OT: Official Sports Media Thread IX: Boston Marathon TV coverage will move to Channel 5/ESPN as of next year

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

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Station	Format	Owner	Nov 21	Dec 21	Hol 21	Jan 22	Feb 22	Mar 22
WROR-FM	Classic Hits	Beasley	7.1	7.2	6.1	6.9	8.4	9.2
WBZ-FM	Sports	Beasley	8.7	8.5	8.3	8.3	6.3	7.3
WMJX-FM	AC	Audacy	5.0	7.9	13.2	6.8	6.7	7.2
WZLX-FM	Classic Rock	iHeartMedia	5.7	5.2	4.7	5.7	5.2	5.9
WXKS-FM	Top 40/M	iHeartMedia	5.5	5.3	4.7	5.5	6.6	5.6
WBZ-AM	News	iHeartMedia	7.4	6.9	6.5	6.4	6.2	5.5
WBUR-FM	Public Radio	Boston U	3.9	2.9	3.0	3.9	4.3	5.0
WRKO-AM	Talk	iHeartMedia	4.9	4.1	3.4	4.5	3.6	4.7
WKLB-FM	Country	Beasley	5.2	4.4	3.5	4.0	4.1	4.0
WBGB-FM	Adult Hits	Audacy	2.5	3.0	3.7	3.0	3.8	3.2
WBQT-FM	Rhythmic AC	Beasley	3.1	3.8	3.4	3.5	3.4	3.2
WEEI-FM	Sports	Audacy	3.4	3.2	2.6	3.1	2.7	2.6
WGBH-FM	Public Radio	WGBH Foundation	2.6	3.2	2.6	3.4	3.0	2.6
WXRV-FM	AAA	Northeast	1.9	1.9	1.9	2.6	2.5	2.6
WWBX-FM	Hot AC	Audacy	4.4	3.6	1.8	2.2	2.6	2.4
WJMN-FM	Top 40/R	iHeartMedia	2.6	3.2	3.4	3.1	3.0	2.3
WBWL-FM	Country	iHeartMedia	1.8	2.0	1.7	1.8	2.5	2.2
WCRB-FM	Classical	WGBH Foundation	1.3	1.2	1.8	1.7	1.7	2.1
WBOS-FM	Classic Rock	Beasley	1.9	1.7	1.7	1.8	1.6	1.7
WXLO-FM	Hot AC	Cumulus	1.5	1.5	1.3	1.7	1.6	1.5
WERS-FM	AAA	Emerson College	1.4	1.1	1.2	1.7	1.3	1.3
WZRM-FM	Tropical	iHeartMedia	2.1	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.3	1.1
WWBX-FM Stream	Hot AC	Audacy	--	--	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.8
WEEI-FM Stream	Sports	Audacy	0.5	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.5
WUMB-FM	AAA	University Of MA	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.6	0.5
WXKS-AM	Talk	iHeartMedia	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.5
WCTK-FM	Country	Hall	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3
WNNW-AM	Tropical	Costa-Eagle	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3
WBGB-FM Stream	Classic Hits	Audacy	--	--	--	0.1	0.2	0.2
WJDA-AM	Adult Standards	Real Media	--	--	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
WMVX-AM	Classic Hits	Costa-Eagle	0.1	--	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
WWFX-FM	Classic Rock	Cumulus	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1

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Station	Format	Nov 21	Dec 21	Hol 21	Jan 22	Feb 22	Mar 22
WMJX-FM	AC	923,400	1,050,400	1,330,400	814,200	867,500	865,900
WROR-FM	Classic Hits	870,100	873,500	794,600	759,200	827,400	858,500
WXKS-FM	Top 40/M	876,500	847,700	759,200	718,500	835,400	782,700
WZLX-FM	Classic Rock	598,300	589,700	519,400	487,900	517,300	596,700
WBZ-FM	Sports	772,200	718,800	670,700	598,900	514,900	558,500
WKLB-FM	Country	524,000	487,400	436,900	412,900	447,200	505,800
WBGB-FM	Adult Hits	493,800	545,500	548,100	492,100	573,000	505,200
WBZ-AM	News	506,900	460,600	467,700	448,600	502,900	484,700
WWBX-FM	Hot AC	469,500	461,200	406,800	408,100	454,500	459,400
WBQT-FM	Rhythmic AC	488,100	497,000	420,400	386,700	402,700	444,700
WJMN-FM	Top 40/R	365,000	461,400	435,800	358,800	389,700	381,100
WBUR-FM	Public Radio	375,500	318,500	300,900	315,500	344,900	375,300
WBOS-FM	Classic Rock	372,000	364,000	370,400	308,400	359,000	369,000
WXRV-FM	AAA	332,900	324,100	290,000	280,200	291,300	334,400
WXLO-FM	Hot AC	329,900	332,000	323,200	306,400	324,400	299,100
WGBH-FM	Public Radio	272,200	295,800	277,900	255,500	260,300	288,600
WBWL-FM	Country	357,000	288,800	270,400	253,300	306,300	272,200
WEEI-FM	Sports	478,100	360,400	338,700	341,300	290,400	259,100
WCRB-FM	Classical	176,800	155,700	210,500	169,400	206,900	245,300
WRKO-AM	Talk	240,000	213,900	184,600	209,000	190,700	202,500
WERS-FM	AAA	182,900	175,600	152,400	152,300	169,000	160,500
WZRM-FM	Tropical	257,800	232,700	201,100	172,400	151,900	151,000
WCTK-FM	Country	105,600	93,600	82,100	75,900	80,500	57,500
WWBX-FM Stream	Hot AC	--	--	23,300	41,400	53,100	48,800
WMVX-AM	Classic Hits	36,500	21,300	29,900	24,300	39,100	47,200
WUMB-FM	AAA	34,000	32,900	22,400	27,600	37,900	35,500
WNNW-AM	Tropical	41,600	40,600	43,800	42,200	47,300	33,100
WXKS-AM	Talk	17,300	22,100	19,000	24,200	24,800	25,600
WWFX-FM	Classic Rock	20,100	36,700	42,800	21,300	23,600	25,500
WEEI-AM	Sports	15,600	14,200	10,400	11,900	15,600	20,100
WEEI-FM Stream	Sports	46,900	24,700	32,100	31,100	21,200	19,300
WJDA-AM	Adult Standards	26,800	16,700	23,600	25,900	24,400	15,700
WBGB-FM Stream	Classic Hits	--	--	--	3,700	11,200	13,200
WCCM-AM	Spanish Talk	3,800	5,400	900	1,800	15,600	13,000
WBGB-FM HD3	Christian Cont.	8,500	--	--	500	1,300	10,800
WBZ-FM HD2	Alternative	1,400	1,300	1,100	--	1,100	8,200
WMJX-FM HD2	Other	--	--	--	500	1,500	5,300
WNBH-AM	Classic Hits	12,300	6,400	5,500	1,600	2,800	4,500
WRCA-AM	Ethnic	3,100	7,800	4,500	1,600	3,300	3,600
WBGB-FM HD2	Classic Hits	4,200	3,800	600	500	800	3,400
WCAI-FM	Public Radio	1,200	1,400	2,500	400	1,300	3,400
WESX-AM	Spanish Religious	--	--	--	--	--	2,700
WWBX-FM HD2	Rock	1,700	1,400	1,100	2,400	2,700	2,000
WORC-FM	Country	1,900	600	3,000	2,400	3,400	1,800
WEEI-FM HD2	Rock	--	--	--	5,400	1,700	1,700
WERS-FM HD2	Variety	8,200	600	--	500	2,000	1,600
WJMN-FM HD2	AC	300	--	--	1,700	--	600
WWBX-FM HD2 Stream	Rock	--	--	--	--	2,500	300

Saw yesterday that Gresh and Keefe (total crap) did better than the Greg Hill Show.

Which means people would rather hear Gresh giving a time check every five minutes than Wiggie saying another stupid take.

 

[DKH]

Saw yesterday that Gresh and Keefe (total crap) did better than the Greg Hill Show.

Which means people would rather hear Gresh giving a time check every five minutes than Wiggie saying another stupid take.

Greg Hill show problems

They bring up vax & mask talk way to much and make known their political views- and race talk never far away with Wiggins; you never get on really any 98.5 shows

Bad recipe

 

[Fenway]

The damning numbers are in the cume

98.5 558,500
WEEI 259,100

That number represents the number of people who listened to the station for more than 15 minutes in March

300,000 listeners no longer even sample WEEI

People used to go back and forth but that is no longer happening.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Greg Hill show problems

They bring up vax & mask talk way to much and make known their political views- and race talk never far away with Wiggins; you never get on really any 98.5 shows

Bad recipe

Well both morning shows on both stations have never been 100% sports. Fred Toucher has proved that over the years with him always going after Curt Schilling when he did. Not to mention their expert analysis on Saved By The Bell and Beverly Hills 90201 trivia.

But when it comes to Wiggie he is just flat out annoying. Goes out of his way to tell you he his smart. Which everyone knows that when someone feels they have do to that, they aren't that smart (Fredo). He talks over everyone and will find a way to make it about race but blame someone else on the show that they were the ones who made it about race.

I think Hill just sees the light at the end of the tunnel and just along for the ride so he can just concentrate on his restaurants.

 

[chizzler]

Well both morning shows on both stations have never been 100% sports. Fred Toucher has proved that over the years with him always going after Curt Schilling when he did. Not to mention their expert analysis on Saved By The Bell and Beverly Hills 90201 trivia.

But when it comes to Wiggie he is just flat out annoying. Goes out of his way to tell you he his smart. Which everyone knows that when someone feels they have do to that, they aren't that smart (Fredo). He talks over everyone and will find a way to make it about race but blame someone else on the show that they were the ones who made it about race.

I think Hill just sees the light at the end of the tunnel and just along for the ride so he can just concentrate on his restaurants.

Fred is a doosh.

 

[LSCII]

The damning numbers are in the cume

98.5 558,500
WEEI 259,100

That number represents the number of people who listened to the station for more than 15 minutes in March

300,000 listeners no longer even sample WEEI

People used to go back and forth but that is no longer happening.

That's because after grinding down their listeners for years with their own ego inflated nonsense, those people like Ordway and D&C moved on, only to be replaced with even worse options. Fauria is terrible. The mid day with Dale and Keefe was brutal and it got worse when they replaced Dale with Gresh, and their morning show was trash when it was on WAAF and never had to pretend to care about sports. Since the move to WEEI, Hillman's show has gotten worse, if that's even possible.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

From the man who mocked @DaleEArnold about Hockey in cross overs into The Big Show

 

[chizzler]

Wait till Felger gets a hold of him.

 

[Terrier]

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[smithformeragent]

Legendary Patriots player, broadcaster Gino Cappelletti passes away at 89 Legendary Patriots player, broadcaster Gino Cappelletti passes away at 89

 

[GordonHowe]

Well, goodbye Gino. Not a football person, but always enjoyed him.

 

[GordonHowe]

The damning numbers are in the cume

98.5 558,500
WEEI 259,100

That number represents the number of people who listened to the station for more than 15 minutes in March

300,000 listeners no longer even sample WEEI

People used to go back and forth but that is no longer happening.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.

I don't believe "what goes around comes around," necessarily. After all, Dick Cheney has a heart transplant and continues to walk between the raindrops.

Even so, the absolute battering, the complete demolition of EEI since the advent of 98.5 has been heartening and hilarious in the extreme.

"The Sports Hub" is shit, too, of course. I haven't listened to sports radio, literally, in over ten years, and have no desire to do so.

It's like Facebook pitted against Twitter.

To repeat,

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Felger.

The objective sports man of Boston

 

[Fenway]

Station	Format	Owner	Dec 21	Hol 21	Jan 22	Feb 22	Mar 22	Apr 22
WROR-FM	Classic Hits	Beasley	7.2	6.1	6.9	8.4	9.2	8.6
WBZ-FM	Sports	Beasley	8.5	8.3	8.3	6.3	7.3	8.4
WMJX-FM	AC	Audacy	7.9	13.2	6.8	6.7	7.2	6.4
WXKS-FM	Top 40/M	iHeartMedia	5.3	4.7	5.5	6.6	5.6	5.8
WZLX-FM	Classic Rock	iHeartMedia	5.2	4.7	5.7	5.2	5.9	4.9
WBZ-AM	News	iHeartMedia	6.9	6.5	6.4	6.2	5.5	4.7
WRKO-AM	Talk	iHeartMedia	4.1	3.4	4.5	3.6	4.7	4.3
WKLB-FM	Country	Beasley	4.4	3.5	4.0	4.1	4.0	4.0
WBUR-FM	Public Radio	Boston U	2.9	3.0	3.9	4.3	5.0	3.7
WWBX-FM	Hot AC	Audacy	3.6	1.8	2.2	2.6	2.4	3.7
WBGB-FM	Adult Hits	Audacy	3.0	3.7	3.0	3.8	3.2	3.6
WGBH-FM	Public Radio	WGBH Foundation	3.2	2.6	3.4	3.0	2.6	3.5
WEEI-FM	Sports	Audacy	3.2	2.6	3.1	2.7	2.6	3.3
WBQT-FM	Rhythmic AC	Beasley	3.8	3.4	3.5	3.4	3.2	3.1
WXRV-FM	AAA	Northeast	1.9	1.9	2.6	2.5	2.6	2.7
WJMN-FM	Top 40/R	iHeartMedia	3.2	3.4	3.1	3.0	2.3	2.2
WBWL-FM	Country	iHeartMedia	2.0	1.7	1.8	2.5	2.2	2.1
WBOS-FM	Classic Rock	Beasley	1.7	1.7	1.8	1.6	1.7	2.0
WCRB-FM	Classical	WGBH Foundation	1.2	1.8	1.7	1.7	2.1	2.0
WNNW-AM	Tropical	Costa-Eagle	0.2	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	2.0
WXLO-FM	Hot AC	Cumulus	1.5	1.3	1.7	1.6	1.5	1.5
WZRM-FM	Tropical	iHeartMedia	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.3	1.1	1.1
WERS-FM	AAA	Emerson College	1.1	1.2	1.7	1.3	1.3	0.9
WUMB-FM	AAA	University Of MA	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.7
WEEI-FM Stream	Sports	Audacy	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
WXKS-AM	Talk	iHeartMedia	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5
WCTK-FM	Country	Hall	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4
WBGB-FM Stream	Classic Hits	Audacy	--	--	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1
WMVX-AM	Classic Hits	Costa-Eagle	--	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
WWFX-FM	Classic Rock	Cumulus	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1

Station	Format	Dec 21	Hol 21	Jan 22	Feb 22	Mar 22	Apr 22
WMJX-FM	AC	1,050,400	1,330,400	814,200	867,500	865,900	839,100
WROR-FM	Classic Hits	873,500	794,600	759,200	827,400	858,500	820,400
WXKS-FM	Top 40/M	847,700	759,200	718,500	835,400	782,700	743,500
WBZ-FM	Sports	718,800	670,700	598,900	514,900	558,500	616,700
WBGB-FM	Adult Hits	545,500	548,100	492,100	573,000	505,200	580,200
WZLX-FM	Classic Rock	589,700	519,400	487,900	517,300	596,700	543,500
WKLB-FM	Country	487,400	436,900	412,900	447,200	505,800	513,400
WBZ-AM	News	460,600	467,700	448,600	502,900	484,700	459,400
WWBX-FM	Hot AC	461,200	406,800	408,100	454,500	459,400	451,000
WBQT-FM	Rhythmic AC	497,000	420,400	386,700	402,700	444,700	418,100
WJMN-FM	Top 40/R	461,400	435,800	358,800	389,700	381,100	373,700
WEEI-FM	Sports	360,400	338,700	341,300	290,400	259,100	366,800
WBOS-FM	Classic Rock	364,000	370,400	308,400	359,000	369,000	365,600
WXRV-FM	AAA	324,100	290,000	280,200	291,300	334,400	323,200
WBUR-FM	Public Radio	318,500	300,900	315,500	344,900	375,300	320,000
WXLO-FM	Hot AC	332,000	323,200	306,400	324,400	299,100	295,400
WGBH-FM	Public Radio	295,800	277,900	255,500	260,300	288,600	278,300
WBWL-FM	Country	288,800	270,400	253,300	306,300	272,200	274,900
WCRB-FM	Classical	155,700	210,500	169,400	206,900	245,300	203,400
WRKO-AM	Talk	213,900	184,600	209,000	190,700	202,500	198,400
WERS-FM	AAA	175,600	152,400	152,300	169,000	160,500	141,600
WZRM-FM	Tropical	232,700	201,100	172,400	151,900	151,000	133,400
WCTK-FM	Country	93,600	82,100	75,900	80,500	57,500	89,500
WNNW-AM	Tropical	40,600	43,800	42,200	47,300	33,100	55,200
WMVX-AM	Classic Hits	21,300	29,900	24,300	39,100	47,200	39,500
WUMB-FM	AAA	32,900	22,400	27,600	37,900	35,500	37,400
WEEI-FM Stream	Sports	24,700	32,100	31,100	21,200	19,300	27,400
WWFX-FM	Classic Rock	36,700	42,800	21,300	23,600	25,500	20,800
WXKS-AM	Talk	22,100	19,000	24,200	24,800	25,600	20,300
WCCM-AM	Spanish Talk	5,400	900	1,800	15,600	13,000	12,400
WEEI-AM	Sports	14,200	10,400	11,900	15,600	20,100	12,300
WRCA-AM	Ethnic	7,800	4,500	1,600	3,300	3,600	7,600
WBGB-FM HD2	Classic Hits	3,800	600	500	800	3,400	6,600
WBGB-FM Stream	Classic Hits	--	--	3,700	11,200	13,200	5,200
WNBH-AM	Classic Hits	6,400	5,500	1,600	2,800	4,500	4,600
WWBX-FM HD2	Rock	1,400	1,100	2,400	2,700	2,000	4,200
WESX-AM	Spanish Religious	--	--	--	--	2,700	2,800
WCAI-FM	Public Radio	1,400	2,500	400	1,300	3,400	2,200
WEEI-FM HD2	Rock	--	--	5,400	1,700	1,700	1,800
WORC-FM	Country	600	3,000	2,400	3,400	1,800	1,400
WWBX-FM HD2 Stream	Rock	--	--	--	2,500	300	1,100
WVEI-AM	Sports	--	--	--	--	--	800
WJMN-FM HD2	AC	--	--	1,700	--	600	500
WERS-FM HD2	Variety	600	--	500	2,000	1,600	400
WMJX-FM HD2	Other	--	--	500	1,500	5,300	400

 

[Fenway]

WEEI picked up 100,000 extra listeners ( most likely Red Sox games )

WEEI needs to

 

[Terrier]

Listen to Episode 33 of ‘Marchand and Ourand’ feat. Gary Bettman

Gary Bettman addresses the league’s first year with ESPN and Turner, gambling’s impact on the league and how much longer he will remain the NHL commissioner.

nypost.com

 

[Terrier]

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[Gee Wally]

Channel 5′s Mike Lynch suffers stroke, expected to make full recovery - The Boston Globe

Lynch suffered the stroke Tuesday night while out for a walk with his wife, Mary Ellen, near their Winchester home.

www.bostonglobe.com

Longtime Channel 5 sports anchor Mike Lynch suffered a stroke Tuesday night while out for a walk with his wife, Mary Ellen, near their Winchester home. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Lynch, who was diagnosed with high blood pressure approximately six months ago, according to his wife, suffered bleeding on the left side of his brain, which affects the right side of the body.
He is at Massachusetts General Hospital but will be transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital as soon as possible, where he is expected to have 3 or 4 weeks of intensive rehabilitation.
The 68-year-old Lynch, who is listed as a sports correspondent for Channel 5 after retiring from his full-time weeknight anchor role in August 2019, remains a popular figure among Boston sports fans who know him as the always affable “Lynchie.”

 

[Terrier]

Steve Conroy’s Bruins report card: Does early playoff exit portend changes?

Another Bruins season is in the books, and it was another year in which the B’s fell short of their goals. Exactly how far away they were from a Stanley Cup cannot really be determined until …

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[Fenway]

 

[Fenway]

Great hire by WCVB

 

[Terrier]

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[BMC]

Great hire by WCVB

View attachment 553891

I always liked Naoko, glad to see she is back in Boston.