Red Sox Leaving WGIR Manchester NH in 2007

[Howard Glazer]

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Anderson <paulranderson@charter.net>
To: Boston Radio Mailing List <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: Red Sox Leaving WGIR Manchester NH in 2007


> On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:57 PM, John Bolduc wrote:
>
> > From what I can gather, the Red Sox baseball broadcasts will be on
> > WKBR 1250 in Manchester this year, and not WGIR 610.
> >
> > If I recall, exept for a short stint on WFEA 1370 Manchester during
> > either the WITS or WPLM flagship days, the Sox have been on WGIR
> > most of my fifty years.
> >
> > Now this posses a small problem for me. At twilight WEEI gets very
> > often gets walked on by the Penn Yan 850 station. WKBR's night time
> > clover-leaf pattern has a null in my direction and is somewhat
> > noisy. WGIR always provided a great signal for my in Derry. OH
> > WAIT, NEVER MIND, THEY'LL be on 680 WRKO, most of the time, duh!
>
> It looks like WKBR's signal is worse than WGIR's save Manchester and
> the immediate area.  OH WAIT, NEVER MIND, there's always WTIC and XM.
>

There's persistent talk over at radio-info.com that the Yankees are
interested in a stronger Connecticut signal and are looking to get on WTIC.
Have both the Red Sox 'TIC deal and the Yankees' WPOP deal expired? Can
anyone confim anything on this?

Howard