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WVEI Sold?

Jayday on Your Radio said:
The Mets have one of the best broadcasting boots in the business on the radio. So I do not think they're ratings at dwindling, as you seem to think it is.
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Not in Metro NYC, which their flagship blankets, but surely in places like Syracuse and Utica and Binghamton, which used to have affiliates on the Mets radio network. Maybe some of the team's fans in those markets are paying for SiriusXM or an MLB.TV package that includes streaming of radio broadcasts, but some of the fans who used to follow the Mets on AM or FM have almost certainly been lost. In those places, the ratings have dwindled to N/A, because no station carries the games.
 
CTListener said:
Not in Metro NYC, which their flagship blankets, but surely in places like Syracuse and Utica and Binghamton, which used to have affiliates on the Mets radio network. Maybe some of the team's fans in those markets are paying for SiriusXM or an MLB.TV package that includes streaming of radio broadcasts, but some of the fans who used to follow the Mets on AM or FM have almost certainly been lost. In those places, the ratings have dwindled to N/A, because no station carries the games.
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I understand your point now, I assumed you were talking about NYC proper.
 
When you see this coverage map of WVEI-FM, you'll see why Ocean State Media wanted it.

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I mean... good god. Not one of OSM's current signals currently serves all of Rhode Island with a local clear signal, and this will do. However, I think they should also keep WNPN as that serves New Bedford and a good chunk of Southeastern Mass. much better.

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I was a student at the University of Rhode Island at Kingston from 1972-74. I remember 103.7 FM was WERI-FM and 1230 AM was WERI. It was very local back then, as it served southern Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut
 
BoredModerator said:
Will RI listeners need to stream Sox games?
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WEEI-FM isn't a deep fringe signal in the Providence area. In cars, it should come in fine. As for the western part of the state, there's always another translator-less AM to turn to: WTIC Hartford.

Again, I fully expect the Red Sox to find a home somewhere on the Providence radio dial before the start of the regular season.
 
CTListener said:
WEEI-FM isn't a deep fringe signal in the Providence area. In cars, it should come in fine. As for the western part of the state, there's always another translator-less AM to turn to: WTIC Hartford.

Again, I fully expect the Red Sox to find a home somewhere on the Providence radio dial before the start of the regular season.
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That's not true. There's a translator on 93.7 (W229AN) right in East Providence, so WEEI-FM can't be heard in Providence at all.
 
jlehmann said:
That's not true. There's a translator on 93.7 (W229AN) right in East Providence, so WEEI-FM can't be heard in Providence at all.
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My bad. I assumed incorrectly because I used to hear the Lawrence/Boston 93.7 in Foxboro and Attleboro back in the '70s and '80s. I guess the Sox will definitely need to scrounge up an affiliate there in the next two months, maybe even give some down-and-out AM a break on the affiliation fee.
 
WEEI-FM/93.7 doesn't travel as well into RI as the stations at FM-128 do. And as mentioned, the 93.7 translator in Providence kills it as well. The dream scenario for Sox fans would be for WPRO to pick up the games so they'll be on the 630/99.7 combo.

Also, Ocean State Media would be putting up many of its smaller signals for sale. I'm thinking the 102.7/Narragansett with the 102.9 translator in Providence could be where the WEEI simulcast lands. But anything can happen...
 
CTListener said:
I guess the Sox will definitely need to scrounge up an affiliate there in the next two months, maybe even give some down-and-out AM a break on the affiliation fee.
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WPRO already has the Patriots, so they're well-equipped, and have big daytime/nighttime coverage areas:
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WHJJ has some sports gambling programming, so why not become a news/talk/sports station by adding the Red Sox? And they got an equivalent coverage map, too.

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WCTK plays "America's music", so they might as well get in on covering "America's pastime" as well (you get the odd country station with a Motor Racing Network affiliate, so a sports broadcast airing on a country formatted station wouldn't necessarily be weird), and they have a decent range for a New Bedford-based station:

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Listening to WVEI-FM heading north on route 146, after leaving Rhode Island but well before Worcester, WKNE from Walpole, N.H. starts to come over WVEI, so signal is the best in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts and eastern Connecticut. Did not hear WPKQ from Mount Washington however.
 
Listened to the 2 a.m. ET 5/1/26 top of the hour via the OSM stream. Seems like the deal is done, a lengthy promo played pointing listeners to Ocean State Media on 103.7 FM, though the actual legal ID itself did not include WPVD-FM Westerly.
 
What does this mean for the future of the Sports format in RI? 98.5's signal is not great in a good chunk of the state. 93.7 is a nonstarter in terms of a signal. 790 the Score is barely trying to be local. Might Cumulus be convinced to flip 106.3/102.3 and hire some local voices?
 
I was a student at the University of Rhode Island from 1972-74 and lived in New London, CT from 1977-78. Back then, 103.7 FM was WERI Westerly. They were local at that time, being a Top 40 station, but covered Boston sports. I remember Mike Miceli was the morning personality,
 
JustinT said:
Listened to the 2 a.m. ET 5/1/26 top of the hour via the OSM stream. Seems like the deal is done, a lengthy promo played pointing listeners to Ocean State Media on 103.7 FM, though the actual legal ID itself did not include WPVD-FM Westerly.
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I heard NPR @ 1215am (someone else said it was a few hours before, like 8pm).
 


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