North Shore 104.9 FM, licensed to Gloucester, MA and serving the communities of Essex County and points North is excited to announce an affiliation agreement with The Boston Red Sox Radio Network that will bring the Boston Red Sox Games to North Shore 104.9 FM for the complete 2006 Baseball season. Last season the 2nd half of the Red Sox Season and post season was heard on the North Shore 104.9 FM.

North Shore 104.9 FM will broadcast all Red Sox games for the of the 2006 Season. Todd Tanger, North Shore 104.9 FM President, stated, ‘We are excited to bring the WEEI Red Sox Radio Network broadcast of Red Sox Games to the North Shore and on the FM dial at 104.9. This will be a great complement to our mass appeal programming of music and our local programming of all things North Shore. North Shore residents have been long time passionate Red Sox fans and now they can find their home town team on their home town radio station. We look forward to a long relationship with the radio network and the team.’

‘People were very excited last year to catch games on the FM Dial and were glad we were able to reach an agreement with the rights holders, WEEI, to bring the play by play action back to North Shore 104.9 FM.

The complete Red Sox radio schedule will be available at northshore1049.com beginning March 15th 2006. For more information contact Todd Tanger at todd@northshore1049.com.