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Radio predictions for 2020!

blackgold

blackgold

1. IHeart will sell one of its music radio stations to EMF.
2. WBZ will become an all talk station. News will be limited to the morning and afternoon drive times. On weekends, they will have ethnic programs.
3. WRKO will become all news.
4. WHDH-FM will lose the Red Sox and 98.5 the Sports Hub will pick them up. Whenever there are conflicts, the other Beasley stations will piggy back with the games.
5. Once they lose the Sox, WHDH-FM will switch formats. They will probably become Spanish Christian.
6. One of the public radio stations will be sold off to a Christian network.
7. Magic 106.7 will wait until a week before Christmas before starting their Christmas music. And they'll dust off their old Magic of Christmas playlist.
8. WROR and WODS will once again play Christmas music during the Holiday season.
9. WILD-AM will drop Chinese programming and once again resume soul and urban programming. And they'll get an FM Translator so they can operate 24/7.
10. All daytime radio stations will be shut off.
11. The current AM radio stations will go all digital by switching off their analog AM signals and take up residence on their HD FM radio signals.
12. WZLX will widen its playlist to include forgotten 45s in extended play.
13. WJIB will add ethnic programs and commercials on weekends.
 
blackgold said:
1. IHeart will sell one of its music radio stations to EMF.
2. WBZ will become an all talk station. News will be limited to the morning and afternoon drive times. On weekends, they will have ethnic programs.
3. WRKO will become all news.
4. WHDH-FM will lose the Red Sox and 98.5 the Sports Hub will pick them up. Whenever there are conflicts, the other Beasley stations will piggy back with the games.
5. Once they lose the Sox, WHDH-FM will switch formats. They will probably become Spanish Christian.
6. One of the public radio stations will be sold off to a Christian network.
7. Magic 106.7 will wait until a week before Christmas before starting their Christmas music. And they'll dust off their old Magic of Christmas playlist.
8. WROR and WODS will once again play Christmas music during the Holiday season.
9. WILD-AM will drop Chinese programming and once again resume soul and urban programming. And they'll get an FM Translator so they can operate 24/7.
10. All daytime radio stations will be shut off.
11. The current AM radio stations will go all digital by switching off their analog AM signals and take up residence on their HD FM radio signals.
12. WZLX will widen its playlist to include forgotten 45s in extended play.
13. WJIB will add ethnic programs and commercials on weekends.
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1. Highly unlikely.
2. Ethnic programs on WBZ? What are you smoking?
3. WRKO isn't going all news; that would require a huge investment and swollen payroll.
4 and 5. What is WHDH-FM? If you mean WEEI-FM 93.7, it will only go Spanish Christian if some Hispanic mega-church comes forward with millions of dollars and buys it. Not happening.
6. You mean WBUR or WGBH? Again, what is in that cigarette of yours?
7. They'll do nothing of the sort. They do great business starting early and playing the Christmas music the credit-card-maxing, ad-gullible young women of today like to listen to.
9. Only if someone takes it off current ownership's hands. And all the translator frequencies in Boston are spoken for and no further auctions are scheduled.
10. The FCC isn't going to put hundreds of station operators out of business. Licensing is the agency's cash cow.
11. Try again in a decade or three.
12. Not if they want to maintain solid ratings.
13. That would be up to Mr. Bittner, who has shown no inclination to pimp out his little station in this manner at all.
 
CTListener said:
1. Highly unlikely.
2. Ethnic programs on WBZ? What are you smoking?
3. WRKO isn't going all news; that would require a huge investment and swollen payroll.
4 and 5. What is WHDH-FM? If you mean WEEI-FM 93.7, it will only go Spanish Christian if some Hispanic mega-church comes forward with millions of dollars and buys it. Not happening.
6. You mean WBUR or WGBH? Again, what is in that cigarette of yours?
7. They'll do nothing of the sort. They do great business starting early and playing the Christmas music the credit-card-maxing, ad-gullible young women of today like to listen to.
9. Only if someone takes it off current ownership's hands. And all the translator frequencies in Boston are spoken for and no further auctions are scheduled.
10. The FCC isn't going to put hundreds of station operators out of business. Licensing is the agency's cash cow.
11. Try again in a decade or three.
12. Not if they want to maintain solid ratings.
13. That would be up to Mr. Bittner, who has shown no inclination to pimp out his little station in this manner at all.
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#13 - NOT A CHANCE!!! of Blackgold's prediction. - WJIB stays as is.
 
Yes...the old WHDH-FM was 94.5 anyway.
What music station would iHeart sell? And to EMF?
WBZ talk and WRKO news? No.
All 4 teams on Sports Hub...? No.
Public stations sold to Christian--come on, it's not April Fools.
Magic would never wait that long.

WILD AM had an FM translator and sold it off didn't they? The 101.3 or something
 
I think WILD had a CP for an FM translator and it got sold. 97.7 a full power station of course.
Oh, here it is-- they had an FM trans CP for
106.1 which got sold to Beasley and now
runs Bloomberg

>>Beasley Media is adding an additional FM signal in Boston with the purchase of the CP for 106.1 W291CZ Boston from Radio-One for $400,000.--RadioInsight July 2016

Instead of simulcasting Radio One's WILD 1090,Beasley will simulcast their WRCA 1330
--me on RadioDiscussions at that time
 
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blackgold said:
1. IHeart will sell one of its music radio stations to EMF.
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iHeart thrives on the synergies of clusters. They don't sell FMs.

2. WBZ will become an all talk station. News will be limited to the morning and afternoon drive times. On weekends, they will have ethnic programs.
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WBZ will stay at what it does best. It certainly will not do ethnic programming, a sure way to irritate and alienate the regular listeners who will abandon the station if they hear that.

3. WRKO will become all news.
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There has been no successful all news launch in several decades. It is a dying format, due to aging audiences and high costs.

4. WHDH-FM will lose the Red Sox and 98.5 the Sports Hub will pick them up. Whenever there are conflicts, the other Beasley stations will piggy back with the games.
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Not even worth speculating about.

5. Once they lose the Sox, WHDH-FM will switch formats. They will probably become Spanish Christian.
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Name me one successful Spanish Christian station on a major facility.

7. Magic 106.7 will wait until a week before Christmas before starting their Christmas music. And they'll dust off their old Magic of Christmas playlist.
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It did not happen, did it?

9. WILD-AM will drop Chinese programming and once again resume soul and urban programming. And they'll get an FM Translator so they can operate 24/7.
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As mentioned, no translators available and music on AM won't work well enough to make money in that format.

10. All daytime radio stations will be shut off.
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Not even a remote possibility. Eventually, AMs that have translators may convince the FCC to let the AM die, but not today or tomorrow.

12. WZLX will widen its playlist to include forgotten 45s in extended play.
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And if they do, the ratings will plummet.

13. WJIB will add ethnic programs and commercials on weekends.
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Answered by the owner himself. Not happening.
 
Okay, i get the hint!

I wish Bob Bittner the best of luck as he continues to bring good music to the area. I will make one more prediction, though.
Next year, WBZ-AM will present 30 hours of Christmas music from Christmas Eve night until Christmas night.
 
Most of my predictions won"t come true!

I go out on a limb when I make them. Many of them won't happen, but I just want to share my opinion on the poor state of radio in this country, especially here in Boston.
 
blackgold said:
I go out on a limb when I make them. Many of them won't happen, but I just want to share my opinion on the poor state of radio in this country, especially here in Boston.
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If most of your predictions won't come true, then why call them "predictions"?
 
TheBigA said:
I fail to see how your predictions would improve radio in Boston
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Yeah, how would putting ethnic programming on WBZ on the weekend improve radio?
 
DavidEduardo said:



Yeah, how would putting ethnic programming on WBZ on the weekend improve radio?
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Or Spanish Christian on 93.7, which he bizarrely thinks of as WHDH-FM, calls that haven't been used in the market since the late '60s or early 1970s. Maybe we're dealing with senility here. There are two threads that seem to run though his odd "improvement" ideas -- foreign language and religion. You could hardly pick a less promising market for either than Boston.
 
The obvious facetiousness in the predictions notwithstanding, the Red Sox can't be on 98.5. That's literally why Beasley got the station in the first place: The FTC said that Entercom couldn't monopolize all five major pro contracts.

Satire really is much funnier when it's remotely plausible.
 
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