I seem to remember a Chad Finn article a couple of years ago about Wallach, and it said he apparently reached out to TSH on his own. It left me with the impression that he saw the writing on the wall leading to the outsourced sports flashes and ultimate dumping of Pete Sheppard and left on his own terms.
The most logical move, to me, would be EEI realizing that Jason Wolfe doesn't know his ass from his elbow, and that he and Julie Kahn should be shown the door immediately. These two jackholes had plenty of arrogant and condescending comments to make when EEI ruled the rating roost when they had no sports competition in town and credited their success to their own genius; now that there's an alternative that actually displays a modicum of competence, they're getting their pasty white asses kicked.
Is that why I can't ever remember them doing a cross over with Gresh? I can totally understand not liking him just based on who he is.
Are you listening right now? They're doing a cross over with Gresh. I have a feeling that the guy that they referenced was McAdam. Gresh was already working on Patriots pre & post coverage before he got the midday gig.
Nothing made my blood boil more than Ordway and his lackeys cackling as they ran another segment of "Hockey Talk."
Perhaps if WEEI hadn't treated the Bruins and the sport of hockey with the utmost contempt over the past 5 years or so they might not have gotten trounced in the rating in this period as the Bruins made their Cup run. And of course WEEI had the Celtics playoffs in this time period, so it's hardly like they were in a gun fight wielding a knife.
Ye reap what ye sow, Wolfie. Now go get your effing shinebox.
I never understood the rationale for putting them on NESN. The show's the same as on the radio, they're hideously awful to look at, and unless a new sport comes about in counting Dennis' increasing number of chins I can't see the appeal. The very definition of faces made for radio and extremely loathsome personalities.
Totally. I can't get AM in my car. When I travel with other people, they can seldom get AM in the car, either. AM sucks. EEI needs to get busy being FM, or get busy dying.
It's interesting though...D&C's ratings in the 25-54 haven't really decreased all that much. It's just that T&R's ratings have skyrocketed, mostly due to them reigning in younger demos that didn't previously listen to talk radio.
The only conclusion that makes sense is that, inexplicably, Dale Arnold was the engine that drove the WEEI super-train.
Easy? I'm not sure how easy it is.
So when D&C did the exact opposite and pulled muscles patting themselves on the back a few months back ("Congrats everyone for still being #1") and then accused T&R on the radio of lying about the ratings, that was ok?
93.7 is based north of Boston, and its coverage pattern should improve upon the AM signal, especially at night when 850's signal is dampened and unlistenable west of 128.
The big problem with D&C, IMO, is that they are lazy. When they had no competitition, they dominated the ratings and believed (rightly I guess) that there was no need to change anything. Their formula was to speak about politics and sports, interview guests in politics and sports, and that's it. The rabid sports following in Boston took care of the rest. When TSH came on the air and went with Toucher and Rich, the difference between the 2 shows couldn't have been more stark. T&R are constantly trying to come up with funny and creative bits. Often they work, sometimes they don't, but they are motivated, hard working and quick witted, everything that D&C are not. The Bruins run obviously played a huge factor in T&R's ass kicking, but they had already matched D&C before the Bruins run. D&C were old before T&R arrived, now they're ancient.
Coverage maps:
Is this real, or is someone having a little fun with MS Paint? If it's the former, I wonder why the EEI pattern looks like this while the others are fairly symmetrical.WEEI 850 (night time only)
If you guys think about it for a bit, I bet you can spot the difference between WEEI/WRKO and all the other stations posted.
It's not an intention, it's because there aren't any other AM stations on the ocean. At night, AM broadcasts carry farther, but that means more interference, which means less coverage as there are more signals in the mix.
Even if that bothered you, the other 210 minutes of the program today were fantastic from Fred's early rant against Jeter / ESPN, to the rant against the kid giving the ball back to the Iron Sheik.
Ah, yes. How could I have been so blind? The answer was right in front of me: WEEI and WRKO both really, really suck.
Right AM.
My point is that other coastal AM stations don't necessarily look like the polar pattern for a shotgun microphone (hyper-cardioid).
Every AM signal is nominally going to spread in a circle barring physical or other radio interference. The difference comes from the length the signal can travel at night and the amount of other stations in a similar band.
From what I remember, it looks similar, except the outside lines are wider / encompass more of an area.
The shape of their night-time signal is completely intentional. They are required by the FCC to only broadcast a directional signal in order to protect stations to the west (850s in Cleveland and Denver, to name a couple). They can boost the power on the daytime signal since it doesn't carry as well, but they're required to power it down at sundown because AM signals bounce and carry far greater distances at night.
That would make sense since I can listen to the Yankees on 790 much clearer at night then during the day.
I'm not making up the fact that they use a directional signal. Look here at Radio-locator.com where it lists antenna mode: "Directional - 2 patterns". They intentionally dampen the power of their signal to the west (day and night, but more so at night) so it can't carry and cause interference. All the ground transmission stuff is exactly right, and exactly why they do it.
Yeah, I'm particularly disappointed that Holley would sign his name on to something so foolish.
