It doesn't. The lowest possible price would have to outweigh whatever write-offs Cumulus can avail itsel of by taking the station dark.
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If that's the highest and best use for a 5kw AM at 560 on the dial, then you've made the case for it going dark.
That's why you're not going to do it.
And that's why nobody else is, either.
Great comment. The fact is that out of work radio people don't have the cash to put at risk in this way. If they have any disposable funds (most don't), they're better off putting it into a 5% money market fund. But their primary focus is on getting some kind of real job that will get them health benefits and a steady income, which owning 560 wouldn't do. If they're retired, they don't want the headache that 560 would be.
You mean we can't bring our stax o' wax and be 60s personalities?
Those money market funds are great!
I had some extra cash sitting around in a normal account, and it was accruing at most about 0.2% interest, and since I put it in a money market, I'm averaging 4-4.5%.
It's a good bump in passive income without much risk.
c
Could be a matter of scale. Look at the guy who has WABC in New York City. But what out-of-work radio person is going to have that kind of money?
I see a potential line extension for this site: RadioFantasies. Admit it: we've all had them.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And I know several dozen posters who the management would probably like to spin off to such a site.
Your daddy-o on the rad-i-o with the platters that matter, making your gray matter clatter, your bladder splatter and poppin' your skull in forty-'leven places, cerebrum, cerebellum and medula oblongota.
(The part in italics is actually something Rick Dees said)
And all that came from the marvelous R&B jocks of the 50's. In the era when such stations were listed as "race radio" in the trades, those jocks could improvise with amazing rhyme and rhythm; I think that hip-hop just carries on that tradition.
And here's one of the last practitioners of the art---Broadway Bill Lee at WCBS-FM:
Hey, maybe Tavis Smiley could buy 560, simulcast his KBLA 1580 on it. go deeper into debt, and add a couple more listeners!
Isn't that lease with the Port of San Francisco, like KEST, 1450 AM?
You're right. Somewhere in one of these threads, I covered that the original lease (dating to 1937) was with the California State Harbor Commission, but that the Port of SF assumed it in the----I don't really remember now---60s(?)
KEST is now on 1260's aux tower on Candlestick Hill. Ironically, that short tower on one corner of the self-supported tower's base was only meant to be temporary until a new main tower was put up after the collapse of the iconic self-supporter back in the 1980s.
The rock that is now "classic" didn't really work on AM when it was new ~40 years ago. It probably won't work now, unless KZAC acquires an FM translator, and even then, they'd have some well established competition on better signals.
If they're going to bother, an oldies station* along the lines of KFRC, but not would be nice to have in SF again.
c
*Not gonna happen....
If they're going to bother, an oldies station* along the lines of KFRC, but not would be nice to have in SF again.
c
*Not gonna happen....
That would be good. But I associate the Raiders with classic rock, so what would be a better station for the Raiders?
Street Novelist
Banned
Hey, someone could have said "Why not country? The Bay area doesn't have a country station ..."Classic rock on AM? Come on now