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Boston Makes Top 10 Revenue

The only new entrant on the list is Beasley Media Group’s “98.5 The Sports Hub” WBZ-FM Boston, which entered at No. 10 with 2019 billings of $37.0 billion, displacing iHeartMedia news/talk KFI Los Angeles, which ranked 10th in 2018 with $35 million in revenue.
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No wonder Fred is still so confident in spite of recent difficulties.
 
$37 billion! Whoa, they're gonna miss the days when Tom Brady was at the helm of the Pats.
 
wcozBoston said:
Entercom should found a way to hold on to WBZ-FM instead of WEEI-FM a few years back.
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Not only were they running up against ownership caps, they were looking at the possibility of running up against the % of revenue caps in the DMA too.

The last thing they would want was a forced sale or license challenge on revenue issues.
 
Expensive talent
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Fred was offered 50k this morning to "keep his mouth shut" about the "Bankroll Boys." He replied to the caller that wasn't enough.

I've heard relative to their last deals Felger was making 750k plus bonuses and Maz and Fred were getting 600k plus easy bonus targets. So exactly what these big earners are getting IDK but the morning drive signed their deal in Dec/2018.
 
One wonders if Entercom, when they worked the WBZ-FM for WMJZ swap, in lieu of the $12 Million payment from Beasley, instead could they have also acquired one of Beasley's poorer performing FMs in addition to WMJX such as WBOS or WBQT? Entercom might have had to supply some monies to Beasley with WBZ-FM and divest of WAAF to EMF at that time stay within ownership caps. Didn't they sell some other properties to EMF as part of the CBS merger?
 
wcozBoston said:
One wonders if Entercom, when they worked the WBZ-FM for WMJZ swap, in lieu of the $12 Million payment from Beasley, instead could they have also acquired one of Beasley's poorer performing FMs in addition to WMJX such as WBOS or WBQT? Entercom might have had to supply some monies to Beasley with WBZ-FM and divest of WAAF to EMF at that time stay within ownership caps. Didn't they sell some other properties to EMF as part of the CBS merger?
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My $0.02 as an industry outsider:

$0.01: I've never found either WBOS or WBQT worth listening to.

$0.01: would someone kindly edit for readability this sentence? "Entercom might have had to supply some monies to Beasley with WBZ-FM and divest of WAAF to EMF at that time stay within ownership caps."
 
nowradioguy said:
My $0.02 as an industry outsider:

$0.01: I've never found either WBOS or WBQT worth listening to.

$0.01: would someone kindly edit for readability this sentence? "Entercom might have had to supply some monies to Beasley with WBZ-FM and divest of WAAF to EMF at that time stay within ownership caps."
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All that I was asking is whether there were any discussions between the two companies that would include providing Entercom with two FM properties instead of WMJX plus $12 Million from Beasley.
 
wcozBoston said:
All that I was asking is whether there were any discussions between the two companies that would include providing Entercom with two FM properties instead of WMJX plus $12 Million from Beasley.
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I don't think anyone really knows except the people in the room. What we know is that to keep both stations would mean one of them would have to give up certain elements that made that station valuable. Keeping both might also mean the establishment of a third competitor in the market, thus dividing the money even more. Sure we can look now and say WBZ was the more valuable. But they knew WEEI. It was their station, with their employees. WBZ was not. It was easier to sell off the CBS stations. That's what they did.
 
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