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WWZN all sports?
- Thread starter KB1OKL
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Actually, that would be a return to their past format (1510 the Zone...hence WWZN). Maybe the guy running the Lib Talk ran out of $$ to LMA (BHO needed his money....LOL)
KB1OKL said:
Well, then, I’d take them at their word——technical difficulties, so they’re using the YaHoo! Sports feed as filler.
Metro Boston ....The South Coast and Providence ....and Nashua ....finally FREE of Santos???
Dare we even dream such a dream? ;D
Dare we even dream such a dream? ;D
Prob is tech difficulties--Santos still has some money to spend I guess tho no longer has S. Miller and Schultz.
The sports networks:
ESPN: overnights on WEEI but you wonder if they would go with NBC sports and send ESPN to RKO...?
Fox Sports: on 98.5 for now but will they dump it for CBS sports?
CBS Sports: coming soon
NBC sports--as said above, maybe on EEI? NFL package
Yahoo!Sports Radio --who knows maybe heard more on 1510 these days
ESPN Deportes--still trying to find a home in Boston. 1330? 1430?
Now we know 101.7 is the Harbor but it could conceivably have been converted to Fox Sports (synd
by Clear Channel).
The sports networks:
ESPN: overnights on WEEI but you wonder if they would go with NBC sports and send ESPN to RKO...?
Fox Sports: on 98.5 for now but will they dump it for CBS sports?
CBS Sports: coming soon
NBC sports--as said above, maybe on EEI? NFL package
Yahoo!Sports Radio --who knows maybe heard more on 1510 these days
ESPN Deportes--still trying to find a home in Boston. 1330? 1430?
Now we know 101.7 is the Harbor but it could conceivably have been converted to Fox Sports (synd
by Clear Channel).
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
I don't think they can be taken at their word. Santos was on six hours a day Mon-Fri. If the network feed had been interrupted (and there were several networks--Randi Rhodes comes from Premiere, for example), wouldn't you expect the local shows (Santos) to continue? Maybe Dial Global, which used to furnish most of WWZN's syndicated programming, has taken Santos & Co to court and gotten an injunction against WWZN using other sources. Maybe there's a simpler explanation, but to me, it does seem to sound as if Santos is in some sort of financial/legal trouble.
He posted this vid via youtube on revolution boston--again, his word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sXs7Bsh5DU&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sXs7Bsh5DU&feature=player_embedded
Technical may mean...legal...? financial?
What's on now: talk about the Penn State scandal...no doubt from Y!Sports (Tim Brando show acc to Y!Sports Radio site)
What's on now: talk about the Penn State scandal...no doubt from Y!Sports (Tim Brando show acc to Y!Sports Radio site)
Yahoo sports radio is on their tunein app/site too.
Someone on Rev Boston facebook (19 hrs ago) complained about carrying shows like Warren Ballentine with "15-20 listeners" and that ESPN (sic) pre-empted Randi Rhodes. (He may have meant Y!SR)
Santos post from an hour ago said still working on tech. difficulties and again by technical we may be looking at legal, financial etc
Someone on Rev Boston facebook (19 hrs ago) complained about carrying shows like Warren Ballentine with "15-20 listeners" and that ESPN (sic) pre-empted Randi Rhodes. (He may have meant Y!SR)
Santos post from an hour ago said still working on tech. difficulties and again by technical we may be looking at legal, financial etc
raccoonradio said:
It took three tries before I got the video to play all the way through. Right now, I'm with Bob on the idea that "technical" could be a code word for legal or financial.
And if technical REALLY means technical (that is, pertaining to electrons, volts, amperes, etc), that could also turn out to be financial. An engineer that I know claims he dropped WWZN as a client after WWZN failed to pay his bills for a year. Can't verify the truth of this claim, but the engineer in question is not known for making up such stories.
The video played fine for me. I do note that it's a "private" video in that it's only available to those who have the link. (It may depend on your browser. On my main comp. for some reason I can't see youtube videos on Firefox--'An error occurred. Try later'--due to flash/shockwaves issues I thought I had solved, but on Google Chrome it works fine.)
Tweet from bostonradio:
>>Paid-time formats are tricky. You always have to pay in advance and if you happen to be a penny short, there are no excuses
Tweet from bostonradio:
>>Paid-time formats are tricky. You always have to pay in advance and if you happen to be a penny short, there are no excuses
My guess is that "Revolution Radio" (at least on WWZN-1510) is toast.
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I'm a fan of Prog. Talk, and I really wish 1510 was a better station (re: w/o Santos).
I've got to agree that the "technical difficulties" is a whitewash of something more serious. I wouldn't be very suprised if they bounced back, but their current lineup is useless to me.
I've got to agree that the "technical difficulties" is a whitewash of something more serious. I wouldn't be very suprised if they bounced back, but their current lineup is useless to me.
Following some of @bostonradio's tweets. He said he was watching Santos' streamcast and he said something about "fighting to stay on in Boston". We don't know for sure but it's possible someone else is beating him out at renting time on 1510...someone who's now putting Y!SR on, or Santos is having trouble getting financing
>>Watching Santos' afternoon show now.He gave a shot-out to all his radio affils and then added "fighting to stay here in Boston" I'm speculating owners of the station found someone else to rent it out at higher rate that he cant/wont match Like I said, I'm just guessing. Hopefully they can work it out
>>Watching Santos' afternoon show now.He gave a shot-out to all his radio affils and then added "fighting to stay here in Boston" I'm speculating owners of the station found someone else to rent it out at higher rate that he cant/wont match Like I said, I'm just guessing. Hopefully they can work it out
A few weeks back, before WWZN's most recent flip to all Yahoo! Sports, I caught a bit of the Warren Ballentine show on WWZN. I didn't listen very intently or for very long, but I got the impression that the Ballentine show was an infomercial for a bankruptcy lawyer (the guest--apparently, a business associate of Ballentine's), who was extolling the wonders of declaring bankruptcy--and especially of having the guest attorney as your bankruptcy lawyer. Does anyone know whether declaring bankruptcy was a day-in/day-out topic of this program? (Paraphrasing what I heard: it's not the end of the world that most people have led you to believe; it can open a whole new world of financial freedom for you.) If I've really figured out what the program was about, I'd call it big-time sleazy.
Re: Ballentine, caught a very small bit of it when visiting a friend in Akron/Cleveland area. My friend said he likes it when Ballentine discusses social issues but not politics. That day it appeared he was into politics. Don't know if the bankruptcy talk is a regular feature but the Wikipedia entry on the host says: "On his show he discusses, analyzes and dissects ideas and issues targeted not just to the African-American audience, but to a wider audience as well. Ballentine has championed the call for action for the Jena 6 and called for the "National Economic Blackout." He currently hosts a three hour radio show each weekday covering political & legal issues, education, religion, social issues and various other topics."
Don't know if Santos and prog talk returns to WWZN. Could be dispute over $ for fees in carrying the shows, could be someone paid more money to have WWZN do Yahoo!Sports Radio.
Again we are looking at 5 syndie sports networks in the near future, for now WEEI having ESPN and
WBZ-FM with Fox Sports. However we wonder if Sports Hub will opt for the new CBS Sports (Cumulus); will WEEI pick up NBC Sports which has the NFL package? And one rumor has WRKO 680 or maybe WEEI's
AM side picking up ESPN full time. (Wonder if they'd flip RKO to ESPN after the election, esp. if Howie leaves?)
Who is more prized by advertisers, 55 year olds who want political talk, or 25-40 yr olds who want sports talk? (Maybe I'm generalizing and there prob. are younger political/"news"-talk listeners, but I'd think it's an aging demo.)Even in a market like Boston that is highly provincial. Yes they want the local hosts but there must be some who want a national perspective. Well if Santos/prog talk is gone, add Yahoo Sports to the mix
via 1510. Many AM stations have gone full time syndie sports (ESPN, Yahoo, Fox) and we wonder if
WRKO and/or WWZN will be, or are, among them. It earns a little bit of $ at least.
Sports talk format is growing and advertisers prize it. Lots of stations switching to it--many of them on
FM. Example: since I'll be going to Va. soon, I noticed this station last year WVSP 94.1 Yorktown...it had the minor league Norfolk Tides etc.
http://www.espnradio941.com/
Don't know if Santos and prog talk returns to WWZN. Could be dispute over $ for fees in carrying the shows, could be someone paid more money to have WWZN do Yahoo!Sports Radio.
Again we are looking at 5 syndie sports networks in the near future, for now WEEI having ESPN and
WBZ-FM with Fox Sports. However we wonder if Sports Hub will opt for the new CBS Sports (Cumulus); will WEEI pick up NBC Sports which has the NFL package? And one rumor has WRKO 680 or maybe WEEI's
AM side picking up ESPN full time. (Wonder if they'd flip RKO to ESPN after the election, esp. if Howie leaves?)
Who is more prized by advertisers, 55 year olds who want political talk, or 25-40 yr olds who want sports talk? (Maybe I'm generalizing and there prob. are younger political/"news"-talk listeners, but I'd think it's an aging demo.)Even in a market like Boston that is highly provincial. Yes they want the local hosts but there must be some who want a national perspective. Well if Santos/prog talk is gone, add Yahoo Sports to the mix
via 1510. Many AM stations have gone full time syndie sports (ESPN, Yahoo, Fox) and we wonder if
WRKO and/or WWZN will be, or are, among them. It earns a little bit of $ at least.
Sports talk format is growing and advertisers prize it. Lots of stations switching to it--many of them on
FM. Example: since I'll be going to Va. soon, I noticed this station last year WVSP 94.1 Yorktown...it had the minor league Norfolk Tides etc.
http://www.espnradio941.com/
I have no inside info on what is going on at WWZN, but here is a possible scenario: WWZN's ownership and Revolution Boston (Santos's company) are two different and unrelated corporate and financial entities. Rev Boston was leasing from WWZN the air time for the Progressive talk that was heard on 1510. WWZN owns the transmitter site and towers at 411 Waverly Oaks Rd in Waltham (Belmont line). Rev Boston was leasing the studios at Marina Bay in Quincy from the owners of the Marina Bay complex. WWZN was leasing (from one of the area's many telecomm-service providers) the DSL line that fed the programming from Marina Bay to Waltham.
When Santos failed to make timely payments for the on-air time he had been leasing, WWZN stopped paying for the DSL service, making it impossible for any of the Rev Boston programming (including syndicated shows) to reach Waltham and to be heard over the air on WWZN. Apparently, the dish and other equipment to bring the Yahoo! Sports programming to the Waltham site was intact, allowing WWZN to broadcast Yahoo! Sports. Other than the dish etc, there is no real studio at the Waltham site (and even if there is, Santos can't get inside the building to use it), so there is no easy way to get anything but Yahoo! Sports on the air on WWZN.
What Santos is likely trying to do is to re-establish the DSL connection from Marina Bay to Waltham, but with no access to the inside of the building in Waltham, that doesn't appear very likely to happen. Please feel free to punch holes in this scenario or to furnish evidence that I am on the right track.
When Santos failed to make timely payments for the on-air time he had been leasing, WWZN stopped paying for the DSL service, making it impossible for any of the Rev Boston programming (including syndicated shows) to reach Waltham and to be heard over the air on WWZN. Apparently, the dish and other equipment to bring the Yahoo! Sports programming to the Waltham site was intact, allowing WWZN to broadcast Yahoo! Sports. Other than the dish etc, there is no real studio at the Waltham site (and even if there is, Santos can't get inside the building to use it), so there is no easy way to get anything but Yahoo! Sports on the air on WWZN.
What Santos is likely trying to do is to re-establish the DSL connection from Marina Bay to Waltham, but with no access to the inside of the building in Waltham, that doesn't appear very likely to happen. Please feel free to punch holes in this scenario or to furnish evidence that I am on the right track.
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