Re: WCAP Carrying U Mass Football This Fall

["Tony Abruzzese" <abruzzese@biochem.bumc.bu.edu>]

Sean Smyth writes in response to Mike Beaulieu :
<snip> 
>I find it amazing that the "state" university has a radio network that
>doesn't even involve the biggest market at all, except on a small 5,000-watt
>standards station. ...</snip>

I don't think that it's an issue of apathy or lack of interest, but one of oversaturation. 

Isn't the the Boston sports market already inundated with college sports? 

Besides Harvard, BC, and Northeastern for football, we also have UNH, Providence College and Brown all of which could be considered "local" to Boston being within one hour's driving time, and much closer and easier to get to than Amherst. 

Toss in hockey & basketball, and BU joins the fray, not to mention UMass Lowell, and you have a lot of teams very close to Boston looking for media deals.

<snip>... (I thought UMass' tie-in there was Hank Morse, who used
> to be ops (?) manager at Kiss108, but I thought he left a year or two ago.)
</snip>

I believe that Hank Morse is a BU alum. And as noted elsewhere doing AM drive traffic & news on WTKK, WKLB, and WROR.


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