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Any time you want to check ownership, go to http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/
Click on AM or FM as appropriate, then do either an AM search or FM search. If you search by call letters, you get the station file, with links to a lot of additional data and including the licensee. Remember that the license may appear in a subsidiary corporate name, and not necessarily the name of the parent company.
David - this thread had ONE POST in it! Was it really necessary to quote the lone post in it? My God, man...
You have picked a very nice nit.
Ahem, speaking of Emmis...
NOTHING about Hot 97's Mister Cee resigning on the Radiodiscussions.com forums? Seriously?
http://bit.ly/1aEhJVM
NOTHING about Hot 97's Mister Cee resigning on the Radiodiscussions.com forums? Seriously?
http://bit.ly/1aEhJVM
HELLO? It's FRONT PAGE NEWS in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/14/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf
The story isn't that he's still on the air. The story is the dialogue this event has created in the hip-hop community, and elsewhere.
Mister Cee is indeed still on Hot 97, at the insistence of management who basically said "it's OK to be who you are."
Hot 97, PD Ebro Darden, and Mister Cee are on the right side of history this time. It may take a while for it to sink in, but this situation is a game changer, and Hot 97 is a whole lot more than a music station right now. Major props all around!
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(quoting just to get Joe's knickers in a twist...
Here's the deal: Disney now believes (correctly, I think) that the business of providing live audio about sports will outlive the business of transmitting RF from tall towers. By not owning 98.7, Disney/ESPN doesn't have to concern itself with maintaining a public file, negotiating for a replacement master antenna at Empire, monitoring modulation levels, or any of the minutiae of operating a broadcast station. Once the audio leaves its studio at 125 West End Avenue, it's Emmis' problem. The deal was, IIRC, a 10-year contract. ESPN will be on 98.7 through 2021, period, and if for some reason broadcast FM still matters at that point, Disney can negotiate an extension or buy something else - and if it doesn't, it walks away and that's that.
Emmis, for its part, still takes in something like $75 million for its role in the deal, so it gets most of the benefits it would have received from actually selling the 98.7 license, and if the 98.7 license is still worth something come 2021, it still has the license, too.
1050 is just weird. The WEPN engineers in New York maintain the RF plant, but all the programming actually routes through ESPN Deportes Radio in Miami, which is also where much of the "local" programming originates. If a buyer came along offering a reasonable amount of money, I suspect Disney would gladly part with 1050.
As for 1560, it's operated entirely separate of ESPN/WEPN. There's a nominal main studio and sales office at ABC HQ on W. 66th Street, which is also where the public file lives, but otherwise it's just an engineer maintaining the transmitter out in Maspeth. The remaining Disney AMs are legacy operations; when Radio Disney started, there wasn't really streaming audio and there certainly weren't smartphone apps. Disney was never on AM radio because it believed passionately in AM radio. It was on AM radio because that was the cheapest way to achieve maximum distribution in the mid-1990s.
There's probably no other broadcaster out there right now that's as savvy about the distinction between content and distribution platform as Disney. The arrangement with Emmis is just one example of that.
Actually, Scott, in that instance, it's fine... Quoting posts should be acceptable, so long as A. it's not the last one on the thread, and B. it's not the only one on the thread.
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