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WTIC to go Yankee?

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radiodizzy

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There was an item this week on Northeast Radio Watch website that indicated WTIC may be in negotiations with the Bronx Bombers to become a radio affiliate. TIC is currently a Red Sox affiliate. Has anyone heard anything about this, and is it reactionary to WEEI moving into Springfield and carrying the Red Sox?
 
radiodizzy said:
There was an item this week on Northeast Radio Watch website that indicated WTIC may be in negotiations with the Bronx Bombers to become a radio affiliate. TIC is currently a Red Sox affiliate. Has anyone heard anything about this, and is it reactionary to WEEI moving into Springfield and carrying the Red Sox?
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I'm 20 miles south of Hartford and can't even hear WEEI's Springfield-market clone. If anything, the Sox moving from WHYN, which does a nice job day and night in a good portion of Western Mass. and Northern/Central CT, to a flea-power signal on 105.5 means MORE potential ears for the Sox on WTIC. The Yankees don't need WTIC to reach their Connecticut fans. WCBS blasts into much of the state in the daytime and all of it at night. I don't even know why they keep WICC and WPOP as affiliates; the Mets don't have an affiliate in Hartford/New Haven, so their fans listen to WFAN.
 
Actually there was an article in the Hartford Courant, which perhaps is where Scott Fybush got his info

http://www.courant.com/sports/custo...7624285.story?coll=hc-headlines-sports-custom


And I don't know why WICC airs the Yankees either. For me, it all boils down to ad revenue and money for local businesses. Do WICC's ratings improve with the Yanks? According to Arbitron WICC is #3 in Bridgeport. AC's WEZN and WEBE are 2 and 1 respectively. These three ALWAYS are the most listened to stations in Bridgeport. WCBS measures a 2.8 (9th place). So the ratings may be a factor--BULL I say!

But I must say, WICC goes to music when a rain delay comes up--even if it is computer driven!

By the way, WGCH in Greenwich airs the Red Sox. You'd have to go to New Haven to get a shot at Red Sox Nation either through WQUN or WTIC as WGCH is 1,000 watts and once you hit Norwalk, you lose the signal. Don't expect WSTC/WNLK to air them anytime soon.

Also there's WLAD Danbury which airs the Yanks along with tons of football, like the NY Giants (heard on WFAN most of the time)

Well, if you live in Middletown, you can hear the Mets on WMRD 1150--at least I thought you could.

My thought on WTIC going Yankee--don't see it working or happening. It's all about big brother CBS Radio and filling their coffers.

Also, I didn't know that WTIC has been a Red Sox station since 1960. Gee, going through the many lean years, the 1967 Impossible Dream, 1975, 1986 (I know you hate when we New Yorkers bring it up) and of course 2004 (Don't remind THIS Bombers fan, though I'll say as a baseball fan you in RS Nation had it coming!).
 
Um, a station south of Providence carries the Yankees. There was also a station in the Portsmouth, NH area which carried them too. As for territories, tell that to the fans in Tampa who also get the Yankees there.
 
Utterly stupid

The Red Sox outbid the Yankees for the US rights to Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka. That made the back page of the New York papers yesterday.

Imagine the horror -- the horror! -- if WTIC replaces the Olde Towne Team with the Evil Empire. CBS might as well sell the station.
 
The Yankees it seems are trying to keep a 50,000 watt station in the northeast. The contract with WCBS will
be running out soon...so I think they are trying keep one as insurance. The Evil Empire in Connecticut are just as popular as the Dead Sox (if not more). I think its quite a coup if they succeed.
 
THis would really suck. For us Sox Fans in the Mid Atlantic...Jersey & PA...WTIC is the only place we can pull in the Red Sox....even if it is only at night.
 
yocco said:
THis would really suck. For us Sox Fans in the Mid Atlantic...Jersey & PA...WTIC is the only place we can pull in the Red Sox....even if it is only at night.
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The suits at XM are rubbing their hands together, hoping this rumor comes true, and so are the suits at MLB Advanced Media, the folks behind MLB.TV and GameDay Audio. I bet both sets of execs hope that every team eventually has either a 5,000-watt AM station or an FM station as a flagship, pushing the out-of-market fans toward pay-per-hear options.
 
Maybe not

This week's NERW hints that WTIC may stay with the Red Sox. That's because WCBS-880 has signed a new 5-year contract to remain the Yankees' flagship.
 
Re: Maybe not

chuckydoll said:
This week's NERW hints that WTIC may stay with the Red Sox. That's because WCBS-880 has signed a new 5-year contract to remain the Yankees' flagship.
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So the move to WTIC was predicated on the Yankees' moving their NYC signal to FM or an AM like WEPN that doesn't cover central Connecticut well at night?
 
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