New York Public Radio has a lot of financial issues right now and a lot of strained employee relations. They are not going to waste their time and money on litigation over an attempted purchase of 99.5 even if the opportunity presented itself. And it won’t present itself at all.
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WABC-Building a Brand
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In an interview with InsideRadio, WABC owner John Catsimatidis and Pres. Chad Lopez disclosed that the station gave up 2.7 million dollars annual revenue when they stopped leasing programming over the weekend. Cats said, "“We got rid of all the lawyers, accountants, financial advisors… all the con artists,”
The article mentioned that improving the product and increasing the size of the audience is the current priority, rather than maximizing revenue. The owner said that "The money will follow."
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The article mentioned that improving the product and increasing the size of the audience is the current priority, rather than maximizing revenue. The owner said that "The money will follow."
From InsideRadio
I commend John Catsimatidis and Chad Lopez for putting their listeners first. Hopefully, their sales dept. will take advantage of their growing audience and find ways to attract sponsors eager to reach this older, and still lucrative group. That's their challenge.
Shouldn’t they have vetted the paid programming when John bought the station? And if I were one of the people who had paid John/WABC money to air my show, I wouldn’t take kindly to being called a con artist, when they were more than happy to take my money.
Firing someone because they didn’t want to speak the company line and shared narrative is a rather excellent recipe to make a station sound painfully boring, monotonous and repetitive to anyone under the age of 65. But he’s got all that Gristedes revenue lying around that is better off being incinerated, I guess.
The fact that WABC is blatantly airing nothing but hosts engage in endless groupthink is all that is wrong about the talk radio format and why the format (and honestly, the station itself) needs to be put out to pasture.
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Didn't this station air Rudy Guliani?
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Regardless of how much we like or dislike the guy (and I'm definitely in the latter category), can you maybe make an effort to spell Giuliani's name correctly?
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Not quite. It's a tough one: G-I-U-L-I-A-N-I. You reversed the second and third letters.
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ABC usually owned WPLJ, and then Citadel and finally Cumulus, but not anymore. It’s now part of “K-Love” owned by EMF.
That would seem to put a lie to "only tell the truth".
Regardless of how Cats’s “I fired someone for not speaking the truth” is interpreted, it shows that he should not be entrusted with running a high-powered AM station in market #1.
His idea of “the truth” could be rooted in actual truth, or it could be like the conspiracy theory whackos that bought time on the long-dead WALE in Providence RI in the early 2000s. Doesn’t matter. Firing someone for disagreeing with you is deeply noxious and toxic behavior.
If that’s the “brand” he wants to build with WABC, then count me out.
You mean he has offspring that admit they're related to him?
The "con artists" were a feature of Cumulus. Mr. Catsimidatis dumped them essentially as soon as he took over.
That’s the thing, Cumulus couldn’t run the station as a loss leader like Cats can. Even when Disney owned the station WABC was running wall-to-wall infomercials on weekend overnights.
It’s also hilarious as The Cats Roundtable originated as a brokered program.
95.5 was once WABC-FM.
Over 50 years ago.
Typically the money is based on the reach. I don't think the signal of WPAT-AM compares to that of WABC.
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