How the New CBS Sports Radio affects Boston

[Kevin Vahey]

Once CBS starts full time service I can not see WBZ-FM keeping FOX Sports.

I would expect CBS to at least sniff at J.T the Brick and if so J.T. will
listen as he values Boston.

Personally I think CBS will kill off what is left of Yahoo Sports (The
former Sporting News Radio) and NBC made reconsider their launch.


On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:07 PM, James Duffy <jimduffy75@gmail.com> wrote:

> I appreciate your insight very much.
>
> "Some say Spanish on 101.7, some say conservative talk. Would they do
> cons talk on 101.7 and Fox Sports on 1200? Or would they keep cons.
> talk on both? Would they dare
> run prog. talk (Ed Schultz supposedly says he will wind up on a bigger
> station in Boston) on the AM maybe?"
>
> Before these two new sports networks were announced, I thought it wouldn't
> be that far fetched for CC to program a more adult leaning urban format
> similar to WDAS in Philli.  WILD on 97.7 still got more of a 12+ rating
> than
> WFNX, all be it in the diary days and 97.7 did not have the strongest
> signal
> in WILD's target neighborhoods.  My thinking was based on the fact that the
> 101.7 facilities signal is a little easier to hear in WILD's original
> target
> neighborhoods than that of 97.7's.  Harping on the premise of CC being a
> cheap consollidater; They could easily get away with running Tom Joiner in
> the morning, Michael Baisden in the afternoon and perhaps one local
> personality in either mid day or evenings.  Throw in some additional public
> affairs/news programming targeting the "urban" audience and they would be
> serving the community 10 times as much as  Jam'n does now.  I believe Gwen
> Blackburn still does the Minority Counter Point show for Kiss108 on Sunday
> mornings so they could easily tap her as a resource.  I know the argument
> will persist that advertisers will not be there, but I am not quite ready
> to
> believe that Boston cannot sustain one full time radio outlet that provides
> service to the black community.  On the other hand, CC was already burned
> by
> failure when they tried Rumba on FM in Philli and that was with a
> full-market facility.
> "Would ESPN want the 1510"
> They not only pulled the plug on EEI four months before 890 went on the
> air,
> they lived with 890 for four years.  I was privileged enough to have a
> conversation with an ESPN employee during that four years who told me the
> network was strongly considering buying 890 outright.  In myopinion, for
> all
> its weeknesses, the 1510 signal is extremely superior to 890 and 1400
> combined.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Nelson [mailto:raccoonradio@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:24 PM
> To: James Duffy
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: How the New CBS Sports Radio affects Boston
>
> As of now I would think WEEI would continue to simulcast on 850 for
> ratings reasons but interesting ideas. The talk shows, etc. aren't
> till January (sports updates begin in Sept.)
>
>
> > That brings us to recent developments with Clear channel and a new
> > possibility for speculation.  Does CC install FSR, which essentially
> > is their in-house offering, on 101.7 or 1200?
>
> Some say Spanish on 101.7, some say conservative talk. Would they do
> cons talk on 101.7 and Fox Sports on 1200? Or would they keep cons.
> talk on both? Would they dare
> run prog. talk (Ed Schultz supposedly says he will wind up on a bigger
> station in Boston) on the AM maybe?
>
>   'EEI/Entercom could easily turn around and clear their sports
> > network 24-7 in exchange for securing the play-by-play package for a
> > long time to come.  Is Kraft still thinking of buying 1510 and leasing
> > it to ESPN 24-7?  As much as the consollidators are desperate for
> > cheap in-house programming, I just do not see how 5 national radio
> > sports networks survive.
>
> All interesting points. Would ESPN want the 1510 (they do have
> 93.7/850 overnights...
> 1510 would be a bit of a letdown from that, unless it ran on all of
> them...) The World
> Series on...1510 (only)??!? I can't see it.
>
>
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