WWZN announces it will stay sports

[Kevin Vahey]

In the past 2 weeks I have heard 950 clear at night in Hyannis and
Chelmsford. OK Hyannis as a water shot maybe but not Chelmsford at
nite.    The Sox vetoed 1510 again 2 years ago.

On 6/3/07, Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:
> Well, AFAIK, neither WROL, which carries the Sox in Spanish at night, nor
> WBNW, which, effective this season, carries the Sox day games in Spanish,
> broadcasts in any language besides English at other times  OTOH, neither of
> these stations' mostly brokered-time English-language programming appears to
> compete with anything that Entercom broadcasts on WEEI, WRKO, or any of its
> other Southern New England properties (AM or FM), whith the possible
> exception of WBNW's weekday financial talk shows, which nominally cater to
> the same audience as Bob Brinker's weekend shows on WRKO.
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> Subject: Re: WWZN announces it will stay sports
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> > On 1 Jun 2007 at 10:17, Dan Strassberg wrote:
> >
> > > No, I didn't recall. What was the reason or alleged reason for WEEI's
> > > objection to having a real full-time station carry the Sox in
> > > Spanish--as opposed to a Class D AM with low-power nighttime authority
> > > (even if it often "forgets" to power down at sunset)? Did Entercom
> > > feel that enough of the people who listened to the Sox on WEEI were
> > > bilingual and would switch the Spanish broadcasts, if only the Spanish
> > > signal were better? I suppose that if that theory were correct, a
> > > stronger signal for the Spanish broadcasts could actually cut the
> > > ratings for the English broadcasts by a measurable amount. I can
> > > imagine 0.1 or maybe even 0.2 share points. Since WWZN never makes it
> > > into the ratings, I suppose that if it had gotten the Sox in Spanish
> > > and WEEI's ratings for the Sox in English had declined measurably,
> > > that small decline would have been the first solid statistical
> > > evidence that anyone at all listened to WWZN.
> >
> > It would be my guess that having the Sox in Spanish on a station that
> > was otherwise an English-language sports station might motivate some
> > people who could understand both languages to listen to the Sox in
> > Spanish on WWZN and then stay for some of its English sports
> > programming.  I can see how WEEI might consider that a threat,
> > whereas having the Sox in Spanish on a station that was not otherwise
> > a sports station, or one that was all Spanish, might not be seen as
> > quite so much of a threat.
> >
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