ESPN NH New Flagship Stations For U Mass Lowell Hockey

[Kevin Vahey]

WCAP gets the games with no cost involved - so good move by them


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>wrote:

> Interesting....you certainly can't hear 900 in Lowell at night.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org
> [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Watson
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 9:27 AM
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: ESPN NH New Flagship Stations For U Mass Lowell Hockey
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>   The start of the college hockey season brings a change in the radio
> landscape for U Mass Lowell Hockey broadcasts. U Mass Lowell's Athletic
> Department announced this week that the hockey radiobroadcasts will air on
> the ESPN River Hawk Radio Network, with flagship station ESPN 900 in Nashua
> (WGHM?), affiliate stations ESPN 1250 (WGAM?), WSMN 1590 in Nashua and WCAP
> in Lowell. Longtime River Hawks hockey voice Bob Ellis will be calling the
> action on the new network. The past several seasons the U Mass Lowell
> station WUML (91.5) broadcast the games, with WCAP simulcasting (and
> covering the WUML PSA's with ads/station promos).
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>   In my opinion, U Mass Lowell striking a deal with a station in Nashua is
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> slap in the face to WCAP. Unless they tried to work a deal with 'CAP first
> and it didn't pan out, or they weren't interested in flagship status.
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> Link to press release from U Mass Lowell athletics site:
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> http://www.goriverhawks.com/news/2013/10/8/MICE_1008132836.aspx?path=mhockey
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> Mark Watson
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