Baseball radio in the Northeast

[Kevin Vahey]

The NHL Islanders are on Hofstra's FM signal - the team couldn't even buy time anywhere in NY.


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From: Scott Fybush <scott@fybush.com>
Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.orgDate: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:21:39 
To: Maureen Carney<m_carney@yahoo.com>
Cc: Boston Radio Group<boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast

Maureen Carney wrote:

> And that begs the question - will there be teams that give up radio coverage? 
> Obviously the Sox have Entercom breaking the bank for rights but that's not the 
> case in every market.

We've seen teams come close. The Expos lost English radio for a while, 
and the As were on a college station at one point just to stay on the 
air somewhere. (That was in the late 80s or early 90s, if memory serves, 
but the As once again came close to losing radio this year when their 
previous flagship, KTRB 860, went bankrupt.)

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