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Would syndicating WEEI in Northern New England work?

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Entercom's WEEI in Boston does pretty well with sports talk (they do occasional Red Sox games and will be the Celtics flagship next year). They expanded to some sister stations in Westerly RI (WEEI-FM 103.7),
Worcester (WVEI 1440) and Easthampton MA (WVEI-FM 105.5). Their Jason Wolfe was quoted as saying he would also consider expanding into NH and ME IIRC (maybe VT, too?)
If not buying a station outright, I wonder if WEEI could possibly syndicate its sports talk shows to certain stations.

Take Burlington VT for example, which has WCAT 1390 running ESPN sports. Suppose Entercom worked a deal out to simulcast WEEI instead, at least part of the time. No Red Sox, as WJOY has had them for years (though who
knows...) and I think the Zone has Fox Sports (which WEEI runs overnight) but you could have:

morning drive Dennis and Callahan
midday Dale and Holley
pm drive The Big Show
weeknights Planet Mikey
Or they could take some shows and do ESPN for others (unless ESPN has some kind of deal where they're
committed to running a full schedule, who knows).

You'd have a more New England-based sports product.
Anybody in NH? (Though I think WEEI's regular signal carries well into Manchester/Concord). Portland?
Other areas? I'd think Jason Wolfe might be considering that...

Entercom already syndicates Howie Carr on 3 other MA stations plus outlets in NH and Maine (and used
to do VT as well)
 
Raccoon, this is actually a sick idea. How could this fail? B (not so much P) is full of transplants from Eastern Massachusetts. While 1390 should keep doing what they do with local sports, the shows on WEEI (as grating as they are) are far more relevant to WCAT's audience that national chatter from the Worldwide Leader (equally as grating.)
 
Yes...as I said, the shows would be more New England based.
Take baseball: I would think most in the Burl area are Sox fans though there are some Yankee fans
(residents, and tourists) and you do have both teams on local radio: Sox on 1230 and Yanks on 620
But mostly Sox fans. Would people rather hear Ordwaaaaaaaay and
his pals talking Sox (and Pats, etc.) or the ESPN shows?

I may enjoy WEEI's talk a bit more than you do (though mostly I listen to WRKO--I'm in Boston area
but like to go up to Burl) but I'd think the WEEI shows would translate better to the Champlain
Valley, wouldn't they? With some kind of hybrid format you could have:
--some WEEI shows
--some ESPN shows
--Sat afternoon and Sun night baseball from ESPN. All Star Game. Playoffs.
--local sports updates
(the Zone has the Lake Monsters...oh well)

WEEI carries Sox on Wed nights but WCAT could just run ESPN that night instead (same for the few
weekday aft. games WEEI has)
 
Would love to hear WEEI up here. Dennis and Callahan have filled part of the void left by Imus. Can only hear D & C on WEEI's stream.
 
This would seem like a logical move since many of the sports junkies in Northern New England are interested in Boston/New England teams and essentially, that is a good chunk of what 'EEI does, from what I'm told.
 
ESPN Radio is pretty good.. "The Herd" has certainly grown on me, as does Dan Patrick, that's available with abundance in VT. In VT, you have just as many NY fans as you do Boston Fans.. Imagine a station that carried both Dennis and Callahan and Mike and the Mad Dog.. You know what, I like that..
 
raccoonradio said:
Entercom's WEEI in Boston does pretty well with sports talk (they do occasional Red Sox games and will be the Celtics flagship next year). They expanded to some sister stations in Westerly RI (WEEI-FM 103.7),
Worcester (WVEI 1440) and Easthampton MA (WVEI-FM 105.5). Their Jason Wolfe was quoted as saying he would also consider expanding into NH and ME IIRC (maybe VT, too?)
If not buying a station outright, I wonder if WEEI could possibly syndicate its sports talk shows to certain stations.
Click to expand...

I would love to have D&C &c. on a station up here. I'm right on the northern fringe of WVEI-FM's (105.5) coverage area, and reception is touch and go in the car and nonexistent at my home. The local ESPN affil. fills the void somewhat, though I enjoy the more Boston-oriented talk on 'EEI. One would wonder what Entercom would charge a station to run some/all of its programs.... Would it be worth the investment for the station? And would Entercom be willing to air its product on a signal that they didn't own?

Peace,
Max
 
>>And would Entercom be willing to air its product on a signal that they didn't own?

They do already with Howie Carr: WCRN, WXTK, WHYN, WNTK, WKBK, WGAN...
 
there deserves to be a sport station up here in VT. I am only against it if they take over another rock station. but not to worry here in NEK - VT because there isn't one!!!!

raccoonradio said:
>>And would Entercom be willing to air its product on a signal that they didn't own?

They do already with Howie Carr: WCRN, WXTK, WHYN, WNTK, WKBK, WGAN...
Click to expand...
 
They could have something very special with syndicating Dennis and Callahan throughout New England, especially with the huge demise of Imus. That could work on a lot of the Imus - rock based FM's...And best of all, the show is good and will not insult your intellegence like the "Bob and Tom's" and "Free Beer and Hot Wings".
 
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