From kvahey@gmail.com Thu Mar 1 00:09:21 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:09:21 -0500 Subject: Der Krahwinkler Landstorm In-Reply-To: <4F4F002C.9000200@attorneyross.com> References: <4F4EEAB4.8020505@attorneyross.com> <4F4F002C.9000200@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: Parents cover the WMEX years but you did go to Amherst :) On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:50 PM, A Joseph Ross wrote: > On 2/29/2012 11:34 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > Joe - then I can assume you did not listen to Larry Glick often - this was > a staple at both WMEX and WBZ > > > Didn't he do the all-night shift? My parents insisted I had to turn the > light out and go to bed at a reasonable hour. > > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 > Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com > > From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Mar 1 00:38:30 2012 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:38:30 -0500 Subject: Der Krahwinkler Landstorm In-Reply-To: <4F4EFC61.9080503@server4.gabrielmass.com> References: <4F4EEAB4.8020505@attorneyross.com> <4F4EFC61.9080503@server4.gabrielmass.com> Message-ID: <4F4F0B56.1090007@attorneyross.com> On 2/29/2012 11:34 PM, Richard Chonak wrote: > > If I remember right, Larry Glick played it each day in the last > segment of his show. That would have been very early in the morning, when I would not have been awake. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Mar 1 00:34:28 2012 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:34:28 -0500 Subject: Der Krahwinkler Landstorm In-Reply-To: References: <4F4EEAB4.8020505@attorneyross.com> <4F4F002C.9000200@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <4F4F0A64.8010200@attorneyross.com> On 3/1/2012 12:09 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Parents cover the WMEX years but you did go to Amherst :) I tended to have trouble getting good reception of WBZ out there. For that reason, I tended to listen to WHYN-FM in Springfield or WMUA. And I never did pull an all-nighter, so I still wouldn't have listened to Larry Glick. In fact, I'm not sure he was on when I was at UMass. I graduated in 1967. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From rac@server4.gabrielmass.com Thu Mar 1 01:05:03 2012 From: rac@server4.gabrielmass.com (Richard Chonak) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:05:03 -0500 Subject: Der Krahwinkler Landstorm In-Reply-To: <4F4F002C.9000200@attorneyross.com> References: <4F4EEAB4.8020505@attorneyross.com> <4F4F002C.9000200@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <4F4F118F.4050307@server4.gabrielmass.com> On 02/29/2012 11:50 PM, A Joseph Ross wrote: > On 2/29/2012 11:34 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > >> Joe - then I can assume you did not listen to Larry Glick often - >> this was a staple at both WMEX and WBZ > > Didn't he do the all-night shift? My parents insisted I had to turn > the light out and go to bed at a reasonable hour. > Pshaw: what were earphones for, if not for listening to radio all night? --RC From kvahey@gmail.com Thu Mar 1 02:13:54 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:13:54 -0500 Subject: Der Krahwinkler Landstorm In-Reply-To: <4F4F0B56.1090007@attorneyross.com> References: <4F4EEAB4.8020505@attorneyross.com> <4F4EFC61.9080503@server4.gabrielmass.com> <4F4F0B56.1090007@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: Larry would use 'Ludwig' when he sometimes needed a bathroom break. :) On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:38 AM, A Joseph Ross wrote: > On 2/29/2012 11:34 PM, Richard Chonak wrote: > > >> If I remember right, Larry Glick played it each day in the last segment >> of his show. >> > > That would have been very early in the morning, when I would not have been > awake. > > > -- > A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 > 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 > Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com > > From joe@attorneyross.com Thu Mar 1 02:16:21 2012 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:16:21 -0500 Subject: Der Krahwinkler Landstorm In-Reply-To: <4F4F118F.4050307@server4.gabrielmass.com> References: <4F4EEAB4.8020505@attorneyross.com> <4F4F002C.9000200@attorneyross.com> <4F4F118F.4050307@server4.gabrielmass.com> Message-ID: <4F4F2245.7090209@attorneyross.com> On 3/1/2012 1:05 AM, Richard Chonak wrote: > Pshaw: what were earphones for, if not for listening to radio all night? They tend to interfere with sleeping. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From dan.strassberg@att.net Thu Mar 1 08:26:55 2012 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:26:55 -0500 Subject: Frederick Wales dies at 100 References: Message-ID: <491C104F8C4547C8878D123D07AEA0DE@SatU205S5044> Amazing that he headed the orchestra when he was only 18. I thought that, in that era, the social norms were to promote people to positions of responsibility only after they had served at least a decade in more subservient jobs. Of course, in 1930, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to find someone who had been director of a radio station studio orchestra for a decade or more. My guess is that the first radio station studio orchestra didn't exist until around 1925. There probably were several orchestras that made radio appearances before then, but I doubt whether radio stations started to hire their own orchestras until the mid-20s. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Hayes" To: "Boston Radio" Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 8:40 PM Subject: Frederick Wales dies at 100 Mr. Wales obituary needs only one line to describe his brief carreer in Boston radio, leader of the WHDH house band in 1930-31, but the thought that this link to such a remote period in local broadcast history had survived so long is astonishing. This must mark the end of an era. I wonder what memories are lost with his passing. http://www.salemnews.com/obituaries/x843248393/Frederick-C-Wales-100 = From billohno@gmail.com Thu Mar 1 10:21:32 2012 From: billohno@gmail.com (Bill O'Neill) Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:21:32 -0500 Subject: Nassau or Bust Message-ID: More than just a handful of stations in Vermont will be in the bankruptcy pot - WORK-FM, Barre; WWFY-FM, Berlin; WWOD-FM, Hartford; WFYX-FM, Walpole (N.H); WZLF-FM, White River Junction; WXLF-FM, Bellows Falls; WEXP-FM, Brandon/Jamaica; WTHK-FM, Wilmington; WMOO-FM, Derby Center; WSNO-AM, Barre; WNHV-AM, White River Junction; WIKE-AM, Newport Bill O'Neill From markwats@comcast.net Fri Mar 2 18:35:29 2012 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:35:29 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Message-ID: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> WPKZ Fitchburg (formerly WEIM) will no longer be airing Red Sox games, instead this season they will air Yankees games. Sox games have aired on 1280 for 45 years. Article from the Fitchburg/Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise quotes some Sox fans as not happy with the station's change to pinstripes. Link to article: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20086301 Mark Watson From dan.strassberg@att.net Fri Mar 2 20:16:39 2012 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:16:39 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: How is the 93.7 signal in Fitchburg and Leominster? My guess is that you can pick it up on most radios, but it isn't a killer. I assume that Worcester's AM 1440 is not great days and is non-existent at night. Also, does 1440 carry the Sox? ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Watson" To: Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 6:35 PM Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games WPKZ Fitchburg (formerly WEIM) will no longer be airing Red Sox games, instead this season they will air Yankees games. Sox games have aired on 1280 for 45 years. Article from the Fitchburg/Leominster Sentinel & Enterprise quotes some Sox fans as not happy with the station's change to pinstripes. Link to article: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20086301 Mark Watson From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Mar 2 19:24:46 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:24:46 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: Actually it makes sense for the station - with Sox on 93.7 now the Sox coverage is fine. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Mark Watson wrote: > WPKZ Fitchburg (formerly WEIM) will no longer be airing Red Sox games, > instead this season they will air Yankees games. Sox games have aired on > 1280 for 45 years. Article from the Fitchburg/Leominster Sentinel & > Enterprise quotes some Sox fans as not happy with the station's change to > pinstripes. > > Link to article: > > http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20086301 > > Mark Watson > From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Mar 2 21:20:27 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:20:27 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: In Fitchburg WEEY 93.5 FM, Swanzey, NH comes in very well - and with a decent tuner WVEI-FM is also a player. 1440 AM is OK by day a little spotty at night. I have never gotten an exact ruling at how close to another team's market you can get. The Red Sox have a station in Greenwich, CT that covers Westchester and parts of the Bronx. The Yankees are in Dover NH and Providence and now Fitchburg. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > > How is the 93.7 signal in Fitchburg and Leominster? My guess is that > you can pick it up on most radios, but it isn't a killer. I assume > that Worcester's AM 1440 is not great days and is non-existent at > night. Also, does 1440 carry the Sox? > > ----- > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) > eFax 1-707-215-6367 > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Watson" > To: > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 6:35 PM > Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games > > > > WPKZ Fitchburg (formerly WEIM) will no longer be airing Red Sox games, > instead this season they will air Yankees games. Sox games have aired > on 1280 for 45 years. Article from the Fitchburg/Leominster Sentinel & > Enterprise quotes some Sox fans as not happy with the station's change > to pinstripes. > > Link to article: > > http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20086301 > > Mark Watson > From Cdsull502@aol.com Fri Mar 2 21:26:29 2012 From: Cdsull502@aol.com (Cdsull502@aol.com) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:26:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: Territories Message-ID: Don't the Red Sox have exclusivity within their own market? I could see allowing Yankee broadcasts in Southern Ct. and other areas not considered part of the Red Sox territory but Fitchburg? Would the Yankees permit a station in say, Jersey City NJ to run Red Sox games? I'd doubt it. Of course the WEIM signal is not a threat to anybody--and Red Sox games available on at least two other stations in the Fitchburg area. Chris Sullivan CdSull502@aol.com From rbello@belloassoc.com Fri Mar 2 21:33:49 2012 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:33:49 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: Lets not forget the Sox are also on 50K watt WCRN which covers Fitchburg & Leominster just fine Why would WPKZ pay big $ to Entercom only to compete with them for ad dollars ? Might make more profit carrying Yankees even though fewer listeners. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Actually it makes sense for the station - with Sox on 93.7 now the Sox > coverage is fine. > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Mark Watson wrote: > > > WPKZ Fitchburg (formerly WEIM) will no longer be airing Red Sox games, > > instead this season they will air Yankees games. Sox games have aired on > > 1280 for 45 years. Article from the Fitchburg/Leominster Sentinel & > > Enterprise quotes some Sox fans as not happy with the station's change to > > pinstripes. > > > > Link to article: > > > > http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20086301 > > > > Mark Watson > > > From paulranderson@charter.net Fri Mar 2 21:26:02 2012 From: paulranderson@charter.net (Paul Anderson) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:26:02 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: I suspect that WEEI-FM Lawrence and WCRN Worcester would be the two best signals to catch the Sox in the Fitchburg area. At least that's what would come in for me when traveling between Worcester and New Hampshire up I-190 and Route 13, east of Fitchburg. WVEI Worcester carries the Sox but you can't get it in Fitchburg. Paul On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > How is the 93.7 signal in Fitchburg and Leominster? My guess is that > you can pick it up on most radios, but it isn't a killer. I assume > that Worcester's AM 1440 is not great days and is non-existent at > night. Also, does 1440 carry the Sox? From scott@fybush.com Fri Mar 2 22:03:12 2012 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:03:12 -0500 Subject: Territories In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4F5189F0.6060701@fybush.com> On 3/2/2012 9:26 PM, Cdsull502@aol.com wrote: > Don't the Red Sox have exclusivity within their own market? I could see > allowing Yankee broadcasts in Southern Ct. and other areas not considered > part of the Red Sox territory but Fitchburg? Would the Yankees permit a > station in say, Jersey City NJ to run Red Sox games? I'd doubt it. Of course > the WEIM signal is not a threat to anybody--and Red Sox games available on > at least two other stations in the Fitchburg area. I don't think there's territorial exclusivity for radio the way there is for TV. Much as it pains me to say it, there's probably a buck or two to be made by a station like WWZN or even (gasp!) WRKO airing Yankees games to the pinstriped faithful who exist right in the shadow of Fenway Park. (The numbers probably don't work as well in the other direction, though there are certainly at least more than a few Sox fans within the five boroughs.) s From kvahey@gmail.com Fri Mar 2 22:17:17 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 22:17:17 -0500 Subject: Territories In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Doing a little digging and radio exclusive territories are now defined by home and adjacent counties. Worcester County does not touch Suffolk so it OK. Baltimore is allowed to broadcast in DC as part of the deal letting Montreal move to Washington. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:26 PM, wrote: > Don't the Red Sox have exclusivity within their own market? I could see > allowing Yankee broadcasts in Southern Ct. and other areas not considered > part of the Red Sox territory but Fitchburg? Would the Yankees permit a > station in say, Jersey City NJ to run Red Sox games? I'd doubt it. Of > course > the WEIM signal is not a threat to anybody--and Red Sox games available on > at least two other stations in the Fitchburg area. > > Chris Sullivan > CdSull502@aol.com > From raccoonradio@gmail.com Sat Mar 3 03:31:07 2012 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:31:07 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: On the WPKZ facebook they have a podcast explaining they were NOT offered the opportunity to run the Sox again. "We were not even offered a (renewal of our) contract from Entercom. In business as in life you can't always get what you want. We wanted to carry them..." Link to Podcast: http://wpkz.net/pages/?p=1087 From raccoonradio@gmail.com Sat Mar 3 03:18:21 2012 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:18:21 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: I understand that now that WUCS 97.9 Windsor Locks CT is doing ESPN, plus some local talk, AND the Yankees, sister station WPOP 1410 will switch to Fox Sports this Monday--and the Yanks won't be on the AM side, it's said. Some who are curious about Yankee games in our area would have had WPOP as an option, as before (other than WCBS, XM Radio, etc.) but not now. But if they're near Fitchburg... and there is the 105.3 simulcast as well). The Yankees were known to have affiliates in places like Dover NH (1270) and Cape Cod (1170 at one time), plus Providence, etc.Certainly there are cities like Burlington VT "on the border of the territories" where you can get the Sox on WJOY 1230 and the Yanks on WVMT 620. Sox do pick up some station in NY state including WTRY 980. From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Mar 3 09:06:10 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:06:10 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: The podcast mentions a new station will have the Red Sox in Fitchburg. Is WCRN safe for 2012? On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Bob Nelson wrote: > On the WPKZ facebook they have a podcast explaining they were NOT > offered the opportunity to run the Sox again. > > "We were not even offered a (renewal of our) contract from Entercom. > In business as in life you can't always get what you want. We wanted > to carry them..." > Link to Podcast: > > http://wpkz.net/pages/?p=1087 > From dan.strassberg@att.net Sat Mar 3 09:52:46 2012 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:52:46 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: 980 in Troy hasn't been WTRY for decades. Currently, I believe that station is WOFX (Fox spelled sideways--for Fox Sports, AFAIK). I don't know if this is still the case, but at one time, the WTRY calls had migrated to 98.3, which is a Class A licensed to Rotterdam. IIRC, Rotterdam is a little way southwest of Schenectady, but I have no idea where the WTRY-FM transmitter is located. WTRY-FM's HAAT is listed as only 318', suggesting its not in the Heldebergs or on Bald Mountain (former location of Channel 13). Long, long ago, WTRY AM and FM were co-owned with Channel 13. Anyhow, I suspect that 6 kW at 318' isn't quite enough to cover the entire Capital District market--especially if Rotterdam is where I think it is and the 70 dBu contour has to cover Rotterdam. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Nelson" To: "Paul Anderson" Cc: "Boston Radio Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 3:18 AM Subject: Re: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games >I understand that now that WUCS 97.9 Windsor Locks CT is doing ESPN, > plus some local talk, AND the Yankees, sister station WPOP 1410 will > switch to Fox Sports this Monday--and the Yanks won't be on the AM > side, it's said. Some who are curious about Yankee games in our area > would have had WPOP as an option, as before (other than WCBS, XM > Radio, etc.) but not now. But if they're near Fitchburg... and there > is the 105.3 > simulcast as well). > > The Yankees were known to have affiliates in places like Dover NH > (1270) and Cape > Cod (1170 at one time), plus Providence, etc.Certainly there are > cities like Burlington VT "on the border of the territories" where > you > can get the Sox on WJOY 1230 and > the Yanks on WVMT 620. > > Sox do pick up some station in NY state including WTRY 980. From dan.strassberg@att.net Sat Mar 3 10:09:24 2012 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:09:24 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: <1982264C708D42AEA9DCF9265FF7E757@SatU205S5044> I'm surprised that two Worcester-licensed AMs (WVEI and WCRN) would both have carried the Red Sox PBP. Wouldn't that violate an FCC rule? (Multiple non-co-owned stations on the same band licensed to the same community simulcasting for a substantial percentage of the broadcast week.) There are probably many communities around the US where multiple AMs licensed to the same community simulcast network news for five or six minutes per hour, but that's not quite the same as simulcasting months of baseball games that last at least 2-1/2 hours each. ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Vahey" To: "Bob Nelson" Cc: "Boston Radio Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 9:06 AM Subject: Re: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games > The podcast mentions a new station will have the Red Sox in > Fitchburg. > > Is WCRN safe for 2012? > > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Bob Nelson > wrote: > >> On the WPKZ facebook they have a podcast explaining they were NOT >> offered the opportunity to run the Sox again. >> >> "We were not even offered a (renewal of our) contract from >> Entercom. >> In business as in life you can't always get what you want. We >> wanted >> to carry them..." >> Link to Podcast: >> >> http://wpkz.net/pages/?p=1087 >> From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Mar 3 10:59:23 2012 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:59:23 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Message-ID: <20120303155923.223700@gmx.com> Dan wrote: >>980 in Troy hasn't been WTRY for decades. Currently, I believe that station is WOFX I stand corrected--I remember those calls from the past, from when I'd go up to southwest Vermont and hear them. (btw next to them on the dial used to be WHWB 970 licensed to West Rutland I believe; long since gone dark) Radio-locator shows the location of WTRY-FM's antenna to be SW of Schenectady; SE of Duanesburg and just south of I-88, and just off US-20. Maybe 10 miles by road from Schenectady, perhaps less as the crow flies. As for WOFX, the (again, approximate) signal map on radio-locator shows a substantial day signal while at night the null seems to be to the northwest, with much of the signal pointed southeast towards Pittsfield, N. Adams, etc. From kvahey@gmail.com Sat Mar 3 11:43:50 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 11:43:50 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: <20120303155923.223700@gmx.com> References: <20120303155923.223700@gmx.com> Message-ID: WVEI is an almost useless signal. When the old WAAB was forced to move to Worcester they did not get a good deal. From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Mar 3 10:52:19 2012 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:52:19 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Message-ID: <20120303155219.223720@gmx.com> Red Sox games tend to last 4 and a half hours or so, perhaps longer when playing the Yankees, if you start with the hour-long pregame show (at 6 pm in many cases) and that could be a substantial percentage of the broadcast week, but it has gone on for several years now. When the podcast mentioned "a new station" they may have probably meant WEEI-FM, unless somehow there's another station in the area which will be added. The radio-locator.com maps are always approximate but I'll note they have circles with the extent of local, distant, and fringe signals. The local circle of 93.7 reaches out to Nashua, while the distant signal reaches just beyond Fitchburg. WGHM 900 Nashua carries the Sox and even the night signal may do OK in the Fitchburg-Leominster area. There's always 93.7, or WTIC 1080, etc. I don't know if WCRN is safe for 2012 but WBOQ 104.9 certainly is. Even though they're not all that far from 93.7's Peabody stick, WBOQ has made many mentions on air and on their website that they indeed will continue Red Sox games this year, and they say they are the North Shore's "hometown station"...the appeal would be for local advertisers who maybe can't afford to run spots on WEEI, to come to them. ("Fish where the fish are," it says on their site and on billboards I've seen, an invitation for local advertisers to put their spots on 104.9.) WBOQ doesn't seem to show up well in the 6 plus ratings, but the Red Sox are a major part of their selling point. From kc1ih@mac.com Sat Mar 3 11:02:38 2012 From: kc1ih@mac.com (Larry Weil) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:02:38 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: On Mar 3, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Bob Nelson wrote: > On the WPKZ facebook they have a podcast explaining they were NOT > offered the opportunity to run the Sox again. > > "We were not even offered a (renewal of our) contract from Entercom. And the average listener/fan seeing this is going to ask ?what is an Entercom??. Those of us reading the list know the answer, but does the average listener know or care? Larry Weil Lake Wobegone, NH From ssmyth@psualum.com Sat Mar 3 11:11:54 2012 From: ssmyth@psualum.com (Sean Smyth) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:11:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: <1330791114.21301.YahooMailNeo@web110504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Dan.Strassberg wrote: >980 in Troy hasn't been WTRY for decades. You are correct on the WOFX part that I snipped (it is a FSR affiliate), but it hasn't been that long since 980 was WTRY. The unreliable Wikipedia says the calls changed in 2000, but that lines up with what I remember. From ssmyth@psualum.com Sat Mar 3 11:15:50 2012 From: ssmyth@psualum.com (Sean Smyth) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:15:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: <1330791350.45935.YahooMailNeo@web110503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Kevin Vahey writes: >T he podcast mentions a new station will have the Red Sox in Fitchburg. > > Is WCRN safe for 2012? What other stations are there in Fitchburg, besides WFGL? Unless WXLO were to flip ... I thought I read on here years back that WCRN doesn't pay for the affiliation, and Entercom in exchange keeps the ad revenue. If that's the case I'd imagine Entercom keeps WCRN on board as long as WCRN wants. From Jibguy@aol.com Sat Mar 3 12:28:13 2012 From: Jibguy@aol.com (Jibguy@aol.com) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:28:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Message-ID: <2379a.1cec1873.3c83aead@aol.com> In a message dated 3/3/2012 12:09:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, ssmyth@psualum.com writes: You are correct on the WOFX part that I snipped (it is a FSR affiliate), but it hasn't been that long since 980 was WTRY. The unreliable Wikipedia says the calls changed in 2000, but that lines up with what I remember. --------------------------------- How the great have fallen. WTRY-980 was a ratings-powerhouse top-40 station in 60's-70's. Now, sitting steady with a an embarrassing half a point.... and it's not even doing a religious format! ---BB From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Mar 3 13:01:43 2012 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:01:43 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Message-ID: <20120303180143.223690@gmx.com> One possible other reason WCRN was given affiliation: WRKO used to be the Sox flagship, and this meant Howie Carr would lose at least half of his final hour on 680 in favor of the "VERY exciting Red Sox pre-game show" (at the time, pregame was a half hour long, and later it went to an hour). WCRN would air Howie instead of the pregame, then went to the game itself at 7 pm or so. In the winter, Howie mentions those to the west who lose the 680 signal "can go to WCRN" to hear the rest of his show. On Aug. 26, 2009, Red Sox games got WEEI 850 as a flagship again. Surely this had nothing to do with the arrival of The Sports Hub, 98.5, on August 12 or so of that year :) The Howie pre-emptions were gone, except perhaps on nights when WEEI had the Celtics, etc., in which case WRKO got them. (There are about 3 pre-season games this year, including tomorrow, where WRKO gets them due to a conflict on WEEI.) Entercom could have beaten CBS to the punch by having the WEEI simulcast on FM _before_ the debut of the Sports Hub (it was mentioned several weeks in advance) but due in many ways to Mike 93.7's good ratings and billing, they dragged their feet until Sept. of last year. Admittedly Entercom may have had a wait-and-see attitude regarding a movie to FM; i.e., see how Sports Hub does in ratings, etc. but they could have taken pre-emptive action. It meant the lost of a revenue stream with the loss of "Mike" but with WEEI having a very strong competitor, the move did have to be made, to protect that cash cow. At the time, Jason Wolfe said, "?This move will add consistency to our lineup, whereby all of our sports assets will be consolidated in the same place" http://www.weei.com/extras/press-release/red-sox-radio-broadcasts-return-weei ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Smyth Sent: 03/03/12 11:15 AM To: Kevin Vahey Subject: Re: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Kevin Vahey writes: >T he podcast mentions a new station will have the Red Sox in Fitchburg. > > Is WCRN safe for 2012? What other stations are there in Fitchburg, besides WFGL? Unless WXLO were to flip ... I thought I read on here years back that WCRN doesn't pay for the affiliation, and Entercom in exchange keeps the ad revenue. If that's the case I'd imagine Entercom keeps WCRN on board as long as WCRN wants. From raccoonradio@mail.com Sat Mar 3 13:05:53 2012 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:05:53 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games Message-ID: <20120303180554.223730@gmx.com> >>And the average listener/fan seeing this is going to ask ?what is an Entercom??. Those of us reading the list know the answer, but does the average listener know or care? True, though it beats mentioning the call letters of WEEI (who will be offering the Sox in competition to them now, on 93.7). Like when TV talk hosts shied away from mentioning another network's name ("he has a special coming up on another network") in days of old, etc. Some stations do mention the company name prominently in IDs and liners of course, including Entercom, Greater Media, CBS, etc. But yes for many, do they know or care? They could have easily have said "The Red Sox network did not offer us the rights this year." Yes. From marklaurence@mac.com Sat Mar 3 12:01:54 2012 From: marklaurence@mac.com (Mark Laurence) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:01:54 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <20120303155923.223700@gmx.com> Message-ID: <2B4DA323-6A20-4839-90B3-8CD9BB8801B0@mac.com> On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > WVEI is an almost useless signal. When the old WAAB was forced to move to > Worcester they did not get a good deal. It's not THAT horrible. When I worked there in the 80's we were fully competitive and frequently #1, even as an AM music station competing against FM signals all the way through the decade. The signal gets to Westboro in the East, the Brookfields in the West, and at least one town out from Worcester in every direction at night. At the time there were 4 AM stations in Worcester, and only WTAG had a better signal. But it's not a great signal for today's market conditions, for sure. From mward@iname.com Sat Mar 3 17:18:25 2012 From: mward@iname.com (Mike Ward) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:18:25 -0500 Subject: Territories In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > Doing a little digging and radio exclusive territories are now defined by > home and adjacent counties. Worcester County does not touch Suffolk so it > OK. > > Baltimore is allowed to broadcast in DC as part of the deal letting > Montreal move to Washington. > > But of note here: * WTIG/990 Massillon OH (Stark County, very much Indians territory): "ESPN 990" has been a long-time affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. The Indians are on WHBC/1480 Canton and other area stations, including WQKT/104.5 Wooster. Both boom into Massillon. * The Yankees always seem to have at least one or two Florida affiliates. Their most recent list includes stations from Alaska to Iowa to North Carolina, not to mention existing affils in MA and NH. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/yankeesradionetwork/ From joe@attorneyross.com Sun Mar 4 00:23:25 2012 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A Joseph Ross) Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:23:25 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: <2379a.1cec1873.3c83aead@aol.com> References: <2379a.1cec1873.3c83aead@aol.com> Message-ID: <4F52FC4D.3020800@attorneyross.com> On 3/3/2012 12:28 PM, Jibguy@aol.com wrote: > How the great have fallen. WTRY-980 was a ratings-powerhouse top-40 > station in 60's-70's. Now, sitting steady with a an embarrassing half a > point.... and it's not even doing a religious format! And in the early 1950s, when my family lived in the Albany area for a few years, WTRY was, for a time, the CBS affiliate for the Capital District. I remember first hearing Jack Benny and Amos & Andy on WTRY. Then CBS moved to WROW and WTRY became independent. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From dbroda@nycap.rr.com Sun Mar 4 12:10:48 2012 From: dbroda@nycap.rr.com (Douglas Broda) Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:10:48 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> Message-ID: <4F53A218.6070101@nycap.rr.com> The directional signal from east of Duanesburg does reach most of the Capital District OK. About 2/3 of Rensselaer County and the Saratoga Springs area can be iffy, and the Amsterdam/Gloversville area is bad. I'm about 10 miles north of downtown Troy and I get WTRY just fine in home and car. On 3/3/2012 9:52 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote: > 980 in Troy hasn't been WTRY for decades. Currently, I believe that > station is WOFX (Fox spelled sideways--for Fox Sports, AFAIK). I don't > know if this is still the case, but at one time, the WTRY calls had > migrated to 98.3, which is a Class A licensed to Rotterdam. IIRC, > Rotterdam is a little way southwest of Schenectady, but I have no idea > where the WTRY-FM transmitter is located. WTRY-FM's HAAT is listed as > only 318', suggesting its not in the Heldebergs or on Bald Mountain > (former location of Channel 13). Long, long ago, WTRY AM and FM were > co-owned with Channel 13. Anyhow, I suspect that 6 kW at 318' isn't > quite enough to cover the entire Capital District market--especially > if Rotterdam is where I think it is and the 70 dBu contour has to > cover Rotterdam. -- Douglas J. Broda Attorney at Law Post Office Box 239 Troy, New York 12182 (518) 272-0580 Fax (518) 237-0949 NOTE: I do not regularly read emails from this account, other than those sent to mailing lists to which I subscribe, in order to minimize spam. If you need to reach me other than via a mailing list, please feel free to call me or use my regular business email address, which is the first letter of my first name plus my middle initial plus my last name at nycap.rr.com (which is stated that way to avoid spambots). From irw@well.com Tue Mar 6 15:44:20 2012 From: irw@well.com (Blaine Thompson) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:44:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: RIP WZOU and WXKS' Steve Rivers Message-ID: <1527716169.2334.1331066660177.JavaMail.root@zimbra.well.com> AllAccess reports the death of Steve Rivers. An excerpt from AllAccess: "RIVERS had an amazing career, and had programmed such iconic stations as WAPE/JACKSONVILLE, KMEL/SAN FRANCISCO, WZOU, and WXKS/BOSTON, KIIS-FM/LOS ANGELES, and KBKS/SEATTLE, which was his last programming assignment." - Blaine From kvahey@gmail.com Wed Mar 7 14:05:41 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:05:41 -0500 Subject: WEEI's has a big announcement at 5:30 PM ( 3/7/12 ) Message-ID: It appears that Pete Sheppard is returning to WEEI as he is telling his FB and Twitter followers to listen to WEEI at 5:30. Rumors are flying that Mike Adams could be the new odd man out. Chad Finn in the Globe ponders... http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/2012/03/sheppard_expected_to_return_to.html From kenwvt@gmail.com Wed Mar 7 15:45:51 2012 From: kenwvt@gmail.com (Ken VanTassell) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 15:45:51 -0500 Subject: WEEI's has a big announcement at 5:30 PM ( 3/7/12 ) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just what we need, Pete Sheppard back on the air calling everyone a turd..... no thanks. -Ken On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > It appears that Pete Sheppard is returning to WEEI as he is telling his FB > and Twitter followers to listen to WEEI at 5:30. > > Rumors are flying that Mike Adams could be the new odd man out. > > Chad Finn in the Globe ponders... > > > http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/2012/03/sheppard_expected_to_return_to.html > From ssmyth@psualum.com Wed Mar 7 17:40:54 2012 From: ssmyth@psualum.com (Sean Smyth) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:40:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: WEEI's has a big announcement at 5:30 PM ( 3/7/12 ) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1331160054.88840.YahooMailNeo@web110513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Ken VanTassell writes: >Just what we need, Pete Sheppard back on the air calling everyone a >turd..... no thanks. Yeah, I don't understand this at all. I doubt WEEI lost listeners when he was let go. He must work cheaper than Mike Adams. From raccoonradio@mail.com Wed Mar 7 17:56:31 2012 From: raccoonradio@mail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:56:31 -0500 Subject: WEEI's has a big announcement at 5:30 PM ( 3/7/12 ) Message-ID: <20120307225631.223720@gmx.com> He will be on Sundays 12-3 pm. He has his followers and his detractors. From rbello@belloassoc.com Wed Mar 7 18:00:11 2012 From: rbello@belloassoc.com (Ron Bello) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:00:11 -0500 Subject: WEEI's has a big announcement at 5:30 PM ( 3/7/12 ) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Pete Sheppard will be on this Sunday noon to 3pm On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Ken VanTassell wrote: > Just what we need, Pete Sheppard back on the air calling everyone a > turd..... no thanks. > > -Ken > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > > > It appears that Pete Sheppard is returning to WEEI as he is telling his > FB > > and Twitter followers to listen to WEEI at 5:30. > > > > Rumors are flying that Mike Adams could be the new odd man out. > > > > Chad Finn in the Globe ponders... > > > > > > > http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/2012/03/sheppard_expected_to_return_to.html > > > From kvahey@gmail.com Wed Mar 7 23:34:03 2012 From: kvahey@gmail.com (Kevin Vahey) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:34:03 -0500 Subject: WNBC-TV axes long time anchor (Sue Simmons) Message-ID: WNBC-TV showing Sue Simmons the door is not unlike WCVB doing the same with Natalie. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/nyregion/tv-anchor-sue-simmons-is-being-dropped-by-wnbc.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto It appears that Comcast wants ex WCVB anchor Shiba Russell to replace her. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/station/6244098/detail.html WNBC is still #1 in NYC at 11 PM. How long have Chuck and Sue anchored? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsoZ4KVhc0c From chris2526@comcast.net Wed Mar 14 01:04:43 2012 From: chris2526@comcast.net (Chris Hall) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:04:43 -0400 Subject: Norm Gagnon Message-ID: I was just informed via Florida that old friend and colleague Norm Gagnon passed away last week, may you rest in peace Norm. From m_carney@yahoo.com Thu Mar 15 15:13:17 2012 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: WEEI on WAAF HD-2 Message-ID: <1331838797.80308.YahooMailNeo@web161303.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I used my HD radio today for the first time in months. My mother wanted to hear Howie Carr and couldn't deal with the static on AM (both 680 and 830). I put on WAAF 107.3, and their HD-2 was WEEI and there was no HD-3. Why would they still have WEEI there instead of WRKO? There was no subchannel on 93.7. From raccoonradio@gmail.com Thu Mar 15 16:20:01 2012 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:20:01 -0400 Subject: WEEI on WAAF HD-2 In-Reply-To: <1331838797.80308.YahooMailNeo@web161303.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1331838797.80308.YahooMailNeo@web161303.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Not sure where you are but I'm a couple towns away from 93.7's Peabody stick and Funkytown comes in on 93.7's HD 2 on the FM-HD portable. 97.7 comes in fairly strong; no HD-2 signal; 107.3 is fuzzy and again no HD-2 up here (Beverly) because the regular signal has enough trouble coming in, as it is. It was said a little while back that WRKO popped up on WAAF and WKAF's HD 2s, but then later: "nothing" then "WEEI-FM" on one of them. Maybe they're making up for possible dead spots for 93.7 west of Boston? It would make sense to put WRKO on WAAF's HD 2 especially west of Boston...static and early sunsets (now no longer a problem as we head toward spring) From m_carney@yahoo.com Thu Mar 15 19:08:45 2012 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: WEEI on WAAF HD-2 In-Reply-To: References: <1331838797.80308.YahooMailNeo@web161303.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1331852925.28825.YahooMailNeo@web161306.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> I'm in Holliston and have never been able to get any subchannels on 93.7. 107.3 is gangbusters as you would expect in Metrowest. ________________________________ From: Bob Nelson To: Maureen Carney Cc: Boston Radio Group Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:20 PM Subject: Re: WEEI on WAAF HD-2 Not sure where you are but I'm a couple towns away from 93.7's Peabody stick and Funkytown comes in on 93.7's HD 2 on the FM-HD portable. 97.7 comes in fairly strong; no HD-2 signal; 107.3 is fuzzy and again no HD-2 up here (Beverly) because the regular signal has enough trouble coming in, as it is. It was said a little while back that WRKO popped up on WAAF and WKAF's HD 2s, but then later: "nothing" then "WEEI-FM" on one of them. Maybe they're making up for possible dead spots for 93.7 west of Boston? It would make sense to put WRKO on WAAF's HD 2 especially west of Boston...static and early sunsets (now no longer a problem as we head toward spring) From m_carney@yahoo.com Fri Mar 16 12:05:54 2012 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Dana Marshall back on WXRV Message-ID: <1331913954.52691.YahooMailNeo@web161303.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> At least we know who will host Brunch by the River. No word about Dana getting a regular weekday shift. ? http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/103626/dana-marshall-returns-to-wxrv-to-host-brunch-by-th From raccoonradio@gmail.com Tue Mar 20 11:37:49 2012 From: raccoonradio@gmail.com (Bob Nelson) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:37:49 -0400 Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? Message-ID: The recent blackout in Boston led to backup transmitters being used for several stations whose towers were on the Prudential Building and it led me to thinking: what about the Hancock Tower? Do any stations broadcast from that skyscraper now, or did they in the past? I had thought at least one did, and bostonradio.org confirmed it, in its page about WZLX >>In 1980, the FM transmitter was moved to the Hancock Tower in downtown Boston. It didn't stay there for long, however: the transmitter burned up in 1982, and the Hancock people decided that they really didn't want broadcasters on their building if the equipment was going to do that http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/13806 I don't know if any other stations have broadcast from antennae on Hancock Tower, or if any do now. I know the CN Tower in Toronto was built to solve reception problems of TV and radio as higher buildings went up in that city. From jjlehmann@comcast.net Tue Mar 20 14:12:48 2012 From: jjlehmann@comcast.net (Jeff Lehmann) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:12:48 -0400 Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6DF9EB5A-0088-47F2-AA4B-13991283AA66@comcast.net> The last broadcast station to transmit from up there was the old 101.3 translator for WFNX. Jeff Lehmann On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Bob Nelson wrote: > The recent blackout in Boston led to backup transmitters being used > for several stations whose towers were on the > Prudential Building and it led me to thinking: what about the Hancock > Tower? Do any stations broadcast from > that skyscraper now, or did they in the past? I had thought at least > one did, and bostonradio.org confirmed it, in its > page about WZLX > >>> In 1980, the FM transmitter was moved to the Hancock Tower in downtown Boston. It didn't stay there for long, however: the transmitter burned up in 1982, and the Hancock people decided that they really didn't want broadcasters on their building if the equipment was going to do that > > http://www.bostonradio.org/stations/13806 > > I don't know if any other stations have broadcast from antennae on > Hancock Tower, or if any do now. > > I know the CN Tower in Toronto was built to solve reception problems > of TV and radio as higher buildings went up in that city. > From scott@fybush.com Tue Mar 20 15:16:05 2012 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:16:05 -0400 Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? In-Reply-To: <6DF9EB5A-0088-47F2-AA4B-13991283AA66@comcast.net> References: <6DF9EB5A-0088-47F2-AA4B-13991283AA66@comcast.net> Message-ID: <4F68D775.8030705@fybush.com> On 3/20/2012 2:12 PM, Jeff Lehmann wrote: > The last broadcast station to transmit from up there was the old 101.3 translator for WFNX. > Which would have been worth a pretty penny if FNX hadn't shut it down when moving to One Financial Center. The translator could have moved to that site, too, and even if it wasn't immediately useful for anything at the time, it would now be usable as an HD-2 or AM translator, probably worth in the very low six figures. From markwats@comcast.net Tue Mar 20 17:12:42 2012 From: markwats@comcast.net (Mark Watson) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:12:42 -0400 Subject: Jack Williams Decides To Give Up Anchoring WBZ's 11 PM News Message-ID: WBZ-TV's Jack Williams announced today he will no longer anchor the weeknight 11 o'clock news as of next Monday. Williams said he made the decision because he wants to spend more time with his wife and the station is OK with his decision and told him they want him there as long as he wants to be there. Williams, who has been with WBZ-TV since 1975 will continue to work the 6 PM news. Link to Boston Herald story: http://www.bostonherald.com/business/media/view/20220320jack_williams_stepping_down_from_11_pm_news/srvc=home&position=4 Mark Watson From m_carney@yahoo.com Tue Mar 20 17:02:31 2012 From: m_carney@yahoo.com (Maureen Carney) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Jack Williams cutting back Message-ID: <1332277351.77152.YahooMailNeo@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Jack Williams announced that he's giving up the 11p news on WBZ, but will remain on for the 6p: ? http://bostonherald.com/business/media/view/20220320jack_williams_stepping_down_from_11_pm_news/srvc=home&position=4 ? Jonathan Elias will take over at 10p on WSBK and the 11p shift. From ecps92@earthlink.net Tue Mar 20 18:45:26 2012 From: ecps92@earthlink.net (~Bill) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:45:26 -0400 Subject: WJDA Quincy In-Reply-To: <1332277351.77152.YahooMailNeo@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1332277351.77152.YahooMailNeo@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <02e101cd06eb$291f22c0$7b5d6840$@net> It was mentioned to me, this past weekend that WJDA is likely off the Long-Wire and now on a new Tower in Quincy as of the past few weeks. Bill Dunn N1KUG Cruise Ship Frequencies http://scanmaritime.com/ From dlh@donnahalper.com Tue Mar 20 19:58:38 2012 From: dlh@donnahalper.com (Donna Halper) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:58:38 -0400 Subject: Jack Williams cutting back In-Reply-To: <1332277351.77152.YahooMailNeo@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1332277351.77152.YahooMailNeo@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4F6919AE.6030601@donnahalper.com> On 3/20/2012 5:02 PM, Maureen Carney wrote: > Jack Williams announced that he's giving up the 11p news on WBZ, but will remain on for the 6p: > What's sad is some of the hateful remarks in the Herald's comments section. Some people just can't be courteous, I guess. I didn't work with him very often (my work is mainly with the radio side), but every time we ran into each other, he could not have been nicer. Jack is a class act and his work on behalf of "Wednesday's Child" earned him medals from both Republican and Democratic presidents. From ben@mailforlevy.com Sat Mar 3 12:19:06 2012 From: ben@mailforlevy.com (Benjamin Levy) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:19:06 -0500 Subject: WPKZ To Air Yankees Games In-Reply-To: <1330791350.45935.YahooMailNeo@web110503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <689AC2BC296640B3AFC5825F5DFEF9EE@MarkOTS3> <1330791350.45935.YahooMailNeo@web110503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <505D09E0-2F1B-4061-8D34-F148E66BC0C1@mailforlevy.com> WCMX 1000 is also in Fitchburg, currently being run as a religious daytimer. WLXO is too powerful to be a network sports station, it's signal reaches all the way back to 128 and beyond. On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Sean Smyth wrote: > Kevin Vahey writes: > >> T he podcast mentions a new station will have the Red Sox in Fitchburg. >> >> Is WCRN safe for 2012? > > What other stations are there in Fitchburg, besides WFGL? Unless WXLO were to flip ... > > I thought I read on here years back that WCRN doesn't pay for the affiliation, and Entercom in exchange keeps the ad revenue. If that's the case I'd imagine Entercom keeps WCRN on board as long as WCRN wants. > From ben@mailforlevy.com Sat Mar 3 19:57:07 2012 From: ben@mailforlevy.com (Benjamin Levy) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 19:57:07 -0500 Subject: Territories In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6EED45C6-E199-4370-BB69-01ACAFC7FDE6@mailforlevy.com> Wasn't it simpler when the nighttime signal of WCBS could make it all the way to New England? 50kW clear channel licenses aren't what they used to be. Ben On Mar 3, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Mike Ward wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote: > >> Doing a little digging and radio exclusive territories are now defined by >> home and adjacent counties. Worcester County does not touch Suffolk so it >> OK. >> >> Baltimore is allowed to broadcast in DC as part of the deal letting >> Montreal move to Washington. >> >> But of note here: > > * WTIG/990 Massillon OH (Stark County, very much Indians territory): "ESPN > 990" has been a long-time affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. The Indians are > on WHBC/1480 Canton and other area stations, including WQKT/104.5 Wooster. > Both boom into Massillon. > * The Yankees always seem to have at least one or two Florida affiliates. > Their most recent list includes stations from Alaska to Iowa to North > Carolina, not to mention existing affils in MA and NH. > http://newyork.cbslocal.com/yankeesradionetwork/ From dfaneuf@bu.edu Wed Mar 14 22:25:30 2012 From: dfaneuf@bu.edu (Faneuf, Dave) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:25:30 +0000 Subject: Dave Faneuf update Message-ID: <0CAFBF6CDCC66C4E9734145B866724F20A40F482@IST-EX10MBX-3.ad.bu.edu> Hello all, It has been quite some time since I have posted. I was told about the post that Laurence made back in Nov. I read it and figured I'd bring you up to date with a thumbnail update. I have two kinds of cancer, prostate and a rare brain cancer called Chrodoma. Treatment for the prostate cancer is scheduled to end this fall after almost 2 and a half years. Chordoma is very rare, only about 300 cases diagnosed a year in the U-S (damn, I should have played the lottery! LOL ) As Laurence mentioned I did have surgery to remove the brain tumor last July, they got most but not all of it. I then underwent a couple of months of Proton Beam Radiation at Mass General. Next step is an MRI this summer to see if we have put the tumor back into its dormant state. I've been back at work since January and I am doing nights again on WBUR. There is certainly more, but that's a thumbnail of what is going on. I feel good and everything is back to normal (of course I was never normal before all this happened! :) ) Later Dave Faneuf From lglavin@mail.com Tue Mar 20 14:08:11 2012 From: lglavin@mail.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:08:11 -0400 Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? Message-ID: <20120320180811.132230@gmx.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: Bob Nelson >Sent: 03/20/12 11:37 AM >To: (newsgroup) Boston-Radio-Interest >Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? >The recent blackout in Boston led to backup transmitters being used >for several stations whose towers were on the >Prudential Building and it led me to thinking: what about the Hancock >Tower? Do any stations broadcast from >that skyscraper now, or did they in the past? I had thought at least >one did, and bostonradio.org confirmed it, in its >page about WZLX >>In 1980, the FM transmitter was moved to the Hancock Tower in downtown Boston. It didn't stay there for long, however: the transmitter burned up in 1982, and the Hancock people decided that they really didn't want broadcasters on their building if the equipment was going to do that WBCN in its earliest incarnation, 1968 and thereafter, operated with an antenna atop the original John Hancock Building for many years. They first ran 20,000 watts horizontal up there with maybe a one or two-bay vertical antenna, took it down and boosted the ERP to 50K with perhaps the first circularly-polarized antenna I remember seeing. So Hancock management knew it was possible to run a radio station on the top floor without experiencing any fiery disaster...speaking of which: unless I missed it, the two Boston general-circulation newspapers never seemed to mention the problems with radio stations atop The Pru during the recent electricity outage in the Back Bay. Goes to show that every since the departure of regular radio columnists like Susan Bickelhaupt and Clea Simon, no matter how people here obsess on matters radio, it's a backburner-item for most journalists. From lglavin@mail.com Wed Mar 21 13:59:43 2012 From: lglavin@mail.com (Laurence Glavin) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:59:43 -0400 Subject: WJDA Quincy Message-ID: <20120321175943.209760@gmx.com> >----- Original Message ----- >From: ~Bill >Sent: 03/20/12 06:45 PM >To: 'Boston Radio Group' >Subject: WJDA Quincy >It was mentioned to me, this past weekend that WJDA is likely off the >Long-Wire and now on a new Tower in Quincy as of the past few weeks. >Bill Dunn N1KUG >Cruise Ship Frequencies >http://scanmaritime.com/ Where I live, about 30 miles north of Boston, it comes in almost as well as it did before. (I have a radio with a display of relative signal strength. Previously, WJDA was a little bit stronger than WORC-AM 1310 right next to it; now it's about the same. Non-directional WMKK-AM 1260 transmitting from Quincy surprisingly only a little bit stronger). From joe@attorneyross.com Wed Mar 21 15:40:10 2012 From: joe@attorneyross.com (A. Joseph Ross) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:10 -0400 Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? In-Reply-To: <20120320180811.132230@gmx.com> References: <20120320180811.132230@gmx.com> Message-ID: <4F6A2E9A.3030200@attorneyross.com> On 3/20/2012 2:08 PM, Laurence Glavin wrote: > WBCN in its earliest incarnation, 1968 and thereafter, operated with > an antenna atop the original John Hancock Building for many years. WBCN's earliest incarnation was circa 1958 as a classical music station, when the call letters stood for "Boston Concert Network." The studios were on Newbury Street, and even then, they used to say that their transmitter was atop the John Hancock Building. That was before there even was a Pru or a Hancock Tower. -- A. Joseph Ross, J.D. 617.367.0468 92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax: 617.507.7856 Boston, MA 02109-2004 http://www.attorneyross.com From Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com Thu Mar 22 02:06:07 2012 From: Donald_Astelle@yahoo.com (Don) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:06:07 -0400 Subject: Radio stations on the Hancock Tower...? References: <20120320180811.132230@gmx.com> <4F6A2E9A.3030200@attorneyross.com> Message-ID: <359D7AED63B7474894AA00372C6778CB@s20035> > WBCN's earliest incarnation was circa 1958 as a classical music station, > when the call letters stood for "Boston Concert Network." The studios > were on Newbury Street, and even then, they used to say that their > transmitter was atop the John Hancock Building. That was before there > even was a Pru or a Hancock Tower. Yes they transmitted from the old Hancock building. Or the "smaller" Hancock building. The one with the weather tower. From chris2526@comcast.net Fri Mar 23 00:42:29 2012 From: chris2526@comcast.net (Chris Hall) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:42:29 -0400 Subject: Philadelphia tower question Message-ID: <1E5092F026A141ADA852AAC5AFD1849B@chrisHP> I know this is a Boston board but I know there are many Philly people who also read it. Tonight I saw an old Rosalyn Russell movie on TCM called ?Where angels go trouble follows? It was filmed in the Philadelphia area. As they leave on a cross country bus trip I saw an I-76 sign in an area that was farmland with a tall two tower directional array with medium spacing between them. The towers looked to be of hefty width possibly in the Norristown area could this be the KYW array? The movie was filmed around 1967 so I suspect what was farmland then is now Philadelphia suburban sprawl. From dan.strassberg@att.net Fri Mar 23 09:00:00 2012 From: dan.strassberg@att.net (Dan.Strassberg) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:00:00 -0400 Subject: Philadelphia tower question References: <1E5092F026A141ADA852AAC5AFD1849B@chrisHP> Message-ID: WIP also has two towers but they are much further apart relative to their height than are KYW's towers. For KYW, D/H ~ 0.9. For WIP, D/H ~ 3 (where D = distance between towers and H = tower height). For KYW, H = 464'; for WIP, H = 273'. WTMR (800 Camden NJ--part of the Philly market) has two towers as well. but they are of unequal height and are extremely closely spaced (45 degrees). ----- Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net) eFax 1-707-215-6367 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hall" To: Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 12:42 AM Subject: Philadelphia tower question I know this is a Boston board but I know there are many Philly people who also read it. Tonight I saw an old Rosalyn Russell movie on TCM called ?Where angels go trouble follows? It was filmed in the Philadelphia area. As they leave on a cross country bus trip I saw an I-76 sign in an area that was farmland with a tall two tower directional array with medium spacing between them. The towers looked to be of hefty width possibly in the Norristown area could this be the KYW array? The movie was filmed around 1967 so I suspect what was farmland then is now Philadelphia suburban sprawl. From scott@fybush.com Fri Mar 23 11:24:30 2012 From: scott@fybush.com (Scott Fybush) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:24:30 -0400 Subject: Philadelphia tower question In-Reply-To: <1E5092F026A141ADA852AAC5AFD1849B@chrisHP> References: <1E5092F026A141ADA852AAC5AFD1849B@chrisHP> Message-ID: <4F6C95AE.5040300@fybush.com> On 3/23/2012 12:42 AM, Chris Hall wrote: > I know this is a Boston board but I know there are many Philly people > who also read it. Tonight I saw an old Rosalyn Russell movie on TCM > called ?Where angels go trouble follows? It was filmed in the > Philadelphia area. As they leave on a cross country bus trip I saw an > I-76 sign in an area that was farmland with a tall two tower > directional array with medium spacing between them. The towers looked > to be of hefty width possibly in the Norristown area could this be > the KYW array? The movie was filmed around 1967 so I suspect what was > farmland then is now Philadelphia suburban sprawl. I have a hunch that what you saw wasn't actually a DA. I'll bet it was the Roxborough TV/FM tower farm, which is very easily seen just across the Schuylkill River from I-76. The movie was released in 1968, and if it was shot a year or two earlier, most of the towers that now stand in Roxborough wouldn't quite have been built yet. It might also have been KYW, but that's just far enough north of 76 that it wouldn't have been easily visible. It's also entirely possible that the scene was shot on a different road and the production designers had put a fake "I-76" shield there for effect. s