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ESPN 98.7?

crainbebo said:
1050 becomes ESPN Deportes? What a waste of 50,000 watts. You heard it, 50,000 WATTS! :mad:
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How so? The New York market has approximately 2 million Spanish-speaking people...that's more then the ENTIRE population of Philadelphia. The real waste is the use of canned, syndicated programming instead of local sports talk about local teams...that's a waste in any language and New Yorkers who speak any language deserve better than that...it's market #1, for Pete's sake, not Bumfunk, Nebraska!
 
ka2xuk said:
How so? The New York market has approximately 2 million Spanish-speaking people...that's more then the ENTIRE population of Philadelphia. The real waste is the use of canned, syndicated programming instead of local sports talk about local teams...that's a waste in any language and New Yorkers who speak any language deserve better than that...it's market #1, for Pete's sake, not Bumfunk, Nebraska!
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Depending on where you are in the Hudson Valley listening area, 1050 AM comes into Poughkeepsie in the daytime and same goes at night where you pick up the station. I guess that some Hispanic people in the HV listening area can pick up the soon-to-be ESPN Deportes.

And speaking of Spanish stations in Poughkeepsie, WALL 1340 and WEOK 1390 dumped ESPN Radio back in 2003 and replaced it with a spanish format known as "El Ritmo", that bombed until 2003 or 2005 when it got replaced by Radio Disney. I hope that maybe in the next few months, if 1050 AM goes to ESPN Deportes, it will be like the next "El Ritmo". I have a link to see what signal coverage would look like.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WEPN&service=AM&status=L&hours=D
http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WEPN&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
 
Some have been asking about the new calls for 98.7. I always thought the WEPN calls were inappropriate for ESPN, since E.S.P.N. stood for Entertainment and Sports Programing Network. They didn't initially start as all-sports. Nobody knew if an "all sports" network would work back in 1979.

Leaving the "S" out of the calls, leaves out the word "sports". They would have been better off with WSPN. I guess they didn't like the "spin".

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
ka2xuk said:
crainbebo said:
1050 becomes ESPN Deportes? What a waste of 50,000 watts. You heard it, 50,000 WATTS! :mad:
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How so? The New York market has approximately 2 million Spanish-speaking people...that's more then the ENTIRE population of Philadelphia. The real waste is the use of canned, syndicated programming instead of local sports talk about local teams...that's a waste in any language and New Yorkers who speak any language deserve better than that...it's market #1, for Pete's sake, not Bumfunk, Nebraska!
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ESPN Radio NYC only runs 10 hours of national programming per weekday (6am-Noon and Midnight-4am). Not too tough to take.
Granted that by comparison WFAN is local every hour/every day and overall has arguably better programming/hosts.
 
ka2xuk said:
The real waste is the use of canned, syndicated programming instead of local sports talk about local teams...that's a waste in any language and New Yorkers who speak any language deserve better than that...it's market #1, for Pete's sake, not Bumfunk, Nebraska!
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No one seemed to mind when the syndicated host was Howard Stern. In fact, there was a time when the top-rated local shows in New York were Howard and Imus, both of which were syndicated. Mike & Mike is a good show, and they get good guests. It's been my experience that there are a lot of people in New York who root for their orginal home teams, or just like to talk about sports that are beyond the obvious. New Yorkers have opinions about a lot of things besides New York.
 
And by the way, the Mike and Mike Show has been creeping up on WFAN's Boomer and Carton in some of the male demographics (particularly males 18-34). The show might get a bit of a boost from being on FM - we'll see...I'm sure ESPN Radio NY is satisfied with its performance.
 
badjef said:
Some have been asking about the new calls for 98.7. I always thought the WEPN calls were inappropriate for ESPN, since E.S.P.N. stood for Entertainment and Sports Programing Network. They didn't initially start as all-sports. Nobody knew if an "all sports" network would work back in 1979.

Leaving the "S" out of the calls, leaves out the word "sports". They would have been better off with WSPN. I guess they didn't like the "spin".
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WSPN is on a college station in Saratoga, New York so that wouldn't have worked :) I still think WEPN-FM would fit on 98.7...

As for AM 1050, will they change their calls to better fit ESPN Deportes? Such as, WEND or WEPD?
 
ka2xuk said:
How so? The New York market has approximately 2 million Spanish-speaking people...that's more then the ENTIRE population of Philadelphia.
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The Philadelphia radio metro is 5.3 million, not 2 million.

And the NY metro has, between Spanish dominants and bilinguals, close to 3.2 million Hispanics. In fact, two of the Spanish language FMs cume over 2 million each.

The real waste is the use of canned, syndicated programming instead of local sports talk about local teams...that's a waste in any language and New Yorkers who speak any language deserve better than that...
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There is a huge group of Hispanics who want coverage of international or home country teams, principally in soccer. That coverage is actually best done by network programming.
 
mr.ric said:
badjef said:
mr.ric said:
"If you love something so much, white people will take it away." -Paul Mooney

:mad: :'( Very sad to hear about this.
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Was that necessary?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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It sure was. Just stating a famous quote which appears to be true sometimes.
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You need to lose that quote.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
TheBigA said:
It's been my experience that there are a lot of people in New York who root for their orginal home teams, or just like to talk about sports that are beyond the obvious. New Yorkers have opinions about a lot of things besides New York.
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I hate hockey, the Jets, and the Mets. So if any of those topics come up on local sports radio I gladly switch to syndicated programming.
 
Anyone have any idea which local teams could have play by play coverage in Spanish on 1050 AM, once it is switched to ESPN Deportes, sometime in autumn?
I do not think the Yankees would be available anytime soon, as they recently signed an agreement to be carried on WADO 1280 AM, which apparently has an inferior signal.
But what about the other teams?
Does Deportes currently offer play by play coverage, perhaps of important soccer matches?
 
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