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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music
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Sounds like something SBS could do. They reported better earnings, but IMO still can't come up with $50 million today.
The over the air signal does not change. They way they get audio from the studio to the transmitter does.
More often than not, the primary STL (Studio Transmitter Link) is now via the Internet. Many stations have or have kept microwave STLs as a backup.
In the case of an Internet based link, the engineers of the old and new station will change the protocalls for the link from one to another. In the case of microwave, the old receiver and antenna are disconnected and the new one is turned on; this requires physical hardware at the send and receive point. If the same microwave channel (frequency) is to be used, then an antenna aimed at the new studio location is connected and the old one disconnected unless the origin is so close that a "hot switch" can be done.
Except it's commercial free.
That wouldn't accomplish what Smulyan has set out to do. He wants to cash out and take the company private.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Before any of you ask:
Which explains those few seconds of dead air at the switchover last night. As well as those when 880 became WHSQ.
Which explains those few seconds of dead air at the switchover last night. As well as those when 880 became WHSQ.
And if he can do that with an LMA / Partnership, that is possible. In fact, it might be more possible for Smulyan to get financing for the buy-out himself than to wait for a full-fledged buyer to appear with a bag of cash.
As I said earlier in this post, it's a bad time to try to get financing. Interest rates are high and additional debt is killing other companies. The clock is ticking on his agreement with the stockholders. Plus radio stations are not increasing in value, so he doesn't gain by retaining a declining asset.
That too, at least through Labor Day.
There was audio I found somewhere that had only the start or end of several songs. That wasn't live, was it?
TJ 98.7 New York Debuts - Format Change Archive
Previous Format: Sports “ESPN New York” WEPN-FM (Moved to 880 WHSQ) New Format: Hot AC “TJ 98.7” Date & Time Of Change: August 31, 2024 at 12:00am More Info: RadioInsight
formatchangearchive.com
I'm sure this link was posted earlier but there are too many pages to search.
It appears that, after the flip, the aircheck was scoped to eliminate most of the music, only maintaining the start and ending seconds of each song. It was recorded live, but then it was compressed into something shorter than the real time it took to record for the convenience of later listeners.
If I (or anyone that posts airchecks online includes full songs) we'd be liable to paying music royalties. That's why they're all scoped airchecks you see in most places.
I posted two other videos of TJ 98.7 on YouTube. One from right after the flip at Midnight and another from the afternoon of the first day. I edited out most of the music. Usually ten or more seconds of a song, and the video gets a copyright claim.
...what?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I'm not sure how many times this needs to be said, THIS IS THE FORMAT UNTIL EMMIS FINDS AN OPERATOR FOR IT....
As we've discussed over the past few pages, all they're doing on Tuesday is adding a syndicated morning show for the time being.
Mostly everything is done at the transmitter now. In the case of 98.7 now, the entire station is a single computer in the transmitter room running Radio.cloud automation (promoted in their TOH ID).
Oh ok thanks Lance
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Somewhere buried in these 800+ posts, Lance, you predicted that whatever was going to happen was going to make a lot of the participants in this thread unhappy.
You were right; most of the wishful thinkers are now very, very ... quiet.
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