They only get FM because the AM antenna is a pain to deal with and who listens to AM anyway?”
I lived near Boston when I was younger; the standing joke around the house was if the Sox were playing who was gonna go up on the roof to turn the antenna and who would wrap the ears with tinfoil, hold them in his hand and stand on a chair ...
ha—don’t know if you’re talking Sox on TV or radio.
The Red Sox for many years were on stations that didn’t exactly have the best signals. Often it was AM 850 (WHDH
in yrs gone by). For a time, AM 1510. Sometimes WRKO. But some stations do pretty well with clear FM signals.
WEEI _is_ simulcast on FM 103.7 in Westerly RI and it does
reach south of Boston, but in Boston, west of town, and north of town, not so much. (If you’re in the Salem MA area and had a pretty good radio sometimes you could pick up that 103.7
from RI but now there’s a station in Salem running religious stuff on 103.7, so, so much for that.
If you have an HD radio (some portables sell for $40-50) you can tune to the “HD-3” signal of WMKK 93.7 and hear
WEEI. But not everyone has an HD radio, and the reception can be tough to get or keep. I have one of the portables.
Works at home but not at work.
At work, at the postal facility in N Reading, we’re lucky to get 93.7, 98.5 (sports hub) and that rockin’ classical
sound of WCRB 99.5...other than that...