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Thanksgiving Day football on the radio

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maconthemike

I was bored yesterday so while I was out and about I decided to see what stations in the area were airing games. I’m on the South Shore.

980 (Lowell High)
1240? (signal faded in and out)
1280 (Fitchburg-Leominster)
1320 (Attleboro-North Attleboro)
1420
1460 (Brockton v Bridgewater-Raynham)
1480
1530
1590

95.9 (Marshfield-Duxbury)
101.3 (Taunton v Coyote-Cassidy?)
104.9 (Beverly-Salem)

That doesn’t count the games on streaming platforms, of which I’m sure there were a couple.

1550 had done the Brookline-Newton North game for years, but they were airing foreign language programming yesterday.

It would have been nice if 1510 had aired Quincy-North Quincy, but I’m not sure what their studio setup is now that they’ve been sold/LMA’d/whatever.

I mean probably no one cares about this stuff anymore. I drove by one game where the stands were half-filled, if that.

Did anyone else pick up anything?
 
1230 used to carry Salem-Beverly every Thanksgiving, followed by recorded play-by-play of several other traditional North Shore rivalry games.

As for the small crowds, the shadow of Covid is far from lifting in Massachusetts. Although here in Connecticut, the local paper described the crowd at Meriden's Ceppa Field for the game between the city's two high schools as "massive." This was on the same day that a neighboring town, Cheshire, reinstated mask mandates that had only recently been lifted. The difference between blue collar and posh suburban towns in a nutshell.
 
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Here, no high school or college teams were on yesterday, but 1310 KFKA Greeley, CO was carrying the Chicago at Detroit game.
For today's slate of college Thanksgiving games, I couldn't find anything yet, but I know 880 KRVN will carry Nebraska vs Iowa as they are local.
Naturally, KGAB picked up the Buffalo Bills game
 
What could the 1240 have been? Looking up freq on advanced search/ radio-locator

WSYY Millinocket ME "sports"
WFTN Franklin NH
WBAS W Yarmouth (Bittner, standards...doubt it)\
WOON Woonsocket RI
WSKI Montpelier VT "Rock"
WIGY Lewiston ME "80s rock"
WHMQ Greenfield "News talk"
 
Checking online I found Taunton played Milford on Thanksgiving Day. "My 101.3" simulcasts WMRC Milford.
Coverage map

W267CD-FM Radio Station Coverage Map

radio-locator.com radio-locator.com

The station does pretty well with coverage. I remember right after WJIB's FM trans went on I went to Cambridge to record it then headed out on Rt 2 to I-95/128. It didn't take long for W267CD (WMRC) to take over W267CE (WJIB)--and that was just the very fringe area of the WMRC simulcast signal
 
Do Taunton and Milford play each other every Thanksgiving? Why? They're really not close geographically, and all the other Thanksgiving games mentioned in this thread are between same-town schools or schools in neighboring communities.
 
That makes sense that it was WMRC. Searching around I see that Taunton stopped playing Coyle Cassidy on Thanksgiving in 2018. Guessing that the same game was on 1530/99.7 with Taunton announcers, but don’t know for sure.
 
Thank you jlehmann. WMRC makes sense. I’ve picked it up near here before. As for Thanksgiving games, it seems at least a third of them have changed in the last 10 years. They don’t mean as much anymore with the playoff system ruining everything.
 
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