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Two FM Sports stations in a market?

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Nate Wesley

These are interesting times in market #57 as Birmingham, AL is about to get its second FM Sports station, with a related legal tug-of-war over noted sports personality Paul Finebaum. (You can follow discussion of these related developments on the Alabama board.) A fellow poster on the 'Bama board noted that the Birmingham market will soon have five talk-based stations with an FM presence, and how that might put it in some almost exclusive company.

Keeping the focus solely on markets with two FM sports talkers (excluding translators): Am I forgetting a market besides Dallas and now Philadelphia? I'm hesitant to consider Washington D.C. despite the two rimshotting FMs relaying its ESPN affiliate.
 
Columbia, SC has two sports talkers on FM, WNKT 107.5 "The Game" (Fox Sports and South Carolina Gamecock sports), and WZMJ 93.1 (ESPN, Clemson sports).

A third, WCOS, is on a HD-2 feed.
 
Nate Wesley said:
Keeping the focus solely on markets with two FM sports talkers (excluding translators): Am I forgetting a market besides Dallas and now Philadelphia? I'm hesitant to consider Washington D.C. despite the two rimshotting FMs relaying its ESPN affiliate.
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At 6:00 this morning, 102.5 in Nashville flipped to sports, giving us two sports talkers. (the other is 104.5 which has been sports for years)

We've had two in the past as well, with 106.7 doing sports for a few years before flipping to CHR.
 
As of Friday, Philadelphia will have two Sports stations on FM. For some time, WPEN (ESPN) has also been on WPEN-FM. As of 3pm Friday, CBS will be dropping the rock on 94.1 (WYSP) and making it 94WIP-FM.
 
If this was asked before Christmas, Jackson, MS would've been on the list. However, 99.1 (a translator signal to AM station WJFN) changed to country.
 
Now come Monday Boston's WEEI will move to 93.7 FM. Boston already has an FM sports station on 98.5 and they've made huge inroads on WEEI.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
liradioisbad said:
Now come Monday Boston's WEEI will move to 93.7 FM. Boston already has an FM sports station on 98.5 and they've made huge inroads on WEEI.
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How many stations does WEEI simulcast on now?
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93.7 will make 9

One on Cape Cod, 2 in Portland, Maine (both ends of the market) SW New Hampshire, Boston AM/FM, Providence, Worcester and one further out West
 
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