tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-254213592025-03-04T15:11:27.160-05:00Boston Radio Watch®Watching Boston radio since 1994Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.comBlogger446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-29828259316293168012019-07-12T12:30:00.000-04:002019-07-30T05:14:40.198-04:00The Boston Shocker : Entercom moves Greg Hill from WAAF to WEEI as Gerry Callahan departs
In a move that shook up the entire Boston radio landscape, Entercom announced the upcoming debut of “The Greg Hill Morning Show” on WEEI 93.7. The new show will begin on Monday July 29th and feature longtime Boston radio veteran Greg Hill, who will be transitioning to WEEI from sister station Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-55808428487593348262019-06-29T10:14:00.001-04:002019-06-29T18:01:34.997-04:00Loren Owens exits WROR; Bob Bronson returns to Boston
Loren Owners, a longtime, legendary morning host at WROR 105.7 told his audience yesterday(6/28)t that his contract with Beasley-owned classic hits station was not renewed. Owens last time on the air was his usual 6am to 10am shift. His final morning show which officially ended "Loren and Wally Show" era in Boston radio, featured a Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-13925662243961683302019-06-28T17:02:00.003-04:002019-06-28T17:02:43.509-04:00The Beat of Boston debuts
This morning at 6 an, iHeartMedia Boston debuted a new format and a new moniker on WKAF 97.7. The Beat of Boston featuring “Classic CHR" had replaced Urban AC(adult contemporary)and The New 97.7 which has been in place since January 2017. Iheart acquired WKAF in December 2017 but hasn't really put its signation on the station until today.
The New 97.7 The Beat Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-54715237921049221152019-06-20T19:51:00.002-04:002019-06-20T20:13:13.986-04:00Lost 45's are set to return on Easy 99.1
WPLM/Easy 99.1 will become the new home of Boston's nearly four-decade radio treasure - "The Lost 45s with Barry Scott" starts running this Sunday, June 23. The weekly show will occupy WPLM's 6pm-9pm slot.
Barry Scott,the curator of America's Largest 1970's and 1980's pop hits and interview library launched Lost 45's as a student DJ at Emerson Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-79570554968173616992019-06-12T12:16:00.000-04:002019-06-12T13:53:17.776-04:0080's oldies and Top 40 bring ratings gold for two Boston stations in May survey.
Beasley Media's 80's oldies WROR 105.7 and Iheart Radio's 40-year Top 40 powerhouse WXKS/Kiss 108 ended up in a tie for first place among all listeners ages 6 and up, according to the May ratings report released Tuesday. Kiss 108 was also top Boston station among 25-54, 18-34 and 18-49 demographics.
FinishingBoston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-67534125948346896702019-02-15T13:56:00.000-05:002019-02-17T14:04:37.615-05:00
WEEI goes with Red Sox radio call by committee this season
On February 14th, Entercom's WEEI 93.7/Sports Radio announced the new all-star team of play-by-play platoon for 2019 Boston Red Sox games on the flagship station of the team. Broadcasters participating this season will include Sean McDonough, current ESPN broadcaster and former Sox TV voice; Josh Lewin, former Mets radio voice; MarioBoston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-55879589828042813062019-01-24T07:31:00.000-05:002019-01-26T07:49:38.708-05:00Christmas music brings presents to Magic 106.7
In the latest Nielsen Audio ratings, released this week, Entercom-owned WMJX/Magic 106.7 was the overall ratings winner for the “holiday” period, which began Dec. 6 and ended Jan. 2. Magic registered a 14.5 share for the period, up from 8.9 in the December survey (covering Nov. 8 - Dec.5). Like it has done for the past few years, Magic launched its Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-21457235945720075782019-01-03T09:09:00.000-05:002019-01-05T09:19:31.001-05:00New England Patriots extend the Sports Hub
The New England Patriots and Beasley Media Group have announced a multi-year broadcast extension with WBZ/98.5 The Sports Hub, its radio flagship since August 2009. The Sports Hub's previous Patriots flagship deal was announced back in September 2017 while the station was still under CBS Radio's ownership.(BRW 9/8/2017). On November 1, 2017, it Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-67888649994594317132018-12-20T17:28:00.000-05:002018-12-21T17:30:28.874-05:00Toucher and Rich extend their stay at the Sports Hub
Beasley Media Group announced earlier today that Fred Toettcher and Rich Shertenlieb morning show personalities and co-hosts of highly popular "Toucher and Rich" have signed a multiyear deal to continue as the morning show at WBZ/98.5 The Sports Hub. The duo has been on the Boston airwaves since June of 2006 when took Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-59151742131685838422018-12-13T04:02:00.000-05:002018-12-14T11:44:45.740-05:00
Ayla Brown joins Jackson Blue on WKLB's morning show
WKLB/Country 102.5 has named singer Ayla Brown as morning co-host alongside Jackson Blue, starting Monday (12/17). "Jackson and Ayla Brown" can be heard weekdays from 5:30 to 9am.
Brown was a Season 5 finalist on "American Idol" reality show and is the daughter of former Senator and current Ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown and former Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-48306030069838726182018-12-12T14:32:00.002-05:002018-12-12T15:48:42.405-05:00
WEEI announces that Tim Neverett will not return to Red Sox radio team
Tim Neverett will not return to the Red Sox radio booth next season when the team defends its World Series title, team's flagship WEEI 93.7 announced yesterday.
"Thank you to the @RedSox front office and loyal radio listeners for the great support I have received, especially this year, Although they wanted me to return, I Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-51462839036987091572018-07-25T23:17:00.002-04:002018-07-26T00:16:37.508-04:00Beasley appoints Weiss as Alt 92.9's new music director
Beasley Media Group today announced that after a 4-month search Joel Weiss has been named Music Director at WBOS/ALT 92.9. He will officially begin his new position on Monday, August 6.
Up until September 2016, the White Plains, NY native, Weiss, had spent more than 13 years as a music director and on-air personality at alternative rocker Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-29113452147916429792018-07-19T13:24:00.000-04:002018-07-23T22:28:55.019-04:00Line-up shake-up at WEEI as Big O returns to afternoon drive
Entercom Boston announced line-up changes for WEEI/SportsRadio 93.7, effective Monday August 13. The new line-up is as follows: 5:30 am – 10:00am: “Kirk & Callahan” hosted by Kirk Minihane and Gerry Callahan 10:00 am – 2:00 pm: “Dale &; Keefe” with Dale Arnold and Rich Keefe 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm: “OMF - Ordway, Merloni & Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-55456480121190210622018-05-03T16:11:00.000-04:002018-05-03T16:11:41.121-04:00iHeart Boston Names Ginny Rogers-Brophey as New Program Director For 101.7 The Bull
iHeartMedia Boston announced that former WKLB/Country 102.5's Assistant Program Director and Music Director Ginny Rogers Brophey has been named PD for iHeartMedia's crosstown WBWL/101.7 The Bull. She succeeds Lance Houston, who recently joined Iheart's WEBG/Big 95-5 in Chicago. Houston was Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-4756603890617058402018-04-25T17:27:00.002-04:002018-04-25T17:28:19.715-04:00Longtime WBZ radio reporter Lana Jones has died
WBZ/News Radio 1030 announced this morning that Lana Jones "died suddenly this morning at UMass Medical Center in Worcester." She was 62. The station did not provide a cause of death.
She is survived by her husband, Steve Jones-D'Agostino who said that Jones became ill on the way home, went straight to bed and passed out on the hallway floor Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-76959075202549702032018-04-20T07:18:00.003-04:002018-04-20T07:53:28.465-04:00Gil Santos, longtime radio voice of the New England Patriots passes away
Gil Santos, the New England Patriots’ longtime radio voice, died Thursday on his 80th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary.
Santos had a truly amazing sports radio career in his own hometown market. Santos who had called three Patriots's Super Bowl wins is the dean of NFL radio play-by-play with calling team's Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-80757242775773659322018-04-01T11:17:00.000-04:002018-04-02T11:47:32.220-04:00Veteran news anchor Rod Fritz let go at WBZ
WBZ/News Radio 1030 midday news co-anchor Rod Fritz was let go from Iheart Media-owned station late last week.
Highly-regarded radio veteran, Fritz has been working as news anchor/reporter/director in the Boston market since 1976 and had been working at WBZ since November 2007. He had co-anchored WBZ's midday news with another market veteran, Mary Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-36166850828663645162018-03-27T20:57:00.001-04:002018-03-27T21:19:10.908-04:00IheartMedia Boston keeps Howie Carr Show on WRKO
Earlier today, iHeartMedia Boston had announced a new long-term agreement with the "Howie Carr Show" to remain on WRKO 680, effective immediately.
Carr started at WRKO in 1989 as the host of a weekly program known as The Governors that featured the late Barbara Anderson and the late Jerry Williams. He started full time as the station's Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-51510359650891294722018-03-03T11:33:00.000-05:002018-03-03T15:07:40.997-05:00BREAKING : Owner of eight Boston radio stations prepares to file for bankruptcy
Embattled IHeartMedia is circulating documents for a bankruptcy filing that could come as soon as this weekend for the biggest U.S. radio broadcaster and owners of eight Boston stations.
A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is all but certain, with iHeart and creditors each swapping proposals in recent weeks for a Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-31456315386614076432018-03-02T11:12:00.000-05:002018-03-03T14:20:09.880-05:00Michael Holley exits WEEI for exapnded TV role and a teaching job
On Wednesday(2/28), after a 13-year run at WEEI 93.7, afternoon drive co-host Michael Holley announced he is leaving the station for a higher profile role at the regional sports network NBC Sports Boston and a teaching position at Boston University.
Holley, former Boston Globe sports writer, joined WEEI back in March Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-81225231963991455262018-02-22T11:38:00.002-05:002018-02-22T12:17:20.204-05:00January numbers are here....
Entercom and Beasley had four of the top five stations Boston’s
January(4-31) Nielsen Audio ratings released yesterday. Leading the pack was Iheart
Media’s WXKS/Kiss 108 with a 7.3 share, followed by Beasley’s 98.5 The Sports
Hub at 7.1 and WROR 105.7 at 6.7, Entercom’s WEEI/SportsRadio 93.7 and
WMJX/Magic 106.7 tying for 4th at 5.4.
Rounding out the Top 10 wereBoston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-22305830618432302582018-02-17T14:06:00.000-05:002018-02-21T14:23:00.256-05:00The day when WEEI got silenced
On Friday, February 16, Entercom's WEEI 93.7 pulled all of its local programming from 6am to 6pm in order to accommodate an all-day sensitivity training for station's full-time personnel. That came in the wake of recent controversies which included indefinite suspension of nightime host Alex Reimer who was suspended just before the Super Bowl after he called Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-80496062455507932522017-12-24T09:53:00.000-05:002017-12-24T10:12:44.149-05:00Entercom and Beasley complete the Sports Hub and Magic swap
Earlier this week, Beasley Broadcast Group Inc. and Entercom had completed the previously announced asset exchange where the former company received Boston's sports talker WBZ 98.5 The Sports Hub while sending WMJX/Magic 106.7 and $12 million cash to the latter.
Caroline Beasley, Chief Executive Officer of Beasley Broadcast Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-40068031175083768922017-12-18T14:36:00.005-05:002017-12-18T14:39:04.452-05:00WMEX 1510 plans to return to airwaves under new local ownership
WMEX 1510, the iconic Boston station that has been off the air since June 30(BRW 7/2) will change hands in early 2018 and could return to the airwaves in the next few weeks. Local radio broadcaster Ed Perry who owns Marshfield's WATD 95.9, one of the few remaining independent, community- oriented news and music stations in Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25421359.post-51712299556307109062017-11-22T12:30:00.000-05:002017-11-23T01:08:12.738-05:00Peter Casey out as WBZ's programming and news chief
WBZ/News Radio 1030's director of news and programming Peter Casey has been let go earlier today according to reliable sources and station's staff memo obtained by Boston Radio Watch. Casey has been programming WBZ's since 1996. He joined WBZ as an assistant news director in 1993. In addition to his 24 years at WBZ, his distinguished news Boston Radio Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11924159636670979911noreply@blogger.com0