Breaking News: 98.5 becomes All Sports WBZ-FM

[Keith Lavon]

CBS has done something similar in Baltimore when they created the sports
station there at WJZ-FM (WJZ are heritage calls in Baltimore). WJZ-AM, while
also sports, is not the same sports station and just runs ESPN all day while
WJZ-FM The Fan is local....

Basically taking the same formula to Boston...

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>wrote:

> Question 1:  Does the advent of the PPM make call letters irrelevant?
> Used to be that broadcasting companies wanted different calls on AMs
> and FMs that were not simulcasting. There are lots of exceptions,
> including WXKS (AM) and -FM locally, but far more stations still
> follow the separate call letters "rule" than break it. I think the
> idea used to be that sharing call signs would result in
> under-reporting of listenership. Of course, that applied under the
> diary system but it seems irrelevant now.
>
> 2. Are all the machinations about moving WBMX to 104.1 and putting
> WBZ-FM on 98.5, rather than leaving WBMX at 98.5 and putting WBZ-FM on
> 104.1 related to coverage differences between 98.5 and 104.1? 98.5 is
> on FM-128, I think--or maybe it's on the WBZ-TV tower. Anyhow, 98.5 is
> 7.7 miles west-southwest of 104.1. That means that 98.5 has a better
> signal in Worcester than does 104.1. Why 98.5 never moved downtown is
> unclear to me, however. Can't be an IF problem--98.5+10.7 is above the
> top of the FM band and 98.5-10.7 is below the bottom of the band. Is
> it a spacing problem from downtown to third-adjacent WPLM-FM?
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul B. Walker, Jr." <
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> To: "bri" <bri@bostonradio.org>; "Boston Radio"
> <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:39 PM
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