Posted on 11/08/2006 8:07:24 AM PST by raccoonradio
Thank you!
I see. That's too bad. I suppose Howie could start his show earlier, but that isn't really practical.
>>Next year the Howie Carr program will be preempted all week long for the Red Sox
Not necessarily. The Red Sox and WEEI/WRKO have said that
Friday night games will be on WEEI, as will afternoon
starts (early in year, makeup games, getaway day games).
In many cases the games start at 7 pm (Fenway especially)
and if the pregame show airs on WRKO, you'd lose Howie's
last half hour, so you could try WCRN 830 in Worcester
instead for Howie.
But...now word comes that WCRN joins the Sox network
as well! Since WRKO has to point its signal north and
south after dark, WCRN will come in handy for those
to the west (though WTAG, which lost the rights, also
used to help with regards to listeners west of Boston.
Maybe WCRN will be more powerful, though.
In most cases Howie hasn't been pre-empted on WRKO
due to sports (one famous exception is the 3 pm start
the Celtics had on MLKing Day this year). Some listeners
on stations like WHYN 560 in Holyoke lost part of Howie's
show due to day games, etc., but that's being solved
next year as WVEI-FM 105.5 in Easthampton picks up the Sox...
>>WRKO is not going to sheer off the pregame for his show.
It's quite possible the pregame show could run on WEEI.
By the way I think the Celtics home games used to start at 7 pm but WRKO may have asked the Celts to start at 7:30 instead
(thus pregame would start at 7) so they wouldn't lose
last half hr of Howie's show! The Celts, grateful to be on a station whose signal doesn't mostly go out to sea anymore (WWZN
1510 did, as Mike Adams pointed out last night), obliged from what I heard.
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