Red Sox radio in Portland?

[Jeff Lehmann]

> >> The Sox media guide lists the following Portland stations as carrying
> >> Sox games
> >> WJAE WJAB WJJB and WLOB plus WLOB-FM Rumford.
> >>
> >> This can't be right.
> >
> > It is.  They are all owned by JJ Jeffrey.
> 
> Well, it's ALMOST right - of course, there isn't actually a WJAB in
> Portland and hasn't been for many a decade. Those calls are held by a
> noncommercial FM in Huntsville, Alabama (though I hear JJ has tried to
> get them back from time to time.)
> 
> So the combination of WJAE 1440 Portland, WJJB 900 Brunswick and WJJB-FM
> 95.5 Topsham is "The Big Jab," known on-air as "WJAB" even though it
> doesn't really have those calls.
> 
> Except that 900 just changed calls from WJJB to WWBK, and 1440 will
> apparently soon change from WJAE to WJJB.
> 
> Confused yet? Let me tell you which Sox games will be on 680 and which
> ones will be on 850... :-)

Last year, I observed all 3 "Big Jab" stations, plus 96.3 running the Red
Sox, on a weeknight. 1310 was running Michael Savage. I believe on weekends,
1310 joins in. 

Jeff Lehmann
Hanson, MA