Would K-Love be successful in Boston?? Yes or No??
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K-Love In Boston
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I realize I'm speaking out of both sides of my mouth, but I'd rather have iHeart here instead of EMF. From what I've read, there was much bitterness in LA when Entercom sold KSWD, and in Providence when Brown Broadcasting Service (BBS) sold WBRU, to EMF, which quickly turned both to K-LOVE. But do I fault EMF? No; I have to fault Entercom and BBS.
You realize that when anyone puts a property on the market, and someone makes a reasonable offer, the seller can't refuse to sell because the buyer is religious. You can be brought to court for that. It's not the fault of the seller. They did what the law requires.
You need to blame the fact that in both cases, there were no other offers.
By the standards of EMF, it would be successful.
Comparing a religious, listener supported enterprise with a purely commercial one is the classic apples-to-oranges situation.
I don't think iHeartMedia would be forced to sell stations, because they aren't filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, but I do agree that EMF has yet to bring K-Love into Boston. As you mentioned, EMF could possibly buy WXRV 92.5 and WFNX 99.9, but keep in mind that there are two more simulcast partners in New Hampshire, WXRG 102.3 and WLKC 105.7. After all, iHeartMedia has a full Boston cluster thanks to the CBS Radio-Entercom merger.
Are we doing this again? Blaming an owner for liquidating something they own....and accepting a fair price?
Yeah, it seems pretty obvious that it is the fault of the sellers whether you like hearing it or not
If you sell your house to someone I don't like, I'll sue you. How about that?
This line of thinking is bizarre.
A seller of a radio station... or anything of value for that matter... will, all other things being equal, seek the best price and terms.
Cash wins over seller financing. More cash wins over less cash.
It does not matter what format the buyer intends to put on a station. What matters is getting the sale done. While the seller could have suggested a "discount" for preserving the format for a period, they could not force format preservation; one station was losing money and the other was lower-rated, so it's likely nobody would have kept the format anyway.
With the possible exception of the "Classical Music Protected Class" issues with the FCC in the rather distant past, licensees are free to pick their format.
Were the previous owners to have excluded EMF's better offer due to format issues, there could have been a significant lawsuit based on religious discrimination.
Or if you refuse to sell to someone based on their religion...
Not a good example
Why?
Sounds like a perfect example...maybe you could explain why it isn't without using 2-3 word answers.
He used four. That's still not enough?
Look, I don't like the huge breaks and advantages carved out all over federal law for people and organizations who espouse a belief in various codified accountings of largely supernatural or inexplicable events. But the fact is, protections of religion and people involved in religious enterprises are in the laws of the land, and that means that, as eye-rollingly awful as inorm99 or I or anyone else finds K-Love's saccharine odes to unquestioning faith in said supernatural beings and events, EMF cannot be prevented from buying any station it wants to if the price it offers is acceptable to the seller. Obviously, operating tax-free makes it much easier for EMF to do so than it is for non-religious broadcasting organizations, but, hey, the law is what it is and it probably ain't gonna change.
LOL! Something I learned writing term papers......articles (such as a, an, and the) don't add to word count. ;-)
And I've spent 40-some years of my life writing newspaper headlines. Articles have rarely figured into any of them.
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