Felger leaving ESPN Boston

[Sean Smyth]

On Sat, 7/12/08, Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@mail.com> wrote:

> From: Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@mail.com>
> Subject: Felger leaving ESPN Boston
> To: "BostonRadio Mailing List" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 6:07 PM
> 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.

WEEI's Web site also is hiring Rob Bradford of the Herald (who took Felger's spot on the Herald's sports staff) for a writing/editing role, according to Shots. An interesting move...