WEEI: Take your head, put it between your legs.....

[DJbobo]

if the sports hub steals the redsox from WEEI then they have something to worry about

Entercom has the sox locked up until 2016 on WRKO and WEEI.

Locked up is a relative term.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Locked up is a relative term.

If I'm not mistaken, WIP has never carried the Phillies. Hasn't stopped them from being one of the two top-billing AMs in their market for what seems like forever. The other top-billing AM is KYW, which CBS also owns. OK, no market is as crazy over its baseball team as Boston is over the Sox, but there are enough similarities between Philadelphia and Boston to make it pretty clear that 98.5 can succeed without the Sox. Less clear to me is whether 98.5 can succeed without catering to the same idiots who like WEEI. I don't think CBS has ever taken any sort of high road with WIP, but do we know that they would be willing to race WEEI to the bottom of the good taste scale--a position on which WEEI currently has an absolute lock?

 

[raccoonradio]

I think WIP had the Phillies on Friday nights a few years ago; in fact the following is from the WIP page on
Wikipedia:

>>The station also carried Philadelphia Phillies games on Friday nights during the 2005 season, allowing WPHT to pick up some regularly scheduled programming on Friday nights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIP-AM

The regular programming, IIRC, was a long running Sinatra show.
The Phillies were on WPEN 950 from 2002-04 (Wiki's entry for that station told of complaints suburban listeners
had about 950's weak signal: 'We Practically Emit Nothing') then returned to the 1210 freq in '05..except on Fri
nights.

 

[DG02816]

I can back up raccoon in the Phillies situation here. When on WPEN, the deep null at night made them all but impossible to hear in the suburbs. 1210 WPHT is Philly's only nondirectional 50 kW outlet, and going back to them solved a lot of the problem.

 

[wprt949]

if the sports hub steals the redsox from WEEI then they have something to worry about

Entercom has the sox locked up until 2016 on WRKO and WEEI.

Money talks my friend eei could loose the redsox in a heartbeat if cbs paid the redsox enough cash to put them on 98.5

 

[DanStrassberg]

I can back up raccoon in the Phillies situation here. When on WPEN, the deep null at night made them all but impossible to hear in the suburbs. 1210 WPHT is Philly's only nondirectional 50 kW outlet, and going back to them solved a lot of the problem.

Well. in your classic "lock the barn after the horse gets away" move, WPEN addressed its nighttime signal problems in the western suburbs after the Phils returned to 1210. WPEN increased its night power from 5 kW to 21 kW and arranged for nighttime use of the WWDB site, 13.4 miles north-northwest of its (WPEN's) legacy W Philadelphia site, which it continues to use by day. Of course, the new night operation, while an improvement over the old 5 kW night signal in much of the market, is still no match for WPHT's 50 kW ND and half-wave tower. And BTW, is there any word on WPEN's CP to increase its D power from 25 kW to 43 kW from the W Philly site? The CP has just 15 months left to run.

BTW, I think WPEN held the CP for its NIGHT move even before the Phils moved to 950 from 1210, but did not build out that CP until the Phils got away. There was also a CP for 50 kW-U and a move much further west that went unbuilt for years because of NIMBY problems.

 

[TSBench]

Money talks my friend eei could loose the redsox in a heartbeat if cbs paid the redsox enough cash to put them on 98.5


It's always nice to hear from Howie Carr's lawyer.

Regards,
TSB

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

Thankfully my Sansa mp3 player has FM radio and the capability of recording it (big .wav files, though). AM
could be recorded by plugging a mini FM transmitter into another radio and tuning the Sansa to the right freq.

I bought a $20 Insignia portable AM/FM at Best Buy and unfortunately threw out the packaging/slip before I
heard it: the reception is horrible. (Insignia - Armband Radio with AM/FM Stereo )

What you mean?, when yous ay turn tthe Sansa to the right freq? I would love to know how that work, I have an MPIO MP3 Player that has ONLY FM. Please tell me more?

 

[raccoonradio]

Here's what you do but you'll need a second radio that has AM (a Walkman, or something bigger) and a mini FM
transmitter.

Example: I have a Sansa Fuze mp3 player with FM radio
I can get a mini-FM transmitter from Belkin or Insignia, etc
Similar to this: http://sewelldirect.com/belkintunecastii.asp

Some models will only do 88.1 to 88.7. Some do the entire FM band

Now get a second radio, one that HAS AM.
Example:
http://www.target.com/Sony-S2-Sport...rowse=0&index=target&rh=k:sony walkman&page=1

Tune that to the AM station you want to record and plug the mini-FM transmitter into the headphone jack.
Pick a frequency on the mini-FM transmitter (let's choose 88.3 for an example). Then tune your mp3 player/recorder
to 88.3 and start recording.

AM-FM walkman: Set to 850
Mini-transmitter plugged into AM-FM walkman: Set to 88.3 to re-broadcast
mp3 player with FM Radio: Set to 88.3 and scroll down to "Record"

Sometimes I use a mini-FM transmitter at work. When I want to hear the Sox on 680 (and no, I can't get 104.9
in well) I'll set one walkman tuned to 680 to a place where it can be picked up, then I put the mini FM trans.
and plug it into headphone jack and pick a frequency. A short distance away, I will be sorting packages and
listening to another walkman tuned to the FM frequency.

C Crane also has mini FM transmitters but a bit more expensive.
http://www.ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter.aspx

 

[raccoonradio]

...and radio-locator.com has a feature that will help you choose a good frequency. I note the C. Crane page links to this feature, too. I used Beverly MA as an example

http://tinyurl.com/pdk63x

>>96.3 FM BEST!
90.1 FM GREAT
etc.

Of course note that many frequencies you may wish to re-broadcast on...legally...for a short distance may be
compromised by $%#-ing pirate stations on those freqs!

They can also be useful in recording a station's streaming audio from your computer, broadcasting to another room
in your house. So if I feel like hearing Vermont Public Radio's "My Place" here in Beverly...in another room...

http://www.vpr.net/episode/43589/

 

[mgpt6]

Red Sox signed a 10 year contract with Entercomm. Be awhile before CBS could sign them. Could see CBS going after Celtics when their contract is done. In the 70s WBZ-AM 1030 had Patriots, Bruins, Celtics abd BC Football. Jingle " all the Good Sports are on WBZ"...

 

[raccoonradio]

Entercom's contract deal with the Sox was for 10 years. It was signed in May of '06, with the stipulation that starting with the 07 season the games would be mostly on WRKO, sometimes on WEEI. Expires after 2016? Not sure if the Sox or Entercom could break a contract without cause...

http://www.redorbit.com/news/busine...e_split_between_wrko_weei_in_radio/index.html

>>The Sox inked a deal that is one of the most lucrative in Major League Baseball -- about $13 million to $14 million a year over the life of the 10-year contract (5/9/06)

 

[aaronread]

It doesn't matter if they're new, or what brand. ALL Walkman-type tuners are bad. ALL of them.

The portable Grundig/Tecsun's aren't too bad for a portable. Of course, they're not an "armband portable" style of radio, either...they're more a "carry in your jacket pocket and plunk down on the picnic table" kind of portable. I've used a borrowed Grundig quite a lot and while it's no substitute for a decent car radio, it's good enough for most of my listening.

Also, the new Insignia portable HD Radio tuners are, perhaps a little surprisingly, quite excellent tuners. There's two big caveats: one, they're FM only. Two, the antenna is the headphone cord, so how you orient the cord has a HUGE impact on reception fidelity. That's true for both analog and digital listening.

Still, when oriented more-or-less properly, the Insignia is quite sensitive. I've been consistently impressed at how good the adjacent-channel rejection and weak signal "pull-in" my Insignia has gotten. For $50, it's totally worth it.

 

[aaronread]

I believe there ARE provisions for either the Sox or Entercom to prematurely end the 10 year deal they signed...but they're all dependent on one side or the other breaching the terms of the deal. So, not too likely to happen.

Also, when the deal finally runs out in 2015 (or whenever), I seriously doubt that the new 98.5 Sports Hub will get the Sox. Instead, what's a lot more likely is that radio signal prices will have plummeted so far by then that the Sox will just buy their own signal. I have a suspicion the only reason the Sox didn't do that before this deal was that Entercom waved an obscene amount of money under their nose. Certainly the rumors were flying fast and furious on that one; I was kinda surprised the Sox didn't buy a station.

Well, it was an obscene amount of money...and also that Henry & Company are not fools. They're businessmen, and you didn't need to be Nostradamus back in 2005 to see that the whole radio industry was heading for bad times. Instead of spending $100 million and likely not getting much ROI, they got paid $100 million and they'll probably be able to buy a Class B FM in 2014 for under $30mil at the rate things are going. Smart deal.

 

[raccoonradio]

bt C Crane does have one mp3 player with a built in recorder for both AM and FM but it's not cheap

http://www.ccrane.com/radios/am-fm-radios/cc-witness.aspx

 

[radiorama1]

This isn't going to happen overnight...

Now, WBZ-FM could in fact make a significant dent in EEI's listenership, however I think it may take some time...

I like Gary Tanguay, however anyone else find Zolak a bit abrasive and a little difficult to listen to for long periods of time?

 

[NewsAddict]

however anyone else find Zolak a bit abrasive and a little difficult to listen to for long periods of time?

Yes, incredibly! Never liked him on the Big Show.

 

[ArtSpooner]

however anyone else find Zolak a bit abrasive and a little difficult to listen to for long periods of time?

Yes, incredibly! Never liked him on the Big Show.

I didn't like him on the Big Show either. My lasting impression is of him constantly yapping about MOTWU(man on the way up). I don't remember anything else he ever said. It seemed like he yelled all the time.

 

[MR. JAROME_CALVIN]

Here's what you do but you'll need a second radio that has AM (a Walkman, or something bigger) and a mini FM
transmitter.

Example: I have a Sansa Fuze mp3 player with FM radio
I can get a mini-FM transmitter from Belkin or Insignia, etc
Similar to this: http://sewelldirect.com/belkintunecastii.asp

Some models will only do 88.1 to 88.7. Some do the entire FM band

Now get a second radio, one that HAS AM.
Example:
http://www.target.com/Sony-S2-Sport...rowse=0&index=target&rh=k:sony walkman&page=1

Tune that to the AM station you want to record and plug the mini-FM transmitter into the headphone jack.
Pick a frequency on the mini-FM transmitter (let's choose 88.3 for an example). Then tune your mp3 player/recorder
to 88.3 and start recording.

AM-FM walkman: Set to 850
Mini-transmitter plugged into AM-FM walkman: Set to 88.3 to re-broadcast
mp3 player with FM Radio: Set to 88.3 and scroll down to "Record"

Sometimes I use a mini-FM transmitter at work. When I want to hear the Sox on 680 (and no, I can't get 104.9
in well) I'll set one walkman tuned to 680 to a place where it can be picked up, then I put the mini FM trans.
and plug it into headphone jack and pick a frequency. A short distance away, I will be sorting packages and
listening to another walkman tuned to the FM frequency.

C Crane also has mini FM transmitters but a bit more expensive.
http://www.ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter.aspx

thank you I'll give it a try