WEEI

To hell and back with the radio on

adamg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:46:43 -0400

Buzz Byne listens to WEEI for 12 straight hours (except for a few minutes when he just couldn't stand Dennis and Callahan a moment longer) so you don't have to:

10:29 AM

It's Manny Ramirez time. Dale tells us it was almost criminal what this guy did on this team this year. We hardly know all the stories. Really? Does Dale tell us any of these extra stories? Nope. We just gotta take his word for it. Good to see Dale's new part time gig in the Red Sox broadcast booth is paying off with unsubstantiated rumors passed on to the listeners during his radio show. ...

Via Boston Sports Media Watch.

WEEI hires alleged plagiarist to beef up Web site

adamg — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:49:17 -0400

No, not that one, the other one. David Scott reports Ron Borges is heading to weei.com. He also discusses how Tony Massarotti almost moved to weei.com instead of to boston.com.

Bruce Allen suddenly loses interest in weei.com:

I had high hopes for this new weei.com. Borges just about kills it for me. You hire him, you lose your credibility. Simple as that.

Herald loses another reporter to the Globe

adamg — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:50:29 -0400

Adam Reilly has the details on Tony Massarotti jumping from the Herald to the Globe, where he'll become "the face and voice of boston.com sports." He also reports on Gordon Edes' replacement.

Dan Kennedy: Massarotti is a leading reason to read the Herald, so this is a huge, huge loss. Also shows Globe is taking weei.com seriously as a threat, he says.

Earlier:
WEEI to pose threat to Boston Dirt Dogs.

Competition for Boston Dirt Dogs

adamg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:56:11 -0400

Not only has WEEI hired away two Herald sports writers to try to turn its Web site into the major go-to site for New England sports info, but it's advertising for some serious Web/systems help, Mats Tolander reports:

... I like weei.com's Director of Product Development:

You recognize Emacs is the one true editor (though I suppose vi will do in a pinch; anything but Frontpage). ...

Glenn Ordway's statement on his wife and daughter

adamg — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:15:58 -0500

Here.

Did former state official break state ethics rule before becoming biotech-industry honcho?

adamg — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:42:40 -0400

Scott Allen Miller reads a recent Globe story about how Robert Coughlin moved from state officialdom to the chairmanship of the Mass. Biotechnology Council and notices an interesting detail buried far down the story: Coughlin entertained the CEO of a biotech company in Skybox seats at Fenway Park, using tickets given his office by WEEI for having placed some ads on the station.

So? As Miller explains, Skybox tickets are worth far more than the $50 that is the maximum price of tickets state employees are allowed to accept for free. Plus, he explains why one might ask whether those tickets helped get Coughlin his job at the council.

Dennis and Callahan to return to the air tomorrow

adamg — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:49:30 -0400

Jessica Heslam reports. So does David Scott.

Didn't the Soviets used to do this with photos, too?

adamg — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:58:11 -0400

Saving WRKO notes an odd WEEI ad on page 18 of today's Herald: It's a reprint of an older ad showing Dennis, Callahan and Meterparel at Fenway park, only Dennis's face has been Photoshopped over Callahan's and Meterparel's.

Dismemberment of Dennis and Callahan really just a way to send a message to Carr?

adamg — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:57:33 -0400

It'd be an awfully expensive message, no?

That was the week that was in local sports radio

adamg — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:53:05 -0400

David Scott summarizes the whole thing.