REGIONAL SPORTS NET BASED AT WCRB?

[raccoonradio]

Where I work in N. Reading 99.5 would be great--stick in Andover.

[Eli Polonsky]

Where I work in N. Reading 99.5 would be great--stick in Andover.

Yes, whenever I drive by that Route 93/495 area where I can see their tower, the IBOC splash from 99.5 is all over the middle part of the dial!

[jlehmann]

Where I work in N. Reading 99.5 would be great--stick in Andover.

Yes, whenever I drive by that Route 93/495 area where I can see their tower, the IBOC splash from 99.5 is all over the middle part of the dial!

When their IBOC was off the air for a couple months earlier this spring/summer, I thought they might be addressing that issue. Apparently not though, it's just as bad as ever. You'd think stations like WPLM and WHEB would complain about it. It's much worse than any IBOC FM station I've ever heard. All the others only take up the first adjacent freqs (ex. 96.9's is on 96.7 and 97.1.)

[Laurence Glavin]

Where I work in N. Reading 99.5 would be great--stick in Andover.

Yes, whenever I drive by that Route 93/495 area where I can see their tower, the IBOC splash from 99.5 is all over the middle part of the dial!

When their IBOC was off the air for a couple months earlier this spring/summer, I thought they might be addressing that issue. Apparently not though, it's just as bad as ever. You'd think stations like WPLM and WHEB would complain about it. It's much worse than any IBOC FM station I've ever heard. All the others only take up the first adjacent freqs (ex. 96.9's is on 96.7 and 97.1.)

There's a Spanish-language "religious" pirate operating on 99.9 in Lawrence (a popular frequency for the type of operation there).  While WCRB's IBOC was non-operational, the outlet that calls itself "La Voz de Fey"  could be heard fairly well.  Now WCRB's hash destroys it except around 99.9's transmitter apparently in the Tower Hill section of Lawrence.

[raccoonradio]

In Fybush's 1995 Year in Review, he speculated WCRB might change format--in about 97 years (referring to
that trust that would keep it classical). But nobody could have foreseen that a loophole could be found
that would _keep_ WCRB but change the freq...thus the country on 102.5. Who's to say that Entercom
won't buy more of WCRB and move sports to 99.5 (I think Fybush just noted that 99.5's signal fills some
holes in the WEEI pattern)? They could give us Classical 97.7. Who knows, WCRB may wind up moving frequencies almost as much as WCLB/WKLB has (105.7, 96.9. 99.5, 102.5)

Imagine WEEI on 99.5 (or 93.7) north of Boston and 97.7 south of Boston. Could happen (and even
if WRKO is Sox's flagship, 99.5 or 93.7, or 97.7 for that matter, could carry games, too). The crack
of the bat and the sound of the crowd in stereo. No signal fade at night*. Any of a number of
things could happen.

*--WEEI used to play a tape of what sounded like an older woman saying, "Hello! I would like to know
what happened to WEEI in the evenings..."

Consult Fybush's column today to see where 6 of the 11 stations picking up WEEI are...among them
is Pixy 103 on Cape Cod. Also stations in Upper Valley, Laconia (WEMJ which had carried
Howie for awhile)  and Portland.

http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html

[rapking]

In Fybush's 1995 Year in Review, he speculated WCRB might change format--in about 97 years (referring to
that trust that would keep it classical). But nobody could have foreseen that a loophole could be found
that would _keep_ WCRB but change the freq...thus the country on 102.5. Who's to say that Entercom
won't buy more of WCRB and move sports to 99.5 (I think Fybush just noted that 99.5's signal fills some
holes in the WEEI pattern)? They could give us Classical 97.7. Who knows, WCRB may wind up moving frequencies almost as much as WCLB/WKLB has (105.7, 96.9. 99.5, 102.5)

Imagine WEEI on 99.5 (or 93.7) north of Boston and 97.7 south of Boston. Could happen (and even
if WRKO is Sox's flagship, 99.5 or 93.7, or 97.7 for that matter, could carry games, too). The crack
of the bat and the sound of the crowd in stereo. No signal fade at night*. Any of a number of
things could happen.

*--WEEI used to play a tape of what sounded like an older woman saying, "Hello! I would like to know
what happened to WEEI in the evenings..."

Consult Fybush's column today to see where 6 of the 11 stations picking up WEEI are...among them
is Pixy 103 on Cape Cod. Also stations in Upper Valley, Laconia (WEMJ which had carried
Howie for awhile)  and Portland.

http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html

WEEI on 97.7 waste of signal . WEEI 103.7 come in like a local, from Canton MA to R.I. WEEI on 93.7 ? I am all for that ( anything to get Mike off the air ).

[grover750]

Hi
THIS IS 'MARSHFIELD FAIR GUY"
Just wanted to say THANKS
and ALL the BEST
just Got removed from the website
now thats about as Bad as not being
chosen for the Basketball team in High school
Joe Mc Millan

[rapking]

Hi
THIS IS 'MARSHFIELD FAIR GUY"
Just wanted to say THANKS
and ALL the BEST
just Got removed from the website
now thats about as Bad as not being
chosen for the Basketball team in High school
Joe Mc Millan

Huh 

[Ciao]

In Fybush's 1995 Year in Review, he speculated WCRB might change format--in about 97 years (referring to
that trust that would keep it classical). But nobody could have foreseen that a loophole could be found
that would _keep_ WCRB but change the freq...thus the country on 102.5. Who's to say that Entercom
won't buy more of WCRB and move sports to 99.5 (I think Fybush just noted that 99.5's signal fills some
holes in the WEEI pattern)? They could give us Classical 97.7. Who knows, WCRB may wind up moving frequencies almost as much as WCLB/WKLB has (105.7, 96.9. 99.5, 102.5)

Imagine WEEI on 99.5 (or 93.7) north of Boston and 97.7 south of Boston. Could happen (and even
if WRKO is Sox's flagship, 99.5 or 93.7, or 97.7 for that matter, could carry games, too). The crack
of the bat and the sound of the crowd in stereo. No signal fade at night*. Any of a number of
things could happen.

*--WEEI used to play a tape of what sounded like an older woman saying, "Hello! I would like to know
what happened to WEEI in the evenings..."

Consult Fybush's column today to see where 6 of the 11 stations picking up WEEI are...among them
is Pixy 103 on Cape Cod. Also stations in Upper Valley, Laconia (WEMJ which had carried
Howie for awhile)  and Portland.

http://www.fybush.com/nerw.html

99.5 would be most appropriate for Latin programming, it covers the key areas where the Hispanic community lives.

[Extra]

how to wreck ratings.  WCRB took centuries, longer than radio's been in existence, to get great numbers.  Then Greater Media takes a wrecking ball to it for their country station.   Now the Classical goes to HD?  Does the consumer even know what HD is and how expensive it is to get it?