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Entercom pulls a CBS in Boston

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Entercom owns WEEI in Boston. It was the original sports talk station in Boston until CBS took away a rock station, WBCN, moved another music station up the dial and put a second all sports station on FM, WBZ-FM in Aug 2009. WBZ-FM now beats WEEI on AM in Boston. Coming this Monday, Entercom is putting WEEI on FM as well in Boston. WEEI currently simulcasts on other stations across New England including the current WEEI-FM in Providence, RI on the WEEI network.
On the other hand, it looks like CBS may be pulling an Entercom down here by simulcasting WIP down to Atlantic City later on this month. I wonder if we will have a WIP network or a 97.5 Fanatic network? 97.3 Fanatic too?
 
If CBS is simulcasting WIP to Atlantic City, it would be doing so on a station it doesn't own. That would be weird, but might make a lot of sense. I've suggested before that WPEN affiliate with WENJ since both have the ESPN affiliation.

I wonder if both WIP and WPEN are soliciting the owner of 97.3 for a simulcast. I also imagine that, if there's a 24/7 WIP simulcast down there and it's not on 97.3, 97.3 would lose its affiliation with the Eagles radio network.
 
WBSS owned by Longport Media, and not CBS, will start Simulcasting on Sept 15th. See the end of the following article from The Press of Atlantic City.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_a1d402e2-d5b5-11e0-b94f-001cc4c002e0.html
I remember WIP being on an FM station awhile ago down the shore. Entercom does not own all the stations that WEEI simulcasts on and even though WEEI has the rights to the Red Sox, I don't beleive all the stations on the WEEI network have the rights to the Red Sox. I believe that WEEI has alternate programming for those stations during Red Sox games. I believe one by one all the stations are trying to get the rights away from other stations in their market that may have rights to the games.
 
you can fine 1050 WEPN from new york on Nassau Broadcasting WNJE 1040AM Flemington. I remember something that Nassau needed the money from WEPN. I could be wrong about Nassau.
 
brother ken said:
you can fine 1050 WEPN from new york on Nassau Broadcasting WNJE 1040AM Flemington. I remember something that Nassau needed the money from WEPN. I could be wrong about Nassau.
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And I think WEPN was simulcast on one of the former WDRE/WLIR stations on Long Island, also not owned by Disney.
 
WIP was simulcast in the mid? 90s on 102.7 WSKR at the Jersey shore.

WEPN was simulcast on WLIR 107.1 on eastern LI.

I believe that 97.3 is better off without the Fanatic because it covers an area that is not just Philly sports territory, but also New York.

I could conceivably see the Fanatic on a shore AM graveyard frequency(or two) as WIP will be on 1490.

If 97.5 has a weakness in the eastern end of Gloucester/western end of Atlantic counties, 104.9 would be a better fit from a signal standpoint than 97.3. I can't ever see that happening, though.
 
I'm not from South Jersey, but the signal of WENJ is pretty far south. I doubt there's a lot of New York interest there. If it's any indication, if you put in the ZIP code for Millville, NJ in DirecTV's What is My Regional Sports Network tool, it doesn't give you any of the New York RSNs (MSG, SNY, YES). It gives you no RSNs, because there's only 1 RSN in Philly and DirecTV doesn't carry it.
 
The transmitter for WENJ is not in Millville any longer. It's not far, actually, from Ocean City. It may be shortspaced to WFPG, but they are under common ownership.

Forget Millville/Vineland/Bridgeton as the target for this station and think EHT, Absecon, Galloway, Somers Point, and Atlantic City. Those are less definitively Philly sports areas.

No one, these days, would aim a full class B signal primarily at Cumberland County. A class A could do the trick anyway.
 
observer2 said:
The transmitter for WENJ is not in Millville any longer. It's not far, actually, from Ocean City. It may be shortspaced to WFPG, but they are under common ownership.

Forget Millville/Vineland/Bridgeton as the target for this station and think EHT, Absecon, Galloway, Somers Point, and Atlantic City. Those are less definitively Philly sports areas.

No one, these days, would aim a full class B signal primarily at Cumberland County. A class A could do the trick anyway.
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Same thing happens at the DirecTV website for the Atlantic City ZIP code.

Does the station actually talk Yanks and Mets when it airs local shows? The station's web site certainly doesn't mention any of the NY teams. The Philly teams are all over it.

http://www.973espn.com/
 
No, there is no NY play-by-play that I am aware of. And yes, there is Philly play-by-play and some Philly sports talk on WENJ. But unlike the Fanatic, not so much so that it is likely to alienate the NY audience. There is more ESPN network fed and Westwood One programming. That, more than anything, was my point.
 
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