Re: Sean McDonough and Boston's sports radio scene

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

You left out BOTH of Mega's AMs (890 and 1150) unless you figure that a station 
must have some kind of daytime signal in the Merrimac Valley to make your list. 
And you also left out 1430 and 1510, which cover the market pretty well by day. 
And since you counted 950, which is officially a daytimer, you probably need to 
include 1060, which is a also daytimer but has a CP for nights that will expire 
in September if they don't do something in a hurry. Then there are 1330 and 
1600. 1330 in particular has quite a good signal in most of the market by day 
(but won't have if they ever build their CP, move to Newton, raise their power, 
and send the signal into a handbasket). Oh, and part of that project is moving 
WKOX to Newton and upgrading it to 50 kW-U.
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> At 01:42 PM 3/13/2003 -0500, Sean Smyth wrote:
> >3.) There is definitely a dearth of full-market, full-time AM signals in
> >Boston, with WBZ the only real one. Eliminating the Entercom stations, that
> >leaves you with 590, 950, and 1260 as AM stations that have decent signals
> >market-wide by day, but also have some nice-sized holes at night. Salem
> >probably isn't flipping 590 or 950 any time soon. How did Radio Disney do in
> >the most recent ratings book, if it even appeared? Could anyone see ABC
> >taking a gamble, dumping Radio Disney and turning 1260 into an ESPN Radio
> >affiliate, maybe picking up the Celtics?
> 
> It's been a while since I talked to her (about a year)...but I have a 
> colleague who does sales for Radio Disney here.  She told me that it never 
> hits the jackpot but it almost always manages to do pretty well in their 
> target demographic.    Given how a lot of Disney's investments are not 
> doing well these days, I doubt they would dump one thing that seems to work.
> 
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