Today's Inside Radio says that Nassau plans to form a regional sports network, with flagship station being WCRB; and also suggests that classical music will go (perhaps to an HD channel). The names of those two sports guys 'locked out' (forget their names) were also mentinoed as maybes. Nassau certainly has enough stations in northern New England to pull that off well.
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REGIONAL SPORTS NET BASED AT WCRB?
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Casablanca
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Again, the Barbarians are at the gate..........!
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rapking
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YUP ! Thats What Boston Need ! Another Sports Station !
From JIBGUY
All well and good, but outside of metro Boston itself, the real backbone of Entercom Boston's regional network has turned out to be Southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Eastern Connecticut.
Nassau might do well to buy its way into that area as well. Off the top of my head, I can think of one dark 50 Kilowatt AMer that would be available.
Can anyone say "Bob Vila This Old House Project"?...... ;D
All well and good, but outside of metro Boston itself, the real backbone of Entercom Boston's regional network has turned out to be Southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Eastern Connecticut.
Nassau might do well to buy its way into that area as well. Off the top of my head, I can think of one dark 50 Kilowatt AMer that would be available.
Can anyone say "Bob Vila This Old House Project"?...... ;D
jlehmann said:
The markets are Cape Cod, Portland, Concord NH, Montpelier VT, and Lebanon NH according to that link. Eleven stations is a lot, but it appears that there are only going to be five new "stations", considering that several of these stations will be made up of simulcasts. In particular, four of them could very well be Maine's WBACH network, which (in terms of staff) is voicetracked mostly with WCRB personalities. The jockless Frank duo on the Cape wouldn't be a surprise either, but I recall that "Pixy 103" has seen better days.
And note too: Entercom gets 50% ownership of WCRB 99.5, with Nassau retaining 50% ownership and control of operations.
The Globe has an article now too: http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2007/08/11_stations_to.html
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PennBlue
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Wow. "DUMB and DUMBER" do it again.
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ciao99
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Oh wow, Entercom saves the day in Boston duplicating another already existing format. Heck, why not put their format on every frequency on the FM Dial? The Boston FM radio dial will be nothing but Red Sox and WAAF. If you don't like it, well you don't belong in Massachusetts!
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Dark Knight
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Here's the deal for anyone who's confused. Thursday AM the Globe and Herald ran stories saying that a consortium may be putting together a deal for a regional sports network utilizing the Nassau stations. They went on to say that the flagship would be WCRB-FM in Boston and that Dennis and Callahan, WEEI's current AMD hosts, would be the anchor programming for the network. D & C are currently embroiled in a contract dispute with Entercom, owners of WEEI.
Later Thursday afternoon the speculation was rendered moot when it was announced that Entercom had instead made two separate deals with Nassau, the first to take a 50% stake in WCRB. Nassau will continue to manage the station and it will remain in the classical format. The second deal was an agreement to syndicate WEEI content on 11 of Nassau's stations covering the Cape, Portland, White River Junction, Montpelier and one or two other markets.
Entercom still hopes to reach agreement with D and C, but that is a completely different negotiation, one in which the leverage seems to have clearly shifted with this announcement.
Later Thursday afternoon the speculation was rendered moot when it was announced that Entercom had instead made two separate deals with Nassau, the first to take a 50% stake in WCRB. Nassau will continue to manage the station and it will remain in the classical format. The second deal was an agreement to syndicate WEEI content on 11 of Nassau's stations covering the Cape, Portland, White River Junction, Montpelier and one or two other markets.
Entercom still hopes to reach agreement with D and C, but that is a completely different negotiation, one in which the leverage seems to have clearly shifted with this announcement.
>>WCRB will remain a classical station.....
but it didn't say WHERE. HD radio...? Maybe on the 106.3 from Nashua/Manchester that Nassau owns?
but it didn't say WHERE. HD radio...? Maybe on the 106.3 from Nashua/Manchester that Nassau owns?
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ciao99
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Dark Knight said:
Here's the deal: Boston doesn't need to lose another format just so we can waste another frequency that duplicates already existing programming. Thank you for making the boston radio dial so boring Entercom.
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Dark Knight
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Boston isn't losing a format. WCRB stays classical instead of possibly going to sports. What's the beef? Am I missing something?
Who's to say Entercom won't eventually take full control of WCRB and either can it or move it? They could
put class. on 97.7 or HD-2 and use that 99.5 to put WEEI on static-free FM.
put class. on 97.7 or HD-2 and use that 99.5 to put WEEI on static-free FM.
raccoonradio said:
Well, it may be static-free, but depending on where you are, there could be multipath distortion... or, if you're near the Pru, there may be intermodulation... if there's terrain or buildings in the way, there could be "picket fencing"... if you get near the adjacent-channel pirate in town, there could be splatter... any number of possibilities can happen...
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