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WWL Involved In Latest Saints Scandal

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

On Monday, ESPN aired a report that Saints general manager Mickey Loomis was using an earpiece connected with a reconfigured device so that he could eavesdrop on coaches of whichever team the Saints were playing. Not only is Loomis denying this, he claims that what he was listening to on the earpiece was the call of the Saints game on flagship station WWL, which at the time was only on AM 870. Since Hurricane Katrina, which reportedly destroyed the mechanism attached to the earpiece, WWL has been simulcast on FM 105.3, with the exception of several months from 2005-06.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Mickey-Loomis-New-Orleans-Saints-deny-eavesdropping-042312
 
I think Saints radio had a low power fm transmitter in the dome before wwl was on FM like there is in the arena for Hornets games
 
One there are rebroadcast transmitters for most things in the dome for over ten years and if I remember people were listening in the dome years ago on walkmans..

2- he could still get the audio being sent to wwl off whatever they were using to feed the signal there (Marti. phone drop)

3- It's alleged that ESPNs source is a fired ex employee who can't prove what he did but would be looking at jail time also
http://www.fox8live.com/story/17797076/lee-zurik-investigation
 
@Wayne: I never suggested that WWL would be "linked" to this story; "linked" and "involved" have different connotations. That being said, the likeliness that Loomis was listening to other coaches' conversations, when in actuality, he was just listening to the game call on WWL, is interesting from a radio perspective.
 
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