Felger leaving ESPN Boston

[Kevin Vahey]

I heard at the ballpark that Bob Lobel and Upton Bell are pitching a
brokered show around town. Lobie has enough friends that they could
clear enough to make it worth the bother.

The only way another sports station can thrive in Boston is to hire
Ordway away from WEEI. It is no secret that Glenn went ballistic when
he found out what Howie was making after he had been told he was the
highest paid person in the entire Entercom chain.

But Ordway would never go to a weak signal like 890 no matter how much
cash was on the table. It would have to be either 92.9 or 104.1.

On 7/12/08, Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@mail.com> wrote:
> http://shots.bostonsportsmedia.com/2008/07/developing-felger-gone-from-espn-890-and-herald-set-to-join-weeicom/
>
> ESPN Boston maintains they will continue local programming, with afternoon
> and midday shows, but they
> could not come to terms with Mike Felger who will join WEEI's website. The
> station has occasionally
> shown up in the ratings but cannot match the ratings or clout of 'EEI. Who
> knows how long they will continue
> as sports; well, at least they have things like Sunday Night Baseball and
> the All Star Game.
>
> In a town like this, a powerful sports talker like WEEI has no time to run a
> mostly-ESPN-fed format (WEEI's overnights are done by Fox
> Sports instead) , so ESPN turns to a smaller signal to do mostly national,
> some local
> programming. And now they lose Felger.
>