• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Nassau Changes in New Hampshire

R

ret vet

We finally have some official word on the anticipated introduction of the WEEI Sports Radio simulcast to Nassau's NH stations. NH Regional Manager Rob Fullmer issued a statement saying that as of January 2008 both Hawks (WWHK 102.3, Concord+WWHQ 101.5, Gilford) would drop their Classic Rock Formats for Sports Radio including "comprehensive coverage of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins and
New England Patriots" Fullmer also announced that the NH-based Oldies simulcast (99.1 WNNH, Henniker+104.9 WLKZ Moultonborough) would be dropped in favor of the "Frank FM" format, designed to appeal to listeners of Classic Rock and Oldies. Sara Sullivan will be
PD and AJ Dukette will be Operations Director.

The memo did not specify whether 99.1/104.9 Frank FM would be a direct simulcast of Nassau's 106.3 WFNQ, Nadshua.
 
With Pat Kelly the new host of the 99.1/104.9 morning show, where does that leave Warren Bailey?
 
Nobody is going to lose their job over this? I find that hard to believe, unless at least half of both the Hawk's and Oldies' staff was VTed out of NJ? Hopefully Frank will at least be all local from mornings through midnight... but I kind of doubt it, it is Nassau we're talking about here.
 
ret vet said:
We finally have some official word on the anticipated introduction of the WEEI Sports Radio simulcast to Nassau's NH stations. NH Regional Manager Rob Fullmer issued a statement saying that as of January 2008 both Hawks (WWHK 102.3, Concord+WWHQ 101.5, Gilford) would drop their Classic Rock Formats for Sports Radio including "comprehensive coverage of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins and
New England Patriots" Fullmer also announced that the NH-based Oldies simulcast (99.1 WNNH, Henniker+104.9 WLKZ Moultonborough) would be dropped in favor of the "Frank FM" format, designed to appeal to listeners of Classic Rock and Oldies.
Click to expand...

I'm kind of surprised they're blowing up the Hawks. Oldies (as a format, not specifically WNNH & WLKZ) is on life support, but I thought the Hawks were successful. What about WEMJ? There was a story in the Laconia Citizen a while back stating that IT would be the WEEI affiliate in the Lakes Region.

Also, does this mean that these stations will get to carry games from all 4 teams? I'm not sure there's much interest in the Celts or Bruins, but it would be nice to have Sox & Pats games.
 
Looks like "Frank" is a compromise to satisfy both the 'oldies' and the 'classic rock' fans.. Both "Hawks" and "Oldies" appeared to be successful in regards to listeners.. All comes down to the commercial inventory being sold.
 
Oldbones said:
Also, does this mean that these stations will get to carry games from all 4 teams? I'm not sure there's much interest in the Celts or Bruins, but it would be nice to have Sox & Pats games.
Click to expand...

I think not, those live game air rights are spoken for in multi-year contracts. If you parse Fulmer's announcement you'll see no mention of carrying games.
 
I must admit I haven't been following this too closely so I need a bit of assistance here...

I agree that I thought the Hawks were doing fine, as per press releases and company ra-ra. But...

Will the simulcast if 'EEI be a money maker for Nassau? In other words, will placing 'EEI on Nassau signals bring in more cash than what the Hawks are/were doing? And if so, then why would you really need a big sales department if the agreement they cut will have them making money without having to do a stitch of work for it? And why keep an abundance of promotions people? Maybe programming people won't be the only folks looking for a new profession... :-\

If I'm way off base here, please fill us in on the straight story...

Thanks... :)
 
everyone in the lakes who wants classic rock listens to GIR, what he should do is put the mix format on either scy or pnh, he would save atleast one salary.
 
Warren is leaving? When did this happen? Well, then Matt Jeff, (Wolf) Chris I (LNH)and Warren all left. Maybe that's what saved cuts.
 
Jim said:
Jeff Fisher should shake things up and flip WSCY to classic rock....or maybe WPNH
Click to expand...

You know, Jim, flipping WSCY might to Classic Rock might just work IMHO with Nassau leaving that format hole in the market. It really hasn't done much as a Country station, and has pretty decent Lakes Region coverage. I don't know if it's possible, but I wonder if they could get tower space in Gilford or Laconia to improve signal strength towards Concord and still city grade its COL of Moultonborough? Couldn't be any more expensive than maintaining their almost impossible-to-get-to current site, I'd guess.
PNH has their little niche in a college town...I doubt they'd flip it.
 
Jim said:
Jeff Fisher should shake things up and flip WSCY to classic rock....or maybe WPNH
Click to expand...

WPNH seems to have found its niche with altrock in a college town.
OTOH, WSCY seems to be pretty much a wasted signal, it's been a while since I've seen anything but 12+ numbers, but I never hear them anywhere. Granted, I'm not in/near Moultonborough very often so maybe they have an audience in that part of the region. Still, WBLM is pretty popular around here, throwing on some bird-fed classic rock isn't gonna make a dent in their listenership.
 
GIR is not exactly classic rock and it's nearly impossible to listen to in the lakes region for any lenght of time while driving. Most people listening to country are tuned to 93.3 or 103.7. Nassau flipping 93.3 to country killed SCY in Laconia-Tilton-Belmont. You guys are right on PNH. Leave it alone. But they need to do something with SCY, As far as moving the transmitter to Laconia or Gilford...I think WERZ would be a bit ticked about that. Thay could move closer to the population center by moving down to Meredith.
 
Oldbones said:
Jim said:
Jeff Fisher should shake things up and flip WSCY to classic rock....or maybe WPNH
Click to expand...

WPNH seems to have found its niche with altrock in a college town.
Click to expand...


found its niche? have you looked at the sales? If it wasnt for mix both scy and pnh would have gone belly up years ago. Why do you think hey only have 1 person staffs. No formats will change in that building, they all hate change.
 
It's crazy to think that the Lakes Region has gone from 2 classic rock stations before Nassau came to town, to what will soon be none. Hopefully 106.9 will flip, although I'm sure it would just be mostly satellite fed. Maybe they could get a translator somewhere in the Laconia area? WGIR had one at one time on 100.7, but they seem to have let it go.
 
according to the press release, they are going to offer classic/oldies on 104.9 out of wolfeboro. isn't that good enough?

jlehmann said:
It's crazy to think that the Lakes Region has gone from 2 classic rock stations before Nassau came to town, to what will soon be none. Hopefully 106.9 will flip, although I'm sure it would just be mostly satellite fed. Maybe they could get a translator somewhere in the Laconia area? WGIR had one at one time on 100.7, but they seem to have let it go.
Click to expand...
 
Have you listened to 107.5 out of Portland or 106.3 Nashua? I'm sure it'll be exactly like those, which I guess does include quite a bit of classic rock, but it's not going to be the same for those that have been used to regular classic rock for quite a while. The classic rock lite format, with the same songs over and over, gets old after a while.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom