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WHEN THEY, WHICH ONE WILL YOU?

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MR. JAROME_CALVIN

Hello everyone. When 850am change to "ESPN Radio" this week, which one wil you listen to? will you listen to 850am?, or 93.7? Do you all think WEEI will still have the same hosts and same programming on?
If you do listen to "ESPN Radio" who do you like or dislike on there? I like Amy Lawrence, Mike Salk, Freddie Coleman, Chuck Wilson, and John Kincade.
Your thoughts?
Your thoughts on this? Any thoughts?, guesses?
 
We already know 93.7 won't change and it was announced 850 will have Mike and Mike,
Colin Cowherd, etc.
Most of is will prob stay with 93.7 but may check out 1510 from time to time for national
perspective and some play by play. Sometimes I check out 1510 for local OR the national
(often YahooSR) if it's an interesting topic

Is Freddie Coleman on at midnight? I heard a bit of him after the controversial end-of-game
TD and the talk of replacement officials. It was good from what I heard. I'd think 93.7
will keep ESPN on overnight as well
 
Which one will stay on the 97.7 and 107.3 HD2 channels, will it be 850 or 93.7?

I think it has been 850 on those, but with the simulcast I'm not sure.
 
Eli Polonsky said:
Which one will stay on the 97.7 and 107.3 HD2 channels, will it be 850 or 93.7?

I think it has been 850 on those, but with the simulcast I'm not sure.
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I'd almost guarantee that it's 93.7 that will be on the HD2s. 850 will be very low rated... nobody in Boston gives a rat's behind about college sports (ESPN Radio).
 
jlehmann said:
Eli Polonsky said:
Which one will stay on the 97.7 and 107.3 HD2 channels, will it be 850 or 93.7?

I think it has been 850 on those, but with the simulcast I'm not sure.
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I'd almost guarantee that it's 93.7 that will be on the HD2s. 850 will be very low rated... nobody in Boston gives a rat's behind about college sports (ESPN Radio).
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Are there markets where 24/7 birdfeed sports talk stations do really well? Where are they?
 
CTListener said:
Are there markets where 24/7 birdfeed sports talk stations do really well? Where are they?
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Not sure, but probably down south or in the midwest, where college sports are big.
 
jlehmann said:
CTListener said:
Are there markets where 24/7 birdfeed sports talk stations do really well? Where are they?
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Not sure, but probably down south or in the midwest, where college sports are big.
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If they carry games of the local Big State University, I could see that, but I'm talking about 24/7 national network programming with no major local play-by-play, which is apparently what this vestigial WEEI AM operation is going to be.
 
850 will pick up some play by play. Whether it's UMass sports, Harvard football, BU hockey, BC women's basketball -- Entercom won't turn down the cash from brokered time.

That'll still draw a minuscule amount of listeners, though.
 
wickedwritah said:
850 will pick up some play by play. Whether it's UMass sports, Harvard football, BU hockey, BC women's basketball -- Entercom won't turn down the cash from brokered time.

That'll still draw a minuscule amount of listeners, though.
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None of the play-by-play you mention will draw flies, except maybe for the Harvard-Yale game or BU national tournament games. There's no comparison to a 24/7 ESPN/Fox/Yahoo Sports station in, say, Montgomery, Ala., that carries Crimson Tide football every Saturday. That's the only situation in which I could imagine a 24/7 birdfeed operation luring a significant audience. Now, do they stick with the station to hear Colin Cowherd talk a lot of college football but not Alabama all the time?
 
CTListener said:
wickedwritah said:
850 will pick up some play by play. Whether it's UMass sports, Harvard football, BU hockey, BC women's basketball -- Entercom won't turn down the cash from brokered time.

That'll still draw a minuscule amount of listeners, though.
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None of the play-by-play you mention will draw flies, except maybe for the Harvard-Yale game or BU national tournament games. There's no comparison to a 24/7 ESPN/Fox/Yahoo Sports station in, say, Montgomery, Ala., that carries Crimson Tide football every Saturday. That's the only situation in which I could imagine a 24/7 birdfeed operation luring a significant audience. Now, do they stick with the station to hear Colin Cowherd talk a lot of college football but not Alabama all the time?
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Well, yes.

But if you're Entercom, you can make a choice between network programming that draws little listenership -- and in this market, probably not a whole lot of ad revenue -- or brokered sports that draws little listenership but would fetch at least a couple grand for the air time.
 
wickedwritah said:
Well, yes.
But if you're Entercom, you can make a choice between network programming that draws little listenership -- and in this market, probably not a whole lot of ad revenue -- or brokered sports that draws little listenership but would fetch at least a couple grand for the air time.
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It seems as if nobody here has noticed that ESPN is paying Entercom to have the ESPN lineup on 850. Entercom probably figured that the amount it could net by carrying anything else and paying at least one sales person to sell spots in that programming would not equal the amount of the payments from ESPN. There must be a contract that will keep Entercom from jumping ship if some other outfit offers a more lucrative deal. Of course, if ESPN does not re-up when the contract is up for renewal, it's anyone's guess what might appear on 850. However, I suspect that Entercom's contract with ESPN requires Entercom to give ESPN the right of first refusal should someone make an offer to buy 850.

Family Radio's offer to Greater Media for WPEN in Philadelphia has been valued at $8.5 million. WPEN is technically somewhat inferior to WEEI but Philadelphia is a larger market than Boston, so I'm guessing that a prospective buyer would have to offer something in that neighborhood for WEEI and ESPN would have to match it or come close if it wanted to hold on to the signal.
 
I wonder whether simply getting programs cleared in market No. xx (whatever it is now) is worth enough ad revenue to ESPN Radio to offset any lease payments.
 
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