Four sports stations in Jackson, MS?!?!?!

[the golden boy]

I just found out a moment ago that my market just got its fourth sports station as 970 the Fan debuted today. Because the station's signal is so weak (a small AM station out of nearby Brandon), I didn't even notice. The station is running with Sporting News Radio, which is already being heard on WSFZ 930 AM.

This is so unreal, when you consider that much larger markets may have only two sports stations at the most. I do love sports talk radio and I will tune in, but something's gotta give sooner or later. Oh, did I mention that depending on where in the market you are, you can also get the new FM ESPN affiliate from nearby Hazlehurst/Brookhaven area? And this is happening in market #120.

 

[radiohawkins]

LOL!

 

[the golden boy]

That does deserve a bit of a chuckle.

I did mention that the Fan is running SNR, which is already on crosstown WSFZ. WSFZ doesn't run a lot of SNR programming until after 6pm (and that's if there are no live sporting events going on), but I would be quite bothered that another station in the same market is running the same network. Why would SNR or any other network allow this?

 

[Mainedude2007]

Why would SNR or any other network allow this?

i would guess SNR lets it go because they need all the exposure they can get, since they're the #3 sports network behind Fox and ESPN and stations also have other options (Patrick, Rome, local, etc.)

I know with ESPN Radio when you sign a contract with them you have a 60 mile protected circle around your station so that noone else takes ESPN, regardless of what you take from the network

 

[the golden boy]

Why would SNR or any other network allow this?

I know with ESPN Radio when you sign a contract with them you have a 60 mile protected circle around your station so that no one else takes ESPN, regardless of what you take from the network

In that case, ESPN should not have allowed WDXO Hazlehurst, MS to sign on with them because of WPBQ 1240 here in Jackson. Hazlehurst is about 30 miles south of Jackson and is not affiliated with WPBQ in any way that I know of.

 

[McCloskey981]

They still around? Max Howell took his shuck and jive bag of nothingness to there for about 3 weeks (atleast i THINK that was where he was infecting the airwaves.)


I don't know that I've ever worked with (or heard) someone who was more unprepared to be a lead host than Max "I was a coach!" Howell. How he got his start is beyond me, how he got his finish is entirely within my small mental grasp.

Wonder if his Trophy left him when he no longer had a radio scam to live off of.

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

Why would SNR or any other network allow this?

I know with ESPN Radio when you sign a contract with them you have a 60 mile protected circle around your station so that no one else takes ESPN, regardless of what you take from the network

In that case, ESPN should not have allowed WDXO Hazlehurst, MS to sign on with them because of WPBQ 1240 here in Jackson. Hazlehurst is about 30 miles south of Jackson and is not affiliated with WPBQ in any way that I know of.

well with WFNI in indianapolis being a 50,000 daytime 10,000 night time signal. yet WXFN in Muncie Indiana and WASK in Lafayette Indiana are both within 70 miles of Indianapolis and also in receivable range of the 50KW signal of WFNI yet they are both ESPN Radio affiliates