WEEI-FM
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| City | Lawrence, Massachusetts |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Boston |
| Branding | SportsRadio 93.7 WEEI-FM |
| Slogan | The Home of the Boston Sports Fan |
| Frequency | 93.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Repeater(s) | 107.3-2 WAAF-HD2 |
| First air date | April 1960 (as WGHJ) |
| Format | FM/HD1: Sports HD2: Talk (WRKO simulcast) HD3: Active rock (WAAF simulcast) |
| ERP | 34,000 watts |
| HAAT | 178 meters (584 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 1919 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°31′53.00″N 70°59′12.00″W / 42.5313889°N 70.9866667°W |
| Former callsigns | WGHJ (1960–1963) WCCM-FM (1963–1974) WCGY (1974–1984) WCGY-FM (1984–1987) WCGY (1987–1994) WEGQ (1994–1999) WQSX (1999–2005) WMKK (2005–2011) |
| Affiliations |
ESPN Radio NBC Sports Radio Westwood One |
| Owner |
Entercom (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WKAF, WAAF, WRKO, WEEI, WVEI, WVEI-FM, WWEI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | weei.com |
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. Studios are located in Brighton, Massachusetts, and has a transmitter in Peabody, Massachusetts. Its local programming is heard on the "WEEI Sports Radio Network" that broadcasts throughout the New England region.
WEEI-FM is the flagship station of the WEEI Red Sox Radio Network. In addition, WEEI broadcasts games of the Boston College football and basketball teams in season. When local programming is not on WEEI-FM, usually ESPN Radio or NBC Sports Radio will air.
The station is popular with fans of the Boston professional sports teams, especially the Boston Red Sox. WEEI-FM calls itself "the #1 rated sports radio talk station in America," in terms of the percentage of the area radio listening audience tuned-in. WEEI-FM isn't alone in providing 24/7 sports radio in Boston; sister station WEEI (850 AM) offers the full ESPN Radio lineup, while local competition includes WBZ-FM.
The call letters WEEI-FM, formerly on a station in Westerly, Rhode Island, were granted on September 21, 2011 as part of a call letter shuffle. 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; prior to then, this programming had been on 850 AM since 1994, and on 590 AM before then.
The sports format currently heard on WEEI-FM originated on September 3, 1991 on 590 AM (which at that time had the WEEI call letters), replacing an all-news format that had been in place since 1974; WEEI itself had gone on the air in 1924. At that time, the station was owned by Boston Celtics Communications (a group that shared ownership with the Boston Celtics basketball team), which bought WEEI from Helen Broadcasting on May 10, 1990 and simultaneously purchased WFXT (channel 25) from Fox Television Stations. The station, which had already carried Celtics broadcasts since 1987, expanded its sports programming after the sale; WEEI became the flagship station of the Boston Bruins (replacing WPLM-FM) in 1990 (however, Celtics broadcasts were given priority, resulting in some Bruins broadcasts moving to WVBF or WMEX), and a nightly sports talk show with Craig Mustard was launched on August 20, 1990. WEEI also carried Sports Byline USA and CBS Radio Sports broadcasts not cleared by WRKO, which took all other CBS Radio Network programming from WEEI on September 3, 1990, leading the station to affiliate with the ABC Direction Network.
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