Blue Rocks games

[DToTheJ]

@Pilgrimway: You think the Blue Rocks radio situation is sad... The Islanders have their games heard on a college radio station. Mind you, this is an NHL franchise, and a once-proud one at that...

[jhguthlac]

ProducerGuy:  The stations only send the games through their studio equipment and transmitter.  The team pays them, hires the on-air folks, etc.  Any station with a license and transmitter can air the games and get paid for it!
Clear Channel couldn't even get that right! Having a transmitter at 42 watts for a couple of innings each night turns people off!

[MikefromDelaware]

CC rather than preempt one of their predictable, boring, talk shows on WILM at 1450 ( Savage most likely), aired the Blue Rocks on their 1290 station with that power down to 42 watts thus most folks more than a few blocks from the Riverfront couldn't hear the game.  At least with WILM the signal gets to the Bear area and to the upper Concord Pike, just below the PA/DEL line when dusk arrives thus serving far more people that WWTX 1290 at night. 

Frankly, I don't see why they didn't air the Rocks on 94.7 WDSD.  Most radio stations don't have stellar ratings at night, so why not air baseball and make some money both from the Rocks AND sponsors. 

[jhguthlac]

Mike, I suspect that the price for airing the games on WDSD would be more than the team could afford. Stations few listen to, such as WWTX and the NJ student station, would be very inexpensive.

[MikefromDelaware]

So essentially that leaves Rowen Radio WGLS, WVUD UofD radio, WWTX, or WMPH Mount Pleasant High radio.