Breaking News!?! Sorry WCVB, I don't think so....

[Kevin Vahey]

Gary - The Red Sox are #1 BUT

Pats only play 16 games plus playoffs so their games are 'events' - Red Sox
are daily for 6 months.




On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>wrote:

> I disagree Sean....everyone I know is much more interested in the Red Sox
> than the Patriots.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
> Sean Smyth
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 8:47 PM
> To: Kevin Vahey; Rob Landry
> Cc: Boston Radio Group
> Subject: Re: Breaking News!?! Sorry WCVB, I don't think so....
>
> On Monday, December 9, 2013 8:09 PM, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The game had a 34.1/62 rating on channel 4 which translates to 807,000
> > households so a lot of people were interested.
>
> > Many others were Christmas shopping yesterday so that alert may have
> > brought them a smile. Now if they had sent out an alert that BC lost
> > its basketball game I would agree but the Patriots are huge.
>
>
>
> And let's reflect for a bit how big the Patriots have gotten. Before
> Parcells/Bledsoe, they were a non-entity around here and went through a few
> year spell of rarely having games on TV. An entire generation is now rabid
> for the team, thanks to the Pats' prolonged success. Had someone said to me
> in 1992 that the Patriots could one day arguably be the No. 1 pro sports
> team, I would've laughed. Hard. For an extended period of time.
>
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