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One NFL Game, Two Stations

J

Joseph_Gallant

Tonight (October 16th), the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Dallas Cowboys in the biggest game so far in the 2022/23 NFL season (Philadelphia entered the game undefeated, having won their first five games; Dallas entered the game having won four of their first five contests).

Outside of the Philadelphia and Dallas regions, radio coverage was provided by Westwood One, which has exclusive national radio rights to NFL night games as well as the playoffs and Super Bowl.

You would think that one of Boston's two all sports radio stations, either WEEI-93.7 or WBZ-98.5, would be carrying this crucial game. So, which station carried the game?

The envelope please....(long pause).....Both stations carried the same Westwood One broadcast!

I would have thought that Westwood One's broadcasts would have been exclusive to one station in each market.

Disclaimer: I only noticed this after 10 P.M. Could WEEI have carried the American League baseball playoff game earlier in the evening between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians, joining the NFL in progress after baseball ended?

Or did both stations carry the entire game?
 
Normally 98.5 runs Compass Media coverage of (most) Cowboys games but indeed it was noted they ran WW1.
@bostonradio "Confirmed. Interesting. 98.5 typically runs Cowboys’ national network produced by Compass. Tonight, they are running Westwood One’s national SNF feed which is also heard on EEI"

@nikgazcs2:"My guess is that somebody at 98.5 incorrectly set the receiver that picks up the broadcasters to the correct channel (the Compass broadcasts are ironically enough, distributed by Westwood One)"

I don't know if EEI ran baseball game at all or if they did and joined SNF in progress. In my
own case I'm temporarily paying for MLB audio package and on my phone can choose whichever baseball team broadcast to hear (WTAM, WFAN etc) for that.

For Pats yesterday at work I found WBZ-FM on TuneIn was running some kind of backup football talk show. I had to download the 98.5 app to hear part of the game (where I was I couldn't pick up the FM signal)
 
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