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Middays and Evenings at WBZ-FM, Boston's Sports Hub

No one has mentioned Jim Rome..who could run from noon to three..I was thinking of Jackie MacMullin, who took her buyout from the Globe last year..but she currently has ties to ESPN..I 'm not sure what the current contract language is for the Globe regarding radio--Bob Ryan would be huge to get..and if the Globe dies within a year, he would earn probably something close to what he earns at the Globe if he wanted to do radio.

Why wouldn't Bob Kraft want to take the Revolution matches to a station that could carry them live at night? Most of the Revolution stuff that is carried is tape delayed on WEEI..

Curious to see if a CBS O and O would carry the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball Package..and who gets the Westwood One NFL Package...and if the Sports Hub has agreements to carry some new college football packages that have been created, or if they would take Norte Dame football as an answer to the BC games that WEEI/WRKO carries..
 
TSBench said:
If they mean so much why are the 80% of the games are being heard on WRKO, the one-trick pony AM station featuring no night signal outside of 128.

Because it makes obvious strategic sense for Entercom and for the Sox, who like a large number of network stations.

And, if things ever get dicey with the new radio competition, those game become a tactical hammer if Entercom wants to reallocate the game carriage.

Regards,
TSB
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Those Sox network stations mean zero if you live inside of Boston Metro and WRKO brings nothing but static at night.

The games will likely go to FM next season just like the rest of WEEI's format. That's where the audience is.
 
DanStrassberg said:
DJbobo said:
If they mean so much why are the 80% of the games are being heard on WRKO, the one-trick pony AM station featuring no night signal outside of 128.
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Wow! Talk about not knowing what you are talking about! The WRKO transmitter is, itself, outside of 128! The night signal is very good in southern NH and Cape Cod. The sticks were built when the station was still WLAW--licensed to Lawrence. Needless to say, it's a very, very local signal in the Merrimac Valley!

The only part of the market in which the night signal is less than one could hope for is MetroWest.
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Maybe you should get out of your basement computer lab a bit more often.

Take a drive to Natick, Framingham, Wayland, Sudbury, Maynard, Marlborough, Westborough, Boxborough, Hopkinton, Ashland, Southborough, Lincoln,

WRKO night signal doesn't exist in these towns. All these towns are within 30-mile radius of Boston.
 
DJbobo said:
Take a drive to Natick, Framingham, Wayland, Sudbury, Maynard, Marlborough, Westborough, Boxborough, Hopkinton, Ashland, Southborough, Lincoln,

WRKO night signal doesn't exist in these towns. All these towns are within 30-mile radius of Boston.
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Yes, WRKO has signal problems at night in MetroWest as I acknowledged in my reply to your original post, but as I pointed out in that reply, MetroWest does not make up the whole market or even the whole market outside of 128. The way you phrased what you wrote was just wrong--about as wrong as could be! In about 80% of the area to which you referred--the Boston metro outside of 128--WRKO has an excellent night signal, in many places the BEST AM night signal in the market--even better than WBZ in the Merrimac Valley, southern New Hampshire, and Cape Cod.
 
DJbobo said:
Those Sox network stations mean zero if you live inside of Boston Metro and WRKO brings nothing but static at night.
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The night signal for WRKO covers the Boston Metro pretty well. They have that one null towards metro west that can be a problem. Outside of that null, it covers a TON of area outside of 128. Keep in mind the "metro" does not extend that far west into Worcester county.

http://radio-locator.com/pats/WRKO_AM_LN.gif

Outide of WBZ.....It is probably the next best AM signal on the dial for covering the metro (which is more North/South than East/West.
 
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