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WRKO is a fallback station for WEEI. They occasionally pick up sports WEEI has no room for. This has been
going on for the past 2 years...for example, a National League Championship Game would be on WRKO
while WEEI had talk or Celtics pre-season, etc. Other times WRKO even had World Series games
because WEEI had something else.
WRKO ran the game in which Tigers eliminated the Yankees. Last night was NLCS Playoffs.
I understand WEEI AM/FM will have Fri night's NLCS game acc to their schedule.
This is no indication that WRKO is going all-ESPN. So far the only indication of an all-ESPN deal is
K. Vahey who said in late Sept. that according to "a good friend who worked for ESPN", the 850
is to go ESPN 24.7 "in the next month". Nothing OFFICIAL yet. Take note though that when ESPN
returned to WEEI in 2009, after carrying some baseball playoffs, they started with the ESPN on Nov 1.
Maybe that's target date for ESPN on 850
Note how much WEEI is accenting "93.7 WEEI-FM and weei.com". They want people to remember
93.7 because perhaps WEEI 850 might be going to all ESPN. As it is 850/93.7 run ESPN mid-6 am
and on weekends.
If you listened to WRKO as I do (morning show, Howie Carr etc.) you would have heard their news
guy say "NLCS Game 3 tonight at 8 pm, that will be right here on WRKO". Maybe they switched to
baseball tonight because the board op wasn't around or they just figured they'd go back to
reg. programming at midnight.
The correct answer is "making extra room to put playoffs on WRKO"
WRKO also carried Westwood One's Monday Night Football the first couple weeks then WEEI had it
this week
Wowww, around 10:30pm last night I heard (ESPN Radio) on WRKO 680am. They had the Playoffs on there, then around 11:30pm, they went to "Baseball Tonight" 
