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WOXO loses Red Sox rights after 35 years
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Wow, as did WPKZ in Fitchburg MA (which responded by picking up Yankees)
What about all those tourists and half-year residents along the coast?-- from York to Boothbay where 1400-1490 can be heard... Many of them are from Yankees-territory. Listenership is there, for sure. But one rarely hears of a successful station (SALES-wise) catering to or partially catering to tourists & half-year residents.
I know the Yankee fan areas you referenced (York, Boothbay, etc) are not specifically tourist towns/areas (they have other industries), but it is possible to have successful stations marketing to tourists. Heck, I sell for a station that SPECIFICALLY targets tourists. They may be rare, but they do exist.
Certainly there are Yankees affiliates in western New England esp. around Lake Champlain, etc.
and at one time the 1170 on Cape Cod carried them (now a non-comm. // WUMB)...tourist areas.
They're in Dover NH/seacoast too.
Red Sox lose station(s) in Syracuse but pick up WOFX 980 Troy NY and a couple other
upstate outlets.
and at one time the 1170 on Cape Cod carried them (now a non-comm. // WUMB)...tourist areas.
They're in Dover NH/seacoast too.
Red Sox lose station(s) in Syracuse but pick up WOFX 980 Troy NY and a couple other
upstate outlets.
From York to Boothbay.... gotta be at least half the people on the coast who are not native Mainers. So many of them are from Boston and NYC areas. Maine has 4,550 miles of coastline, and there's an immense out-of-stater owners of those rather high-prcied homes. Even if they ARE residents now, they WERE from Boston or NYC. A (one of 15 stations) Portland station airing Yankess games (covering the former-NYC population here; perhaps 15% of the total population on the coast), makes more sense than 2 stations (out of 5 stations) in Lowell and Lawrence catering to the 20% hispanic audience in that market. The numbers make sense to have Yankees games on a Portland station. -cooper said:
Try sitting along Rt 1 in Wiscasset, noticing where all the cars are from as they crawl through Wiscasset on a summer day. 1 out of 2 is from Maine. There's a ton of NY cars, followed by Mass cars, then CT, then every other state in the USA including lots of Alaska and even some Hawaii.
A couple times visiting the Maine Diner in Wells, and the vast majority of lic. plates in the lot said the same thing mine does: Massachusetts.
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