Re: more on Eddie Andleman/ Herald article

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Of longer term interest is whether Andleman's show will 
air nationally or just on WWZN. I really doubt whether 
Andleman's homer approach can play in other markets, and 
if he tries to tone it down to appeal to a national 
audience, he will lose a lot of appeal to Boston fans, 
most of whom are scarcely known for their objectivity.

But if this is a local show, it certainly demonstates 
Paul Allen's commitment to making a success of the 
languishing asset (that is WWZN--or as it was then 
known, WNRB), which SNR's predecessor company, One on 
One Sports, acquired for $12 million.

If Andleman's show is local, I suspect that WWZN will be 
airing _way_ more local programming than either of SNR's 
other two O&Os, WSNR Newark (New York) and KMPC Los 
Angeles. Moreover, the idea that local programming is 
essential to the success of sports talk kind of flies in 
the face of the whole idea behind SNR.

BTW, of interest to radio techno geeks (like me) is the 
application that Allen's Rose City Radio has filed on 
behalf of WSNR to move the station's transmiter site 
from its "temporary" location in Lyndhurst NJ to 
Parsippany NJ, just a few miles north of the site the 
station lost in 1998. This is an incredibly detailed 
engineering document whose preparation most likely cost 
hundreds of grand.

Moving the site west almost 20 miles as the applied-for 
facilities would do, ought to substantially reduce the 
complaints of an unlistenable signal in much of the New 
York metro. The highly directional signal is plagued by 
severe phase distortion except in a small arc "in front" 
of the pattern. On a recent trip to the area, I heard 
the distortion near White Plains New York, which is 
hardly "behind" the pattern.

It is unclear, however (to me, at least), whether there 
is any likelihood whatever of WSNR's getting 
environmental approval to construct the proposed seven-
tower array in what shows on the map as a swamp (or as 
environmentalists prefer to call it, a wetland). The 
photos in one of the attachments to the application 
depict a wooded area. Can a wetland be wooded? I thought 
that reeds and brush grew in wetlands, but not trees.
--
dan.strassberg@att.net
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> ...and the Herald article says that WWZN might want
> Eddie to do 10 am to 3 pm there; with Eddie's WEEI
> contract set to expire Feb. 28, one wonders if
> it his debut elsewhere may contractually be delayed
> till March.