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Ford Dropping AM Receivers

johnbasalla said:
We also must factor in that they do a large amount of local sports play-by-play which, along with bringing in revenue, are also fine examples of local radio. WEOL is so big with local sports that sometimes the Cleveland baseball games get bumped, or they enter the games in progress.
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That may annoy as many listeners as it pleases, especially if the professional team is a contender and playing crucial games -- as would be the case for an MLB team during the high school football season.

But local businesses love to be associated with the local high school(s), so providing the entire area hasn't been gutted of local businesses by big-box retailers, online sales, and pandemic-related business failures, WEOL would certainly make more money on those broadcasts than it would in the local breaks in the Guardians games.
 
CTListener said:
That may annoy as many listeners as it pleases, especially if the professional team is a contender and playing crucial games -- as would be the case for an MLB team during the high school football season.
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Would I be wrong to assume that WEOL's coverage area is totally duplicated by the Indians/Guardians flagship station, WTAM?
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Would I be wrong to assume that WEOL's coverage area is totally duplicated by the Indians/Guardians flagship station, WTAM?
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It totally is. They had been a Cleveland MLB affiliate off and on since 1949 but continuously since 1992 due to then-flagship WKNR 1220’s poor night signal in Lorain County.

The Cavs PBP is totally duplicated as well, but that’s largely because Tim Alcorn (who also joined WEOL in 1992) was close friends with Joe Tait, who handled the team’s broadcast operations at that point.
 
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radiofollower said:
Yes, WEOL's morning show is a fine example of local radio. However, after that, the station primarily runs network programs off the bird.
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That’s the sad truth. WEOL had a local afternoon show for a few years but it fell victim to the pandemic in October 2020. No local media covered its cancellation, not even the Chronicle-Telegram, and they own WEOL.

Moreover, I can’t see either Bruce Van Dyke or Craig Adams staying for that much longer. For full disclosure, I have personally met both of them several times over the years and they are very good people off-air. But they’re also station lifers and have seen what had been a fully-staffed AM-FM duop get slowly whittled away over time to nearly nothing.

johnbasalla said:
We also must factor in that they do a large amount of local sports play-by-play which, along with bringing in revenue, are also fine examples of local radio. WEOL is so big with local sports that sometimes the Cleveland baseball games get bumped, or they enter the games in progress.
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Revenue from local sports makes up for the lack of local advertising during the day. When you hear a series of PSAs from the Ohio High School Athletic Association play intermittently during the noon hour and lose count of how many times they aired, that’s a bad sign.
 
Good job, Ford! Now if you can only figure out why the Sirius radio in my car keeps changing one specific channel pre-set every time I start it, I'd be obliged!
 
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