As we said in the other thread, the format will be based on the new owner. If the new owner is Family Radio, it won't be alt rock.
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As we said in the other thread, the format will be based on the new owner. If the new owner is Family Radio, it won't be alt rock.
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Family Radio is still around? I thought they ended it after Harold Camping died
Nope. In fact they have enough money from selling the WFME tower property to buy 98.7
Family Radio Sells New York City Tower Land For $51 Million
Family Stations Inc. is selling the five acre tower site of "Family Radio" 1560 WFME New York to logistics real
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My money is on the station dropping ESPN — Safest bet to make here.
And given how nonprofits work, Family Radio is best served spending that $51 million as soon as practicable.Nope. In fact they have enough money from selling the WFME tower property to buy 98.7
Family Radio Sells New York City Tower Land For $51 Million
Family Stations Inc. is selling the five acre tower site of "Family Radio" 1560 WFME New York to logistics real
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As I said on the other thread, this will end with "I sure didn't see that one coming."
Once again, it depends on the buyer. This is a station sale, not just a format change. The new owner will choose, and if it's a religious buyer, that's what the format will be. Just like WPLJ.
Because the format flopped on 94.7 in spite of multiple attempts by Cumulus and Entercom to make it work. And Entercom legitimately tried, removing the majority of Cumulus's national approach to it in the process. Still failed.
If iHeart saw country as viable they would have flipped one of their existing signals to it long ago.
If that's the case, then FM will be the new AM
A concert with 15,000 in attendance is not the same as a full FM where a cume over 1,000,000 is needed just to be in the ad revenue running.
The market is increasingly ethnic, and Long Island has its own, albeit limited coverage, country FM.
Out of the list of 100 possible formats, put country at about 87th, right before "Mandarin Chinese".
That is where the "Hail Mary pass" has a new meaning!
I'm no country fan but your rhetoric on this point gets tiresome. Please list the 86 formats that you believe would be more successful than country.
Not to mention half of those 15,000 come from other markets. People come from Philadelphia, Hartford etc...
Good point.
I love classical music, but have rather specific tastes so don't enjoy classical radio stations. But I go to concerts where I know either who will conduct or what the program is.
Same goes with all varieties of music. Concert attendance is not representative of the potential for a radio station.
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