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

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LA_Guy

....and kiss your ass goodbye!

Remember what you did in Springfield? You signed on a 750 watt FM sports station and within a few months it killed off the 50,000 watt AM one there?

The same thing is about to happen to you!

You had your chance to move to FM first and you didn't-now it's too late!

You've blown it, Entercom!

Buh BYE!
 
I don't think the situation for WEEI is going to be nearly as bad. WNNZ's ratings and revenue were nowhere close to what WEEI has now. Also, WNNZ had little or no local programming.
 
I wouldn't be to worried because one thing. Ok, I was listenning to 98.5 on my walkman on the train. (In Town-Downtown Boston, JFK area of Dorchester, Asmont Train Station area of Dorchester) I can not get 98.5 on my walkman at all. Today I used a different walkman, same thing (it was a tiny betteer) but it still didn't come in to good.
In Downtown Boston, Comm Ave area on any walk man I can not get 98.5. Once I get away from the city (Revere Watertown, Mattapan) It starts coming in. I have new walkmans, one is an MP3 Player with FM, and the other is Sony.

I'm assuming it's the same with business/offices and your home if you live in those areas?


In all those areas, I can get 850am (on my walkman) just fine, on the train it has static but I can still hear it, on ths bus it's the same but much better. As well as at home, I get both stations fine in Salem, Ma area
 
Obviously 98.5 had difficulty coming in because of all the hash from the stations on top of the Pru and One Financial. I think CBS was intending for 98.5 the Sports Hub to be more of a regional signal--attractive to the suburbs and able to get some penetration into neighboring markets, namely Providence and Worcester. On a car radio, 98.5 does come in a bit better than it probably would on a Walkman, but can get a bit staticky in downtown and through the tunnels. But look at the contrast, 850 AM has difficulty making it outside the 495 belt, and at night it's even worse. I used to work in Southboro/Westboro area, and when I left work at night and wanted to catch the Red Sox game, it was basically no man's land (850/Boston, 580/Worcester, 610/Manchester, at the time 630/Providence) were basically unlistenable until you got 10 miles closer to one of those areas. Oddly enough, and it is AM radio, I figured out the games came in pretty clearly on... wait for it... 1080 WTIC/Hartford!

The good thing is, the station is pretty much live and local, and features many recognizible names in the Boston-area sports media. Entercom/WEEI really needs to consider its options...

Jacko
 
One day a couple of years ago, as I was returning from the Berkshires of Western Mass, I visited the WNNZ transmitter site in suburban Springfield. It's actually located NW of the city, and is more or less aimed WNW. This is a good thing, because when I'm in the Berkshires or upstate NY and I want to listen to some NPR shows like "On the Media", I can hear them on WNNZ-AM. Which raises the question: why was WNNZ's transmitter/antenna system built where it is, and not somewhere southeast of Springfrield? Both day and night, its strongest signal seems to be directed AWAY FROM Springfield, the core city of the metro area. One might say that WPRO-AM 630 would have to be protected, but the distance from Ludlow, MA to East Providence, RI is about the same as the distance from WPRV-AM 790 in East Providence to WNNW-AM 800 transmitting from the Lawrence/Andover, MA border. When the original 800 station, WCCM signed on, it operated with 1,000 watts NDA days, while the station then known as WEAN-AM was directional full-time. Later, WEAN was able to go non-directional days, probably at the time the pattern for the 640 operation was being designed. So it seems to me that a 640 station with 50KW, directional COULD have been placed southeast of Springfield, and it would probably have done better in terms of ratings and revenue when it was a commercial operation since it would have had terrific penetration in Springfield, Chicopee and Holyoke.
 
LA_Guy said:
....and kiss your ass goodbye!

Remember what you did in Springfield? You signed on a 750 watt FM sports station and within a few months it killed off the 50,000 watt AM one there?

The same thing is about to happen to you!

You had your chance to move to FM first and you didn't-now it's too late!

You've blown it, Entercom!

Buh BYE!
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Sure, let's ignore the fact that 98.5 has no content, PBP for only one team that means anything (Bruins on radio = irrelevant), and a bunch of second-string hosts who aren't on WEEI mostly because they failed there. Yeah, that'll work all right.
 
I noticed improved and tighter production on weei today. Also the commercial breaks don't seem as long.
 
The Bruins on radio is hardly irrelevant..if anything, The Bruins are the real winners in this entire thing..they are now on a decent FM Signal, on a station that will carry a pre game show that will shatter the five minute barrier that was in place on WBZ-AM, coupled with the fact that the Bruins are the up and coming franchise, while the Celtics and Red Sox runs are likely coming to an end..
 
LA_Guy said:
....and kiss your ass goodbye!
Remember what you did in Springfield? You signed on a 750 watt FM sports station and within a few months it killed off the 50,000 watt AM one there?
The same thing is about to happen to you!
You had your chance to move to FM first and you didn't-now it's too late!
You've blown it, Entercom!
Buh BYE!
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LA_Guy seems to think that all you have to do is sign a station on on FM and it will automatically be successful...
 
Jacko said:
Obviously 98.5 had difficulty coming in because of all the hash from the stations on top of the Pru and One Financial. I think CBS was intending for 98.5 the Sports Hub to be more of a regional signal--attractive to the suburbs and able to get some penetration into neighboring markets, namely Providence and Worcester. On a car radio, 98.5 does come in a bit better than it probably would on a Walkman, but can get a bit staticky in downtown and through the tunnels. But look at the contrast, 850 AM has difficulty making it outside the 495 belt, and at night it's even worse. I used to work in Southboro/Westboro area, and when I left work at night and wanted to catch the Red Sox game, it was basically no man's land (850/Boston, 580/Worcester, 610/Manchester, at the time 630/Providence) were basically unlistenable until you got 10 miles closer to one of those areas. Oddly enough, and it is AM radio, I figured out the games came in pretty clearly on... wait for it... 1080 WTIC/Hartford!

The good thing is, the station is pretty much live and local, and features many recognizible names in the Boston-area sports media. Entercom/WEEI really needs to consider its options...

Jacko
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yeah yeah, 98.5 does come in better on a car radio better than a walk man, yeah everything you said there is exactly correct
I think 850am is supposed to be like that at night. Now, they are also on 1440am in Worcester, 103.7 in Rhode Island, and 96.3 to name a few if you or anyone is ever in Southborough area. I got 96.3 in Southborough, all the way up 128 in Wakefield, Ma, 92.3 92 Pro FM came in until Waltham, as well as 93.3 in Salem, Ma. This was all at night when I was driving in the car.
 
LAUROJRM said:
I have new walkmans, one is an MP3 Player with FM, and the other is Sony.
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It doesn't matter if they're new, or what brand. ALL Walkman-type tuners are bad. ALL of them.

I asked a Chief Engineer/consulting engineer for many Boston area radio stations if there's any such thing as a Walkman-type radio with a good tuner, because I would buy it if there was. He said no.

You and I are probably some of the few people still listening to radio on a personal portable. Most people with personal portable players nowadays are listening to their own music on mp3, not radio. Notice how there are fewer radio Walkmans in the stores these days. It's hard to even find a Walkman-type radio at Radio Shack anymore. The shelves are full of mp3 players, phones that play music files, and other personal music file players. They're even in the process of dropping "Radio" from the store name.

More people still do listen to radio in cars and on home and desktop receivers, which have far better tuners than Walkman-type portables and can get 98.5 in or near the city. It's not going to affect WBZ-FM's success much that the few remaining Walkman-type radio listeners can't get it in the city.

It still remains to be heard how good the new $49.95 Insigna HD radio personal portable will be. It's only on sale exclusively at Best Buy, and the space for it on the store racks has been empty in two stores (Cambridge and Watertown) all week. None in stock. Don't know if they're sold out, or if they even actually had them on the shelves yet.
 
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 )
 
Don Juan said:
LA_Guy seems to think that all you have to do is sign a station on on FM and it will automatically be successful...
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It took YEARS for WEEI to get where it is, and if WBZ-FM does manage to get its act together and put out better content than WEEI, it will take them years as well. Let's also remember that WEEI has a regional network of stations running their content, something that CBS hasn't even addressed.
 
Any "walkman" type device is going to have a crap RF section, they always have, they always will.

in order to extend battery life, and keep the size down, and also the price they make a RF section that meets the absolute minimum criteria to receive and process RF into audio.

I think the Radio Shack crystal diode radio kit my dad got me in second grade had a better RF section than any walkman I've ever had. OK it was AM only but I stand by my remark.

For those of you who don't speak Geek.....
http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/radio/homemade_radio.html
 
Ok, after 2 days, I haven't heard any callers called "turds", or being threatened getting the s**t kicked out of them and being stuffed in a locker.

Haven't heard any ego maniac hosts disrespecting their cohosts, nor a right wing jackass who thinks he knows everything (but really knows nothing), nor any cohosts who don't know crap (are you listening LJ, DeAwful, and the rest?) and have opinions no one really cares about.

There have continued to take the lazy route with D list talent and now have to up their game. When they lose the Sox, they will become the Yankee voice in Boston just like the Providence station did when they couldn't compete.

Nope, I guess there's not much hope for The Sports Hub...
 
Jacko said:
The good thing is, the station is pretty much live and local, and features many recognizible names in the Boston-area sports media.
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Neither their morning show nor their night show are recognizable names in Boston sports media.
 
what is 98.5 currently doing for overnights? when will they start carrying sporting news radio, anyone know?

EDIT: nevermind, heard the night guy say "one last thing before we go to sporting news radio"
 
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