Globe: Some '07 Sox games on WEEI

[racconradio]

"Red Sox fans who want to hear all of the games on the radio next season will have to switch between the Sox's new home, WRKO-AM, and Boston's dominant sports station, WEEI-AM."http://www.boston.com/business/glob...split_between_wrko_weei_in_radio_accord/"WEEI, the Sox's current flagship, will keep roughly 30 games next season -- all Friday night games, as well as weekday afternoon games -- while WRKO will take the rest. WRKO will air pre and postgame shows, but WEEI will continue to take calls from fans and host its exclusive interviews"Whither Howie? "One small change: WRKO may stop Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr's show at 6:30 p.m., instead of 7, to make way for the Red Sox." I don't know if this means that Howie will do the show until 7 pmon a handful of affiliates, but WRKO will break free for the pre-game, or that the show will simply end at6:30. Maybe WRKO will do the latter, and the last half hour will be a rebroadcast of bits from earlier in the day for those who missed them earlier.I don't know if the Sox season will open at home or on the road, but if it's the latter, it means that Opening Day and _Home_ Opening Day games would probably be on WEEI. Or maybe both stations, who knows? Spring training: there's a limited amount a games on radio, some of which are at 1 pm. That would be WEEI.Kind of like what happened last yr or the year before in Philly--the splitting of games. WPHT had some kind of Sinatra show Friday nights, so Phillies games on Friday nights when to WIP instead.

 

[radiolives]

How I think the pregame and postgame should be done is this way. They should have both pre and postgames on WEEI. Then when the game starts say it is a 7:05 pm start they end the pregame at 7pm and tell listeners to flip to WRKO. And after the game stay around and put our sister station WEEI to hear LIVE postgame comments and interviews. WRKO 680 AM and Sports Radio 850 WEEI, Where Your Red Sox Live All Summer Long....edited:I read in the Boston Globe article that pregame and postgame willl be heard on WEEI 850

 

[racconradio]

Actually it says "WRKO will air pre and postgame shows, but WEEI will continue to take calls from fans and host its exclusive interviews with a variety of Red Sox executives and players, including chief executive Larry Lucchino." Meaning stuff during D&C, Dale and Holley, and Big Show...You might have TerryFrancona doing a once-per-week interview on WEEI, but also a daily pre-game show on WRKO. (Confusedyet? You won't be after this next episode of "Soap"!)From same article: WRKO will keep its talk format during the day, and any sports-related programs, excluding the pre- and post-game shows, will air on WEEI.So WRKO would have: pre-game, game, and post-game, but then would switch back to regular talkand I'm sure there would be an announcement saying "tune to AM 850 to talk about tonight's game"

 

[Varulven]

It would be refreshing if The Red Sox and Jason Wolfe would make some changes:1)Replace Castiglione and Truppiano. Castiglione's voice is grating, Truppiano is passable, but the announcers on TV are so much better. Give Sean McDonough the gig. Where is he anyway?2)Put Howie Carr's final 30 minutes on MIKE FM with the Music playing under his voice as a bed. I'm not kidding.3)Better still, to save money, especially when the signals come in digital, air the TV broadcast of The Sox on WRKO and on WEEI just have ambient mics all over the ballpark so people can have a sort of 5.1 sense-surroundit's time to deliver a better product. I was excited about the prospect of FM broadcasts in stereo (especially if I could tune Castiglione out of one speaker). Put the games on MIKE FM.

 

[SonicOverload]

It would be refreshing if The Red Sox and Jason Wolfe would make some changes:1)Replace Castiglione and Truppiano. Castiglione's voice is grating, Truppiano is passable, but the announcers on TV are so much better. Give Sean McDonough the gig. Where is he anyway?

No way... Castiglione and Trupiano do a great job.. they work well together.

 

[racconradio]

I like both Castiglione and Trupiano, though both of them sometimes will get us all worked up for what SEEMS like a homer, though it's actually "knocked down" by the wind and gets caught. (But that happens to other announcers, too, I guess; Jon Miller of KNBR--replayed on Fox Sports Radio/WEEI--seemed convinced Barry Bonds hit #714 last night, but Juan Pierrewound up catching it.) But they do get us involved in the game, and make it exciting--like last night whenthe guy filling in for Sheffield seemed to be making a catch--then I guess the wind blew it out of his hands or something and two runs scored, and the exciting play by play coverage of it was great to hear.Howie on Mike? Hmm--I'd suggested that as an alternative when Howie was mostly pre-empted by the Celts on ML King Day.I would love,as I've said, to have the games on 93.7 given the proximity of its stick to where I work, and I work nights. In some ways I was disappointed they didn't wind up on 92.9, because that would have been easy to pick up, too, and the good FM sound quality. Who knows, might they wind up in some capacity on93.7 or 103.7? Oh, and not sure if 'RKO will continue to have the games run on 104.9 in Gloucester but they sure sound good there.