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WCRN: Yesterday's News TODAY

S

Schuyler

This afternoon at 3 and 4, Howie Carr's "west of the city after sunset" affiliate, 830 WCRN, ran CBS newscasts from yesterday. In the past, they've been known to run USA/IRN news if they had problems with the Eye. Perhaps WCRN stands for We Carry Recent Newscasts.
 
Does WCRN routinely delay the start of the hourly network news? In the morning, it seems like Peter Blute talks across the top of the hour and according to my dashboard clock, the news seems to start at one or two minutes after the hour.
 
After several attempts at keeping up with technical issues and problems, our crack engineer has decided to stop sending our starguide receiver back to be fixed only to break afew months later. (Which is also why were are running Savage again at night instead of Dennis Miller) and use TRN shows at night and overnight (Including TRN USA news)

When there is a board op in studio the news is downloaded and played from the CBS radio website (usually one hour delayed and not exactly at top of the hour. It is a half @ssed way of doing it but it is what we were told to do.

Also no more Red Sox for us now that 850 has them back :(
 
Sounds like one reason CRN got the Sox was because when they were on WRKO, they had to switch to the Sox pregame and wipe out 35 min or so of Howie Carr's last hour--thus the deal about having Howie tell
listeners to switch to WCRN to hear the rest of the show. Of course this time of yr Howie is telling listeners to tune to WCRN if they have trouble picking up RKO due to early sunsets. But now if all games are on 850
they feel there's no need to have WCRN aboard (how does the 1440 do at night?)

I wonder if Entercom might put the Sox (or all of WEEI) on FM, like 93.7 or 107.3 Wonder if this is part of it?
Or maybe not.
 
raccoonradio said:
Sounds like one reason CRN got the Sox was because when they were on WRKO, they had to switch to the Sox pregame and wipe out 35 min or so of Howie Carr's last hour--thus the deal about having Howie tell
listeners to switch to WCRN to hear the rest of the show. Of course this time of yr Howie is telling listeners to tune to WCRN if they have trouble picking up RKO due to early sunsets. But now if all games are on 850
they feel there's no need to have WCRN aboard (how does the 1440 do at night?)

I wonder if Entercom might put the Sox (or all of WEEI) on FM, like 93.7 or 107.3 Wonder if this is part of it?
Or maybe not.
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The sox were still on 830 even once they completely moved to 850 from 680 at the end of last season. Maybe they just didn't carry the 6:30-7 pregame show. 1440 is not enough of signal to be the only Sox affiliate in Worcester, day or especially night. Didn't Entercom have some kind of deal with 830 where they get most of the advertising money?
 
830 really DOES have a great deal of potential. Too bad it's going to waste.

As of right now...WCRN ranks #3 on my personal 50 KW AM "WASTE-O-METER"......behind #1 990 WALE, in the Providence market, and #2 1510 WWZN.
 
Yes, that was the ad deal.
WCRN did not pick up the pregame show last yr for 7 pm games, allowing them to carry Howie's
last half hour or so. After Sox moved to WEEI exclusively they may have continued to carry
Howie till 7 and of course if WCRN has lost the Sox, that will continue

Prob right about 1440...does Entercom figure on 103.7 from RI, WTIC, WEEI, and others will cover that ground for the part that 1440 doesn't reach?

Supposedly domain names were registered for Citadel stations in Worc (100.1) and Prov (99.7)
http://www.espnradio1001.com
http://www.espnradio997.com

NOTE: For now both these domains point to ESPN stations in Syracuse (...?)_
Might 100.1 indeed go to sports and carry Sox too?

Unless they changed their minds and are just putting the WNSS webpage on these 2 sites...
 
Welcome back WCRiNsider! It’s been awhile since you posted anything. I thought maybe they let you go.

With you telling us that WCRN will not carry the Red Sox this year; I have to agree that there has to be something else that Entercom is up to in the Worcester market.

As pointed out already, WVEI-AM 1440 is virtually unlistenable at night outside of the city limits. Even though WEEI-FM 103.7 from Providence comes in rather well in the South County that leaves a bunch of potential listeners unable to listen to the Red Sox after dark.

It looks like the Sports Radio flip for one of the Citadel stations in Worcester may have some legs.
 
scranton said:
5 pm newscast from CBS was old --it said that the president ws yet to speak
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How does this happen? I was under the impression that the Top of the Hour newscast from the network was taken live.

In the past, some of the nets would feed them at other times :)15, :30, :45, etc.) and stations could delay broadcast them. But a top of the hour newscast from CBS is pretty hard to screw up!
 
MarcB said:
The dude from the station said news is delayed by one hour.

WCRiNsider said:
When there is a board op in studio the news is downloaded and played from the CBS radio website (usually one hour delayed and not exactly at top of the hour. It is a half @ssed way of doing it but it is what we were told to do.
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Why would they do this? Do they not have a live satellite feed from CBS?
 
Yup WPKZ formerly WEIM has had the games for years...northern Worc county gets covered I guess, and
maybe 1440 covers the city proper...
 
WCRiNsider said:
After several attempts at keeping up with technical issues and problems, our crack engineer has decided to stop sending our starguide receiver back to be fixed only to break afew months later. (Which is also why were are running Savage again at night instead of Dennis Miller) and use TRN shows at night and overnight (Including TRN USA news)

When there is a board op in studio the news is downloaded and played from the CBS radio website (usually one hour delayed and not exactly at top of the hour. It is a half @ssed way of doing it but it is what we were told to do.

Also no more Red Sox for us now that 850 has them back :(
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Red Sox are still with WCRN. Nice Try.
 
Then again... "never mind"...? (Info via a sep thread on the Boston board):

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ESPN 99.7 RI and 100.1 Worcester? Never mind...acc. to an edition of Scott
Fybush's North East Radio Watch http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html

>>Starting March 5, 2010, ESPN will move to the new "ESPN Radio 97.7 and 100.1" in Syracuse and Oswego,

These are translators...thus the appearance of Syracuse ESPN site...
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
830 really DOES have a great deal of potential. Too bad it's going to waste.

In regards to potential; I said it before I'll say it again I like Rich Teter's Teter on the Edge show. I hope CRN helps the show grow. Right now he is on 1 day solo-Fri 1 to 3 pm and 1 day with Blute-Thurs 6 to 9. He spent the last two days saying that Worcester is a "hell hole", and that noone goes there at night out of fear when discussing why businesses are shutting down there. He said that people in the suburbs see Worcester as a " rat infested cespool full of knife weilding homeless bums" Listeners agreed and the local officials got pissed, calling in to sway him. Even the weekend CRN dinning out show host called in to argue with him. He didn't budge. I liked that he didn't cowtow. It was a change from the usual CRN fare. Keep it up Rich. I'll be listening.
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