Reading into Entercom's Divestures

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

Off topic question .... if 850 tower site @ the river is 3rd party; would it make sense for Salem to put 1300 out there and crank it back up to the power level they fought to get a a few years back? It's my understanding the only reason they have been at reduced power is because of the potential sparking & interference with the petroleum operations right next to the tower site @ Port of Tacoma.

 

[davideduardo]

Yes, I would put that as an option.

I would also contact the owners of the adjacent signals and see if anyone who must protect 1090 Seattle would be interested in paying some money to see the station go off the air, and they could better their signal. Not a perfect solution, but one I would consider.

At night, the main protections on 1090 are Rosarito, BCN, Mexico, Little Rock and Baltimore. It would be legally difficult to arrange for XEPRS to go off as the allocation belongs toMexico as a nation. Baltimore is not going to make changes as it is a major station.

 

[Rob Piotrowski]

With the early low land Snow, 1090 may be flipped to a 24 hour weather/snow station, Snow driving tips and such.

Bellingham is already closed for the season with up to 10 inches of Snow. Soon western Washington will paralyzed!

Minute by minute snow depth reports from around the Puget sound will be a hit this winter. Sowmageddon 1090?

At my house it's been a wet snow since 9am, temp gone down from 36-34. I actually have a weather station at the 770/1090 site as well as other locations on Vashon vashonweather.com

I am kidding, kinda.

I'm thinking you might have been exposed to too much RF, Steve...

 

[AQH]

At night, the main protections on 1090 are Rosarito, BCN, Mexico, Little Rock and Baltimore. It would be legally difficult to arrange for XEPRS to go off as the allocation belongs toMexico as a nation. Baltimore is not going to make changes as it is a major station.

That was not the point.

 

[ksradiogeek]

KUBE, KFOO, and WKOX are being placed in the Ocean States Trust, not the Aloha Station Trust.

We already know that. What we're saying is that iheart already has a trust. They could've just dumped the 3 in there and called 'er good. But alas, the DOJ more than likely barred them from doing so, so a new trust was formed.

 

[miketheradioguy]

We already know that. What we're saying is that iheart already has a trust. They could've just dumped the 3 in there and called 'er good. But alas, the DOJ more than likely barred them from doing so, so a new trust was formed.

I understand why a new divestment trust is being formed, but it will be interesting to see who will end up buying the stations iHeartMedia's divesting.

 

[Bongwater]

Yep, it's known as a "Mutual Interference Agreement". Essentially station A pays the licensee of station B to either agree to accept interference from station A by going down in power, changing directional pattern away from station A, etc., or "sell" station B to station A's owner to be shut down and the license turned in.

With the issues of AM stations becoming white elephants, I suspect we will see more of these arrangements occurring.

Salem bought the old KAPY 1290 in Port Angeles to do exactly that back in the early 2000s for the benefit of KKOL 1300's anticipated 50,000 watt signal (is it 50,000 watts yet? I can't tell the difference any more than the power increase to 20,000 watts of KLFE 1590.)

Thus no more 1290 in Port Angeles.

 

[swhyde1980]

I understand why a new divestment trust is being formed, but it will be interesting to see who will end up buying the stations iHeartMedia's divesting.

Premier broadcasters (owners of 95.1 in Centralia and 94.5 in Shelton\Olympia) comes to mind. 102.9 and 104.9 are south sound stations, so it would be within their area...

 

[miketheradioguy]

Premier broadcasters (owners of 95.1 in Centralia and 94.5 in Shelton\Olympia) comes to mind. 102.9 and 104.9 are south sound stations, so it would be within their area...

I suppose Premier broadcasters could also acquire those stations. The only real question is if iHeartMedia wants to retain the formats on the stations they're divesting, and where they would move them to once they reach a deal with whoever plans to acquire these stations. Given that iHeartMedia dumped Jack in Sacramento and Jacksonville earlier this year with the latter retaining its Variety hits format, and with iHeartMedia already owning 95.7 The Jet in the market, I can see ALT moving to 96.5, although I'm unsure where iHeartMedia would move KUBE to once they sell 104.9.

 

[notalent]

mike... I'm dissapointed you didn't come up with a KUBE 1090 prediction!!!

 

[KXA]

I'm surprised that iHM was the one to make a deal for these spin-offs, being that they have financial issues. But on the other hand, wanting to improve their Seattle cluster makes sense too.

For those who work at KZOK, polish up those resumes...iHM likes to trim the 'fat'.

KFNQ will most likely become an FSN affiliate.

KUBE will most likely be history, which is a bummer being that those calls have been in Seattle since '82, and being that I grew up listening to them in their 'musicradio' days. Oh well.

 

[KXA]

mike... I'm dissapointed you didn't come up with a KUBE 1090 prediction!!!

Don't give him any ideas.

 

[KXA]

I suppose Premier broadcasters could also acquire those stations. The only real question is if iHeartMedia wants to retain the formats on the stations they're divesting, and where they would move them to once they reach a deal with whoever plans to acquire these stations. Given that iHeartMedia dumped Jack in Sacramento and Jacksonville earlier this year with the latter retaining its Variety hits format, and with iHeartMedia already owning 95.7 The Jet in the market, I can see ALT moving to 96.5, although I'm unsure where iHeartMedia would move KUBE to once they sell 104.9.

You know nothing about this market. Is your market so slow and boring that you have to troll market 12?

 

[miketheradioguy]

mike... I'm dissapointed you didn't come up with a KUBE 1090 prediction!!!

We don't know what KUBE's fate is yet.

 

[bobdavcav]

I can tell you that while I would love to see Mike's prediction happen and I can see it happening myself, that would be exactly what Entercom doesn't want. Someone mentioned 1090 going smooth jazz, that actually wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

[AQH]

I can tell you that while I would love to see Mike's prediction happen and I can see it happening myself, that would be exactly what Entercom doesn't want. Someone mentioned 1090 going smooth jazz, that actually wouldn't be a bad idea.

Hand-crank engines, rotary dial phones and free workday parking in downtown Seattle will come back before Smooh Jazz on AM radio.

 

[xmtrland]

Just because you move calls does not mean the format has to follow. How does the "Sports Kube" sound?

 

[KXA]

I can tell you that while I would love to see Mike's prediction happen and I can see it happening myself, that would be exactly what Entercom doesn't want. Someone mentioned 1090 going smooth jazz, that actually wouldn't be a bad idea.

Bob, when you scan the AM band, what do you hear? Is it music, or spoken word? AM has not been the band of choice for music for over thirty years.

"Ahhhh, your home for smooth jazz...Smooth KUBE 1090"...yeah right. Dinosaurs will walk the earth before that happens.

 

[ksradiogeek]

We don't know what KUBE's fate is yet.

It's a foregone conclusion. The calls will be parked on AM. If the format is retained, it'll be parked on a translator (if iheart gets one).

 

[boombox4]

Bob, when you scan the AM band, what do you hear? Is it music, or spoken word? AM has not been the band of choice for music for over thirty years.

"Ahhhh, your home for smooth jazz...Smooth KUBE 1090"...yeah right. Dinosaurs will walk the earth before that happens.

I hear plenty of Latino and South Asian music on the AM band. Old school R&B and gospel also. Sure, the AM band isn't first choice for music. But it provides a broadcast venue for formats -- including music formats -- that don't have a large enough audience to support an FM station. Smooth Jazz would be one of those formats.

I would guess 1090 stays sports, though. Whether it changes networks is anyone's guess.