K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Please, don't give the usual suspects an excuse to further hijack this thread.
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1110 New Format
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Please, don't give the usual suspects an excuse to further hijack this thread.
This thread is long gone.
Yep, just spinning wheels with no news and no rumours even. This is destined to veer off topic. Pretty much mirrors that other thread of an AM in limbo.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Maybe it's time for Lance to close it, then. We can always start a new thread whenever 1110 relaunches.
Here's something that just may bring it back on-topic and from NC, nonetheless. Just glancing at the following article, looks like a good thing, format wise and a good example an owner of diversifying with said format.
WCXL & WZPR Return With Conservative Talk
After acquiring the licenses of 92.3 WZPR Nags Head and 104.1 WCXL Kill Devil Hills NC last year, East Carolina
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I should add that I personally don't mind the occasional off topic. Closing it is too drastic. What's the harm in it? At least it's avoiding politics, unlike other threads
A market that small doesn't have the wherewithal to host a largely homegrown stable of talent, as does WBT. Yet this demonstrates that having two talk stations with similar formats is viable.Here's something that just may bring it back on-topic and from NC, nonetheless. Just glancing at the following article, looks like a good thing, format wise and a good example an owner of diversifying with said format.
WCXL & WZPR Return With Conservative Talk
After acquiring the licenses of 92.3 WZPR Nags Head and 104.1 WCXL Kill Devil Hills NC last year, East Carolina
There's a few examples of markets where one company owns two similarly formatted talk stations with many of the large broadcasters.
Top of my head: Los Angeles with KFI and KEIB (iHeart), Dallas with WBAP and KLIF (Cumulus), St. Louis with KMOX and KFTK (Audacy), WFED and WTOP (Hubbard). And until recently, San Francisco with KGO and KSFO (Cumulus)
Top of my head: Los Angeles with KFI and KEIB (iHeart), Dallas with WBAP and KLIF (Cumulus), St. Louis with KMOX and KFTK (Audacy), WFED and WTOP (Hubbard). And until recently, San Francisco with KGO and KSFO (Cumulus)
Add iHeart’s KTRH and KPRC in Houston, both with conservative talk.
San Diego: KOGO and KLSD, both conservative talk, and owned by iHeart
I don't mind threads getting off-topic from time to time, especially since my train of thought gets derailed so often anyway LOL. I agree, closing it would be rash.
That, it does, demonstrate it can be done, that is. That being said, the FM could have the local talkers, with the AM airing the nationals, once contractual obligations, etc, were taken care of. Back to a cat chasing it's tail.
I thought of that too. They probably turned off the watermarking, if that’s possible.
Enjoyed reading this thread over the past several weeks regarding what will happen with WBT-AM 1110. Seems spoken word formats (such as other conservative, religious or brokered talk programming) would make the best use of the channel. The question is, can it be monetized? What comes to mind here are a few large religious broadcasters making use of AM for spoken word programming. Wilkins Radio or Crawford Broadcasting have some 50kw stations in major cities. Relevant Radio has several AM affiliates. Also thinking BBN has a few AM's too but would they need 1110 in Charlotte? Maybe one of them would purchase or LMA the 1110 frequency. Either way, if WBT-AM doesn't fit Radio One's business plan there are other options.
Crawford Broadcasting wouldn't seem to be in expansion mode. It just sold a property in Dallas and, I believe, has exited that market altogether. BBN already has a station in Charlotte (the former WSOC (AM)). I doubt it would be interested in 1110.
Keep in mind that Urban One had previously said it intended to keep 1110. I suppose plans can change and everything is for sale at the right price, but I wouldn't look for a sale to happen.
Wilkins already has stations in the area, Asheville and Greenville (that's their home base, I believe). I can't see them buying Charlette, but ya never know, stranger things have happened.
WLW and WKRC, Cincinnati, though some of the broadcast day consists of sports.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in years! Seeing as they just expanded, would they want to bite off more than they could chew? Don't believe they've gotten into NC, if memory serves, maybe they want a piece of the pie. HMMM, just had Lunch, so why all the food analogies?
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