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Red Sox on Worcester Radio

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DavidZ

Someone suggested in an earlier post (can’t find it at the moment) that WCRN-AM 830 will not be carrying the Red Sox this year. I’m beginning to believe this may in fact be true. There is no mention anywhere on their website of Red Sox baseball. They only have a link for UMass sports. I realize their website is not updated regularly but it makes one wonder about the Sox play by play on WCRN.

Last year, Worcester actually had three Red Sox affiliates; WVEI-AM 1440, WCRN & WNEB-AM 1230 (in Español).

Last season WCRN couldn’t wait to start carrying the games and was promoting them heavily. In fact, I believe they carried nearly every grapefruit league game that was on the broadcast schedule. This season there has been no mention of them and last Sunday’s game was listed in the local paper on WVEI-AM only.

If the games are only on WVEI, there are going to be some very unhappy fans in Metro Worcester who enjoy listening to the games on the radio. Their signal pretty much disappears outside the city limits after dark. Some parts of the county will be able to tune into the games on WEEI-FM from Providence, especially South of the city, but what about the rest of the suburbs?

Does anyone have any info about whether Red Sox baseball will be on WCRN this season?
 
On Jan 7 WCRiNsider wrote (thread: WCRN: Yesterday's News Today):
>>Also no more Red Sox for us now that 850 has them back

On same thread MikeEI said:
>>Red Sox are still with WCRN. Nice Try.

On the WCRN site the only mention of Sox is on the schedule page; there's the weekday sched on left side,
weekends on right, and it says "This is the standard lineup. Shows in the afternoon are shifted as needed when
the Red Sox or college sports conflict". The CRN site doesn't really play up the Sox otherwise, and WEEI's
"Red Sox network" site still lists them as an affiliate but if it's not true, maybe they haven't updated it yet.

http://wcrnradio.com/on-air.htm

WVEI 1440's signal not all that hot in some areas...if they are gone from WCRN, people could try various affiliates in other areas if they can't get WVEI. Anyone know? Anyway, the rumor of them leaving WCRN
(denied by MikeEI) was from Jan., here

Sox exhibition game on now, but WCRN not running it (though it is exhib. game not reg season)

WVEI 1440 by night (not accurate but an idea)
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WVEI&service=AM&status=L&hours=N
 
MarcB said:
I know with the Yankees Pre-Season games are only on WCBS 880 the flagship station and not the local affiliates i.e. WPOP and WWCO the two local affiliates. Perhaps its the same with The Sox. That being said since WVEI is a simulcast of WEEI that's why they'd have it.
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WCRN carried pre-season games last year. IIRC, it was the weekend games only until the regular season.
 
I heard from a friend of mine who runs a station that eei and red sox had requested the broadcast rights fee for the season up front, which really puts the squeeze on the affiliates not sure if this is the case with this situation, its real hard to get local businesses to pony up that much money up front in this economy
 
Good selling point for XM and MLB's own Gameday Audio (or whatever they're calling it these days) beyond MetroWest. Of course, with XM you'll get the WEEI broadcast only for home games.

WTIC Hartford puts in a usable signal in the Worcester area day and night, doesn't it? Is it better at night in, say, Oxford or Auburn than WEEI?
 
PaulRAnderson said:
Did WCRN Worcester carry the Red Sox game last night?
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No. It looks like Worcester listeners will either need to listen to WVEI-AM 1440 which is virtually unlistenable after dark outside of the city limits or try WEEI-FM 103.7 from Providence if you live in the South County.

Anywhere else within Worcester County, good luck trying to find a Red Sox affiliate radio station with a decent signal.
 
DavidZ said:
PaulRAnderson said:
Did WCRN Worcester carry the Red Sox game last night?
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No. It looks like Worcester listeners will either need to listen to WVEI-AM 1440 which is virtually unlistenable after dark outside of the city limits or try WEEI-FM 103.7 from Providence if you live in the South County.
Anywhere else within Worcester County, good luck trying to find a Red Sox affiliate radio station with a decent signal.
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Just for kicks, try 1200 on a few different nights. WXKS is nulled to the west at night; it should not be a factor. But WTLA N. Syracuse NY often comes in pretty well! WTLA is only 1 kW but it's directional to the east-northeast and I think it's the biggest interferer in WXKS's NIF calculation. Earlier today, I read (I think in Scott Fybush's column) that the Sox will be on WTLA (and, not that it will make any difference in Worcester) also on WTLB 1310 in Utica NY.
 
And, of course, there's WTIC too. They should have a decent enough signal to listen to in much of Worcester County.
 
That's really a shame about WCRN. They have such a good signal it was the most reliable Red Sox station in Worcester county.

WPKZ Fitchburg (1280) carries the Sox, too, but their night signal doesn't make it out of the Fitchburg-Leominster area. WVEI-FM Easthampton covers the Springfield area but I don't think it gets much east of Ware.

I have XM in the car but prefer listening to the Red Sox announcers during away games.

I'm amazed that the Sox now have such a huge gap in coverage west of Boston.

Paul
 
BRNout said:
And, of course, there's WTIC too. They should have a decent enough signal to listen to in much of Worcester County.
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Actually since that area is sort of in between their groundwave and skywave coverage, the signal isn't that good, at least not all the time.

Another signal to check out now will be the new powerhouse 105.3 translator for 1280 in Fitchburg.
 
All I can get is bleed through from pirate 105.5 in Worcester. It has cut out 105.7 for awhile and now 105.3.
 
And if there was some poss. that WCRN was carrying weeknight games only, no. I tuned in around 8:07
when Sox game was in an ad break CRN was running ads too...then the start of the Savage show. No Sox indeed.
 
radiojay1 said:
103.7 WEEI FM can be heard south of Worcester with a decent signal.
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I live south of Worcester in Whitinsville and the WEEI-FM signal was horrible last night. There was another station bleeding through so much that the game was unlistenable on 103.7.

What surprised me is that when I switched to WVEI-AM 1440 they were loud and clear. In the past, I wasn't able to listen to them at night once I was drove south from Worcester beyond the West Main Street Millbury exit from Route 146.
 
DavidZ said:
I live south of Worcester in Whitinsville and the WEEI-FM signal was horrible last night. There was another station bleeding through so much that the game was unlistenable on 103.7.
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David, it's the weather. Tropo conditions. This morning in Bristol, Connecitcut (about 18 miles Southwest of Hartford) I was getting a weak, but listenable signal of JAMN 94.5 and that Portugese Station from New Bedford 97.3 was mixing with semi-local WZBG, WXLO 104.5 was loud and clear and in stereo as was CAT COUNTRY 98.1 despite being about 2 miles from the experimental 134 Watt WX4ESPN 98.1 even Soft Rock 106.5 from New London, Connecticut was loud and clear.
 
MarcB said:
David, it's the weather. Tropo conditions. This morning in Bristol, Connecitcut (about 18 miles Southwest of Hartford) I was getting a weak, but listenable signal of JAMN 94.5 and that Portugese Station from New Bedford 97.3
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UCONN's statoin and WUNH have been rolling in here just south of blue hill last coupla nights

also WRIU after ZBC goes off, and a portuguese on 88.1, out of new bedford (after WMBR sleeps)
 
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