OK-Maybe they should just?

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

I have a good idea. I've been thinking of this the last few days. Before they do it, I thought I'd give this one a shot. Your thoughts?
Or you think the original idea is better? Your thoughts?
I've been thinking, if W E E I plans to put "ESPN Radio" 24/7 on 850am. Instead of doing that, why not put "ESPN Radio" on 97.7? Reason being, is because they put College Sports, Foootball Games when they have conflects on 680am. Why don't they leave 680am alone, readjust some of their programming, because there's a lot of great Talk Shows out there that they can look into, I mean, a lot of them.
And this way, they can put "ESPN Radio" 24/7 on 97.7, as well as those Conflicted situations, put those games on 97.7?
Know what I mean?
Your thoughts?

 

[raccoonradio]

I get the feeling 97.7 is there to help WAAF get into Boston. It's a really good signal (as I noted when driving in Central MA on the MA pike) and Entercom makes a lot of money with WAAF.

If ESPN goes to AM 850 24/7 (and btw in NY, 9/7 is the date WEPN 1050 becomes ESPN Deportes)
perhaps it will be this fall (maybe Labor Day wknd? 850 with Sun night baseball, Sun night football on 93.7) or maybe a bit later. They are being vague about it, saying it prob will happen but no hints when.
I know what you mean about conflicts, which sometimes bump games to WRKO (and the fans of
Michael Savage etc aren't happy). They have contracts to satisfy. You might for example
get 93.7 with Sun night football (and poss on 850 too) sometime this fall with WRKO picking up,
say, the AL or NL playoffs (sadly I don't think the Sox will be in it!) or there could be other conflicts such as BC Sports etc.

I don't know if WEEI would lose Sun night/Mon night football if 1510 goes Dial Global/NBC sports.
Wouldn't DG want the NFL on a stronger signal? (Looked what happened yrs ago when ESPN
went to 890/1400--how's that work out?)

I don't really think Entercom touches WAAF, which it wants on both frequencies.

WAAF signal http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WAAF&service=FM&status=L&hours=U

WKAF http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WKAF&service=FM&status=L&hours=U

Admittedly a lot of the same ground gets covered but 97.7 can help in certain areas. You almost wonder if they could keep AAF on 97.7 and make 107.3 a WRKO simulcast but they may figure WRKO does pretty well on 680 and besides nights, etc (when the signal goes north-south) yeah some people might have trouble getting Savage, Doyle, and now Coast to Coast but other stations carry them too. But again if RKO had an FM translator it could woo younger listeners.
But overall 680 signal pretty solid.

Even if Howie jokes you lose them a couple miles west of Kenmore Sq at night...

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

thanks for your replys, appriciate it a lot.
When 97.7 was (W I L D 97.7) I picked it up in a car on the Massachusetts, NH Border near Route 95.
The signal was iffy, but was still listenable (In a car with a good car radio antanna)

 

[TSBench]

I've been thinking, if W E E I plans to put "ESPN Radio" 24/7 on 850am. Instead of doing that, why not put "ESPN Radio" on 97.7?

Because Boston is the worst third-party neutral sports market in the country. Why throw away the better signal on something which is going to have a hard time just getting to a marginal performance level.

Regards,
TSB

 

[CTListener]

I've been thinking, if W E E I plans to put "ESPN Radio" 24/7 on 850am. Instead of doing that, why not put "ESPN Radio" on 97.7?

Because Boston is the worst third-party neutral sports market in the country.

Not to mention that it's right up there with New York City as the market that cares least about college sports. The national sports radio networks will be flooded with college football talk starting next month, and few people in the Northeast other than gamblers will care.

 

[aaronread]

Not to mention that it's right up there with New York City as the market that cares least about college sports. The national sports radio networks will be flooded with college football talk starting next month, and few people in the Northeast other than gamblers will care.

Be fair, it's not that people in Boston don't care about "college sports." It's that Boston really cares about LOCAL sports, and there aren't all that many local college sports that're worth getting excited about. BC football, basketball and hockey, BU hockey, and the occasional year when Harvard makes a nice run. That's about it. And the hockey thing is a stretch, except maybe for the Beanpot. (or, as a BU alum, I prefer to call it "The Jack Parker Invitational" ;D ) Despite (or perhaps because of) the huge number of colleges around here, there sure aren't a lot of really top-level college sports programs.

They don't even care about Providence College and UConn basketball, despite being really good programs...because they're not Boston teams.

Plus college sports tend to REALLY thrive when there's no pro-level sport team nearby to compete for the attention, and Boston has four pro teams that are all playoff-capable more years than not.