page_title: WEEI-FM
section_title: WEEI-FM (2011-present)
hierarchical_section_title: WEEI-FM / History / WEEI-FM (2011-present)
caption_attribution_description: English: WEEI promotional booth at a supermarket in Boston.
context_page_description: WEEI-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. Owned by Entercom, WEEI-FM is the Boston affiliate for CBS Sports Radio and NBC Sports Radio; the flagship station for the Boston Red Sox Radio Network; and the radio home of Greg Hill, Glenn Ordway, Lou Merloni, Christian Fauria, Dale Arnold, Jermaine Wiggins, and Greg Dickerson.
  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 Radio.com. 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.
  The sports format currently heard on WEEI-FM launched on September 3, 1991 on the former WEEI. 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.
context_section_description: 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; 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 returned to WEEI on May 6, 2013. (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). On August 20, 2013, WEEI-FM announced that it would no longer carry Celtics broadcasts after being unable to reach a new contract with the team. 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. SB Nation Radio's overnight show joined WEEI-FM's schedule in 2019, 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 atation WWBX. The format and WAAF call letters were formerly used by WKVB (107.3 FM) until its 2020 sale from Entercom to 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 offensive 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 was suspended for five days after mocking Don Yee, the agent for Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, with a stereotyped Asian accent.
caption: WEEI promotional booth at a supermarket in Boston.
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