Sports related stuff

[raccoonradio]

Also Boston Radio Watch mentions the Jimmy Fund radiothon on Fri. Aug. 18. Looks like the Red Sox will make their "return" to WRKO a little early; there's a doubleheader that day and the day game will air on WRKO
while WEEI will run the nightcap. (Sorry Rush and Howie!)

--As mentioned in one of yesterday's papers, WVEI-FM 105.5 Springfield hopes to set up shop in the
new basketball Hall of Fame. The new WEEI sister station will carry both the Celts and the Sox...what about
WHYN 560, the longtime Springfield area station? Are they losing the Sox, or would they be on both?

And with the addition of Patriots' Roosevelt Colvin doing a Monday night show on ESPN 890/1400, does this
mean they're also picking up Monday Night Football too?

 

[MarcB]

Clear Channel has the rights to both the SOX and the CELTS in Springfield. The SOX as mentioned above are on WHYN. The CELTS are on WNNZ. It would be weird if the SOX ended up on 'VEI-FM' since WVEI (AM) doesn't carry them.

 

[DavidZ]

Clear Channel is probably at the end of their contract for the Red Sox & Celtics rights. I'm certain that Entercom will want them on the new WVEI-FM and move them to their own station in the upcoming seasons.

As for WVEI-AM in Worcester, Entercom had the chance to move the Red Sox from long time home WTAG-AM three years ago and chose to renew with WTAG. The after dark signal for WVEI-AM barely makes it into the immediate suburbs. WTAG has a much cleaner signal after dark when most of the games are carried. WVEI-AM is the Worcester home of the Celtics.

 

[CTListener]

Will 105.5 make it down to south-central Connecticut during daylight hours? Right now, the only way to hear the Sox on AM here when they play weekday afternoon games (generally about 15 of these a season) is via WHYN. WTIC Hartford chooses not to carry those games, I'd imagine because the advertising it sells for Rush Limbaugh's show is worth more to 'TIC than what it sells for the local breaks on the Sox games.

If 105.5's signal is more like WPKX's (which is barely audible down here in Meriden) than WAQY's or even WHYN-FM's, we're suddenly in a Sox black hole, radio-wise.

 

[raccoonradio]

Am not sure what coverage WVEI-FM 105.5 Easthampton will have...it's not listed on radio-locator.com (maybe because they're temp. off air? antenna being moved, etc.?)

by the way it was mentioned in the Globe that WEEI/Jason Wolfe hope to move into NH and Maine (what,
no Vermont?) in the future with similar setups. They could buy a station or somehow park their programming there. It's probably a way off, but was hinted...