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WEEI coming to 11 Nassau stations

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jlehmann

Are there really that many Nassau stations doing bad enough? I guess WJYY will be the one to go in Concord, if they base it on the latest ratings.

http://news.****************/cgi-bin/$rol.exe/headline_id=b10168
 
This is going to be very interesting, and a great idea extend the WEEI brand across New England in all six states and perhaps help out a few troubled and unsuccessful stations in the Nassau portolio get some easy attention. Any takers to the 11 stations in which markets.. Portland ? Concord / Manchester ? Lakes region ? The UV ? WIKE ?
 
In Maine, Nassau operates two ESPN affiliates...870 AM Portland and 1470 Lewiston. I could see those switching tomorrow. It immediatley makes 870 in Portland far more viable. How high up, I don't know but I can absolutely bet that station is going to start making an impact in ratings and obviously revenue. It's also simply replacing another syndicated product with a far better one targeted for New England. Portland is very much a Boston sports town. Very interesting move. Very.
 
not for nothing - while i agree with the idea that if there's gonna be syndication, regional does trump national - what about the locally originated sports station (Big Jab) presently in town? pretty good morning confab (from what i hear at the hockey rink and booster meetings) and i've caught some of the live afternoon thing they do. Boston has existed with one (for the most part) sports station - can Portland support two?
 
107.5 WPEI...

I like the sound of that.

See ya, Frank!

(a boy can dream, right?)
 
The "Score" AM stations in the Upper Valley (WTSV / WNHV) ? They even "Scored" in the ratings for the first time in recent memory, with ESPN Radio being a pretty good product.
 
Chuckigo said:
not for nothing - while i agree with the idea that if there's gonna be syndication, regional does trump national - what about the locally originated sports station (Big Jab) presently in town? pretty good morning confab (from what i hear at the hockey rink and booster meetings) and i've caught some of the live afternoon thing they do. Boston has existed with one (for the most part) sports station - can Portland support two?
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the problem with the big JAB is that it's affiliated with sporting news when it could have had ESPN all this time...now it's SOL and stuck with SNR
 
Mainedude2007 said:
the problem with the big JAB is that it's affiliated with sporting news when it could have had ESPN all this time...now it's SOL and stuck with SNR
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WEEI doesn't carry any ESPN, so if they replace ESPN 870/1470 with WEEI, JAB could pick it up, if they wanted I guess.

I just hope with all of this that not too many people lose their jobs. We all know from what's been posted on here that they certainly have cut quite a few jobs already. I guess the big question is whether they want to keep it all on FM. If AMs are involved, then I guess 910/1230 in the UV and 870/1470 in ME are the obvious choices.
 
I agree. As I said in previous posts, when this was just a rumor, it has a TON of possibilities and will also serve the local sports fan well, without the huge costs associated with covering local [or actually, regional] sports.

adbuyer1 said:
In Maine, Nassau operates two ESPN affiliates...870 AM Portland and 1470 Lewiston. I could see those switching tomorrow. It immediatley makes 870 in Portland far more viable. How high up, I don't know but I can absolutely bet that station is going to start making an impact in ratings and obviously revenue. It's also simply replacing another syndicated product with a far better one targeted for New England. Portland is very much a Boston sports town. Very interesting move. Very.
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jlehmann said:
Are there really that many Nassau stations doing bad enough? I guess WJYY will be the one to go in Concord, if they base it on the latest ratings.

http://news.****************/cgi-bin/$rol.exe/headline_id=b10168
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I did not know their numbers were that bad until I just checked it. I was thinking one of the Concord FM's and maybe WEMJ which is right now just a waste of electricity and pulling in next to nothing of a rating. I don't listen to JYY (I split time between OKQ and The Wolf) did they self destruct or is this just a bad sampling by Arbitron? The numbers seem to be all over the place in this market and Manchester too.
 
In that WNHV/WTSV have basically been drones for the past year with periods where the automation is screwed up and local inserts don't air properly (or at all) for days at a time, anything will be an improvement.
 
If you missed this link on the front page, here's an article from Laconia about one of the stations
that's picking up WEEI

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070824/CITIZEN_01/708240019/-1/CITIZEN

It doesn't mention that one of the "Hawk" stations may also switch to WEEI simulcast.

It says in '05 they switched to tourist info ("and in November 2005, dumped WEMJ's talk radio format in favor "Visitor Information Radio,")--when I visited North Conway a couple years ago, the loop of tourist info/
ads was on WBNC 1050.
 
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