Re: WEEI 850 off air

[Paul Anderson <plandrsn@ma.ultranet.com>]

On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 08:56  PM, SteveOrdinetz wrote:

> They are also really sloppy with automation tones during Red Sox 
> games.  Sunday they apparently "forgot" to send an end of game tone 
> until a half hour or so after the post-game show ended giving 
> affiliates who run automated the opportunity to air whatever happened 
> to be patched to to the network feed.  You call them up and (1) the 
> board op swears he sent the tones or (2) someone official says they'll 
> look into it, and that's the last you hear of it.  Sigh.  And we get to 
> pay for this amateur hour.

I listen to the Red Sox on WTAG Worcester or WEIM Fitchburg, so I don't 
know if it sounds the same on WEEI, but the intro music played after 
each commercial break is so loud it drowns out the game announcer until 
the music fades away.  Is this more sloppy WEEI work?

And to continue my whining, why do they have to identify themselves as 
the "WEEI Red Sox Radio Network"?  Wouldn't the "Red Sox Radio Network" 
be good enough?  Why would someone not listening to WEEI need to hear 
the WEEI call letters?  Of course, that's not as bad as the TV network, 
which displays "Sox on Fox 25" on every station.  If I was watching on 
WCTX New Haven (channel 59) why do I care which station in Boston 
carries the game?

Paul