RE: Talk on WKBR in Manchester

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

  Paul Hopfgarten wrote:

>I'm not 100% sure that WXKL or WXKL-FM gets any Manchester exclusivity
>rights (they don't for Bosox baseball, but then they tend to saturate...)
>
>What I don't understand is why WTKK does a one-hour delay (I'm guessing it's
>to use Conservate O'Reilly to pick up listeners to take into the Conservate
>Severan 3-7 show)


Actually, it's WKXL, not WXKL.  Each hour of O'Reilly's show is 
stand-alone, ie nothing carried over from one hour to the next or promoted 
as being in the next hour.  The 2 hour show is fed alternating hours thru 
the afternoon.  The noon hour is repeated (by the network) in the 2 pm 
hour, the 1p hour repeated in the 3p hour and so on.

Don't know the contract details for market exclusivity.  As far as the Sox 
go, both WKXL and WGIR have carried the Sox for many years, I'm sure 
there's some sort of grandfather clause.  Until 107.7 became WKXL-FM a 
little over 2 years ago there was very little signal overlap...neither 1450 
nor 102.3 have particularly good signals in Manchester and 610 is so-so in 
Concord.