Re: NY Daily News - Bob Raissman - Bob Raissman's Tuning In: When YES took Zim off the air

[Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@yahoo.com>]

--- Sean Smyth <ssmyth@suscom.net> wrote:
 
> The WSOX calls are actually on an oldies station
> here in the York, Pa.,
> market (WSOX 96.1 Red Lion).

But if it were an AM signal (590? 850? 1200 with
a better signal?) they could try for WSOX (AM).
(By the way, remember when the 95.1 on Cape Cod
was WSOX-FM, because they had the Sox games?
They may have been at 94.9 at that point...

And if this were to happen, it wouldn't be the
first time a local sports team were to own a station.
Didn't the Celtics own WEEI 590?

> As for who would sell, I would imagine the favorite
> would be 1510, with 890
> second (if Mega is really in financial trouble).

Or would they have a chance at buying WEEI from
Entercom... "yes, Red Sox, this radio station
could be yours _if the price is right_!"  :)

(Or, in all seriousness, perhaps a kind of
partnership between the Sox and Entercom to
run WEEI? Of course, this could result in
strange bedfellows: We know about the WEEI/
Globe feud, the Globe's banning of its sportswriters
from 'EEI. If there were a Sox-Entercom partnership
to run WEEI--or if the Sox were to buy WEEI
outright-- you'd have the Sox/NESN/Globe partnership
also running WEEI. (And I say that because I believe
the Globe helps out in the running of NESN. I saw
the credits for a NESN show and it seemed like the
Globe was part of the copyright...and we know
the Globe's parent company, the N.Y. Times, is
a part owner of the Sox.

Complicated, ain't it? But if the Sox feel they could
make money in local radio the way they make money
with NESN, well... :)