthe national feed,sports hub will do for me personally i don't think it should be allowed!!
 
Mark S of BRW says he thinks RKO will pick up Sun 1 pm Celtics game as well as NFC Champ game (NY-SF)
and WEEI would do Real Postgame show after AFC Champ game
 
Indeed RKO has Celts game and the NFC Championship--S.F. 49ers, or as the VP calls them
"San Francisco Giants"--vs the NY Football Giants). "EEI 2"...
 
It's been amusing to hear 98.5's subtle references to the Pats radio net still being on the Hub, lest some be confused by the constant 'EEI promo's for Sunday(West1).
 
they say something like we have the only local coverage of the game!!! meaning local talk pre and post and during instead of the national stuff!!
 
True about the game itself but WEEI is promising "Real Postgame Show" afterwards, which would be local.

WEEI sched page:
2:00PM 6:00PM Patriots vs. Ravens - AFC Championship Game
6:00PM 10:00PM Real Postgame Show
 
The AFC Champ game involving Patriots is huge for them and no doubt they want post game-talk
(Real Post Game Show) on both FM and AM. Yes, you would think in such a conflict they would bounce
the Celts (afternoon game) and the 49ers-Giants tilt to AM with FM doing Pats game and Real Post Game
Show...just as you'd think in the future a Sox-Celts conflict could have the Sox on FM and C's on AM,
but the availability of WRKO helps them out.

As has been said before there could be some areas where 93.7 is a bit weak and the other options
like the Cape and RI stations not strong enough either, etc. (And by day and perhaps even by night
let's not forget those AM 850 listeners up in the Canadian Maritimes!) RKO's Sunday lineup can easily
be pre-empted by the declining Green Team plus the NFC Championship (for the more-than-a-few
Giants fans out there...)
 
Guess WEEI will pretty much be a 850/93.7 combo. No all day ESPN on 850. Upset ,that WEEI-FM not in stereo. Hoping for Sox games in stereo this season. Radio World said that Culmus radio is doing Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Chief games in Surround sound using DTS Neural and HD Radio technology.
 
Probably WEEI wants to keep its single line reporting status with Arbitron (combining the AM + FM data as one entry), at least for the time being until the FM is fully entrenched in the market. Hell, it might be already! Thus, the (current) need for 93.7/850 to maintain a 100% simulcast, otherwise the AM + FM would be listed separately on the ratings reports.
 
Another FM simulcast/move in New England: Clear Channel has switched country WPKX 97.9 Windsor Locks CT (formerly Enfield) to a simulcast of WPOP 1410 Hartford, ESPN...about a wk before the big Patriots-Giants clash. I would expect the Yankees broadcasts to also wind up on the FM. We'll see if they also
remain on 1410 (or would they switch to talk, like Premiere hosts?)
http://www.979espn.com/main.html
 
WEEI's sched says it'll have Real Postgame Show after the Super Bowl then John Ryder will be on 2-6 am.
I'm sure 98.5 will also be on all night with local talk after the game
 
Schedule for Sox pre-season in the paper says some games will wind up on WRKO due to a conflict
(Celts?)...one would have thought they could have put one game on 850 and one on 93.7, but
they prefer to put Sox on 680 in such a case. Usually on weekends when not much is going on
RKO anyways.
 
2 Things i cant understand.First, why conflicts cant be split between 850AM and 93.7 FM. Second , why 93.7 and 103.7 FM turned off stereo signal. Was looking forward to Sox games in stereo in the car; so much for that happening now.
 
mgpt6 said:
Radio World said that Culmus radio is doing Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Chief games in Surround sound using DTS Neural and HD Radio technology.
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I'm not betting on that lasting very long, even if it's true (which I doubt). It would take a stupendous investment in infrastructure at each stadium for the approximately seven people who actually have HD radios, and Cumulus is not exactly a cash-rich company right now, having just purchased the Citadel group.
 
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