52-560: WEEI-FM (93.7 MHz ) – 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 . Owned by Audacy, Inc. , WEEI-FM is the Boston affiliate for Infinity Sports Network , the NFL on Westwood One Sports , the flagship station for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network ; and
104-541: A classic rock format and held on to this format until 1994. From 1992 until its demise in 1994, it was called "Rock 93, WCGY". On September 30, 1994, after the station was sold to American Radio Systems , WCGY became 1970s hits -formatted WEGQ "Eagle 93.7", which then underwent many changes over its five-year existence. Initially, it played music from 1970 to 1979, ranging from classic rock and pop, to disco, novelty and easy listening. As time went on, WEGQ added late 1960s and early 1980s music. The Lost 45s with Barry Scott
156-415: A condition of its approval of the merger. In August 1998, Entercom announced plans to acquire the four Boston-area stations, along with WWTM (now WVEI ), from CBS for $ 140 million. Shortly after the sale was approved, at 10:00 p.m. on March 31, 1999, after playing " You Can't Always Get What You Want " by The Rolling Stones , WEGQ began stunting with a loop of Prince 's " 1999 ". At 3:00 p.m.
208-469: A legal office. Depending on the country, specific duties may relate to organizing the justice system , overseeing the public prosecutor and national investigative agencies (e.g. the American Federal Bureau of Investigation ), and maintaining the legal system and public order . Some ministries have additional responsibilities in related policy areas such as overseeing elections , directing
260-617: A ministry of justice, but rather a Directorate of Judicial Services (head: Secretary of Justice) that oversees the administration of justice. Vatican City , a country under the sovereignty of the Holy See , also does not possess a ministry of justice. Instead, the Governorate of Vatican City State (head: President of the Governorate of Vatican City State), the legislative body of the Vatican, includes
312-548: A more detailed treatment of this and the above frequency ranges, see Electromagnetic spectrum . Gravitational waves are also described in Hertz. Current observations are conducted in the 30–7000 Hz range by laser interferometers like LIGO , and the nanohertz (1–1000 nHz) range by pulsar timing arrays . Future space-based detectors are planned to fill in the gap, with LISA operating from 0.1–10 mHz (with some sensitivity from 10 μHz to 100 mHz), and DECIGO in
364-583: A partial ESPN Radio schedule in 2009, but was dropped from WBZ-FM following the launch of CBS Sports Radio in January 2013). On August 20, 2013, WEEI-FM announced that it would no longer carry Boston Celtics broadcasts after being unable to reach a new contract with the team. In early 2014, WEEI-FM dropped Fox Sports Radio and began carrying NBC Sports Radio 's overnight program, shortly after WUFC (now WMEX ) dropped its affiliation with that network. SB Nation Radio 's overnight show joined WEEI-FM's schedule in 2019,
416-427: Is 1/time (T ). Expressed in base SI units, the unit is the reciprocal second (1/s). In English, "hertz" is also used as the plural form. As an SI unit, Hz can be prefixed ; commonly used multiples are kHz (kilohertz, 10 Hz ), MHz (megahertz, 10 Hz ), GHz (gigahertz, 10 Hz ) and THz (terahertz, 10 Hz ). One hertz (i.e. one per second) simply means "one periodic event occurs per second" (where
468-471: Is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice . The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice ( minister for justice in a very few countries) or a secretary of justice . In some countries, the head of the department may be called the attorney general , for example in the United States . Monaco is an example of a country that does not have
520-558: Is also regionally syndicated to a network of stations throughout New England, most of which use the "SportsRadio WEEI" franchised brand. The sports format currently heard on WEEI-FM launched on September 3, 1991, on the former WEEI (590 AM) . 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
572-490: Is also used to describe the clock speeds at which computers and other electronics are driven. The units are sometimes also used as a representation of the energy of a photon , via the Planck relation E = hν , where E is the photon's energy, ν is its frequency, and h is the Planck constant . The hertz is defined as one per second for periodic events. The International Committee for Weights and Measures defined
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#1733093712092624-484: Is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle ) per second . The hertz is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base units is s , meaning that one hertz is one per second or the reciprocal of one second . It is used only in the case of periodic events. It is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894),
676-452: Is usually measured in kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), or gigahertz (GHz). with the latter known as microwaves . Light is electromagnetic radiation that is even higher in frequency, and has frequencies in the range of tens of terahertz (THz, infrared ) to a few petahertz (PHz, ultraviolet ), with the visible spectrum being 400–790 THz. Electromagnetic radiation with frequencies in the low terahertz range (intermediate between those of
728-618: The Educational Media Foundation , with a simulcast on the two HD2 channels (WAAF, in turn, carried WEEI-FM's programming on its HD2). Until 2017, WEEI-FM's HD2 channel simulcast then-sister station WRKO, with WAAF being broadcast on the HD3 channel. 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. The tipping point came when afternoon host Christian Fauria
780-843: The South Shore . Westinghouse Electric Corporation , then-parent company of CBS Radio , announced its acquisition of American Radio Systems in September 1997. As the combined company would have controlled 59 percent of advertising revenues in the Boston market, as well as three of the top five radio stations, in April 1998 the Department of Justice ordered CBS to divest WEGQ, WEEI, WRKO , and WAAF (now WKVB ), as well as KSD and KLOU in St. Louis and WOCT in Baltimore, as
832-446: The 0.1–10 Hz range. In computers, most central processing units (CPU) are labeled in terms of their clock rate expressed in megahertz ( MHz ) or gigahertz ( GHz ). This specification refers to the frequency of the CPU's master clock signal . This signal is nominally a square wave , which is an electrical voltage that switches between low and high logic levels at regular intervals. As
884-468: The 1970s. In some usage, the "per second" was omitted, so that "megacycles" (Mc) was used as an abbreviation of "megacycles per second" (that is, megahertz (MHz)). Sound is a traveling longitudinal wave , which is an oscillation of pressure . Humans perceive the frequency of a sound as its pitch . Each musical note corresponds to a particular frequency. An infant's ear is able to perceive frequencies ranging from 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz ;
936-465: The Boston flagship station. Four of the eight network affiliates are directly owned by Audacy. WEEI-FM's sports play-by-play broadcasts are distributed separately, though some games originated by WEEI may air on some of the other affiliated stations by way of a separate deal. Some of the stations have picked up play-by-play rights in concert with WEEI after their conversion to the simulcast. Most stations carry either ESPN Radio or Fox Sports Radio when
988-405: The afternoon on the anniversary of his death. On September 8, 2011, it was announced that WMKK would begin simulcasting WEEI's sports radio format on September 12, 2011. The switch took place at 6:00 a.m. that day, after the station played Lynyrd Skynyrd 's " Free Bird ". On September 21, 2011, WMKK changed its call letters to WEEI-FM. On October 4, 2012, WEEI and WEEI-FM split the simulcast;
1040-476: The average adult human can hear sounds between 20 Hz and 16 000 Hz . The range of ultrasound , infrasound and other physical vibrations such as molecular and atomic vibrations extends from a few femtohertz into the terahertz range and beyond. Electromagnetic radiation is often described by its frequency—the number of oscillations of the perpendicular electric and magnetic fields per second—expressed in hertz. Radio frequency radiation
1092-440: The event being counted may be a complete cycle); 100 Hz means "one hundred periodic events occur per second", and so on. The unit may be applied to any periodic event—for example, a clock might be said to tick at 1 Hz , or a human heart might be said to beat at 1.2 Hz . The occurrence rate of aperiodic or stochastic events is expressed in reciprocal second or inverse second (1/s or s ) in general or, in
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#17330937120921144-582: The event is simulcast on WEEI and NESN. WEEI radio personalities conduct auctions and interviews with cancer patients and survivors, doctors, athletes and celebrities. Since 2002, this event has raised around $ 45 million for the Jimmy Fund and has received donations from all 50 states. A number of other stations in the New England region carry most of WEEI-FM's local programming. The stations are branded as "Sports Radio WEEI", and many carry call letters similar to
1196-404: 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. J.T. The Brick 's Fox Sports Radio program was added to WEEI-FM's schedule on May 6, 2013. (The program, along with other Fox Sports Radio programming, had moved from WEEI AM to WBZ-FM after WEEI began carrying
1248-525: The first affiliates, initially carried WEEI programming (as WGEI) from September 2008 until April 2009, when it began simulcasting talk station WLOB ; it rejoined the network in August 2011. Additionally, WAEI ( 910 AM and 97.1 FM ) in Bangor, Maine , carried WEEI programming from September 2008 until January 2010, when Blueberry Broadcasting terminated its affiliation following a breach-of-contract dispute. WZEI left
1300-403: The first person to provide conclusive proof of the existence of electromagnetic waves . For high frequencies, the unit is commonly expressed in multiples : kilohertz (kHz), megahertz (MHz), gigahertz (GHz), terahertz (THz). Some of the unit's most common uses are in the description of periodic waveforms and musical tones , particularly those used in radio - and audio-related applications. It
1352-583: The flagship station carries games or when WEEI-FM is not airing local programming. When WEEI (590 AM) formally relaunched as an all-sports station in September 1991, WEEI's then-owner, the Boston Celtics , signed a lease agreement with Zapis Communications to carry WEEI programming full-time on Zapis's AM station in Worcester, WFTQ. This arrangement replaced a previous simulcast of co-owned WAAF (107.3 FM) on WFTQ after Zapis shut down local operations earlier in
1404-506: The following day, the station flipped to rhythmic adult contemporary as WQSX, "Star 93.7". The first song on "Star" was " You Dropped a Bomb on Me " by The Gap Band . The format consisted of 1970s and 1980s-soul music, dance music and rhythmic hit music. This format, however, did not catch any fire in the Arbitron ratings, but did have a loyal audience and served a small niche in Boston. During 2001, controversial "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch
1456-600: The group that was prohibited from owning 93.7 itself back in the late 1990s, was known at the time) reportedly would have transformed either WBMX, WZLX, or WODS into Jack FM on April 15, 2005. Following the Boston Red Sox victory in the 2007 World Series , the station re-branded itself as " Mike Lowell FM " after the third baseman for one day. Similarly, the station paid tribute to Michael Jackson in July 2009 by re-branding themselves as "Michael FM" and playing Jackson's songs for
1508-534: The halftime show and the Celtics Rewind show following the game. On August 20, 2013, Entercom announced that it had been unable to come to terms on a new agreement to air the Celtics for the 2013-2014 season. Celtics broadcasts then moved to WBZ-FM. Each year since 2002, New England Sports Network (NESN) and WEEI have teamed up to raise money for The Jimmy Fund by holding a Radio-Telethon. For two days every August
1560-449: The hertz has become the primary unit of measurement accepted by the general populace to determine the performance of a CPU, many experts have criticized this approach, which they claim is an easily manipulable benchmark . Some processors use multiple clock cycles to perform a single operation, while others can perform multiple operations in a single cycle. For personal computers, CPU clock speeds have ranged from approximately 1 MHz in
1612-413: The highest normally usable radio frequencies and long-wave infrared light) is often called terahertz radiation . Even higher frequencies exist, such as that of X-rays and gamma rays , which can be measured in exahertz (EHz). For historical reasons, the frequencies of light and higher frequency electromagnetic radiation are more commonly specified in terms of their wavelengths or photon energies : for
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1664-454: The late 1970s ( Atari , Commodore , Apple computers ) to up to 6 GHz in IBM Power microprocessors . Various computer buses , such as the front-side bus connecting the CPU and northbridge , also operate at various frequencies in the megahertz range. Higher frequencies than the International System of Units provides prefixes for are believed to occur naturally in the frequencies of
1716-643: The move came after NBC Sports Radio eliminated its late night programming. SB Nation Radio was replaced by CBS Sports Radio later that year, after WBZ-FM dropped the latter network to rejoin Fox Sports Radio; Entercom had acquired CBS Sports Radio in its merger with CBS Radio. The station's HD2 channel carries an active rock format branded as "WAAF", which is also broadcast on the HD2 channel of sister station WWBX . The format and WAAF call letters were formerly used by WKVB (107.3 FM) until its 2020 sale from Entercom to
1768-463: The network on July 1, 2020, when it became soft adult contemporary station WWLK-FM . 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 . ** = Audacy operates pursuant to a local marketing agreement with Martz Communications Group . Hertz The hertz (symbol: Hz )
1820-520: The owner in mind, as Curt Gowdy and his children owned and operated the station. In 1983, WCGY flipped to an oldies format playing hits of the 1950s and 1960s. The station, however, did not perform well in the Boston ratings. Some early to mid 1970s oldies were mixed in by 1984, and by 1985, the 1950s music was gone. The station by then was called "Superhits WCGY". By 1986, the station leaned slightly toward classic rock while still playing mostly music from 1964 to 1974. By 1987, WCGY had evolved to more of
1872-486: The primary station for local WEEI programming since October 4, 2012. 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 . In 1974, the station evolved into WCGY, an automated stereo top 40 and oldies station. With a stronger transmitter, it is now branded as a full-market Boston station. The call letters were chosen with
1924-745: The quantum-mechanical vibrations of massive particles, although these are not directly observable and must be inferred through other phenomena. By convention, these are typically not expressed in hertz, but in terms of the equivalent energy, which is proportional to the frequency by the factor of the Planck constant . The CJK Compatibility block in Unicode contains characters for common SI units for frequency. These are intended for compatibility with East Asian character encodings, and not for use in new documents (which would be expected to use Latin letters, e.g. "MHz"). Department of Justice A justice ministry , ministry of justice , or department of justice ,
1976-405: The radio home of Greg Hill , Lou Merloni , Christian Fauria and Jermaine Wiggins . The WEEI-FM studios are located in Boston's Brighton neighborhood , while the station transmitter resides in the nearby suburb of Peabody . In addition to a standard analog transmission , WEEI-FM broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, and is available online via Audacy . WEEI-FM's weekday programming lineup
2028-544: The rules for capitalisation of a common noun ; i.e., hertz becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles but is otherwise in lower case. The hertz is named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894), who made important scientific contributions to the study of electromagnetism . The name was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1935. It
2080-409: The second as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium -133 atom" and then adds: "It follows that the hyperfine splitting in the ground state of the caesium 133 atom is exactly 9 192 631 770 hertz , ν hfs Cs = 9 192 631 770 Hz ." The dimension of the unit hertz
2132-413: The specific case of radioactivity , in becquerels . Whereas 1 Hz (one per second) specifically refers to one cycle (or periodic event) per second, 1 Bq (also one per second) specifically refers to one radionuclide event per second on average. Even though frequency, angular velocity , angular frequency and radioactivity all have the dimension T , of these only frequency is expressed using
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2184-532: The standard service) for those outside the Boston listening area. The entire 162-game Red Sox schedule also may be heard on an extensive radio network throughout the six New England states. Many of the smaller stations have always aired the Red Sox Network regardless of what Boston station originated those broadcasts. In 2006, the Boston Red Sox signed a 10-year radio deal with WRKO (also owned by Entercom at
2236-464: The time) for the broadcast rights for the 2007 through 2016 seasons, worth a reportedly $ 13 million a season. 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. As of August 26, 2009, WEEI once again became the flagship station for the Red Sox. This occurred two weeks after the debut of competitor WBZ-FM "The Sports Hub" and
2288-480: The unit hertz. Thus a disc rotating at 60 revolutions per minute (rpm) is said to have an angular velocity of 2 π rad/s and a frequency of rotation of 1 Hz . The correspondence between a frequency f with the unit hertz and an angular velocity ω with the unit radians per second is The hertz is named after Heinrich Hertz . As with every SI unit named for a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (Hz), but when written in full, it follows
2340-582: The year; the WEEI simulcast on WFTQ commenced with the WVEI call sign. 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. What is now WVEI-FM was acquired from Phoenix Media/Communications Group in 2004, and what is now WWEI was purchased from Vox Radio Group in 2006. Entercom's initial plan to syndicate WEEI programming to non-Entercom stations
2392-413: Was a morning host briefly. 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". The first song on "Mike" was " Tessie " by The Dropkick Murphys . Inside Radio , a radio industry publication, released information that had this change not taken place, Infinity Broadcasting (as CBS Radio,
2444-482: Was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) ( Conférence générale des poids et mesures ) in 1960, replacing the previous name for the unit, "cycles per second" (cps), along with its related multiples, primarily "kilocycles per second" (kc/s) and "megacycles per second" (Mc/s), and occasionally "kilomegacycles per second" (kMc/s). The term "cycles per second" was largely replaced by "hertz" by
2496-512: Was moved to WEGQ from sister station WBMX and became a Sunday night staple there before heading to WODS . By 1995, it also leaned toward classic rock. The station's morning show team, Karlson and McKenzie , would later be heard on WZLX . In 1996, WEGQ's transmitter was moved south from Andover to a newly constructed tower in Peabody, which increased the station's signal in Downtown Boston and
2548-472: Was seen as a reaction, focusing all Red Sox games on one station, WEEI, rather than splitting them between the station and WRKO. Sean Grande hosted the Celtics Tonight pregame show before each Celtics game on WEEI-FM in addition to providing the play by play for the game. Cedric Maxwell provided color commentary during the broadcast. The broadcast duo called themselves "Grande and Max". John Ryder hosted
2600-591: Was suspended for five days after impersonating Don Yee , the agent for longtime Patriots quarterback Tom Brady , with a stereotyped Asian accent. Red Sox broadcasts are a daily feature of the WEEI Red Sox Radio Network slate from March through October. Each broadcast consists of: During game broadcasts, WEEI-FM is also made available through the Major League Baseball web site (for a fee), and (for home games) on XM Satellite Radio (as part of
2652-478: Was to place it on eleven New England stations owned by Nassau Broadcasting . The plan, announced on August 16, 2007, followed reports that Nassau was planning to use its WCRB (99.5 FM) as the flagship for a regional sports network featuring Dennis and Callahan , which was on hiatus from WEEI at the time during stalled contractual negotiations; the deal would have seen Entercom acquire a 50-percent interest in WCRB, which
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#17330937120922704-549: Was to retain its classical music format, for $ 10 million. The Nassau-owned affiliates would not have aired Red Sox and Celtics broadcasts or Patriots Monday . The deal between Nassau and Entercom ended up collapsing by January 2008; one of the stations involved, WWHQ (101.5 FM) in Meredith, New Hampshire , joined the WEEI network as WZEI on January 4, 2013, after Nassau sold its stations. The first of WEEI's eventual affiliates began airing its programming in September 2008. WPPI, one of
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