Far cry from when ESPN took over 98.7 Kiss FM years ago & Stephen A. Smith was the first voice for that station at the time & in his opening monologue, he actually shouted up the ppl associated with that station as it was an RnB station at the time & he had ppl who he was familiar with working there. It's gonna feel kinda a shock to the system around PM drive instead of hearing a calm voice telling you what's going on plus "Traffic + Weather together on the 8s", there's a screaming shock jock in Michael Kay along with a couple of his co-horts.
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Good Karma To Lease 880; WCBS News Programming To End
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The ID was heard after about 20 seconds of silence on 880 "WHSQ New York, WCBS-HD2 New York" before joining SportsCenter in progress.
The ID was NOT heard on 101.1 HD2 as it just joined SportsCenter in progress a second or two later (besides the HD delay)
98.7 ID'd simply as WEPN-FM New York going into the start of the SportsCenter.
For some reason it feels like a slap in the face that no one at ESPN could be even remotely bothered to make the switch and not have it cut in progress. They don't give a shit at all. About radio, about their audience. Not an ounce.
From what I could pick up on the Audacy Rewind while that feature was still available, the final hour of regular news (not specials or magazine shows) was on Saturday, Aug. 24 at 7am ET with Levon Putney. (Correct me if I'm wrong - the timestamp was 4am where I'm at in the Pacific Time Zone.)
Luckily, Putney did record his own final sign-off:
Luckily, Putney did record his own final sign-off:
The final live hour with Levon was 8-9 PM ET on Friday leading into the pregame for the Mets from the West Coast.
That hour then replayed into the weekend.
The original plan was to have live weekend news until 3:30 PM Sunday (again, Mets pregame scheduling) but management decided late in the week not to run the newsroom over the weekend after all.
Oh i see. That gotta be why I kept hearing that "portions may be pre-recorded" announcement after the CBS hourly news during those Audacy Rewind archives.
It wasn't the live hour that replayed. Levon recorded an episode of Late Edition (has different cues for traffic and time checks, etc) which is what ran through Saturday morning.
And didn't take long for the WCBS880 website to switch over to WINS webpage. I was out driving around listening to the final 45 minutes. Thought it might be a crap shoot here in Ohio to hear but for the most part came in loud and clear with some fade out here and there. Stuck to the interstates to keep away from city lights and other electronic crap that sometimes make a hash of WCBS. Figured that was the only way to hear them go out seeing as how driving to/from work and various other places was how I mostly listened to them.
In a NYC board, NEVER.
Yeah, look at NYRMB and count the messages about this very subject. And then count the armchair quarterbacks predicting the format Emmis will employ on the signal they have to take over in just a tiny amount of time.
"Never" here means "forever" as even after things happen, there will be months of "they shouldda done that" afterwards.
Jeesh... sounds like they are reading out of an old Broadcasting Yearbook issue!
I’m so lost. Is 880 running Infinity Sports or ESPN? I’m hearing Infinity on the stream. In fact on 880’s Twitter page, there’s no mention of ESPN. Just “Mets Radio 880”. Surely, this is a stunt?
This article was linked earlier in this thread - but the pertinent info as to what contributed to WCBS 880's demise was buried within 2 paragraphs:
www.insideradio.com
"For the past five years, WCBS-AM has run a distant second to Audacy’s all-news sister 1010 WINS, according to Nielsen. That became a far more distant second when WINS began its simulcast on 92.3 FM in October 2022, with WCBS-AM currently averaging a 0.6 share during AM drive among adults 25-54 and 0.4 for adults 18-49 for 2024-to-date, vs. WINS’ 4.1 and 3.8 in those demos, respectively.
Since 2019, WCBS-AM was its most competitive with WINS during the height of COVID, hitting a 2.4 share high with 18-49s weekdays 6-10am in April 2020, while WINS, still on just AM at the time, delivered a 6.8. For 25-54s, CBS-AM’s highest point in the daypart was 1.9 in June 2020."
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In Bob Raissman's NY Daily News sports media column posted on Saturday 8/17/2024,
he revealed the leasing price range for the Good Karma Brands LMA with Audacy:
between $2 million and $4 million per year on the three year deal.
Subscriber only/paywalled:
www.nydailynews.com
Listeners Mourn Loss Of WCBS-AM, A ‘Once Indispensable Part Of New York.’
In the wake of Audacy’s announcement that “Newsradio 880” WCBS-AM will end its 57-year all-news format Aug. 26 — when Good Karma Brands will move the programming of “ESPN New
"For the past five years, WCBS-AM has run a distant second to Audacy’s all-news sister 1010 WINS, according to Nielsen. That became a far more distant second when WINS began its simulcast on 92.3 FM in October 2022, with WCBS-AM currently averaging a 0.6 share during AM drive among adults 25-54 and 0.4 for adults 18-49 for 2024-to-date, vs. WINS’ 4.1 and 3.8 in those demos, respectively.
Since 2019, WCBS-AM was its most competitive with WINS during the height of COVID, hitting a 2.4 share high with 18-49s weekdays 6-10am in April 2020, while WINS, still on just AM at the time, delivered a 6.8. For 25-54s, CBS-AM’s highest point in the daypart was 1.9 in June 2020."
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In Bob Raissman's NY Daily News sports media column posted on Saturday 8/17/2024,
he revealed the leasing price range for the Good Karma Brands LMA with Audacy:
between $2 million and $4 million per year on the three year deal.
Subscriber only/paywalled:
Bob Raissman: Suzyn Waldman survives weekend with Craig Carton, but Yankees brass should say sorry
After Suzyn Waldman completed her three-game radio “partnership” with Craig Carton, did any Yankees suits thank her for participating in what easily, for the veteran baseball analyst, could have passed for a nightmare?
www.nydailynews.com
Please understand that Audacy and Good Karma Brands are two separate companies and their programming cannot be co-mingled via web streams + apps.
There is NO stunt going on. Strictly business.
880, 101.1-HD2 and (for this week only) 98.7 are running ESPN Radio over the air on on the Good Karma Brands ESPNNewYork.com web site, stream(s) and app.
Audacy can not run 880 ESPN's programming on their website, streams and apps.
Thus, they replace it with (their own) Infinity Sports Network.
Likewise, WHSQ - WCBS-HD2 - WEPN-FM can not run Mets Baseball on their web sites, streams and apps.
Thus, when Mets games are over the air on 880 and 101.1-HD2 (produced and sold by Audacy),
880 WEPN's web site and stream will likely run local ESPN programming
(the regular evening shows from 6:30 PM-Midnight ET - as mentioned by Don La Greca on 98.7's afternoon show this past week)
-or- run national ESPN programming if no local hosts are scheduled.
Don also mentioned that the local shows would air on 1050 AM while the Mets are in progress on 880 AM.
(For example: the weekday afternoon shows that would conflict with the occasional Mets weekday afternoon game.
I assume this also applies to the evening schedule.)
Yes, indeed WCBS 880 has been replaced by "Mets Radio 880" on Audacy's web site, app and social media.
All rewind features to try to listen to previous WCBS 880 programming is futile;
every "click" defaults to live programming.
"Mets Radio 880" is where Mets games will stream via the Audacy web site and app in addition to 880 + 101.1-HD2.
There will be no Mets game streaming capability via the Good Karma Brands ESPNNewYork.com website or apps.
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But they were billing well, right? Do ratings wars really matter when you're billing well and you're 'losing' to another station in your own cluster? Between the two stations (WINS and WCBS) Audacy raked in just shy of $70 Million in 2023, $40 Million for WINS, just shy of $30 Million for WCBS.This article was linked earlier in this thread - but the pertinent info as to what contributed to WCBS 880's demise was buried within 2 paragraphs:
Listeners Mourn Loss Of WCBS-AM, A ‘Once Indispensable Part Of New York.’
In the wake of Audacy’s announcement that “Newsradio 880” WCBS-AM will end its 57-year all-news format Aug. 26 — when Good Karma Brands will move the programming of “ESPN New
"For the past five years, WCBS-AM has run a distant second to Audacy’s all-news sister 1010 WINS, according to Nielsen. That became a far more distant second when WINS began its simulcast on 92.3 FM in October 2022, with WCBS-AM currently averaging a 0.6 share during AM drive among adults 25-54 and 0.4 for adults 18-49 for 2024-to-date, vs. WINS’ 4.1 and 3.8 in those demos, respectively.
Since 2019, WCBS-AM was its most competitive with WINS during the height of COVID, hitting a 2.4 share high with 18-49s weekdays 6-10am in April 2020, while WINS, still on just AM at the time, delivered a 6.8. For 25-54s, CBS-AM’s highest point in the daypart was 1.9 in June 2020."
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In Bob Raissman's NY Daily News sports media column posted on Saturday 8/17/2024,
he revealed the leasing price range for the Good Karma Brands LMA with Audacy:
between $2 million and $4 million per year on the three year deal.
Subscriber only/paywalled:
Bob Raissman: Suzyn Waldman survives weekend with Craig Carton, but Yankees brass should say sorry
After Suzyn Waldman completed her three-game radio “partnership” with Craig Carton, did any Yankees suits thank her for participating in what easily, for the veteran baseball analyst, could have passed for a nightmare?
Billing numbers are nice, but profit is what matters. All news is a very expensive format to produce.
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