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Yankees Radio: Decision 2012

radioguy39nj said:
KMOX won back the Cardinals' rights, but Bonneville's WXOS (101 ESPN), an FM sports station, made a strong bid as well. The Cards choice to go with KMOX was motivated by tradition as well as business. :)
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In-market signal doesn't appear to be an issue in this decision. WXOS appears to be a full-market, powerful FM station.

KMOX, of course, can be heard in dozens of states at night...but the business decisions rule here, not the skywave. As long as a potential flagship can be clearly heard IN THE MARKET, it's not a KTRS vs. KMOX situation, and the financial deal rules here.

I'm not saying tradition wasn't a PART of it...but a small one.
 
The Phillies re-upped with WPHT after sports talker WPEN-FM (97.5 The Fanatic) made a bid. I'm surprised the new deal with WPHT is for only one year. 97.5 is a move-in, so I'm not certain if it completely covers the Philadelphia market. WPHT can be received well beyond the Philly market.

If WEPN lands on 101.9 in the NY market, that signal will blanket the entire area making it an attractive option for the Mets or the Yankees. :)
 
Phil Mushnick of the NY Post just wrote a blurb about the rumors concerning ESPN and the Yankees: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more...d_put_more_bad_teams_9mR0TyXWXuxvVYztJyIKML/1

ESPN sets sights on Yankees radio

There's a distant rumble that ESPN Radio is preparing to make a major play for Yankees radio rights, owned by WCBS through the end of this season.

Of course, in most places, ESPN 1050’s signal after sundown turns to static. But that wouldn’t preclude ESPN from establishing a games-only regional network of smaller stations or from purchasing a local FM.

And since when did current Yankees management/ownership care more about fans than money and/or radio quality (see: empty up-front seats in new Yankee Stadium; John Sterling)?

Also, a wise man tells us, the Yankees are eager to float the ESPN 1050 possibility as a means of spooking WCBS into a rights increase. So stay tuned — until sundown, anyway.
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OTOH, if they do get their hands on the 101.9 signal, is it possible that they'd move talk to there and the games stay on AM? It would also solve part of the problem with scheduling conflicts involving different teams, which is a constant in this city.
 
If ESPN lands the 101.9 or any class B FM in New York, both the talk and the games will go there. WEPN can only be a serious player for Yankee games in 2012 if they are on a class B FM signal that blankets the NY area. If they stay on 1050, the Yankees will simply use it as a negotiating ploy with WCBS. The Mets did the same in 2008 before re-upping with WFAN.

Actually, I'm surprised it's the Yankees that are the subject of this rumor. Given the Yankees postion as the premier sports team in the NY area, a move to a radio station whose signal turns to static at night doesn't make sense. ???
 
Yanks should go on a strong AM signal. I think personally they should switch and go to 660 and have the Mets go to 880. As for the Phillies I don't know why you mentioned them their team sucks and sadly their fans are so obnoxious they don't realize how much their teams suck. All of their teams blow. New York Teams OWN! When people think of America what do they think of NYC! The best city ever and we will always be the best city. We do have some of the best stations although we should have KRock and YNY back on personally!
 
XCountry285 said:
Yanks should go on a strong AM signal. I think personally they should switch and go to 660 and have the Mets go to 880. As for the Phillies I don't know why you mentioned them their team sucks and sadly their fans are so obnoxious they don't realize how much their teams suck. All of their teams blow. New York Teams OWN! When people think of America what do they think of NYC! The best city ever and we will always be the best city. We do have some of the best stations although we should have KRock and YNY back on personally!
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I doubt the Mets and Yankees will switch between 660 and 880. The Mets have been with WFAN since its inception as a sports station in 1987. The Yankees have been on a 50 kW blaster since moving to WABC in 1981. Unless WEPN gets on a class B FM by the end of the 2011 baseball season, both teams will likely stay right where they are.

I'm a NY sports fan, but recent history is definitely favoring Philly. In one weekend, the Phillies dealt a blow to both the Mets and Yankees by signing Cliff Lee. Then there was the Giants' meltdown vs the Eagles, from which I still haven't recovered! To cap off that awful weekend, the Flyers beat the Rangers. Those are the facts, like them or not! :mad:
 
XCountry285 said:
Yanks should go on a strong AM signal. I think personally they should switch and go to 660 and have the Mets go to 880.
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What would be the point in having the teams switch frequencies? It just makes things more confusing for the listeners especially since both teams have been on the same station for many years. I hope the Yankees stay on 880 since I take a lot of car trips in the summer and like 880's strong signal throughout the northeast.
 
Yanks should go on a strong AM signal. I think personally they should switch and go to 660 and have the Mets go to 880.
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Talking about AM radio signals in NYC, there certainly aren't two stations more equally matched than WFAN and WCBS, and they may be the two nearest equally matched 50-kw stations in the entire country.

They are both 50-kw non-directional stations on clear channels, and they both use the same single transmitting tower on an island in Long Island Sound. They are co-owned and share engineering staff.

Yes, there is a small technical advantage to having the longer wavelength on 660 when compared with 880, and I can't remember offhand, which frequency the tower height is optimal for, but again the small signal difference probably couldn't be detected by most listeners most of the time.
 
ansky212 said:
XCountry285 said:
Yanks should go on a strong AM signal. I think personally they should switch and go to 660 and have the Mets go to 880.
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What would be the point in having the teams switch frequencies? It just makes things more confusing for the listeners especially since both teams have been on the same station for many years. I hope the Yankees stay on 880 since I take a lot of car trips in the summer and like 880's strong signal throughout the northeast.
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The Yankees were on WABC for 20 years. It didn't take long for fans to find them on WCBS.
 
The Yankees were on WABC when ABC owned it. IMHO, Citadel's WABC wouldn't want the Yankees because it would pre-empt too much of their national programming. WABC is only carrying the weekend Seton Hall men's b-ball games this season, with the weekday games airing on smaller NJ stations, such as WADB Asbury Park and WOBM-AM Lakewood.

College basketball is hardly the day in, day out commitment MLB is and yet WABC has basically cut Seton Hall in half. Given that, don't expect WABC to make a bid for the Mets or the Yankees. :)
 
radioguy39nj said:
The Yankees were on WABC when ABC owned it. IMHO, Citadel's WABC wouldn't want the Yankees because it would pre-empt too much of their national programming. WABC is only carrying the weekend Seton Hall men's b-ball games this season, with the weekday games airing on smaller NJ stations, such as WADB Asbury Park and WOBM-AM Lakewood.

College basketball is hardly the day in, day out commitment MLB is and yet WABC has basically cut Seton Hall in half. Given that, don't expect WABC to make a bid for the Mets or the Yankees. :)
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My point was that a previous poster said that it would be too confusing for people if the Yankees switched frequencies. I pointed out that they were on one freq. for two decades and switched and noone had a problem finding them.
 
No matter what happens, I don't see the Yankees ending up on a directional AM signal in 2012. If WEPN is on 101.9 FM by the end of this year, they've got a chance.

IMHO, it will be the Yankees on WFAN and the Mets on WEPN whether it's on 1050 AM or 101.9 FM in 2012. :)
 
MarcB said:
Why does it even matter right now? Come on. The 2011 season hasn't even started yet!
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Agreed! For the 2011 season, Mets and Yankees fans are blessed with two 50 kW blasters, WFAN and WCBS-AM respectively. :)
 
Since now that Cumulus has taken over WABC and how they like to turn there talk over to FM radio I can see how the 770 freq. can be up for grabs and sold to ESPN who is looking for a clear channel signal to bag the YANKS. This can happen because they could move it over to PLJ.
ESPN wants the Yanks rest assured but they need a signal and the FM's are too expensive where as an AM has deeper presentation into other markets and ESPN like to spread there product around.
 
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