Re: Sox Spanish Network expands

["Dan Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>]

The former owner of WRCA, Add Media Group, which still owns WLYN, sold WRCA
to national group owner, Beasley, some time ago. My guess is that the Red
Sox contract with WRCA for last season was already in place when Beasley
bought the station. This year, whoever owns the broadcast rights may have
first approached Add Media, with which a relationship already existed. Add
would have to have offered to run the games on its Boston-area station,
WLYN. Either that, or the rights owner first approached Beasely about
re-upping on WRCA but the two parties could not come to terms.

I see that WKOX is also in the network. WKOX has a listenable nighttime
signal west of 128 and a determined listener can receive WKOX better than
WLYN in many places inside of 128. I'd say that a listener has a better
chance with either station if the interfering signals are in a different
language than the Sox games. That would generally be true for WLYN because
the biggest interfering signal is usually from WDRC. On the other hand, the
once-clear 1200 is now such a jumble, it's hard to tell what language or
languages are behind (and often on top of) WKOX.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
617-558-4205, eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Smyth <Sportswriter@dejazzd.com>
To: Mark Watson <markwats@attbi.com>; Kevin Vahey <kvahey@yahoo.com>;
<dan.strassberg@att.net>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: Sox Spanish Network expands


> Mark Watson writes:
> >   Wasn't WRCA (1330 Waltham) the flagship station last season? Does WRCA
> put
> > a better signal into Jamaica Plain than WLYN? What does WLYN run for
night
> > power? It can't be too much, though, as I think I'm correct in saying
they
> > must protect WDRC in Hartford.
>
> There is a big Hispanic population in Lynn and Salem, and I bet WLYN
offered
> the cheapest airtime rate. Then again, since both 1330 and 1360 are owned
by
> the same company, who knows how the rates went.
>
>