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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music

So Michael Kay recently said that even after the switch to AM 880, his show will still be broadcast on 98.7. Did he forget that the FM station is going off the air?
 
luperm said:
1190 still has value. It will sell at some point.
WOWO would be unwise to revert back to its prior status...first, I don't think it's technically possible...second, it's a very poor investment.
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WOWO can't really go back to class A status now that a few other 1190s (the one in DC, in addition to WLIB) have filled in some of what would have been its protected night contour.

And not only is the 9800-watt signal just fine over Fort Wayne at night, WOWO is also on 92.3 and reaching most of its desired audience that way.

It was a good fight in 1994, but a lot changes in 30 years
 
fybush said:
WOWO can't really go back to class A status now that a few other 1190s (the one in DC, in addition to WLIB) have filled in some of what would have been its protected night contour.

And not only is the 9800-watt signal just fine over Fort Wayne at night, WOWO is also on 92.3 and reaching most of its desired audience that way.

It was a good fight in 1994, but a lot changes in 30 years
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In fact, if you look at their website, 92.3 is listed before 1190 and a fm translator. I haven't listened in a while, but I would bet they brand as 92.3 and not 1190. As Scott said, it's not 1994 anymore.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Go back and read this post from Lance. If he expects people to complain, it's not likely to be Alternative, with or without a new owner.
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Yeah but there are people in these forums that constantly shit on alternative and shooting down our hopes and dreams for a new station, saying how it will never survive in the New York market!!!
 
NYRadioFan22 said:
Yeah but there are people in these forums that constantly shit on alternative and shooting down our hopes and dreams for a new station, saying how it will never survive in the New York market!!!
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I believe, sir, that you underestimate Lance Venta's ability to find out things before they are announced and to predict what the armchair quarterbacks will think. Armchair quarterbacks are rarely right; Lance is rarely wrong.

And all of those people in all of those forums have been correct thus far. Been that way for well over a decade, going back to 2009, when Indie 103.1 here in L.A. was taken off the air. For years afterward, every time a station slipped in the ratings or a sale was announced, people would fall all over themselves expressing the same "hopes and dreams" that Indie would come back. 15 years later, still hasn't happened, and still isn't likely to.

Again, it doesn't matter how many exclamation points you use.
 
It’s not just alternative. There are a couple of other formats with similar history in NYC that have just as high or higher of a chance. The goal is to make money in the interim until the new owners take over.
 
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