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Is iHeart planning for a WBZ simulcast on FM?

The Mets will be on WCBS-AM 880 next season, after having been on WOR-AM 710 for the last few. The Yankees are on WFAN-AM 660 and WFAN-FM 101.9.

The earlier reference to Hartford was roughly the WFAN-AM 660 daytime signal reach.

In the Hartford radio market, WTIC-AM 1080 of Hartford still says "NewsTalk 1080" quite often. They carry the Red Sox and select NFL games of the Giants and Patriots. The Yankees and some U-Conn sports airs on WUCS-FM 97.9 of Windsor Locks/Hartford (97.9-ESPN). WTIC-FM 96.5 of Hartford is a Hot A/C station. I don't think they've ever simulcasted 1080 AM.
 
KML-224 said:
In the Hartford radio market, WTIC-AM 1080 of Hartford still says "NewsTalk 1080" quite often. They carry the Red Sox and select NFL games of the Giants and Patriots. The Yankees and some U-Conn sports airs on WUCS-FM 97.9 of Windsor Locks/Hartford (97.9-ESPN). WTIC-FM 96.5 of Hartford is a Hot A/C station. I don't think they've ever simulcasted 1080 AM.
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According to Wiki WTIC-FM did simulcast WTIC 1080 AM much of the time from sign-on in the late 1940s through the '50s. It went with its own programming (a classical music format at first) from the early '60s on. It currently simulcasts 1080 on its HD2 channel.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
According to Wiki WTIC-FM did simulcast WTIC 1080 AM much of the time from sign-on in the late 1940s through the '50s. It went with its own programming (a classical music format at first) from the early '60s on. It currently simulcasts 1080 on its HD2 channel.
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Sports play-by-play has occasionally been optioned out to the FM when two events that WTIC owns the rights to are happening simultaneously. For a long time, WTIC had broadcast rights to UConn basketball and Whalers hockey, and conflicts were common.
 
This afternoon the reporters are no longer saying the dial position. Their ending their reports now with “Boston’s News Radio”. The weather reports, too.
 
DavidZ said:
This afternoon the reporters are no longer saying the dial position. Their ending their reports now with “Boston’s News Radio”. The weather reports, too.
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No call letters, no dial position, just a slogan. In a PPM market, I suppose neither call or frequency matter, and since most radio listeners use presets, maybe the frequency just isn't needed for any reason.
 
CTListener said:
No call letters, no dial position, just a slogan. In a PPM market, I suppose neither call or frequency matter, and since most radio listeners use presets, maybe the frequency just isn't needed for any reason.
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Actually, they're saying "WBZ - Boston's News Radio" or "WBZ Newsradio"
 
CTListener said:
No call letters, no dial position, just a slogan. In a PPM market, I suppose neither call or frequency matter, and since most radio listeners use presets, maybe the frequency just isn't needed for any reason.
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iHeart wants us to listen on the iHeart Radio app, where "frequency" has no relevancy. Plugs for this are appended at the end of one major news story every half hour.
 
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