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WEEI Lawrence/Boston
- Thread starter rike101
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tvreader said:
Fixed. WEEI is licensed to Boston, WEEI-FM is licensed to Lawrence.
WEEI FM used to be WCGY and the studios were in Lawrence also
When you hear the top of hour ID, like the usual Jim Cutler one it's
"This is sportsradio WEEI Boston. WEEI-FM and HD-1 Lawrence Boston"
Meaning the 850, and then the 93.7. Recently some Red Sox games got bumped to WRKO due to C's
playoffs and there would be liners (not IDs, liners) saying "Red Sox baseball, 93.7 WEEI-FM" or "WEEI".
Even though it was on WRKO. As long as they do the top of hour ID saying "WRKO Boston" they're fine.
Sure, it mentions WEEI in the liner but it's really WRKO..but the ID must follow the rules. A Sox affiliate can have Joe C mention "...coming up on the WEEI Red Sox radio network" even if you're listening on a far-flung station.
The 106.9 in the Phila. area may do liners as "IQ 106.9 Philadelphia" or "WWIQ Philadelphia" as it's
serving the Phila. market BUT at the top of the hour they would properly ID it as "WWIQ Camden-Philadelphia"
as they're really licensed to Camden NJ.
Back when 93.7 was WMKK near the top of the hour you'd hear the "Mike FM guy" say, "Mike FM...Boston."
Not a legal ID. But then: "WMKK Lawrence-Boston" nr top of hour. THAT was a legal ID. You can say another city in the area, or the bigger city you're serving, after the PROPER ID. Thus WEEI-FM Lawrence Boston
"This is sportsradio WEEI Boston. WEEI-FM and HD-1 Lawrence Boston"
Meaning the 850, and then the 93.7. Recently some Red Sox games got bumped to WRKO due to C's
playoffs and there would be liners (not IDs, liners) saying "Red Sox baseball, 93.7 WEEI-FM" or "WEEI".
Even though it was on WRKO. As long as they do the top of hour ID saying "WRKO Boston" they're fine.
Sure, it mentions WEEI in the liner but it's really WRKO..but the ID must follow the rules. A Sox affiliate can have Joe C mention "...coming up on the WEEI Red Sox radio network" even if you're listening on a far-flung station.
The 106.9 in the Phila. area may do liners as "IQ 106.9 Philadelphia" or "WWIQ Philadelphia" as it's
serving the Phila. market BUT at the top of the hour they would properly ID it as "WWIQ Camden-Philadelphia"
as they're really licensed to Camden NJ.
Back when 93.7 was WMKK near the top of the hour you'd hear the "Mike FM guy" say, "Mike FM...Boston."
Not a legal ID. But then: "WMKK Lawrence-Boston" nr top of hour. THAT was a legal ID. You can say another city in the area, or the bigger city you're serving, after the PROPER ID. Thus WEEI-FM Lawrence Boston
http://bostonradio.org/stations/1919
Still says WMKK on that page.
>>>(American Radio Sys.) quickly began working to move 93.7 closer to the center of the Boston market. In the summer of 1995, WEGQ began building a new 152-meter (498-foot) guyed tower at 100 Lakeland Park Drive in Peabody, easily visible from US 1 and the I-95/MA 128 interchange. “Eagle” signed on from the new tower in early 1996, with 34 kW at 179 m (587 ft) and a much-improved signal into downtown Boston and the South Shore.
Still says WMKK on that page.
>>>(American Radio Sys.) quickly began working to move 93.7 closer to the center of the Boston market. In the summer of 1995, WEGQ began building a new 152-meter (498-foot) guyed tower at 100 Lakeland Park Drive in Peabody, easily visible from US 1 and the I-95/MA 128 interchange. “Eagle” signed on from the new tower in early 1996, with 34 kW at 179 m (587 ft) and a much-improved signal into downtown Boston and the South Shore.
WCCM-FM went to 50,000 watts in 1973 from a site in Andover, right adjacent to 495. They switched to Stereo in April, 1974 and became WCGY with TM's automated "Stereo Rock" format. Curt Gowdy owned 93.7 until the early 90's. Eventually, 93.7 moved to the current Peabody site several years ago.mgpt6 said:
Didn't want to, poss. or figured there would be no interest w Celts gone..or not offered them? If they were and wanted to I suppose they could bump em to RKO with EEI doing Sox (no mention on RKO site)
mnw1890 said:
Blame Arbitron for this. In order to qualify for "single-line reporting" (AM and FM ratings are combined into a single number), you can't break a simulcast at all - and as long as WEEI is locked in a battle with WBZ-FM for every tenth of a ratings point it can scratch out, it's not going to risk any erosion that might come from splitting off 850. I'll spare Raccoon the need to repeat himself endlessly on this: there are absolutely some parts of metro Boston, especially in the "RF overload haze" around Newton/Needham and around the Pru, where 850 is often the only usable piece of the WEEI simulcast. (And, yes, other parts - like, say, a certain North Shore mail-processing center - where 93.7 is usable and 850 isn't...)
In which case they could leave the 850/93.7 simulcast alone and put that game on 680...if there's enough interest
Scott Fybush said:
Is North Reading the North Shore?
N. Reading might be considered Merrimack Valley (next to Andover) more than "North Shore"
or maybe there's a "Metro North" category etc.
or maybe there's a "Metro North" category etc.
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