The night pattern protects KOA, Denver. His Dodge van's AM band was only tuned to European frequencies! The 93.7 frequency, established in 1960, has carried WEEI programming since September 12, 2011, and has been the primary station for local WEEI programming since October 4, 2012.[5]. 4 = Worcester County stations. Call sign: WEEI-FM; Format: Sports; Frequency: 93.7 FM; City of license: Lawrence, MA; Owner: Entercom; Area Served: Boston; Branding: WEEI 93.7; Sister stations: Magic 106.7, Mix 104.1, BIG 103, ESPN on WEEI 850 AM; Contact WEEI 93.7 FM [14] Celtics broadcasts then moved to 98.5 The Sports Hub.[24]. [22] About 30 Red Sox games a season, including all games on Wednesday nights and all weekly day games were heard on WEEI as part of the deal. The WHDH license was issued in December 1928, a month after WEPS was forced to share time with WKBE in Webster on 1200 kilocycles;[1] WEPS was sold to Alfred Kleindienst, owner of its share-time partner (which became WORC in Auburn, near Worcester, a year earlier), in February 1930, with WEPS being moved to Auburn and consolidated with WORC on May 5. [4] In 1948, the station moved its transmitter site from Saugus to Needham, west of Boston, where the station would be able to increase power to 50,000 watts with a directional signal aimed east to protect KOA and other stations on 850. Three sunRISE snags were WRBZ NC, WTAR Nofolk and WEEI Boston. WEEI Late Night airs every weeknight from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., or from midnight to 2 a.m. on nights there are Red Sox games. WEEI-FM (93.7 FM) – branded SportsRadio 93.7 WEEI-FM – is a commercial sports radio station licensed to Lawrence, Massachusetts, serving Greater Boston and much of surrounding New England. [49], On October 4, 2012, WEEI and WEEI-FM split the simulcast; the existing local programming and sports broadcasts remain on WEEI-FM, while AM 850 aired a redirection loop for one day before becoming a full ESPN Radio affiliate on October 5, 2012.[2]. Stung by the loss of its highly profitable television station, the Herald-Traveler was put on the market, and acquired by the Hearst Corporation in June 1972; the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, left with just the radio stations, then changed its name to WHDH Corporation. Two weeks later, the ban was extended to WEEI's Dennis and Callahan morning show. (Sconnix sold WBOS a year earlier.) [39] Entercom reacquired the rights to the broadcasts in 2005; initially heard on WRKO,[40] Celtics games moved back to WEEI in 2007[41] (though Celtics coaches and players appeared on WEEI regularly during WRKO's time as flagship). The public of Greater Boston can locate the broadcaster on the AM frequency of 850 kHz. [2] The WEEI studios are located in Boston's Brighton neighborhood, while the station transmitter resides in the Boston suburb of Needham. On March 12, 1990, WNEV's call letters became WHDH-TV to correspond with WHDH radio. While the two stations for the most part programmed different kinds of music, both had very talented air personalities who were "household names" in the Boston area. WEEI-FM has been trying to battle with Beasley’s 98.5 The Sports Hub for years. [1] It was a daytime-only station broadcasting at 830 kilocycles (leaving the air at local sunset in Denver, about two hours after sunset in Boston, to protect the signal of KOA in the Colorado capital city). [12], J.T. John Ryder hosted the halftime show and the Celtics Rewind show following the game. The station can also be streamed internationally through the internet. [42] Around the same time, the station again lost ESPN Radio programming when the affiliation was acquired by WAMG and WLLH;[43] the station then expanded an affiliation with Fox Sports Radio that began in 2002. ... they killed WBCN and now killed WEEI, the FM frequency is now … However, WEEI was sold off in 1994, and would later reemerge as the name of an ESPN-radio affiliate, Sportsradio 850 WEEI. As time went on, they added late '60s and early '80s music. WEEI retaliated by banning Globe staffers from all its shows. 93.7 FM Boston 103.7 FM Providence 105.5 FM Springfield 1440 AM Worcester 850 AM Boston Some of the stations have picked up play-by-play rights in concert with WEEI after their conversion to the simulcast. WHDH was Matheson's second station; he had started WEPS on November 26, 1926. In the station's early days as WGHJ and WCCM-FM, 93.7 aired locally based programming that targeted Lawrence and other towns in the Merrimack Valley. During 2001, controversial "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch was a morning host briefly. WEEI-FM's weekday programming lineup is also regionally syndicated to a network of stations throughout New England, most of which use the "SportsRadio WEEI" franchised brand. [14] In early 2014, WEEI-FM again dropped Fox Sports Radio and began carrying NBC Sports Radio's overnight program, shortly after WUFC (now WMEX) dropped its affiliation with that network. For two years, from 1943 until 1945, WHDH was the local affiliate of the Blue Network, the former "NBC Blue", replacing WBZ as Blue affiliate; WHDH ceded the affiliation to WCOP after the Blue Network also chose to affiliate with Lawrence's WLAW (the facilities of which were subsequently sold to WNAC). In August 1998, after American Radio Systems was acquired by CBS/Westinghouse, the combined company was required to sell two of their FM stations, along with three AM stations. With this station one is supplied optimally. WHDH was Matheson's second station; he had started WEPS on November 26, 1926. [44], The station had an ongoing feud with The Boston Globe. WHDH was able to increase power to 5,000 watts and go full-time, but not without protests from KOA, one of the dominant class A clear channel stations on 850 AM. More Changes at WEEI. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WEEI is available online via Radio.com. The call letters were chosen with the owner in mind as Curt Gowdy and his children owned and operated the station until the sale to American Radio Systems in 1994. By the mid-1980s, WHDH was moving toward more of a talk format and on August 22, 1988, dropped music abruptly; although the station had been playing more music than WBZ, that station would gradually phase out music over the next several years. In late 1998, Entercom announced plans to acquire WEEI, along with WAAF (now WKVB), WRKO, WWTM (now WVEI) and WEGQ (now WEEI-FM), from CBS for $140 million.[38]. [4] However, by 1992, NETV was in trouble due to increasing debt incurred by the channel 7 acquisition as well as declining advertising revenues, leading to speculation of a sale of WHDH radio;[16] on December 1, the station was sold to Atlantic Radio, putting it under the same ownership as rival talk station WRKO. The Lost 45s with Barry Scott was moved to WEGQ from sister station WBMX and became a Sunday night staple there before heading to WODS. It referred to itself "The Voice of Sports", a sub-branding of the station's overall imaging as "The Voice of the City". [38] The deal between Nassau and Entercom ended up collapsing by January 2008;[39] one of the stations involved, WWHQ (101.5 FM) in Meredith, New Hampshire,[40] joined the WEEI network as WZEI on January 4, 2013, after Nassau sold its stations.[41]. Tune into original WEEI programming: Kirk & Callahan (weekdays 6am-10am); Ordway, Merloni & Fauria (weekdays 10am-2pm); and Dale & Holley with Rich Keefe (weekdays 2pm-6pm). The broadcast duo called themselves "Grande and Max." A number of other stations in the New England region carry most of WEEI-FM's local programming. We have long-standing relationships with Boston’s professional and college sports teams and are the home for Red Sox Baseball. Veteran disk jockeys were replaced by personalities with a top 40 background, such as former WRKO personality Tom Kennedy (the DJ, not the game-show host), Bob Raleigh from WPGC in Washington (owned by Richmond Bros., owners of WMEX), Sean Casey, who was formerly with WOR-FM in New York and Bill Silver, the well known voice of per inquiry advertisements who put the phrase "but wait there's more" into the national lexicon. With a stronger transmitter, it now branded as a full-market Boston station. [48] In addition, WEEI began to simulcast on 93.7 FM on September 12, 2011. Cedric Maxwell provided color commentary during the broadcast. [13] (The program, along with other Fox Sports Radio programming, had moved to WBZ-FM after WEEI began carrying ESPN Radio in 2009, but was dropped from that station following the launch of CBS Sports Radio in January 2013). WARREN — As the hosts talk about sports on WEEI-FM 105.5, their signal fades, breaks up and a … Why? [8] WHDH then elected to not renew its contract with the Red Sox upon its expiration following the 1975 season, citing financial losses;[9] the broadcasts moved to WMEX starting with the 1975 postseason. WEEI traces its roots to its original owner, Edison Electric Illuminating (hence the call letters). The first of WEEI's eventual affiliates began airing its programming in September 2008. WEEI uses three guyed towers in a line, broadcasting with 50,000 watts, DA-2, from three 665-foot (203 m) towers on a site next to the former Needham town dump. Kim Ring. The station is one of the top-rated sports talk radio stations in the nation. Listen to WEEY 93.5 WEEI live and more than 50000 online radio stations for free on mytuner-radio.com. The stations are branded as "Sports Radio WEEI", and many carry call letters similar to the Boston flagship station. Cain would remain at WHDH for 34 years. [17] (Mugar would sell WHDH-TV to Sunbeam Television in 1993. [32] WEEI also added "Patriots Monday", featuring weekly appearances from New England Patriots players and coaches, in 1995; it moved to rival WNRB/WWZN in 1999,[33] but returned to WEEI in 2002,[34] and was joined by the similar "Patriots Friday" (formerly aired on WAMG) in 2008. [3] Matheson kept WHDH, which moved its studios to Boston on November 6, 1930, though some programming had originated from Boston for some time beforehand, and the transmitter remained in Gloucester until a 1932 move to Saugus. During the winter months, WHDH and WHDH-FM were the flagship stations of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association and the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, employing such legendary announcers as Johnny Most, Fred Cusick, and Bob Wilson. † = Operated by Bloomberg L.P. pursuant to a time brokerage agreement. [42][43] WPPI, one of the first affiliates, initially carried WEEI programming (as WGEI) from September 2008[42][43] until April 2009, when it began simulcasting talk station WLOB; it rejoined the network in August 2011. WEEI isn’t taking over an empty frequency, but rather displacing eight daily hours of local content along with some national filler (Jim Rome, Sporting News stuff). This format, however, didn't catch any fire in the Arbitron ratings, but did have a loyal audience and served a small niche in Boston. WEEI 103.7 (WVEI-FM) is a radio station licensed to Westerly, RI. The public of Greater Boston can locate the broadcaster on the AM frequency of 850 kHz. WEEI is the radio broadcast partner of the Red Sox, Patriots Monday & Friday and Boston College Football & Basketball. Entercom Boston celebrates lasting legacies, strong influence and deep connection to Boston-area communities and businesses. The station is one of the top-rated sports talk radio stations in the nation. [12] The station's last major sports property was the New England Patriots during the late 1980s. WEEI-FM (93.7 FM, "SportsRadio 93.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Lawrence, Massachusetts.The station is one of the top-rated sports talk radio stations in the nation. Additionally, WAEI (910 AM and 97.1 FM) in Bangor, Maine carried WEEI programming from September 2008[43] until January 2010, when Blueberry Broadcasting terminated its affiliation following a breach-of-contract dispute. On April 14, 2005, at 2:00 p.m., after playing "Last Dance" by Boston native Donna Summer, WQSX became WMKK, with an adult hits format branded as "93.7 Mike FM". Hill was focused on the sports news of the day and finding his groove with his new crew on WEEI. … [5], In 1946, shortly after World War II, the Boston Herald-Traveler newspaper purchased WHDH, by this time again an independent station. WHDH was founded on June 20, 1929 in Gloucester, Massachusetts by Ralph Matheson. [16] SB Nation Radio was replaced by CBS Sports Radio later that year, after WBZ-FM dropped the latter network to rejoin Fox Sports Radio;[17] Entercom had acquired CBS Sports Radio in its merger with CBS Radio.[18]. 93.7 FM Boston 103.7 FM Providence 105.5 FM Springfield 1440 AM Worcester 850 AM Boston The station employed a popular MOR (what today would be called "adult standards") music format, which would also include soft rock songs by the end of the 1960s. In 1988, WHDH became an affiliate of the NBC Radio Network. Among our listeners it is ranked no. We have personality-driven radio stations with veteran talent and over 500 events each year. He was fired for being too frank about a team that finished sixth in a six team league. WEEI 850 is a sports radio broadcaster licensed to Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, Blair, following a takeover by Reliance Capital Group, chose to sell its English-language broadcast stations to focus on the Spanish-language Telemundo television network;[14] in March 1987, it reached a deal to sell its entire radio group to Sconnix Broadcasting. Due to conflicts with BC basketball, Boston Bruins broadcasts, which WEEI had carried on 590 AM, remained on that frequency even after the launch of WBNW;[25] the team had already announced its move to WBZ effective with the 1995–96 season. Mugar was hoping to bring back a main competitor to WBZ radio and television, with a renewed emphasis on a news and straight talk format with some political programming. At 3:00 p.m. the following day, the station flipped to rhythmic adult contemporary as WQSX, "Star 93.7". The exception is for Red Sox and Celtics games, as these are streamed only through the team and league websites as part of subscription packages. In 1983, WCGY flipped to an oldies format playing hits of the '50s and '60s. [46] WRCH-HD3 converted to a WEEI simulcast after WRCH's former owner, CBS Radio, merged with Entercom in mid-November 2017; the channel had previously simulcast CBS-owned WBZ-FM, which was divested to Beasley Broadcast Group. Station History (Note: This history follows the present-day 850 frequency, the station known as WHDH for most of its existence. IBA Finds Health Care Option For Members. [37] After Zapis sold the renamed WWTM to American Radio Systems along with WAAF in 1996, it reincorporated WEEI programming into its lineup in 1997, and in 2000 reclaimed the WVEI call sign. This page was last edited on 13 March 2021, at 02:40. Much of WEPS' programming consisted of broadcasts to, for, or about fisherman, given Gloucester's status as a major port for the fishing industry. By the early 1980s, WHDH began to focus even less on music and more on personality, while playing more music and having less talk than rival WBZ. WEGQ, along with WEEI, WRKO, and WAAF, was sold to Entercom Communications.[7]. Frequent urination is also referred to as having an overactive bladder. 2 = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. WEEI is mostly a simulcast of the national ESPN Radio schedule, including Mike and Mike in the Morning, and SVP & Russillo. The 93.7 frequency, established in 1960, has carried WEEI programming since September 12, 2011, and has been the primary station for local WEEI programming since October 4, 2012. [35] Dennis and Callahan became the station's morning show on September 7, 1999,[36] after the station dropped Imus in the Morning in August due to declining ratings. By 1986, the station leaned slightly toward classic rock while still playing mostly music from 1964 to 1974. Following a long history of controversial on-air comments, WEEI-FM suspended its daytime live schedule on February 16, 2018 so all employees could undergo mandatory sensitivity training. 3 = Under a "Shared Time" agreement. On September 30, 1994, after the station was sold to American Radio Systems, WCGY became '70s Hits-formatted WEGQ "Eagle 93.7", which then underwent many changes over its five-year existence. Historically, the station is perhaps best known by its former WHDH call letters; it became the second home to WEEI in 1994 following an intellectual property purchase.