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Jason Wolfe vs. The Boston Herald

What a very funny, and very petty editorial. It would have been a bit more fair and balanced to note that any benefit to the show in that time period has likely come from radios still on the station the morning after the Red Sox games, and repeated promos during the Red Sox games that stick in the mind of diary-keepers. As for the revenue bit... who in their right mind would trust the numbers? Wolfe can claim anything he'd like, and they can show revenue anywhere they'd like, to justify presenting a "success".
 
He may want to try a few jabs at The Globe, which had this to say in their story:

"There comes a point where forcing someone back on the air who hates your guts and doesn't want to be there is not a productive strategy," said Dan Kennedy, who teaches journalism at Northeastern University. "It just seems to me Howie is their only asset, and this leaves them in really dire straits."

I like editing, so I'll give it a try here:

"Their only asset hates their guts."
 
From Jason's letter: "Since Tom began his show, more listeners (25,516) have joined our database than were a part of it before it was formed."


Ah... wouldn't even ONE person signing up be more people in the database than were part of it before it formed?

Just thought that was funny.
 
i agree with you radiodizzy except for one thing - it was a dumb Letter to the Editor not an editorial.

has Mr. Wolfe really fallen that far down that he doesn't get an editorial printed, just some stuff on the letters page? probably the Herald laughing at him while being "fair and balanced"

what is RKO up to?

as if the Red Sox couldn't twist an arm at the Herald to help Jason out.

if he only asked the right people.
 
To add to Radiodizzy a bit...WVEI-AM is also, AFAIK, a 100% repeater of WEEI-AM. In a sense, it helps to think of them as one station. This is especially true after sunset, since WVEI is on a bad channel and has a fairly weak night signal...it doesn't reach very far at all, certainly not in the Framingham/Metrowest gap created by WEEI-AM's own nighttime pattern having a hard null to the west.

There are FCC benefits to doing a 100% simulcast on WVEI-AM; things like the main studio rules, public file, and EAS, can all be more easily waived if WVEI originates no programming of its own. Given that, and what a small impact WVEI-AM has on WCRN during the games (everyone's listening to WCRN), it makes more sense just to leave WVEI-AM as-is, than to try and come up with different programming on WVEI during games.

BTW, I was driving through the Berkshires last week and tuned to WVEI-FM and heard a Yankees game. That was a bit of a shock since I kinda thought the Sox would be on a WEEI-branded signal, ya know? I couldn't remember if anyone had a local affiliation so I left it on WTIC and dealt with the skywave fading in and out as I travelled west on I-90. On a similar note, I was getting the Sox on WRKO as far out as Syracuse, NY (weak, but listenable) right before sunset, and suddenly it disappeared as they switched patterns. D'oh!
 
That's interesting about WVEI-FM, because they do carry the Red Sox games. Not sure why the Yanks would've been on there... are you sure it was 105.5FM, and that you were relatively near Springfield?
 
radiodizzy said:
That's interesting about WVEI-FM, because they do carry the Red Sox games. Not sure why the Yanks would've been on there... are you sure it was 105.5FM, and that you were relatively near Springfield?
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WEBK, 105.3, out of Rutland, VT carries the Yankees.

Regards,
TSB
 
Another FM that airs the Yankees is 104.5 WTMM in the Albany, NY area. Are you sure you were on 105.5? I was out in the area on Thursday and heard the Sox on WVEI-FM.
 
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