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EEI to FM scenario back in play?

Necrat said:
WVEI-FM is being used by their outlet in "Easthampton" err Springfield on 105.5
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I'm not sure how I overlooked the obvious! Anyway, 103.7 WERI would be a perfect choice if they put WEEI-FM in Boston. A classic set of calls that are available (RI-104 days), plus it follows WEEI's flow on keeping an E and an I in there. Now that I said this, some other station might try and grab those historic calls before Entercom does :)

I'm curious if this "it's official" for 93.7 on 1/10/10 is valid. If it is, I wonder if Mike-FM would move to HD2, displacing the (what used to be) Star 93.7's format which is there now? ...And would 850 still stay WEEI (AM) if they put ESPN there? If not, they could put the call on another 'EEI thats on AM (maybe Worcester, but then where would the WVEI (AM) call go?). We can speculate day and night, but we'll have to wait and see.
 
who can get 93.7 and 977 in Boston area?? (Roxbury, Boston University area, Downtown Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Brookline, Ma, North End, Charlestown.

I use a walkman, I have an MPIO, it's an MP Player with FM, it's pretty new. On that one, in those areas, I can not get either station, especially 97.7. Same with my older walkman (Sony FM/AM) even without using the DX signal, I can not get either station in those areas.

Once I leave the city, I can get those stations (East Boston North) (Allston going west) (Dorchester going south towards Mattapan) ....


Driving in the car using a Car Radio those stations are fine in all those areas as well as outside the city as just mentioned.


How about you all? weather you work in those areas, live in those areas, or .... Tell me please?
 
Richard J. Cabral said:
Necrat said:
WVEI-FM is being used by their outlet in "Easthampton" err Springfield on 105.5
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I'm not sure how I overlooked the obvious! Anyway, 103.7 WERI would be a perfect choice if they put WEEI-FM in Boston.
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WEEI-FM is already in use, for Entercom's //WEEI in Providence.

Richard J. Cabral said:
I'm curious if this "it's official" for 93.7 on 1/10/10 is valid.
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Hardly, especially when the person who posted it can't back it up with a legitimate cite.
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
WEEI-FM is already in use, for Entercom's //WEEI in Providence.
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Absolutely true. However, the earlier poster's comment stands as it would be nothing more than a simple administrative matter to move those calls onto a co-owned station in Boston. Not a problem at all as Entercom owns the calls, they're just in a different market. I'd give it 6 to 8 weeks once they pull the format change trigger. Actually, I tend to like the idea of 103.7 reassuming the WERI calls. Nice nod to heritage and yet it would still be appropriate for the WEEI network. I actually recall when they were WERI-FM and that was even earlier than when they powered up in 1983 or so and became RI-104. Prior to that, they were a simulcast of the variety/local service AM in Westerly.

Richard J. Cabral said:
I'm curious if this "it's official" for 93.7 on 1/10/10 is valid.
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Hardly, especially when the person who posted it can't back it up with a legitimate cite.
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Here, I agree. As much as I think this is a no-brainer move for Entercom, an unsubstantiated rumor is just that. Basically, it's put up or shut up for the OP on this one.
 
93.7 Mike FM isn't going anywhere anytime soon, however putting WEEI on 97.7 doesn't make much sense to me as it doesn't cover the suburbs well, and has the best coverage in areas that the sports format demo doesnt have a large population in. 98.5 has one of the best commercial signals in the market, and 97.7 is one of the smaller signals. WEEI on 93.7 would make more sense because the signal is perfect for a WEEI counterpart but I really dont see them yanking something like Mike FM which bills low and rates decently and downgrading it to 97.7, in the near future anyways.
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
WEEI-FM is already in use, for Entercom's //WEEI in Providence.
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You didn't take the time to read the post. I said, IF WEEI goes to an FM in Boston, they will most likely MOVE the WEEI-FM call sign from 103.7 in RI to the Boston signal. In place of WEEI-FM on 103.7, I was saying that WERI would be a nice choice for a call sign.
 
Mike said:
yeah put EEI on fm and watch the sports hub go under
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I don't think that's going to happen. It's not perfect but it's far from being blowhard radio too.
 
Smoke is right yet again. I also don't see which Entercom FM they'd sacrifice for WEEI.
 
Here's my read: if Entercom were going to do a WEEI-to-FM shuffle, they'd have done it before Sports Hub launched. They knew by then that they weren't getting 99.5, and that there weren't (and still aren't) any other plausible FM acquisitions to be made in the market. CBS, Greater and Clear Channel aren't selling any of their FMs.

Sports Hub's ratings aren't (or shouldn't be) a surprise to anyone paying attention to how sports on FM has done elsewhere in the country.

So what's changed since August that would change Entercom's mind? I don't see anything obvious, which is why I don't anticipate a WEEI-to-FM move in the near future, unless something else in the competitive landscape changes.
 
A few things have changed....

#1 the ESPN affiliate wasn't avail yet, and that's part of the plan.

#2 they didn't want to make a move mid-sox season.

#3 98.5 has had decent numbers so they have much more reason now to make a switch than they did mid-summer

If anything, the more that time goes by, the MORE likely they are to make the switch.
 
thetheo said:
A few things have changed....

#1 the ESPN affiliate wasn't avail yet, and that's part of the plan.

#2 they didn't want to make a move mid-sox season.

#3 98.5 has had decent numbers so they have much more reason now to make a switch than they did mid-summer

If anything, the more that time goes by, the MORE likely they are to make the switch.
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I don't follow your logic.

(1) ESPN on 850/local sports on FM? Why would they want to compete with themselves? With 2 local sports-talkers in a very parochial sports town, ESPN would be a throwaway. Even before the Hub debuted, the ESPN affiliate was generally a no-show ratings-wise.

(2) Like some games on 850 & some games on 680 wasn't confusing enough?

(3) Has the Sports Hub's success come at WEEI's expense? 'EEI seems to be holding its own.
 
1) Crappy signal for 890/1400

2) So the overflow situation goes: when not on "WEEI-FM" the game's on 850 and WRKO need not
be bothered

3) Supposedly WBZ's ratings came more from music stations than from WEEI but who knows what the
future brings

It is interesting about "competing with yourself" though. ESPN wants WEEI's audience and signal
(though not the best at night; better than 890 though) and WEEI gets ESPN experts for the
reg. station & stuff like baseball playoffs, NBA, etc
 
I don't really see an "all-local" WEEI and an "all-national" ESPN AM cannibalizing each other too much.

Some people live and die Boston sports and want to hear a local perspective 24/7, some aren't from here/fans of our teams/etc and would rather just have the national feed.

Right now there is no 24/7 national sports talk feed in Boston. WBZ FM airs Fox nights/weekends and WEEI airs ESPN nights/weekends but there is no national outlet 24/7.

So yeah, there would be some that would like both, and some that would listen to only one or the other, but I don't think having an ESPN AM 24/7 would really hurt WEEI, and even if it did, it would be Entercom who is controlling it/selling the local spots/etc so it's not that huge a loss....same idea when they put Sox on 680, they knew 850 would lose some listeners in the summer nights, but the ad$ are still staying within the company.

Personally I like live/local 99% of the time, but I do miss being able to turn to ESPN Radio when D&C are on a political rant/commercial or when there is a Revolution game on and I'd rather hear sports talk.

I think 890/1400's biggest mistake over and above the signal issues, were trying to "program" it and trying to go against the WEEI AM/WBZ FM's of the world. Just put on the ESPN feed 24/7 and let it run. No need for a big staff, no need to try to take WEEI's leftovers and have them do below-average drive time shows, if people are tuning into a station like ESPN over a local powerhouse like WEEI they want national sports news (or live sports) not hearing guys who couldn't get F/T work yap on the radio.
 
I dont know what this mean( WEEI FM scenario ), but WEEI and WBZ-FM overall ratings are gettin' very close.
 
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