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WEEI Adding FM Simulcast Monday

carmen said:
Sales Reptile said:
Fidelity is probably the biggest difference
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850 has superb audio. the signal is 20KHz wide and sounds as good or better than Comcast's audio during celtics games.
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But, AM receivers today that can hear that range are few and far between. Yes, I have wideband AM stereo receivers from the '80s that sound amazing on AM stations broadcasting their full range when receiving a clean signal, but most of today's analog AM receivers roll off at 5k, or even 2k. They sound horrible regardless of the output of the station.
 
raccoonradio said:
Taylor on radio-info said there's nothing wrong with 850's signal. Ahem! PLENTY wrong which is one reason they're doing this! ...
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The major thing wrong with 850's signal is the same that could be said of 680's signal or 1200's signal: They are in serious jeopardy of being extinct.
 
It was mentioned some day AM could well go away and maybe the FCC could work to extend the FM
band down to 76 MHz or something, and the AM stations could go there...big prob with that is there
would still be lots of radios that don't go down that far. If anything the AMs are moving to FM though
not all (the ethnic stations like WESX, Radio Disney affiliates, religious, and small-town radio outlets
might not get an FM signal to move to. For that matter as mentioned in another thread even Cousin
Mel Karmazin's WKNR 850 in Cleveland doesn't quite have an FM they could move to
 
One item of note, when they were doing the change over at 10am, Callahan said something to the effect of "we should thank our bosses for doing this" then listed some names. Wolfe, and three or four others I didn't recognize. Of distinct note was that Julie Kahn was not mentioned.
 
So two weeks in a row, we've had a Top 10 market gaining an FM sports talk station, and CBS involved with each scenario... though in Boston's case, they're on the winning end. That idiom a previous poster wrote about trying to get their land back, as opposed to defending it... that's the situation CBS faces in Philadelphia with WIP (FM).
 
I never liked Mike FM to begin with! They shouldn't have blown up Star 93.7 in the first place! This is gonna be interesting! 8)
 
thetheo said:
and those die-hard Mike fans (there must be somewhere) can at least get it on HD or online if the FM is out of their range.
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I'm one of those diehard Mike fans and I'm not a happy camper. :'( :'( Can't believe they wouldn't move it to another signal but rather drop it entirely. So, apparently, tomorrow is my final commute with Mike?? :'(
 
Yes. The Telecom Act swept all those old rules away.

paulfromlowell said:
So whatever happened to the "Split Programming Rule" that forbid simulcasts like this? Did I miss the repeal of that?
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raccoonradio said:
For that matter as mentioned in another thread even Cousin
Mel Karmazin's WKNR 850 in Cleveland doesn't quite have an FM they could move to
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There are two full market FM signals that CK could buy if he had the cash.

Salem's CCM outlet, WFHM/95.5 "The Fish", has been shopped around to everyone but OMW, it seems like. (No, we don't have the cash.) It's the historic classical WCLV...WCLV moved in the Great Frequency Swap of 2001 to an outside class A rimshot, 104.9/Lorain.

Ditto with Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting AAA WNWV/107.3 "V107.3". It's a slight western rimshot out of Oberlin, but a *killer* full-B signal that reaches nearly the entire market with little problem.

Either 95.5 or 107.3 would work as an FM outlet for WKNR, but CK has no money to buy an FM signal.
 
WMC2006 said:
.. Can't believe they wouldn't move it to another signal but rather drop it entirely...
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Isn't there an HD-2 channel that Mike could move to -- ugh, on second thought, yeah, you're right, can't believe they would drop the Mike format entirely...
 
by the way there are 2 NFL games Monday night
Patriots-Dolphins: Westwood One has it but I think WEEI AM/FM can't carry it! 98.5 only
Raiders-Broncos: I'm sure both AM and FM WEEI will want to talk Pats. Maybe bump to RKO?
 
I wonder if they'll try to sell the two stations separately or by level. Level 1 cost for just AM, Level 2 cost for just FM, Level 3 cost for AM and FM.
 
This makes five or six stations that broadcast WEEI. Does anyone know what their total listenership is...........or does that matter to anyone? I assume it must matter to someone or they wouldn't do it.
 
EnterCommunicator said:
One item of note, when they were doing the change over at 10am, Callahan said something to the effect of "we should thank our bosses for doing this" then listed some names. Wolfe, and three or four others I didn't recognize. Of distinct note was that Julie Kahn was not mentioned.
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Does anyone actually believe she has actual authority after they brought in a new market manager? Are you people completely naive?
 
NHRadio said:
Yes. The Telecom Act swept all those old rules away.

paulfromlowell said:
So whatever happened to the "Split Programming Rule" that forbid simulcasts like this? Did I miss the repeal of that?
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All of these new AM-FM simulcasts may just bring the rule back.
 
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