OT: Official Sports Media Thread X: WEEI's owner is nearly broke

[4ORRBRUIN]

Stick a fork in EEI.

Hopefully 98.5 is next

 

[FRyan4426]

It’s very interesting how Magic 106.7’s formula of playing the same worn out 15 songs every day is so effective.

800 times of hearing Sister Christian is enough thanks

And they don’t have David Allen Boucher to lull you to sleep anymore.

 

[Fenway]

I put 50 bucks in a Draft Kings account. I had my balance up to just under 400 bucks. I then lost a bunch (including losing out on 200 bucks on a parlay on that Philly game a few games ago where they blew the game with .2 seconds to go) and I got my balance back down to 50 bucks. I withdrew it and am out just like I said I would be.

That shit is a trap and it’s going to ruin people. People can go on and on about “freedom of choice” all they want but the “incentives” they offered are full on meant to reel you in to what equates very closely to a drug addiction. For the first week you can lose every single bet and they’ll throw money at you to keep your balance up to make you think you know what you’re doing/can beat the house (you can’t).

I encourage everyone to either avoid it altogether or make a NO EXCEPTIONS commitment to put money in once, take the bonus’s to see what happens, and then get the f*** out before ever putting another penny in.

I like many of you have milked the bonus money they were handing out.

I knew the ads were coming as I have seen rollouts in Illinois, Michigan, Philly, and New York/NJ. Ontario went to another level with the ads.

NESN is making big money with sports betting advertising and now they have a dedicated website

Odds Archives - NESN.com

nesn.com

When I was driving a cab to get through school the old Cambridge Yellow garage on Bay St was the biggest bookie shop in Cambridge and it was supervised by Jimmy from South Boston who reported to Howie Winter in Somerville - I think many of the old timers reading this are connecting the dots.

I find it curious that Encore and Plainridge are not advertising at this time letting FanDuel, BetMGM, and DraftKings saturate the market in ads.

 

[FRyan4426]

Riveting radio this morning of Fred talking about his dating life. These guys can’t be gone fast enough.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

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Station	Format	Owner	Oct 22	Nov 22	Dec 22	Hol 22	Jan 23	Feb 23
WBZ-FM	Sports	Beasley	9.4	10.5	8.5	8.0	8.8	7.5
WROR-FM	Classic Hits	Beasley	7.7	6.6	6.4	5.6	5.7	6.2
WXKS-FM	Top 40/M	iHeartMedia	5.6	6.1	6.1	5.3	5.5	5.4
WMJX-FM	AC	Audacy	5.9	5.5	9.7	12.5	4.2	5.1
WZLX-FM	Classic Rock	iHeartMedia	4.4	4.3	4.3	5.3	6.1	5.1
WBZ-AM	News	iHeartMedia	5.3	5.2	4.7	4.8	5.3	4.6
WBUR-FM	Public Radio	Boston U	4.3	4.5	4.2	4.6	4.5	4.5
WKLB-FM	Country	Beasley	3.0	2.9	2.6	3.2	4.0	4.3
WBQT-FM	Rhythmic AC	Beasley	3.5	3.3	3.1	3.0	4.2	4.1
WRKO-AM	Talk	iHeartMedia	3.8	3.3	2.7	2.8	3.7	4.1
WWBX-FM	Hot AC	Audacy	2.9	2.6	2.8	2.2	3.1	3.8
WGBH-FM	Public Radio	WGBH Foundation	3.0	3.6	4.0	3.4	3.5	3.4
WBGB-FM	Adult Hits	Audacy	2.7	2.9	3.0	2.9	2.9	3.2
WEEI-FM	Sports	Audacy	4.9	4.9	4.7	4.6	3.9	3.2
WXRV-FM	AAA	Northeast	2.7	2.9	2.8	2.2	2.7	3.0
WBWL-FM	Country	iHeartMedia	2.6	2.3	2.1	1.9	2.6	2.4
WBOS-FM	Classic Rock	Beasley	2.4	2.6	2.3	1.8	2.1	2.3
WXLO-FM	Hot AC	Cumulus	2.3	2.4	2.2	2.3	2.6	2.3
WZRM-FM	Tropical	iHeartMedia	2.8	2.5	2.1	2.1	2.2	2.3
WJMN-FM	Top 40/R	iHeartMedia	2.8	2.3	2.0	1.8	2.1	2.1
WCRB-FM	Classical	WGBH Foundation	2.0	2.1	2.0	2.0	1.9	2.0
WERS-FM	AAA	Emerson College	1.7	1.4	1.6	1.9	1.9	1.8
WNNW-AM	Tropical	Costa-Eagle	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.8	1.0
WXKS-AM	Talk	iHeartMedia	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.8
WUMB-FM	AAA	University Of MA	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.4
WCTK-FM	Country	Hall	0.5	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2
WJDA-AM	Tropical	Real Media	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2
WMVX-AM	Classic Hits	Costa-Eagle	0.1	0.2	0.1	--	0.1	0.1

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Station	Format	Oct 22	Nov 22	Dec 22	Hol 22	Jan 23	Feb 23
WMJX-FM	AC	798,200	877,700	947,900	1,214,200	837,000	820,200
WXKS-FM	Top 40/M	767,400	843,500	753,400	742,100	758,800	760,400
WROR-FM	Classic Hits	698,800	734,600	673,700	602,300	597,700	632,100
WBZ-FM	Sports	720,900	772,100	600,600	602,600	574,900	533,900
WWBX-FM	Hot AC	511,100	498,200	505,000	433,100	521,100	528,600
WBGB-FM	Adult Hits	436,800	523,300	507,800	471,500	484,300	513,300
WBQT-FM	Rhythmic AC	430,500	460,300	489,200	411,300	463,700	512,200
WZLX-FM	Classic Rock	469,500	555,800	484,000	473,600	566,700	500,300
WKLB-FM	Country	411,000	385,700	379,200	364,900	431,900	422,900
WBZ-AM	News	412,100	454,600	437,300	411,000	411,100	418,100
WJMN-FM	Top 40/R	361,500	354,200	349,300	311,000	326,100	383,700
WXLO-FM	Hot AC	351,400	406,600	343,400	341,700	341,200	338,100
WBOS-FM	Classic Rock	374,500	405,900	415,700	338,100	327,400	336,800
WBUR-FM	Public Radio	343,800	356,000	367,200	335,100	329,800	320,700
WXRV-FM	AAA	309,000	327,700	341,500	300,600	273,000	305,100
WEEI-FM	Sports	414,300	392,600	336,300	282,000	336,100	279,800
WGBH-FM	Public Radio	245,000	282,700	264,600	267,400	256,900	254,800
WBWL-FM	Country	272,600	274,200	244,300	213,000	246,900	243,500
WCRB-FM	Classical	215,000	223,400	207,100	171,200	184,300	175,700
WRKO-AM	Talk	172,400	169,000	155,500	129,000	140,700	167,300
WZRM-FM	Tropical	203,500	197,800	171,900	154,200	158,400	161,000
WERS-FM	AAA	166,600	162,600	166,100	182,500	145,900	138,900
WNNW-AM	Tropical	55,200	54,300	41,700	45,300	54,900	58,100
WCTK-FM	Country	82,400	63,500	63,200	42,600	36,300	48,000
WMVX-AM	Classic Hits	25,800	25,200	21,900	22,700	22,000	34,900
WUMB-FM	AAA	40,900	51,500	45,800	52,100	42,900	33,400
WXKS-AM	Talk	29,600	32,400	20,000	14,400	27,500	33,300
WJDA-AM	Tropical	37,900	29,300	18,400	18,000	24,000	18,400
WCCM-AM	Spanish Talk	800	8,300	5,200	1,800	5,200	17,900
WWFX-FM	Classic Rock	23,500	19,500	17,500	17,600	8,700	15,900
WEEI-AM	Sports	9,000	9,700	10,200	6,000	4,900	15,700
WORC-FM	Country	8,700	7,200	4,000	4,700	1,500	12,500
WBGB-FM Stream	Classic Hits	14,700	14,800	7,700	10,200	5,600	5,600
WERS-FM HD2	Variety	700	--	700	1,700	--	3,300
WBGB-FM HD2	Classic Hits	3,700	7,300	10,300	8,000	8,800	2,900
WRCA-AM	Ethnic	4,400	5,700	4,700	4,600	4,100	2,900
WCAI-FM	Public Radio	3,900	1,300	1,800	1,700	800	2,500
WWBX-FM HD2 Stream	Rock	800	--	800	400	--	1,900
WNBH-AM	Classic Hits	8,700	500	5,400	4,300	2,200	1,400
WJMN-FM HD2	AC	1,000	1,100	700	700	--	800
WWBX-FM HD2	Rock	3,900	4,000	4,100	--	5,200	800
WBZ-FM HD2	Alternative	3,800	3,100	4,100	700	1,500	600
WVEI-AM	Sports	600	--	--	--	--	500
WEEI-FM HD2	Rock	700	--	5,700	--	3,700	400

Do you have the book for the morning shows?

 

[sarge88]

I carried over $34 from old DFS into FD. Used that and the bonus crap and made like $600. Withdrew into Venmo and back down to the $34. Couple hockey bets tonight. If I don’t win cya later, thanks for the money. Unfortunately most people will continue to line their pockets.

I'm not a big gambler at all. Before kids (late 90's/early 2000's) my wife and I would go to Foxwoods 2-3x a year for something to do.

Now this is almost 25 years ago, so the numbers seem crazy but we'd leave the house with $150 in cash and leave the credit cards in the car.

$50 for each of us to gamble with and $50 to have dinner when we were done. Sometimes the $50 would last 3 hours, sometimes it would last 45 minutes but, unlike a lot of people, we were able to bet what we could afford and walk away when the betting money was gone.

Fast forward to a month ago. We went to Encore to check it out and, used the same plan, this time with $100 each and we had a great time, winning a little bit but still being able to walk away.

The one caveat --- when I was down to my last $25 at the roulette table, for the first time ever in a casino, I said to myself -- "if I lose this $25, I'll just hit the ATM for more money since my wife is still going strong". Luckily I hit on that spin and ended up winning a couple hundred and walked out up about $175 when all was said and done.

It was at that point that I really understood the pull that some people might feel to keep playing when they shouldn't.

And they don’t have David Allen Boucher to lull you to sleep anymore.

Delilah!

(How many reading this sang her name the way they do in the promos?)

Lol.

 

[Alicat]

Riveting radio this morning of Fred talking about his dating life. These guys can’t be gone fast enough.

Clearly this was after he suggested Jaylen Brown was an anti semite and part of a specific group Woof. I hope it gets him at least suspended bc that take was awful.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Clearly this was after he suggested Jaylen Brown was an anti semite and part of a specific group Woof. I hope it gets him at least suspended bc that take was awful.

Over the years if everyone got suspended or fired when you called for it for someone saying something you didn't like there would be no one on air.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

I'm not a big gambler at all. Before kids (late 90's/early 2000's) my wife and I would go to Foxwoods 2-3x a year for something to do.

Now this is almost 25 years ago, so the numbers seem crazy but we'd leave the house with $150 in cash and leave the credit cards in the car.

$50 for each of us to gamble with and $50 to have dinner when we were done. Sometimes the $50 would last 3 hours, sometimes it would last 45 minutes but, unlike a lot of people, we were able to bet what we could afford and walk away when the betting money was gone.

Fast forward to a month ago. We went to Encore to check it out and, used the same plan, this time with $100 each and we had a great time, winning a little bit but still being able to walk away.

The one caveat --- when I was down to my last $25 at the roulette table, for the first time ever in a casino, I said to myself -- "if I lose this $25, I'll just hit the ATM for more money since my wife is still going strong". Luckily I hit on that spin and ended up winning a couple hundred and walked out up about $175 when all was said and done.

It was at that point that I really understood the pull that some people might feel to keep playing when they shouldn't.




Delilah!

(How many reading this sang her name the way they do in the promos?)

Lol.

*raises hand*

 

[EverettMike]

Clearly this was after he suggested Jaylen Brown was an anti semite and part of a specific group Woof. I hope it gets him at least suspended bc that take was awful.

Yeah, I'm not totally convinced he's not. At the very least he sure is sympathetic to definite anit-semities.

 

[Terrier]

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[Alicat]

Yeah, I'm not totally convinced he's not. At the very least he sure is sympathetic to definite anit-semities.

I hear you and I agree however I wouldn't say he is part of a specific group like Fred did. That is what I took issue with.

Honestly, I think Jaylen hasn't quite figured out how to disagree with friends/teammates on personal beliefs and not let it impact the relationship.

 

[McGarnagle]

Riveting radio this morning of Fred talking about his dating life. These guys can’t be gone fast enough.

They absolutely need to do a segment where they bring in Guy from Machine to help Fred with his Tinder profile.

 

[DarrenBanks56]

It’s very interesting how Magic 106.7’s formula of playing the same worn out 15 songs every day is so effective.

800 times of hearing Sister Christian is enough thanks

i want waaf back.
i miss that morning show and rock music

 

[Hookslide]

I stopped listening to sports radio around 4 or 5 years ago, with the exception being the hockey show on Saturday mornings.

I don't know why people subject themselves to this crap..

I have not listened in years not worth my time ........... I also only listen to the hockey show , the best part about the hockey show is you don't need to agree with the hosts or guests but their opinions are not get ratings and be dicks they just like the game and call it the way they see it , They probably would disagree you and I and I like to think we are not saying shit just to piss everyone off..........

 

[Morris Wanchuk]

i want waaf back.
i miss that morning show and rock music

I listened to the Hillman in the early 2000s as it was the only Boston radio we got in Western, MA. The irony is them canning LB once the moved to a sports talk station LOL

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

i want waaf back.
i miss that morning show and rock music

My 65 year old father (who didnt get into WAAF until somewhere in the mid 2000’s) agrees.

When I left metal behind is when I stopped listening to AAF. But I won’t deny there’s some nostalgia there and I was a teeny bit sad to see it go. Other than once on the Sports Hub’s launch day, it’s the only radio station I ever called into and got on the air.

 

[DarrenBanks56]

I listened to the Hillman in the early 2000s as it was the only Boston radio we got in Western, MA. The irony is them canning LB once the moved to a sports talk station LOL

poor LB.
guy was such a nice dude. hands like friggin frying pans. lol

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

I like many of you have milked the bonus money they were handing out.

I knew the ads were coming as I have seen rollouts in Illinois, Michigan, Philly, and New York/NJ. Ontario went to another level with the ads.

NESN is making big money with sports betting advertising and now they have a dedicated website

Odds Archives - NESN.com

nesn.com

When I was driving a cab to get through school the old Cambridge Yellow garage on Bay St was the biggest bookie shop in Cambridge and it was supervised by Jimmy from South Boston who reported to Howie Winter in Somerville - I think many of the old timers reading this are connecting the dots.

I find it curious that Encore and Plainridge are not advertising at this time letting FanDuel, BetMGM, and DraftKings saturate the market in ads.

Plainridge probably isn't as much outside as inside.... same w/ the racing that track does generate..... similar to why Scarborough bailed as the town changed direction.... hence why the focus has gone to Cumberland Raceway the last few years....and that contract hasn't been renewed past this upcoming season.... yet....

First Tracks Cumberland FOR Those unfamiliar since the closure of 'The Downs' AS IT is now known as.... unknown if the grandstand of the track there has been demolished since it closed, the OTB there also was fazed out

 

[TD Charlie]

The old days before Fred became a bitter old man and they had Adolfo as the comic relief character were the best. Now they're hard to listen to and I feel bad for Rich to have to sit through Fred's shit.

They were great with BCN and even in the early days of the format change. Fred has gone off the deep end unfortunately. I still find Wallach and Rich to be extremely likable guys, but i don’t think the show lasts much longer

 

[FRyan4426]

The old days before Fred became a bitter old man and they had Adolfo as the comic relief character were the best. Now they're hard to listen to and I feel bad for Rich to have to sit through Fred's shit.

Agreed. But I feel like Beasley is also really hindering their strengths. No more drunken recaps. They likely have to jump through hoops to get Brookline 911 on.

 

[FRyan4426]

F&M giving Ullmark and the media crap calling them the “boo hoo Linus crew”. You can’t make this toxic pathetic crap up. These guys suck.

 

[GatorMike]

This thread is a tribute to the numerous reasons why I stopped listening to Sports Radio and started listening to podcasts exclusively.

 

[Alicat]

F&M giving Ullmark and the media crap calling them the “boo hoo Linus crew”. You can’t make this toxic pathetic crap up. These guys suck.

Better that what is happening over on WEEI today.

 

[McGarnagle]

I don't feel bad for WEEI considering they dug their own hole by keeping turds like Dennis & Callahan, Glenn Ordway, and Kirk Minehan on air for so long, and I literally haven't listened to a second of that station (outside of Sox games) since about 2009, but part of me would be sad if the station went defunct just because of the historical footprint it leaves behind going back to WHDH.

But that station continues to dig its grave because apparently one of their on-air personalities called Mina Kimes a racial slur this morning