The commercial breaks on WEEI are ridiculous

[dumber than a box of hair]

it is arrogance and complacency that will bring down weei when and if a worthy competitor ever goes on the air.

Works for me. You obviously have all the answers. Approach the management at a 50kW stick and offer to counter-program WEEI. Show us your stuff. Beat them at their own game.

We're waiting.

there is a fine example of the arrogance.

Nope. Not a speck of arrogance involved. I just want the chronic complainers to put up or shut up. If you have all the answers, show us how it works in real life. Show us your track record. Show us how you can do it better. Rule Number One When Taking On A Competitor in Radio is: You can't do AS GOOD a job. You have to do a BETTER job. Find the opponent's weakness and exploit it. Obviously long stop-sets aren't a weakness, as Arbitron repeatedly proves. Obviously D&C's white-boy fraternity ravings aren't a weakness, for the same reason. So: How are the chronic complainers going to slay Goliath?

 

[Speaker of Truth]

''Rule Number One When Taking On A Competitor in Radio is: You can't do AS GOOD a job. You have to do a BETTER job. Find the opponent's weakness and exploit it''.

In case anyone forgot, WEEI has the Boston Red Sox..and New England sports fans will talk about the Red Sox all day, everyday..Patriots fans who needed to scream about the Super Bowl as late as Friday of this week had a place to go..

Even if the Red Sox or the Patriots tank, fans will still tune in, still whine and complain, and will listen to others do the same...when the Yankees where looking like they might overtake the Red Sox in the East last summer, the angest was some of the most entertaining stuff on the air..

Are the Red Sox going to sign somewhere else and perhaps lose their FM signals in Greater Boston and other portions of New England? Would you be the one to make that mistake?

Dennis and Callahan had two big guests Friday Morning--Curt's surgeon, and Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter talking about his ''Spygate'' investigation..I would imagine their Sports Contact Rolodex is pretty impressive..who else is going to match it?

As far as news and weather, the internet is a handy thing to have to go find all that and more..as far as the time, most of us have cell phones or this amazing invention known as a watch...see?

Why are the spot breaks so long? Because if you want to reach men 25-54 in Boston, where else would you go? The numbers already quoted speak for themselves..their Providence signal is poaching clients in New Bedford, Fall River and elsewhere on the Southcoast..

I've made this point before--unless you are going to shell out major bucks, and see if Bob Ryan, or Jackie Mac, or one of the ESPN talents can be had to do radio, then what are you left with if you can't pull off the above mentioned senario?

 

[SonicOverload]

curious... did D&C ask Specter why he was wasting his time with this nonsense when there are real issues to worry about? Or did they defer to him because he's a Republican?

 

[blamethemayo]

curious... did D&C ask Specter why he was wasting his time with this nonsense when there are real issues to worry about? Or did they defer to him because he's a Republican?

they did ask. specter named numerous other issues he had been working on, including the bankruptcy bill.

so, i think d&c were satisfied that specter still devoted enough energy to screwing over good people who were in a difficult set of circumstances.

 

[boobo0]

You say they are, abusing the loyal customer? EEI is still #1-25-54

Man you just don't get it....I give up.

 

[boobo0]

Tuned in for 1 min. this morning to hear that now they're even rubbing it in our faces now, here is the latest I heard (Cue announcer voice): "Ya Ya we know we just played a ton of commercials, but guess what? here comes another 60 seconds worth"...... Disgusting.