Boston Radio: WEEI Website Traffic Surges

Entercom/Boston is reporting the controversy surropunding the Boston Patriots and Deflategate is very good business for its WEEI 93.7 FM website.

The Boston station its website has moved into record territory. Between January 19th, the day the allegations about the footballs and January 25th, WEEI.com racked up over 1 million unique users to and over 4.3 million page views.

WEEI also reports a total of 6.1 million Facebook users with more than one million participating in a WEEI post and more than 1.1 million Facebook views of a special Deflate-Gate video produced by the station’s Jerry Thornton and videographer Peter Neudel, plus an additional 285,000 views on YouTube.


WEEI.com employs its own dedicated team of 12 editors, videographers and journalists under the direction of site editor Rob Bradford who said he was not surprised by the metrics.

"Our most recent success offers yet another example of how powerful the WEEI brand has become,” Bradford commented. “I am consistently amazed by the level of talent and commitment our team at WEEI.com and WEEI brings to the table on a daily basis, with the last month serving as yet another reminder as to what this group has built and continues to build."