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BSMW: EEI's next move...Meat the Pete?

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Hey there my friends..Check out WEEI today and make sure you listen to The Big Show around 5:30pm..Something interesting his happening!!
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Looks like Pete Sheppard is back with WEEI in some capacity. Details on the Big Show at 5:30.
 
Pete definitely came across as a buffoon a lot of times, but his personality seemed to change when he filled in as host. It made me wonder which was the real Pete.......maybe neither. At least one was an act. I'm certainly curious as to what will happen at 5:30. Of course WEEI is famous for "major announcements" which fall a little short of the buildup.

I've never been a Chad Finn fan, but I hope he's right about the M&M show. I think Dale and Merloni would be a vast improvement. I'm surprised that Jason Wolfe would give any inside info to Chad Finn. He's been openly rooting for the Sports Hub since they launched.
 
Pete in the car:

"I'm looking for the New Balance building..."
"That sounds like...Pete Sheppard. Pete Sheppard! What do you mean, you're lost?"
"Did Scott Brown win the election..?"
"Yes."
etc

on right now...
let's see...
 
"I can get there anytime."
"Can you get there by Sunday?"
"How bout 12 noon?We got a slot open. Can you a radio show at noon on Sunday?"
"What if you do it with LJ?"
"Let's try you out."

Noon to 3 Sundays though inevitably that could be cut into with Sox or C's games...
 
Anything they do to weekends will be an improvement. The only listenable show is Dale and Minihane...........and I'm not particularly crazy about Minihane.
 
I'm happy for Pete, glad he's back. Be curious to hear him solo though, caught him a couple times on patriots.com and he sounded a bit off when it was just him.

It is curious he's back at 'eei though.
 
Boston Sports Media Watch:
>>If radio stations were NFL teams, WEEI would be the New York Jets right now. They’re in [salary] cap hell. Huge contracts given to John Dennis, Gerry Callahan and Glenn Ordway have handcuffed the station from making significant changes...The problem is that 98.5 is the new WEEI. They’re every bit as cocky as WEEI ever was, and have started treating listeners in the same fashion

http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2012/03/celtics-crushed-in-philly-sheppard-on-weei-return

(remember though that poor ratings led Ent. to chop Ordway's salary in half--either that, or being cut...)

A comment made by Alpine McGregor to a related post on BSMW:
>>The biggest mistakes EEI made were overpaying D&C and Ordway when they were way past their prime and ripe for a collapse in the presence of legitimate competition. Once TSH showed up and slaughtered them in the ratings — armed with a bunch of guys who used to guest on the Big Show... plus a focus on the Bruins of all things! — EEI was caught completely flatfooted because they can’t change their lineup in the critical morning and afternoon drive segments without eating a TON of cash
http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2012/03/pete-sheppard-returns-to-weei-on-sunday#comments
 
The reason Felger hates the Celtics and the NBA (as the BSMW article states)is because he knows nothing about basketball. He also knows nothing about baseball and hates it as much. I don't think he's ever gotten over being humiliated by Peter Gammons and Sean McAdam. If the Bruins don't repeat, I suspect there will be scant Hockey talk on either station. There is very little now on WEEI, despite all of the Bruins' guests.

So he hates the NBA, MLB, Belichick and Kraft, Jeremy Jacobs, BC, and everything to do with Boston. Rick Pitino had it all wrong, negativity doesn't s**k and stink in this town, it works like a charm for some people.
 
raccoonradio said:
A comment made by Alpine McGregor to a related post on BSMW:
>>The biggest mistakes EEI made were overpaying D&C and Ordway when they were way past their prime and ripe for a collapse in the presence of legitimate competition.
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If I remember correctly, D&C signed new contracts before the launch of 98.5 and were crushing it in the ratings book, how exactly would that be measured as past their prime or overpaid? The ratings book backed them up.
However, I think Ordway's last contract came up 6 months or so after the launch of TSH, which does look like a fatal flaw. The writing was on the wall at the time, and they still gave him top dollar.

Edit: Does anyone know if Julie Kahn is part of the Boston Entercom team, or Entercom at all these days?
I've heard references to "the new boss" on 'eei for awhile now, and it's obvious that Wolfe is still there.
 
ArtSpooner said:
The reason Felger hates the Celtics and the NBA (as the BSMW article states)is because he knows nothing about basketball. He also knows nothing about baseball and hates it as much. I don't think he's ever gotten over being humiliated by Peter Gammons and Sean McAdam. If the Bruins don't repeat, I suspect there will be scant Hockey talk on either station. There is very little now on WEEI, despite all of the Bruins' guests.

So he hates the NBA, MLB, Belichick and Kraft, Jeremy Jacobs, BC, and everything to do with Boston. Rick Pitino had it all wrong, negativity doesn't s**k and stink in this town, it works like a charm for some people.
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That's precisely why I like Felger. He's not a homer who kisses the asses of the sports elite in this town, the way Ordway does. He may not always be right, but he is not afraid to give his true opinion about a team, player or coach, even when it may not be popular, and he backs it up. Look, you want sunshine and rainbows (and fence straddling) by all means, listen to the Big O (or all of WEEI for that matter.) If you want more compelling sports talk, it's Felger and the Sports Hub.
 
Felger hates the Celtics and the NBA
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The most important reason would be that EEI holds C's broadcast rights.
If he doesn't find the league compelling enough to know anything about it --I don't either-- it isn't surprising. The NBA is clearly in decline. The kid from Harvard/nyn and the overboard coverage of him is evidence of that. It's hard to see how the Celtics have a good future?

The RS and Pats are for all intents the only important properties/ subject matter. Everything else is filler.
 
fmradio1 said:
That's precisely why I like Felger. He's not a homer who kisses the asses of the sports elite in this town, the way Ordway does. He may not always be right, but he is not afraid to give his true opinion about a team, player or coach, even when it may not be popular, and he backs it up. Look, you want sunshine and rainbows (and fence straddling) by all means, listen to the Big O (or all of WEEI for that matter.) If you want more compelling sports talk, it's Felger and the Sports Hub.
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co-signed

TravisWMLN said:
I may be in the minority...But I like the Ordway and Holley pairing.
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also co-signed. I flip back and forth during breaks on each station or when the Hub starts talking about hockey (which I'm not interested in)
 
>>D&C signed new contracts before the launch of 98.5

Apparently they got 5 yr renewals in Sept. of 07, a month after the threat of moving to a
"sports radio 99.5" came out (right around that time was also the drama of the Howie situation;
HC did his "last show" on 9/19/07, there was a bit of a lockout and finally he came back in
Nov.). Maybe they were re-upped since then. The Sports Hub debuted (and WBCN "died") in
August of 2009. Again I don't know if D&C have their contract ending this fall, or did they get
extended beyond that.

The proposed "sports radio 99.5" situation was defused but it would have been interesting had
it gone down. WCRB switched freqs with WKLB on 12/1/06, getting 99.5 out of it, and Nassau
or whomever owned WCRB was proposing a sports station and maybe a regional sports network.
Ultimately of course WGBH bought WCRB 99.5

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In 2006, 99.5 took on yet another new life, as Greater Media executed an unusual upgrade of its Boston cluster, buying WCRB (102.5 Waltham) from Charles River Broadcasting, then trading the WCRB intellectual property (calls and classical format) and studios, along with the 99.5 Lowell license and transmitter facility, to Nassau Broadcasting
http://bostonradio.org/stations/23441

(Note: The above page doesn't reflect the sale of WCRB to WGBH)
==
Anyway there was that whole Ted Jones trust thing in which classical programming was guaranteed for 99 years or something...and yes it does continue, but on a different freq.
I'm not sure what would have happened had Nassau flipped 99.5 to sports, re: Classical.
The bostonradio.org piece does mention that in '09, "Nassau has filed to assign WCRB's license to a new corporation, Boston Broadcasting II, LLC."
But Wikipedia's entry on WCRB says:
"It was announced on September 21, 2009 that the WGBH Educational Foundation would acquire WCRB from Nassau and convert the station to non-commercial operation, complementing sister station WGBH (89.7 FM).The sale was completed on December 1."

From same page, about the Ted Jones classical guarantee (or not):
>>WCRB was under a long-term commitment by Charles River Broadcasting Trust, established by Theodore Jones, to continue to air classical music in perpetuity, and it carried no non-classical music programs. However, the decision to interpret the commitment as a request rather than a demand resulted in the announced sale of the station to Greater Media on December 19, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRB

And this Dan Kennedy Media Nation piece mentions the poss. that D&C could have wound up at WCRB but later Nassau did a deal to "preserve classical in Boston at 99.5". There was a plan to
do a sports radio network with Entercom and Nassau on 11 stations in N. E. but Nassau backed out later. However I'm pretty sure that at one point Nassau had the intention of making
99.5 sports and possibly simulcasting it on their own properties elsewhere in N.E.

http://www.dankennedy.net/2007/08/16/d-headed-to-wcrb/
 
fmradio1 said:

That's precisely why I like Felger. He's not a homer who kisses the asses of the sports elite in this town, the way Ordway does. He may not always be right, but he is not afraid to give his true opinion about a team, player or coach, even when it may not be popular, and he backs it up. Look, you want sunshine and rainbows (and fence straddling) by all means, listen to the Big O (or all of WEEI for that matter.) If you want more compelling sports talk, it's Felger and the Sports Hub.
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I must admit I have never listened to even one of his shows on 98.5. I'm basing my opinion on what I heard of him on WEEI. I guess it's just a coincidence that all of his opinions turn out to be anti-Boston in some way. If it's not the team it's the ownership. To me every statement that Felger makes is a way of shouting "Look at me". I have to hand it to him, he's got a drive time sports show in a major market with an appalling lack of knowledge of two major sports. I am kind of surprised that here in the bluest of blue states, that his overt scorn and hatred for the NBA, hasn't earned him a racist tag. I can imagine what would be said if D&C openly hated the NBA. I think he had a master plan. He made outrageous statements to get noticed and it worked.
 
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