Red Sox TV and Radio ratings tanking

[Bob DeMattia]

I seem to remember at least one experiment to bring back WMEX on the
feeble 1150 signal.
While only tangentially related, I think WKLB-FM, when it was still on
105.7, tried a simulcast
of country on 1430.  Neither of those attempts at music on AM seem to
have lasted very long.

I have faint recollections of WRKO and WMEX, but FM was bigger during
my main music
listening years : WVBF and WROR were the top 40's then.  After getting
used to the hi-fidelity
of FM, it's difficult to go back to bandwidth-limited static prone AM
for listening to music.
It's still fun to listen to distant AMers at night, but as a regular
listening pattern I must admit
I used AM for talk or news.

I imagine the general public, especially the 25-40 demo don't care
much about AM.  So unless
they are going to follow a listener support mode, I don't see oldies
making a big comeback on
AM.

-Bob


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:15 PM, A. Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>  On 7/27/2010 11:39 AM, revdoug1@myfairpoint.net wrote:
>
>> I wonder if Entercom's failed experiment with WWKB in Buffalo, which I
>> liked --- an oldies format with a late '60s sound (jingles and all) ---
>> would work in Boston on WRKO?  People here have a lot of nostalgia for the
>> "good old days" of WRKO, WMEX and WBZ as Top 40 rock stations.  What do you
>> think?   -Doug
>>
>
> The only people who have a lot of nostalgia for those particular "good old
> days" are those of us who are old enough to remember them and were in the
> Boston area at the time.  And we're not the demographic most stations and
> advertisers are going for.  Even if we were, would we be enough to sustain a
> station?
>
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