BRW: RushRadio1200.com registered by CC

[raccoonradio]

Boston Radio Watch notes that Clear Channel has registered RushRadio1200.com

According to a WHOIS search
Created on..............: 2010-01-26.
Expires on..............: 2011-01-26.

Doesn't point to anything yet but you wonder if Rush will debut with the talk format in April

Of course CC also has the legendary WOAI on 1200 in San Antonio and they run Rush, but...

 

[DToTheJ]

Gee, why register the domain for only one year? CC must be that cash-strapped!

Great find, Raccoon!

 

[JustinT]

I'm far from a fan of Rush's show, but while that name might fly in some markets, that doesn't seem like necessarily the best choice for Boston. Even though it will be a conservative talk station, using Limbaugh of the face of the station seems like it could turn off a lot of people who may like talk radio but aren't fans of a pretty polarizing host.

 

[DToTheJ]

Well, think of how popular Rush is right now - and now more than ever, in fact - he was a judge for the Miss America Pageant just this past weekend. May as well ride the wave in the form of branding stations after him.

I believe I've mentioned this on this board once before, but there was a station in Sacramento that called itself "Howard 93.7" with Howard Stern in the morning, of course; even had the call letters changed to KHWD. I believe later on, after Stern left for satellite and Opie & Anthony were more or less doing mornings for CBS Radio, this same station changed its call letters to KXOA.

 

[musicman3355]

Gee, why register the domain for only one year? CC must be that cash-strapped!

They probably already know its going to fail ;D

 

[JustinT]

Of course CC also has the legendary WOAI on 1200 in San Antonio and they run Rush, but...

Given that WOAI is established, and "News Talk 1200 WXKS" is a terrible name, I'm sure this is the one.

I believe I've mentioned this on this board once before, but there was a station in Sacramento that called itself "Howard 93.7" with Howard Stern in the morning, of course; even had the call letters changed to KHWD. I believe later on, after Stern left for satellite and Opie & Anthony were more or less doing mornings for CBS Radio, this same station changed its call letters to KXOA.

KHWD flipped to "Jack FM" at some point during Stern's last few months on the air, if I recall correctly, going all jockless once Stern's show finally ended.

 

[raccoonradio]

bostonradio tweets that 1430 was running winter baseball in Spanish (Caribbean league?) and wonders
if they may go ESPN Deportes/Spanish lang sports, or pick up Sox spanish lang games?)

 

[DanStrassberg]

bostonradio tweets that 1430 was running winter baseball in Spanish (Caribbean league?) and wonders
if they may go ESPN Deportes/Spanish lang sports, or pick up Sox spanish lang games?)

If the Sox night games in Spanish were on both 1150 (where they were last year) and also on 1430, they would cover the whole market pretty well. 1150 doesn't do too well on the North Shore at night. 1430 covers Everett well at night and probably reaches Lynn. The night signal in Lynn undoubtedly is not noise free, but since the 1430 Tx is much closer to Lynn than the 1150 Tx is, 1430 probably has the better night signal in Lynn. Same could be said if the Sox night games in Spanish were on 1430 and 1470. 1470 transmits from the 1150 site in Lexington and has a night pattern very similar to 1150's. 1470's night power is a little lower than 1150s and the background interference on 1470 is somewhat worse than that on 1150, but a nighttime 1430/1470 simulcast would work nearly as well as a nighttime 1150/1430 simulcast.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

No plans for Red Sox in Spanish at this time, but now through
Sunday evening, WLYN/WAZN are carrying the Carribean
World Series, in Spanish. Play ball!

 

[raccoonradio]

I wonder if that's what Mark (bostonradio/BRW) was picking up--maybe had analog radio and thought he had 1430 on? But who has analog radios these days--analog dial, that is. I do have one Walkman that is that way, and a couple portables (mini boom box) but most walkmen, car stereos, home receivers etc display the freq exactly. And yes that could indeed have been 1430 doing it too

bostonradio's tweet/20 hrs ago
"There's winter baseball in Spanish airing on AM 1430 right now. I guess Clear Channel is building the first
Boston sports station in Spanish"

http://www.twitter.com/bostonradio

 

[raccoonradio]

Now he tweets WXKS was off yesterday and was getting WNSW 1430 Newark instead

 

[JustinT]

I'm not extremely familiar with ESPN Deportes, but I'm pretty sure that a lot of their coverage focuses on Mexican sports. That's why the network has many affiliates in Arizona and California, but none in sports-friendly cities with small Mexican American populations like Boston and New York.

 

[raccoonradio]

I tuned to 1430 on Rt 128 in Reading at 5:30 p today and it sounded like winter league baseball
in Spanish and pretty strong;maybe WXKS running them after all?

 

[DToTheJ]

ESPN Deportes... a lot of their coverage focuses on Mexican sports. That's why the network has many affiliates in Arizona and California, but none in sports-friendly cities with small Mexican American populations like... New York.

And since ESPN has decided to make improvements on their AM 1050 signal in New York, as well as purchase a couple of regional radio stations (an FM in Eastern Long Island and an even weaker AM than 1050 in Central New Jersey) to basically act as repeaters for 1050, rather than get a major FM signal in New York City for its programming, I guess all bets are off on "Deportes" in New York, unless another station signs a contract with them.

 

[DanStrassberg]

And since ESPN has decided to make improvements on their AM 1050 signal in New York, as well as purchase a couple of regional radio stations (an FM in Eastern Long Island and an even weaker AM than 1050 in Central New Jersey) to basically act as repeaters for 1050, rather than get a major FM signal in New York City for its programming, I guess all bets are off on "Deportes" in New York, unless another station signs a contract with them.

The NJ AM, WNJE, is obviously not on 1050; that would make it co-channel with WEPN, which is only about 50 miles away, albeit with a pattern that is nulled directly toward WNJE. WNJE is on 1040 with 15 kW-D/7.5 kW-CH/1.5 kW-N. WNJE's D and CH patterns are nulled toward WEPN.

As for ESPN Deportes in New York, it certainly COULD happen. Most of the ethnic-focused AMs in the New York market are leased-time operations, many of which are owned by MRBI (930, 1380, 1430, 1480, 1530 (a daytimer and far from a full-market signal, which I think is how MRBI can own it without going over the ownership cap), and 1660). 1600, which is owned by Access.1, just lost AirAmerica, which went into Chapter 7. ESPN might well LMA one of New York market ethnic AMs if it could get the right deal--something that might be possible under current conditions.

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

I tuned to 1430 on Rt 128 in Reading at 5:30 p today and it sounded like winter league baseball
in Spanish and pretty strong;maybe WXKS running them after all?

Yup, I checked just after 4pm and it was DEFINITELY WXKS!

 

[Deleted User]

Yep that little company that does that leased time thing.... MRBI owns how many stations in NYC?

Don't forget the TV stations too, including the one in Boston.

Personally I'd love to see ESPN Deportes on WAZN and/or WLYN. We have done business with them before, running the World Series in espanol.

Once Rush goes to 1200, and Howie runs when his sentence is up, who knows WRKO might have ESPN radio on 850 and Deportes on 680.

 

[DToTheJ]

@DanStrassberg: At the risk of turning this thread on the Boston board into a New York-centric one ( ;D ), I will only say that these are valid points, and certainly there some be room for an ESPND station in NYC. Also, if you read my previous post, you'll see that I did not specifically say that their New Jersey station was on 1050; in fact, I didn't give a frequency for that station, or their Long Island one (107.1). No biggie...

 

[HD_Ready]

hey, check out the Spanish beisbol on ESPN Deportes 1430................in HD!

 

[Eli Polonsky]

hey, check out the Spanish beisbol on ESPN Deportes 1430................in HD!

I'm in Somerville in their nighttime "null" direction. At night, I can just barely get them to go into HD just two miles from their transmitter.