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Audacy On SiriusXM

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TheBigA

Interesting story as Audacy licenses access to some local news & sports stations to SiriusXM. According to the article, Sirius will pay Audacy a license fee, and will get to sell advertising when users tune in (sounds like a pre-roll). Some may remember that at one time, a number of Clear Channel radio stations were available on Sirius, including KIIS and WHTZ.

www.nytimes.com

New York’s WFAN, other top local sports-radio stations coming to SiriusXM

Audacy is licensing the rights to 42 stations to the satellite radio platform, including WIP in Philadelphia and The Score in Chicago.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

Adding another article that specifies the stations that will be heard on SiriusXM

barrettmedia.com

Audacy Partnering with SiriusXM to Bring Sports, News, Talk Stations to Satellite Radio

The rollout begins Tuesday, September 1.
barrettmedia.com barrettmedia.com
 
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This makes me wonder if they've simply run out of ideas at SiriusXM.

These stations are encoded for Nielsen PPM. These signals should be detectable by Nielsen. So I expect they will add to the SLR for each station.
 
Interesting that KMOX is included in the SiriusXM press release as one of the Audacy stations joining the SiriusXM lineup later this year. With the sale of Audacy's St Louis cluster (including KMOX), I wonder if that will really happen.

Also, if SXM wants to license content from other broadcasters, I wish they'd bring back BBC Radio 1.
 
radiophiler said:
SXM blog post on this: 42 Local Sports, News, and Talk Stations from Audacy Are Coming to SiriusXM

Some sports stations will be available on "most SXM radios" starting Sept. 1. Later in the year (no date given) more sports, news and talk stations will be available on the app and 360L radios.
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Only eight stations will be available on all SiriusXM receivers: WFAN New York, WSCR Chicago, KRLD-FM Dallas, KGMZ San Francisco, WIP Philadelphia, WEEI Boston, WXYT-FM Detroit, KDKA-FM Pittsburgh, and WKRK-FM Cleveland. The remainder of the Sports and News/Talk will be on the 360L and app.

TheBigA said:
This makes me wonder if they've simply run out of ideas at SiriusXM.

These stations are encoded for Nielsen PPM. These signals should be detectable by Nielsen. So I expect they will add to the SLR for each station.
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Run out of ideas? This now makes SiriusXM able to sell and market national AND local sports talk in one suite. They want to keep listeners in their infrastructure and gives them more to sell.

I wouldn't be shocked based on what I'm hearing if some Audacy music personalities end up on SiriusXM music channels or some SiriusXM specialty shows end up on Audacy stations.
 
lanceventa said:
I wouldn't be shocked based on what I'm hearing if some Audacy music personalities end up on SiriusXM music channels or some SiriusXM specialty shows end up on Audacy stations.
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I was thinking about that when I saw this story. It would save them a lot of production expense. They had been very possessive about that in the past. They felt their biggest selling point was exclusive content. The previous CEO was very anti-broadcasting and always spoke of broadcasting as his competition. In fact he held up the passage of the music modernization act because he insisted on including the music royalty on AM/FM radio. A lot of things have changed.

When you say "specialty shows on Audacy stations," might that include Howard Stern?
 
Hearkening back to the old days when KIIS, WLW, Z100 etc. used to simulcast on XM.

I wonder how the sports play-by-play will work. When WLW was on XM 173 they blacked out the Reds and Bengals games so I assume it'll be like that.
 
Interesting story. I'm assuming that there are more limitations on channel availability on Sirius than on the Internet. If that is true, I wonder which current Sirius channels will be discontinued to make room for the new entries.
 
What will happen to all the syndicated programming and infomercials many news/talk stations run, especially overnight and weekends? Will they all air on SXM or will a low-bitrate apology loop run in their place until original programming returns?
 
CTListener said:
What will happen to all the syndicated programming and infomercials many news/talk stations run, especially overnight and weekends? Will they all air on SXM or will a low-bitrate apology loop run in their place until original programming returns?
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Also will all the play by play that the sports stations carry be blacked out on the station feed since most of them are already available via SiriusXM?
 
TheBigA said:
It depends on the teams, leagues, and contracts. The press release mentioned live sports, so some of it may air.
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They could cover up the local breaks on both feeds and just carry the network breaks or just cover all breaks on the PXP on the stand alone game feeds.
 
TheBigA said:
It depends on the teams, leagues, and contracts. The press release mentioned live sports, so some of it may air.
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Right. I've been noticing, for example, that team owners are strictly enforcing the baseball contracts, meaning that, outside of paying to watch or listen to baseball games, you are unable to hear any of them over radio stations' Internet feeds. On the other hand, the football league has relaxed its stances somewhat with Westwood One not only getting permission to air its schedule of games over the Internet but also getting permission for individual Westwood One network stations to do the same. And, if my reading of the situation is correct, NHL game access over the Internet isn't censored at all--the league owners believe it helps to promote that sport. And I imagine that for the most part, the same rules that apply over the Internet will apply to Audacy's radio stations on Sirius (though of course, I don't know and am in no position to know).
 
salemjedi54 said:
They could cover up the local breaks on both feeds and just carry the network breaks or just cover all breaks on the PXP on the stand alone game feeds
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They do run some local ads on the stand alone game feeds. I imagine it’s ads that are all across the teams radio networks. I assume the same will happen on these channels.

Also instead of having a feed for each team that is aired on these stations, they will use these channels in lieu of them.
 
ted chittenden said:
Right. I've been noticing, for example, that team owners are strictly enforcing the baseball contracts, meaning that, outside of paying to watch or listen to baseball games, you are unable to hear any of them over radio stations' Internet feeds. On the other hand, the football league has relaxed its stances somewhat with Westwood One not only getting permission to air its schedule of games over the Internet but also getting permission for individual Westwood One network stations to do the same. And, if my reading of the situation is correct, NHL game access over the Internet isn't censored at all--the league owners believe it helps to promote that sport. And I imagine that for the most part, the same rules that apply over the Internet will apply to Audacy's radio stations on Sirius (though of course, I don't know and am in no position to know).
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NHL has never been blacked out on the internet. They were one of the first to air content on the old broadcast.com You can listen to any feed via their website or league app.

As far as the rest goes since Sirius owns the rights to virtually everything, there’s no reason to black out the play by play coverage. These are aired on their own feeds anyhow. Now they can use these channels instead.
 
ted chittenden said:
Right. I've been noticing, for example, that team owners are strictly enforcing the baseball contracts, meaning that, outside of paying to watch or listen to baseball games, you are unable to hear any of them over radio stations' Internet feeds.
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MLB now allows streaming, at least on desktop machines and at least in certain situations. I don’t really like baseball unless I'm in the stands, but I have occasionally encountered games when trying to get talk programming. I have accidentally found myself streaming Royals and Cardinals games at work a few times. Not sure if it works on a mobile app or if it has a geographical limit.

ted chittenden said:
On the other hand, the football league has relaxed its stances somewhat with Westwood One not only getting permission to air its schedule of games over the Internet but also getting permission for individual Westwood One network stations to do the same.
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Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night football games are available on streaming. The regular Sunday games are available on desktop and laptop computers and on mobile devices within a certain distance of the stadium. I can’t get the games on my phone or tablet at home as I'm just barely outside the mileage limit, but Kara is from Kansas a few blocks away from KCMO. When visiting her family, I can open up the Audacy app in her parents' backyard, put up 96.5 The Fan, and stream the Chiefs. It's really helpful now that I have a senior dog who needs to go outside more!

College football would seem to have similar geographic restrictions on local stations, though Learfield has an app that will let you listen from anywhere.

ted chittenden said:
And I imagine that for the most part, the same rules that apply over the Internet will apply to Audacy's radio stations on Sirius (though of course, I don't know and am in no position to know).
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In the past, NFL games have not been available on the SXM app unless they’ve been part of a national feed. If you search them out, the local broadcasts will tell you to dial the appropriate channel on your satellite radio. I hope that will change with this partnership with Audacy, but I'd have to figure it will follow the same rules it always has unless a new arrangement was negotiated recently.
 
Kent said:
MLB now allows streaming, at least on desktop machines and at least in certain situations. I don’t really like baseball unless I'm in the stands, but I have occasionally encountered games when trying to get talk programming. I have accidentally found myself streaming Royals and Cardinals games at work a few times. Not sure if it works on a mobile app or if it has a geographical limit.



Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night football games are available on streaming. The regular Sunday games are available on desktop and laptop computers and on mobile devices within a certain distance of the stadium. I can’t get the games on my phone or tablet at home as I'm just barely outside the mileage limit, but Kara is from Kansas a few blocks away from KCMO. When visiting her family, I can open up the Audacy app in her parents' backyard, put up 96.5 The Fan, and stream the Chiefs. It's really helpful now that I have a senior dog who needs to go outside more!

College football would seem to have similar geographic restrictions on local stations, though Learfield has an app that will let you listen from anywhere.



In the past, NFL games have not been available on the SXM app unless they’ve been part of a national feed. If you search them out, the local broadcasts will tell you to dial the appropriate channel on your satellite radio. I hope that will change with this partnership with Audacy, but I'd have to figure it will follow the same rules it always has unless a new arrangement was negotiated recently.
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This isn’t accurate. It depends on your subscription. The top of the line subscriptions do have every feed of every game in the app. I favorite each team in my app and I have never not been able to listen to a game feed.

It is limited on the radio though. Usually national and home feeds are guaranteed. Away feeds are iffier depending on your car or radio.

The rest of your comments about NFL and MLB streaming are accurate. I have listened to both via local radio station apps. Sometimes a station goofs or the IP is wrong so you can get access to games that you shouldn’t.
 


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