RE: war coverage pre-empting Bruins

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

I thought the nighttime signal was 5,000,000 microwatts, not 500,000
microwatts. (250,000,000 microwatts daytime)

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Sean
> Smyth
> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 4:19 PM
> To: Dan.Strassberg@att.net
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: war coverage pre-empting Bruins
>
>
> Dan Strassberg writes:
> > We gotta find out from Bob Bittner whether he'd take pre-empted Bruins
> games on
> > WJIB. 500,000 microwatts instead of 50,000 watts--but it would save
> Infinity
> > from having to deal with another group owner ;>) OK, Bob IS a group
> owner--I
> > wasn't thinking of WJTO. If the B's were worried about loss of coverage
> and
> > were willing to rent a phone line to Maine, Bob could add WJTO to the
> special
> > network for the pre-empted games (or maybe he could pick up WZON off the
> air).
>
> Good luck getting the station past Fresh Pond rotary!
>
> OK, I'm being rather unfair to Bob (and giving him a hard time,
> as I've done
> a bunch in the past :-). In the past when I bought night air time
> on 740 for
> sports broadcasts, I found the signal was servicable for the most part
> inside Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. I could always pick it
> up in South
> Boston, even though I lived in a building not too conducive for AM DX. You
> could probably add Arlington and Belmont to that list, too. You
> would NOT be
> able to hear the game in the Fleet, though. (I'm one of the many who likes
> to have the luxury of listening to the game when I'm there, just to get a
> different perspective.)
>
> Now, if you linked up WESX, WJDA and WJIB, you'd have a group of stations
> that served Boston rather well. (In the past, WESX and WJDA have aired
> Bruins' games on Election Night.)
>