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BSMW, Scott: ESPN 890 on its last legs?

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http://shots.bostonsportsmedia.com/?p=567

Dir. of sales dumped on Monday; lease at Schrafft bldg expires in April, etc.

"Options that still exist for the Tang Gang are a complete pulling of the plug; a buyout by Big Daddy Disney; or the continuation and slow death with a skeletal staff and minimal resources. It is clear that if an outside buyer were going to be involved, they would have emerged by now." They're also saying that maybe a
"Wolfe's howl" of victory might be emanating from the sneaker building.
 
>"Wolfe's howl" of victory might be emanating from the sneaker building.<
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How'zat??
 
Howling would imply that 890 was at least a blip on the WEEI radar. A viable attempt from Greater Media probably causes more concern than either of the competitors that actually exist (1510, 890).
 
SonicAl said:
... I imagine Felgy might end up back on WEEI.
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If that happens, Felger should be shoveled to the back of the bus as a fill-in while the inane Larry J gets sent to cartoon school in the Middle East somewhere. That would be the perfect example of subtraction by addition.
 
SonicAl said:
... I imagine Felgy might end up back on WEEI. Perhaps they could hire Kevin Winter. He deserves a shot.
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Mr and Mrs Felgy looking for jobs . LOL
 
No format has been able to make it on 890 since they tried to take a Brockton rimshot and make it a Boston player. Even with the antenna relocation of a couple of years ago nothing helped.

It would be like WCAP trying to be a Boston station.
 
ZRXOA 5248 said:
No format has been able to make it on 890 since they tried to take a Brockton rimshot and make it a Boston player. Even with the antenna relocation of a couple of years ago nothing helped.

It would be like WCAP trying to be a Boston station.
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The daytime signal strength in the heart of downtown Boston is better than 12 mV/m and the night signal (recently upgraded to 6 kW) is just about half that. Moreover, the nighttime coverage of MetroWest is better than that of any Boston AM other than WBZ. As for antenna relocation, I don't know what you are talking about and, obviously, neither do you. 890 has been at the same transmitter site on Sewell St in Ashland since it first signed on. The antenna system was substantially rebuilt a few years ago when 1060 returned to the site for night operation, but the location has never changed. 890 has always used the same five 540' towers day and night, and has always used the same day pattern. The night power increase last year did require modification of the night pattern, and where I live (Arlington) the higher night power--almost double the old--noticeably improved the night signal.

WAMG's day signal in Boston is about 25 times as strong as WCAPs and WAMG's night signal in Boston is also considerably better than WCAP's for two reasons: WAMG's night signal in Boston is almost five times as strong as WCAP's and the co-channel interference on 890 at night is not as bad as that on 980.
 
ZRXOA 5248 said:
No format has been able to make it on 890 since they tried to take a Brockton rimshot and make it a Boston player. Even with the antenna relocation of a couple of years ago nothing helped.
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I don't know what you mean by a Brockton rimshot. 890 was never in the Brockton market or the metro-south area. It signed on in the mid-'90s licensed to Dedham, transmitting from Ashland. It was always a metro-west station, with a fairly good signal into Boston in the daytime (and now somewhat better at night also).

The only Brockton area station that I can think of that relocated it's antenna a few years ago was 97.7 FM, when their antenna was moved from near the Avon/Brockton line to Blue Hill.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
ZRXOA 5248 said:
No format has been able to make it on 890 since they tried to take a Brockton rimshot and make it a Boston player. Even with the antenna relocation of a couple of years ago nothing helped.
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890 had great ratings ,when it was a Tropical Station .
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