RE: Talk on WKBR in Manchester

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

I knew that....

BTW..to answer original question, someone named Dave Reynolds, some sort of
money guru, is on WKBR in the noontime hour.

-Paul Hopfgarten
-Derry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SteveOrdinetz [mailto:steveord@bit-net.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:23 AM
> To: paul@03038.com; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: RE: Talk on WKBR in Manchester
>
>
>   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.
>