May 8, 2006
Sox & Entercom: So Happy Together?
*For the second week in a row, the big story
out of MASSACHUSETTS is the tussle over the Red Sox radio
rights for the 2007 season. But this week, there's no tussle
- just the dotting of i's and crossing of t's on what appears
to be a record-breaking deal that will keep the Sox with Entercom
for ten more years and a reported $200 million in rights fees.
 As NERW goes to
press late Sunday night, there's still no definitive confirmation
from Entercom or from the team, and there's always the chance
that anything could happen in this topsy-turvy saga. With Greater
Media having exited the bidding war on Friday, though, the continuation
of the team's relationship with Entercom became all but inevitable.
What's not inevitable, however, is another season of Sox baseball
on flagship WEEI (850 Boston). Instead, Entercom reportedly plans
to return the team's play-by-play to WRKO (680 Boston), the talk
station that was the Sox flagship through much of the late eighties
and early nineties (and in several earlier stints as well.)
The idea, it would appear, is to use the strength of the Sox
as a promotional tool to boost the fortunes of WRKO, which has
struggled in recent years against Greater's WTKK (96.9 Boston),
among other competitors. For day games, WRKO also offers a somewhat
larger signal footprint than the more directional WEEI, especially
to the south and out over Cape Cod. At night, however, WRKO suffers
even more than WEEI from a restrictive directional pattern -
and that means Entercom will almost certainly have to look at
additional ways to make sure its pricey Sox coverage reaches
the wealthy listener base west of Route 128. (See our speculation
in last
week's NERW about possible FM options for Entercom...)
As for WEEI itself, the loss of Sox play-by-play shouldn't
hurt much. The sports station is increasingly focused on building
a regional network, with outlets in several markets where the
local Sox rights are held by competitors. The team has never
been heard on Worcester's WVEI (1440), and it won't be heard
on Springfield's WVEI-FM (105.5 Easthampton) when that signal
signs on shortly, either. We hear Entercom is actively pursuing
new acquisitions in Maine and New Hampshire as well, where the
team has longstanding relationships with many local affiliates.
With a consistent talk schedule fed from Boston to all the WEEI
stations (or nearly all - the games will still be heard on Rhode
Island's WEEI-FM, as best we can tell), it may well be easier
for Entercom to put the play-by-play itself on a different Boston
signal.
(What about veteran Sox broadcasters Joe Castiglione and Jerry
Trupiano? The Herald reports they haven't yet signed a
contract for next season, but that the team would like to keep
them on board.)
We're still not quite ready to put on our "It's a done
deal" T-shirts, but there's certainly every reason to believe
the Sox now have the rights package they were looking for, at
a price that should make the team the envy of its rivals, and
with a long contract that means we won't need to go through this
much speculating again for a good many years.
MONDAY MORNING UPDATE: Get out that T-shirt - the deal is now official,
according to an announcement on WEEI's Dennis and Callahan morning
show.
Before we hang up the ol' speculator, though, there are a
few more questions that deserve to be brought up:
- What happens now with Greater Media? There were, we're
told, big sighs of relief at WBOS (92.9) when the parent company
pulled out of the negotiations last week. Without Sox games as
a selling point, there's no reason to expect WBOS to follow through
with the rumored switch to sports talk, and every reason to expect
the station to stick with its AAA/modern AC format. But the soap
opera at Greater is far from over - the company still has a few
more weeks to wrap up the ongoing negotiations to buy WCRB (102.5)
from Charles River Broadcasting, and if that deal still
goes through, that means there will still be spinoffs and format
shifts to keep Greater's Boston cluster under the ownership cap.
And if the Sox do help WRKO strengthen its position in the talk
radio wars, will Greater's WTKK find some way to retaliate? (Greater's
apparent exit from the sports arena also means that "ESPN
Boston" WAMG/WLLH has dodged a very big bullet...)
- What about Sox day games on weekdays? A Sox game that
starts at 1 PM will wipe out the most successful part of WRKO's
schedule - the afternoon lineup of Rush Limbaugh and Howie Carr.
Carr's show has to go on regardless of the Sox, since it's syndicated
to other stations in New England (more on that in a moment).
Will those games move back to WEEI?
- Whither the Celtics? Yeah, there's still an NBA team
in Boston, and they've been sharing the evening hours on WRKO
with the floundering "Taste of Boston Tonight." It's
hard to imagine "Taste" surviving an entire season
of Sox pre-emptions, but it's easy to imagine the Celts moving
back to WEEI, at least for games that conflict with the Sox.
- And...what about Framingham? From its transmitter
site in Needham, WEEI puts a reasonable signal into Natick and
Framingham after dark. From Burlington, WRKO's signal all but
vanishes out there. It's safe to assume the Sox won't want the
same sort of "weak signal" publicity that's hounded
teams such as the Phillies and Cardinals after changing stations
in recent years. Expect some sort of fix - most likely an FM
simulcast on Entercom's WMKK or WAAF - before the first pitch
is thrown in 2007.
- Bottom line - will the deal be worth it to Entercom? $20
million a year is a lot of money for baseball rights, and ten
years is a long time in a game where a team's fortunes can change
in a single season. (A ten-year deal for the Celtics would have
looked pretty good in 1986, wouldn't it?) Last week, we suggested
that WEEI could get by just fine without overspending on the
Sox. It would appear that Entercom agreed - but in the process,
it's apparently making a very expensive gamble that the Sox will
be strong enough to carry WRKO back to prominence. There's a
very long and proud heritage at the 680 spot on the dial, and
the Sox were a big part of that heritage for many years. But
bringing listeners to 680 at night and on the weekends won't
be enough by itself. WRKO will have to be ready to seize the
opportunity in morning drive that will appear when WBZ's Gary
LaPierre retires later this year, and it will have to shore up
the other weaknesses on its schedule (mid-mornings and evenings,
mostly) if it has any hope of regaining its former glory as "The
Talk Station."
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 *The Sox deal was
just one aspect of a pretty big radio week in the Bay State.
In Worcester, WCRN (830) pulled the plug on its "True Oldies"
format over the weekend, and today it officially relaunches as
"True Talk AM 830," returning former WRKO morning host
Peter Blute to the airwaves for a 7-9 AM show. The station's
existing block of leased financial talk continues after Blute,
and then its lineup will include Laura Ingraham (1-3 PM), Howie
Carr (3-7 PM) and Michael Savage (7-10 PM). Jerry Doyle in overnights
and Doug Stephan in early mornings round out the weekday schedule
there.
Boston's "Kiss 108" (WXKS-FM 107.9 Medford) has
parted ways with David Corey, who came to the station 22 years
ago as a high school intern and rose to become assistant PD/music
director before budget cuts led to his position being cut.
 Out
west, "Live 105" is no more - WBEC-FM (105.5 Pittsfield)
fell silent last week, in preparation for the station's impending
move to Springfield to become WVEI-FM. The format continues down
the dial, though, as do the calls, on what's now "Live 95.9."
(If you're following this closely, the last piece in the callsign
chess game came a few days ago, when 95.9 changed calls from
WMNB to WBEC-FM.) With the relaunch come some shift changes:
Bob Heck joins Kellie Gilbert in mornings, while Mike Patrick
moves from mornings to OM/middays and Chris Carr moves from middays
to afternoons.
 And
we conclude our Massachusetts report this week with some sad
news: veteran helicopter traffic reporter Joe Green died last
Wednesday (May 3) at 76. Green began his career at WHDH in 1963,
but in 1968 he moved to WBZ, where "Joe Green in the BZ
Copter" became a staple of the Hub commute for more than
a quarter of a century.
Green kept to himself (your editor, who worked at the station
for five years, never met him), but he found his way into the
headlines with several daring rescues, saving two boys stranded
on a raft in Dorchester and rescuing a University of Lowell student
from the Merrimack River. Green was also featured in a Pulitzer
Prize-winning photo in 1975, landing his helicopter on a rooftop
in what proved an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a woman from
a burning building.
Green retired in 1995, but the distinctive figure he cut in
Boston traffic reporting (complete with cigar and a handheld
mic, all while he was flying low over the city) won't soon be
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*In RHODE ISLAND, WPRO (630 Providence)
has named Paul Giammarco as its new PD. Giammarco had been serving
as interim PD since the departure of David Bernstein last fall.
*Yes, we were a little behind in our "Sopranos"
viewing - blame that trip to Las Vegas for NAB - but we're all
caught up now, including the episode last week in which a NEW
HAMPSHIRE Public Radio legal ID is heard on the clock radio
in the B&B where Vito's hiding out from the "family."
NHPR provided a few samples of its ID for the show's producers,
we're told. Alas, the full six-station (plus translators) ID
was cut down to just two stations (WEVO Concord and WEVJ Jackson)
for the show.
*In CONNECTICUT, the new My Network
TV has signed an affiliate, and it's no surprise at all: LIN's
WCTX (Channel 59) in New Haven will migrate from UPN to My when
the new network launches in September.
 *Two NEW JERSEY AM stations remain silent
after a fire destroyed their transmitter site late Wednesday
night. WOND (1400 Pleasantville), WTKU (1490 Pleasantville),
WMGM (103.7 Atlantic City) and WMGM-CA (Channel 7 Atlantic City)
all transmitted from what was originally the WOND transmitter/studio
site next to the Atlantic City Expressway tollbooths, and all
four stations were knocked off the air by the fire, which apparently
started in the building's electrical system.
It's a credit to the cooperation among South Jersey engineers
that the FM signal was back on the air within a few hours, transmitting
at reduced power from a backup facility for WPUR (107.3) atop
the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. There's still no
word on when the two AMs, or the low-power TV signal, which relays
WMGM-TV (Channel 40), can get back on the air. WOND's talk programming
is still being heard over the Internet and sister station WGYM
(1580 Hammonton), while WTKU was relaying the oldies of WTKU-FM
(98.3 Ocean City).
In Trenton, WPST (94.5) moves Tommy Jordan from nights to
morning drive, while naming Matt Sneed as assistant PD, in addition
to his music director and afternoon drive duties.
And WDHA (105.5 Dover) has parted ways with
the morning team of "Matt and Fuzzball."
*They may not be gone long, though - they're rumored to be
heading to NEW YORK and nights on "Free FM"
WFNY-FM (92.3), which now has multiple holes to fill on its schedule.
In addition to the departure of evening host Booker, who's now
with Philadelphia's WIOQ, the late night duo of Jake and Jackie
are also gone from the station.
The "Z100 Morning Zoo" at WHTZ (100.3 Newark NJ-New
York) is about to get a new double identity. With the departure
of veteran morning man "Footy" at Miami's "Y100"
WHYI-FM (100.7 Fort Lauderdale), the New York morning crew will
now also be heard down there as the "Y100 Morning Zoo."
The crew at "Hot 97" (WQHT 97.1) might be thinking
Miami looks pretty good, too - they're now fighting an eviction
notice from the carpenters' union that owns the Hudson Street
building where WQHT and its two Emmis sister stations have their
studios. The NYPD has also put a surveillance camera outside
the building, in hopes of fending off another shooting like the
one that prompted the eviction proceedings.
Univision Radio's "La Kalle" WCAA (105.9 Newark
NJ)/WZAA (92.7 Garden City) has a new PD. Alix Q comes to New
York from Las Vegas, where he was programming sister station
KRGT (99.3) until that station flipped from Hurban to "Recuerdo"
Spanish oldies late last year.
The new look of New York's "Fox 5" WNYW-TV wasn't
supposed to include a simulcast of sister station "My 9,"
WWOR-TV. But a power failure at WNYW's studios on East 67th Street
Wednesday night knocked out the 10 PM news there just after it
started, and after some technical glitches, channel 5 switched
over to a simulcast of WWOR's newscast for the rest of the hour.
 Heading
upstate, WFLY (92.3 Troy) is looking for a new morning team,
now that Candy and Potter are decamping for Charlotte, North
Carolina and the noon-3 slot on WLNK (107.9). ("The Link"
is a most interesting station, serving as home base for the syndicated
"Bob and Sheri" morning show and then continuing with
a series of morning show-like pairings of personalities for the
rest of the day.)
In Syracuse, WFBL (1390) has thrown in the towel on local
talk, replacing Bill Colley's morning show with a repeat of the
previous night's Michael Savage show. The station has also changed
news partners, switching to WTVH (Channel 5) to provide its news
and weather.
There's a new DTV signal on the air in Syracuse, as UPN (soon
to be My) affiliate WNYS-TV (Channel 43) finally got its digital
signal on the air on channel 44 late last week, after several
years of holdups over Canadian interference coordination.
And in Elmira/Corning, Ally Pain joins "Wink 106"
(WNKI 106.1 Corning) as Scott Free's new morning sidekick.
*One of PENNSYLVANIA's most prominent
broadcast companies is no more. Susquehanna was officially merged
into Cumulus Broadcasting last week, putting an end to decades
of broadcast tradition from its base in York. Around the country,
there's word of numerous Susquehanna veterans whose services
aren't being retained by Cumulus. At the stations in York (WSBA
910, WARM-FM 103.3 and WSOX 96.1), VP/market manager Tina Heim
retired last week, ending a long career with Susquehanna.
In Philadelphia, little WPEB (88.1) is changing hands. West
Philadelphia Broadcasting Foundation is selling the station to
Scribe Video Center for $70,000. At the same time, WPEB has been
granted a construction permit to move a few blocks southeast
to a new site at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue in West Philadelphia,
where it will run 1 watt at 69 feet above average terrain. (WPEB
has been silent for a while, and the move will apparently ease
some interference problems it's been having.)
In Reading, WIOV-FM (105.1) PD Dick Raymond has parted ways
with the Citadel country station.
Over in the northwestern corner of the state, WWCB (1370 Corry)
gets an $8,000 fine from the FCC for problems with its EAS gear.
(WWCB didn't respond to the FCC's initial Notice of Apparent
Violation about the issue.)
And on the TV dial, WILF (Channel 53) in Williamsport has
signed up as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre affiliate for My Network
TV. WILF has always been a satellite of Scranton stations, first
of Fox affiliate WOLF-TV, then more recently of WB/UPN affiliate
WSWB-TV. We're guessing it will rely on cable carriage (and perhaps
a DTV subchannel on WOLF or WSWB) to get its signal over the
hills into the core of the market.
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May 2, 2005 -
- After 46 years of family ownership, two CONNECTICUT stations
are changing hands. For the last five years, Nutmeg Broadcasting's
WILI (1400 Willimantic) and WILI-FM (98.3 Willimantic) have been
controlled by the Herbert C. Rice Trust, a 30-year trust that
expires at the end of 2005. Last week, GM Michael Rice announced
that the Rice family and the trust will sell Nutmeg Broadcasting
to Hall Communications, which owns nearby WICH (1310 Norwich),
WCTY (97.7 Norwich), WNLC (98.7 East Lyme) and WKNL (100.9 New
London). Details of the transaction have not yet been disclosed
(it had yet to be filed with the FCC at press time Sunday night),
but Hall says all staffers will stay with WILI, with the exception
of Michael Rice, who'll retire. Norwich market manager Andy Russell
will add responsibility for WILI, but the stations will remain
at their current Willimantic studio location, which Hall will
purchase from the Rice family.
- MASSACHUSETTS is getting another 50,000 watt AM station,
of sorts. Keating Willcox's Willow Farm won FCC permission last
week to crank WNSH (1570 Beverly) up from 500 watts to 50 kilowatts
by day, with a directional pattern that will serve the North
Shore, much of coastal NEW HAMPSHIRE and Maine, and the tip of
Cape Cod - but without much signal down towards Boston and the
South Shore. At night, WNSH will remain an 85 watt, nondirectional
signal serving the area near its transmitter at Endicott College
and not much else. There's a tradeoff - the power increase at
WNSH means the demise of another little local AM station, as
WPEP (1570 Taunton) will surrender its license and go dark. Though
it's only 1000 watts by day and 227 watts at night, WPEP has
more than 55 years of history serving Taunton as effectively
its only local station. (WSNE 93.3 is licensed to Taunton as
well, but it's operated out of Clear Channel's Providence cluster
and serves mainly a RHODE ISLAND audience.)
- We'll start our NEW YORK report on Long Island, where WGSM
(740 Huntington) remains silent as it heads for a second sale
in one year. Atmor Properties, which just bought the station
from K Radio License, is now selling it to Win Radio Properties
for $2.2 million. Win, owned by Richard Yoon, also owns Spanish-language
WCTN (950 Potomac-Cabin John MD); no word on what it might have
in mind for WGSM.
- In western PENNSYLVANIA, EMF Broadcasting's "K-Love"
contemporary Christian format is now on three frequencies. We
knew it was coming to WKVB (107.9 Port Matilda PA), which picked
up K-Love early last week - but now it's on two more frequencies
down in the Johnstown market. Here's how it shook out: Forever
Broadcasting, which is selling its WUZI (105.7 Portage) and WUZY
(97.7 Somerset) to Nick Galli's 2510 Licenses, shut down the
classic hits "Wuzz" format on those two stations last
week, replacing it with a loop directing listeners to new Forever
acquisition WGLU (92.1 Johnstown), which promptly flipped from
"Rock 92.1" to "Rocky," with new calls WRKW,
closely paralleling Forever's "Rocky" WRKY (104.9 Hollidaysburg)
over in Altoona. And 105.7 and 97.7 finished out the week by
changing calls to WLKJ and WLKH, respectively, and flipping to
K-Love - which just happens to take them out of commercial competition
with the Forever group.
May 7, 2001 -
- TORONTO -- It's been nineteen years since WABC dropped music
for talk, more than a dozen since WNBC gave way to WFAN, and
about as long since WLS spun its last tune. But old habits die
hard north of the border, and that's why the 21st century was
already well underway by the time 1050 CHUM finally turned its
back on the music that built its reputation as one of North America's
most important top-40 radio stations.
- Monday, 8:30 AM: It's the last day, and CHUM has opened its
doors to former jocks for a going-away party. More than a hundred
people head out to the roof of the studios for a group picture.
They're forced to wait for a few minutes as Roger Ashby finishes
his morning shift on CHUM-FM and as station founder Allan Waters
makes his way outside to take his rightful place at the center
of the group.
- 10:35 AM: Downstairs, there's just the width of a hallway
separating CHUM past from Team future. On one side, CHUM veterans
Duff Roman and Bob Laine have come downstairs from their executive
suites for one final day behind the mike, serving as ringmasters
for a five-hour "Final Show,"
- 11:30 AM: Heading out to Yonge Street for some fresh air,
we pass workers scraping the "1050 CHUM" logos from
the doors and sticking the new "Team" logos in their
place.
- 1:15 PM: Back at CHUM, the final countdown is underway. While
Laine and Roman continue their show inside, the back parking
lot has been transformed into an outdoor barbecue. The mood,
for the moment, is jovial; there's lots of beer, chicken and
sausages, burgers and hot dogs. In a corner, speakers bring the
last show to the audience, which includes a few CHUM fans looking
on from the end of the driveway.
- 2:35 PM: The chatter at the party dies down quickly as staffers
realize the "Final Show" has entered its final moments.
Jim Waters joins Roman and Laine in the studio to say goodbye
on behalf of CHUM's founding family, and his employees gather
in a large circle around the speakers to listen as Waters reads
a letter from his sister, talking about their father's dedication
to making CHUM a success in its early years. Allan Waters and
his wife Marge are outside with the staff now, and both begin
to cry as the letter is read. By the time he's almost done reading,
Jim Waters is breaking down as well. From our perch in one of
the building's back doors, we can see the crowd at the end of
the driveway growing. On the balconies of the high-rise apartments
around CHUM, a few curious faces begin to peer down on the activity
as well.
- 2:44 PM: The last song on CHUM has been the topic of debate
on e-mail lists and among CHUM fans for weeks. "American
Pie"? Edward Bear's "Last Song"? Duff Roman has
hinted to the papers that "the last song will be the first
song," and that narrows the choices pretty well. Now it's
time...and sure enough, it's the song that launched CHUM's top-40
format back in the spring of 1957. As Elvis belts out "All
Shook Up" (the number one song on the very first CHUM Chart,
May 27, 1957), a few CHUM employees begin dancing in the middle
of the circle.
- 2:47 PM: The song ends, and the group goes silent as CHUM
launches into a montage of audio from its history, beginning
with Allan Waters' own recollections of purchasing the station.
Nobody says a word as the sounds of their own careers and their
predecessors' wash over them. Allan Waters dabs his eyes with
his handkerchief, and he's not alone. The montage closes out
with a "thank you" to Waters, who's surrounded by hugs
from his family as 1050 CHUM ends its on-air life with the piano
chord from the Beatles' "A Day in the Life." The applause
from the CHUM family drowns out the sound of John Lennon joking,
"On behalf of the band and myself, we'd like to say thank
you and I hope we passed the audition." Then, silence again
as a series of beeps announce the birth of the Team, not only
on 1050 but on a chain of CHUM stations and affiliates from Halifax
to Vancouver.
- As CHUM was fading out, so, sadly, was another longtime Canadian
broadcaster. Keith Dancy, owner of Niagara Falls stations CJRN
(710) and CKEY-FM (101.1 Fort Erie, "the River") died
Sunday night (May 6) at Niagara-on-the-Lake Hospital following
a long illness.
- Moving into the US, we begin with a format change in southern
MAINE, as the Harron folks try out the synergy thing on their
radio/TV combo in the Portland market. Monday (May 7) saw the
debut of a news/talk format on the new WMTW radio, the former
WLAM (870 Gorham) and WLAM-FM (106.7 North Windham). Under PD/ND
Ken Main, the new station kicks off with Neila Smith, George
Campbell, and "The Talk of the Town" in morning drive,
followed by local midday and afternoon talk shows. News, of course,
comes from sister station WMTW-TV (Channel 8), along with AP
and ABC radio. The WLAM calls return to their old home, the 1470
in Lewiston more recently known as WZOU (and where will that
former Boston call land next?) 1470 continues the standards format
that had been simulcast on 870 and 106.7, and morning host Bud
Sawyer stays with the station.
New England Radio Watch, May 15, 1996
-
- A whole lotta miscellany going on...including
a few call letter changes. Down in Middletown CT, WCNX 1150 has
become WMRD (it seems the WCTX calls for which they had applied
were never used), and up in Somersworth NH, WRGW 98.7 (the AC
"Rock Garden" that signed on a couple of years ago)
has become WRDX. I haven't been on the road of late to confirm
either change...stay tuned. Just over the New England line in
the Albany NY area, WXXO 96.7 Clifton Park NY has, as I suspected,
become WDCD-FM, and is co-owned with 1540 WDCD Albany (ex-WPTR).
Programming goes from satellite oldies to religious. Up in northern
New Hampshire, WVFM 105.7 Campton (along I-93 north of Plymouth,
near the Waterville Valley ski area) has applied for a license
to cover, and thus presumably is on or about to be on-air.
- On the business side of things, WEZN
99.9 Bridgeport CT is getting new owners, as part of parent company
NewCity's purchase by Cox. This is Cox's only New England entry,
and as a full class B monster in the under-radioed (locally,
anyway) Fairfield County area, should be worth a pretty penny
to any of several companies expanding in the area.
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