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Format Change Audio: WEEI-FM (WMKK) debut

FreeBird took up the last 9 minutes of Mike. I was hoping for a little more...oh, I don't know....everything? variety? as it went out with maybe some kind of retrospective even though they don't have jocks.
 
Mike 93.7 claimed to play everything but they simply had a range of music that was mostly rock-pop,
some R&B, usually uptempo good time--and at first they threw in stuff like country (Garth Brooks),
standards (Dean Martin), and what Barry would call Lost 45s (Sausolito Summernight by Diesel).
Eventually the playlist narrowed--the number of songs and the focus. Still a couple comedy tracks
(Weird Al's Eat It), maybe Ramones I Wanna Be Sedated etc. but overall stuff you could find on
other stations: U2, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Prince, Police, Blondie, Semisonic, etc. I joked "We play everything...the other stations play". Yeah, it was listenable but it was not "everything". It was not Muddy Waters, The Chieftains, Kenny Chesney, Peter Nero...well, whatever. Maybe slightly more variety but again by the end it was more classic hits/rock.

oh btw they did take down the Mike 93.7 page that was up before and put up a "thank you" page
with info for their club members (points transferred to similar clubs for AAF and EEI)
 
raccoonradio said:
Still a couple comedy tracks
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Not sure if it's considered a comedy track but they played "If I Had A Million Dollars" by Barenaked Ladies with some regularity and I enjoyed it every time I heard it (seems almost once a week, anyway). :D
 
raccoonradio said:
The WEEI-FM calls may not be in effect yet
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According to the FCC Reservation Page, 103.7-WVEI became effective last Wednesday (14th) and 93.7-WEEI took effect today——confirmed with the 8am TOHID.
 
Thanks--for now (during Red Sox games etc) they had Jim Cutler doing liners saying "93.7 WEEI on FM",
since WEEI-FM would have constituted a legal ID they didn't have yet, and the TOH IDs had said
"WEEI Boston, WMKK and WMKK-1 Lawrence-Boston" but now we do indeed have the WEEI-FM
calls back in the immediate Boston area. I think Sid S. had said on boston-radio-interest that they
anticipated getting the WEEI-FM calls by the "21st"
 
The Chicopee Herald lists WEEI-FM 93.7 among radio stations carrying the Circling-the-drain Red Flops tonight. (Wednesday)
 
Ah there it is: "WEEI-FM and HD-1 Lawrence-Boston" (ID just heard on 93.7)

The Herald at first didn't list the 93.7 then did for one day then went back to not listing the 93.7? But now back I guess...Globe listed the 93.7 after a day or two.

As I've mentioned before, the Globe was known _many years ago_ for saying the Sox game would be on "WEEI-FM (850)"
(sic) and the Herald often listed a Providence station as "WRPO-AM (630)"
Total accuracy can't be expected. There are times like Mon night when WRKO had the Monday night football game but it wasn't mentioned in Herald. Only TV listed.
 
Did anyone notice that WEEI is running several seconds in front of WEEI-FM? You would think they would have put these two in sync.
 
93.7 has to be in delay because of IBOC. No reason to delay 850 to match, especially during live game coverage.
 
Anyone notice that WEEI-FM dropped their stereo carrier yesterday. How much better penetration will their mono signal have in the city among the buildings and FM stations on the Pru?
 
Have the call letters officially changed to WEEI-FM for the 93.7? I heard their HD-2 just the other night identify as "WMKK HD-2 Lawrence Boston".
 
Poss. an error--as far as I know the main signal is WEEI-FM and WEEI-FM-HD1 and the secondary is
WEEI-FM-HD2. Display on my HD portable says that.
 
Noticed that stereo pilot was turned off on both 93.7 and 103.7 FM today. Permanent thing? Will Sox and Celtics not be in stereo either?
 
aerie said:
Have the call letters officially changed to WEEI-FM for the 93.7? I heard their HD-2 just the other night identify as "WMKK HD-2 Lawrence Boston".
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Definitely an error; the WEEI-FM calls were official on 93.7 on 9/21/11. It should have been, and is, WEEI-FM HD2.

I noticed the stereo pilot off on WVEI-FM Providence today as well... I'd be surprised if that was a permanent thing, they were going on and on promoting the "crystal clear FM STEREO!" (how 1980 is that??)
 
Is WEEI HD2 ever going to stream on the web again? I don't know why I can hear it in my truck (Yes...I'm one of those radio geeks that bought the car stereo brand specific HD tuner a few years ago) but it wont stream on the website....Frustrating! ! ! :mad:
 
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