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BZ-FM falling short?

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thirdendorsed

The signs are there that WEEI has withstood another challenger. As a once great broadcaster once said, if a station is up in every book, it'll eventually have a 100 share.

However ... Patriots season ending saw WBZ-FM's cume drop by almost 200,000, and Red Sox and Celtics playoffs are yet to begin at WEEI.

I haven't seen demos &c. And WBZ still draws more different individuals over the course of a week, but the lead in cume during football had been close to a quarter-million and now its about 32,000, while total share is up for EEI and down for BZ-FM.

I think the election desk is getting ready to call this one.
 
But is CBS Radio doing better than they were with Mix on 98.5 and WBCN on life support?

I think it is too early to put WBZ FM on the DNR list
 
thirdendorsed said:
I think the election desk is getting ready to call this one.
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Maybe the Bush/Cheney/Rove election desk is.
WBZ-FM is very nice to listen too.
Sox rule around here, everyone knows that.
I am eager to see the bidding war whenever it starts for the Sox broadcast rights.
Da Bruinz are not helping WBZ - FM right now.
 
If they're making more money than WBCN was at the end of the day, can you say they lost?
 
I'm sure BZ-FM is getting a hell of a better rating than the current WBCN.
 
thirdendorsed said:
The signs are there that WEEI has withstood another challenger.

I think the election desk is getting ready to call this one.
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Ah, the last time I looked heavyweight bouts go 15 rounds. And so far, we are in the early rounds. As long as the Buffoons of Brookline insist on giving us more and more Mustard and Johnson, DeAwful and Smerlas, and <insert YOUR favorite here>, as Cosell once said, "The Champ is going down, the Champ is going down".
 
WBZ-FM may well bill more than WBCN did. But the trend is not good and its going to get worse when baseball season begins. Entercom owns Red Sox on radio until 2016, and none of the speculation of an early out for the club seems to have legs. Even though Entercom is generally believed to have overpaid, baseball may serve them well as a loss leader. Does CBS really want a second place niche format?

Personally I can't stomach WEEI, but its management has reacted well by tweaking formatics.

Neither station has any idea what it's doing with the sports updates; they're still leading with last night's scores at one pyem, don't advance stories, don't do much more than read last night's scores and tonight's schedule -- either one could take a real lead by having the update guys work the phones, something they don't do now and make it something to tune in for. Right now it's wasted air on both stations. (and WEEI has this penchant for opening updates with sound with that rank and unskilled amateur who voices them in morning drive, but when you open with sound it's gotta be quick, it's gotta be to the point, and the speaker's gotta be obvious, either by voice or by context. They do it with overly looooong cuts that leave the listener wondering who and what they're talking about.)

We'll wait for a few more suburban precincts, but they're putting up the plastic in the 'EEI locker room, to mix a metaphor
 
thirdendorsed said:
Entercom owns Red Sox on radio until 2016, and none of the speculation of an early out for the club seems to have legs. Even though Entercom is generally believed to have overpaid, baseball may serve them well as a loss leader. Does CBS really want a second place niche format?
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Consider their Pittsburgh FM talk station - in a market where Clear Channel currently has all the big sports contracts locked up. (And the Pirates play worse than the Red Sox.)
 
The Sports Hub is a "one trick pony". When the Patriots aren't on they fail. Take a look at the bye week during the season. Ratings were off a cliff for BZ-FM. The week before and the week after were great (when the Pats were playing). Now that the season is over their ratings have once again dived off the cliff.
 
98.5 is getting national mentions on SportsCenter and big media outlets for things like "Get that Man a Tan" while WEEI is laying off key personnel (or suspending their producers for idiotic behavior).
98.5's still been on less than a year and they're doing fine. (some of you make it sound like they're on par with old 890 ESPN)
 
EnterCommunicator said:
98.5 is getting national mentions on SportsCenter...
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And you can bet that would not be happening if ESPN had a decent radio station signal in the Boston market...
 
thirdendorsed said:
I think the election desk is getting ready to call this one.

We'll wait for a few more suburban precincts, but they're putting up the plastic in the 'EEI locker room, to mix a metaphor
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MUCH too soon to be calling this one....

Sports formats, unlike music formats, depend on contracts, so the "game plan" has to look a few years out.
 
ESPN on 850 strictly overnight, some weekends though some play by play will turn up if it doesn't conflict
(Sun night baseball, MLB all star game, maybe some football, college sports, NBA?)
 
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what CBS is doing? They panic and get rid of all their FM Talk stations, and then they come up with a series of sports stations? I would think it would be more of a hassle dealing with getting an Sports FM talker to the top, rather than a FM talker.
 
Does anyone know how the shows are doing against each other?
D&C vs. T&R
D&H vs. T&Z
Ordway vs. Felger
Mikey vs. DA
 
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