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WEEI-AM 850 to become ESPN Radio

Apparently the vast majority of WEEI listeners to its talk shows and play by play made the move to FM. I think the actual cume, etc. reflected showed that the AM started to get miniscule numbers
though I also heard that "AM FM simulcasts have to be 100 per cent for total credit". Eventually Ent. decided to put ESPN on the AM, and the numbers were also quite miniscule, but they pocket a bit of cash from it. (I am guessing some people might have found 850 came in better for them than 93.7,
so they kept listening to the AM, but that option ended when they put ESPN on 850. Hopefully one of WEEI's other signals could at least be picked up, in that case.)
 
Unless I misremember, ESPN 890 had a bigger audience share than 850 is getting.

Is there anything local on 850? Or is it all "bird-droppings"?
 
While Wolfe hinted at such things as local golf shows on 850, there are some occasions of local programming on 850:

--Red Sox/Celtics conflict. C's in playoffs put Sox on 850
--Some local college games (B.C.? B.U.? Northeastern?) wound up on 850
 
GREAT IDEA....Stops ESPN from coming into the market place and having another company take numbers away from the HUB and WEEI
 
RMARTZKE said:
GREAT IDEA....Stops ESPN from coming into the market place and having another company take numbers away from the HUB and WEEI
Click to expand...

What numbers? ESPN brings generic birdfeed national sports talk -- with much time devoted to college football in the South and Midwest -- into an Eastern city that is known as extremely parochial and as one of the weakest markets for college football in the nation. Face it -- with AM on its deathbed in the young-and-gullible demos that Madison Avenue obsesses over, Entercom doesn't really care what it puts there. Wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of AMs going dark in the next few years.
 
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