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A "Ticket" gone bad??

Renshaw came out with both barrels blazing. But are you surprised? This is cummulus we are talking about after all!
 
Not to sound redundant, but wow...wasn't I the one that speculated this earlier in the year. The same way I said that Salem would eventually spin off WRVI which they did, Radio One would get sold to a "smaller" radio company which it did, Peter B would eventually retire by the end of the year which he did, Ben Davis would be made PD which he was and oh yeah Z93 Dayton would flip to Adult Hits, which it did!

Not too shabby I say so myself.
 
kentuckymedia said:
Not to sound redundant, but wow...wasn't I the one that speculated this earlier in the year. The same way I said that Salem would eventually spin off WRVI which they did, Radio One would get sold to a "smaller" radio company which it did, Peter B would eventually retire by the end of the year which he did, Ben Davis would be made PD which he was and oh yeah Z93 Dayton would flip to Adult Hits, which it did!

Not too shabby I say so myself.
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Show us the post where you predicted the ticket? I'll give you the others, good job!
 
Yep...they demolished a 50KW signal that covered Bloomington, Columbus, Seymour, North Vernon & Salem...areas where it was not that difficult to sell spots and they did it for this? We've witnessed yet another gross display of stupidity...of course, in radio, those are all too common.
 
kentuckymedia said:
Not to sound redundant, but wow...wasn't I the one that speculated this earlier in the year. The same way I said that Salem would eventually spin off WRVI which they did, Radio One would get sold to a "smaller" radio company which it did, Peter B would eventually retire by the end of the year which he did, Ben Davis would be made PD which he was and oh yeah Z93 Dayton would flip to Adult Hits, which it did!

Not too shabby I say so myself.
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Can you predict when I'll give a hairy rats ass?
 
If mainline wants to spend the money they should flip 105.1 to sports and promote the f out of it but to costly for them no one has ever promoted 105.1 much no matter what format it has been since it came on in the 90s.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
Yep...they demolished a 50KW signal that covered Bloomington, Columbus, Seymour, North Vernon & Salem...areas where it was not that difficult to sell spots and they did it for this? We've witnessed yet another gross display of stupidity...of course, in radio, those are all too common.
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Yeah but wasn't the whole point of that to improve their 93.9 in Indianapolis? I see they have CP for a B1, wasn't there a move in that as well?

I really agree, Bob, it made me sick when I found out they bought that Seymour class B just to blow it up. But improving the Indy cluster alone was reason enough to do that.

Making it a Louisville station was really just gravy, though it hasn't turned out to be much gravy yet.

Hey KentuckyMedia, didn't you also say that Cumulus was building a facility that had like 6 or 8 studios? Didn't you think they were going to buy all of Salem? or was that someone else?
 
intheair said:
Four words, folks..."it's about damn time!"
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I can’t believe it. They just got the Bob and Will Show 2 months ago, and now they dump it? What are they thinking? 2 months is no time for the new show to appear in the ratings! This is idiotic!
 
greg.hahn said:
BobOnTheJob said:
Yep...they demolished a 50KW signal that covered Bloomington, Columbus, Seymour, North Vernon & Salem...areas where it was not that difficult to sell spots and they did it for this? We've witnessed yet another gross display of stupidity...of course, in radio, those are all too common.
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Yeah but wasn't the whole point of that to improve their 93.9 in Indianapolis? I see they have CP for a B1, wasn't there a move in that as well?

I really agree, Bob, it made me sick when I found out they bought that Seymour class B just to blow it up. But improving the Indy cluster alone was reason enough to do that.
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Greg, that brings up a point I've wondered about regarding the Indy upgrade. WRWM 93.9A has almost 3KW at 145 meters. In round numbers, a B1 (25KW @ 328') is 4 times the ERP of an A (6KW @ 328'). Yet, the B1 CP is for almost 7KW @ 146.3 meters... Am I missing something, or shouldn't the B1 ERP be higher than 6.9KW @ 146.3 meters? The math says 12.3KW assuming this is a full A to a full B1 upgrade. Am I missing something here? In any case, their signal is pretty marginal in Indy now & doing slightly more than doubling the power from the same site at (essentially) the same HAAT is not going to fix a marginal signal.
 
Someone on the Ville Voice suggested that they were going classic rock. Louisville dosen't need another classic rock station.
 
kentuckymedia said:
Not to sound redundant, but wow...wasn't I the one that speculated this earlier in the year. The same way I said that Salem would eventually spin off WRVI which they did, Radio One would get sold to a "smaller" radio company which it did, Peter B would eventually retire by the end of the year which he did, Ben Davis would be made PD which he was and oh yeah Z93 Dayton would flip to Adult Hits, which it did!

Not too shabby I say so myself.
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Good job.... you throw stuff to the wall and see what sticks.... IIRC, you said that Cumulus would move 93.9 to another place on the dial, not change formats and be done with it. Personally, I am surprised that they made this move now, especially seeing that they were gaining momentum with audience rating and cutting into WKRD severely. I mean, adding a TV simulcast (on WBKI) and getting Bob & Will, things really seemed to be trending their way, why stop now?

My prediction: Another station will flip to a sports format and pick up the talent.

Tyshaun
 
So "Louisville's Greatest Hits" touches down Friday. Probably two thirds '70s, a third '60s and 9 in a row on am and fm. KOOL!
 
BobOnTheJob said:
Greg, that brings up a point I've wondered about regarding the Indy upgrade. WRWM 93.9A has almost 3KW at 145 meters. In round numbers, a B1 (25KW @ 328') is 4 times the ERP of an A (6KW @ 328'). Yet, the B1 CP is for almost 7KW @ 146.3 meters... Am I missing something, or shouldn't the B1 ERP be higher than 6.9KW @ 146.3 meters? The math says 12.3KW assuming this is a full A to a full B1 upgrade. Am I missing something here? In any case, their signal is pretty marginal in Indy now & doing slightly more than doubling the power from the same site at (essentially) the same HAAT is not going to fix a marginal signal.
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Good question. I wonder if it's because they are short-spaced to their own WJJK on 104.5? Those two sites are 16.776 km apart, which doesn't meet the minimum required separation since they are 10.6 MHz apart on the dial. (B1 to B @ 10.6 MHz must be 17 km apart)

If it's not that, it's definitely something. I bet that wasn't in the original plan.
 
lcook said:
So "Louisville's Greatest Hits" touches down Friday. Probably two thirds '70s, a third '60s and 9 in a row on am and fm. KOOL!
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The Courier Journal has confirmed the format change set for this Friday:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811190580

I wonder if they will flip to Oldies of the 60s and 70s?

tyshaun1 said:
My prediction: Another station will flip to a sports format and pick up the talent.

Tyshaun
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Another station may flip to sports but probably will NOT pick up the talent because that would be to expensive
in these tough economic times. Besides, is there room enough for two sports stations in Louisville? Especially for two sports stations that have local talent.

Speaking of local talent, it seems yesterday was the last day for the local talk shows on the ticket.
 
According to this article by "Business First of Louisville", the ESPN programing will move over to
WAVG 1450-AM. What remains to be seen is if any/some of the local on air talent will move over to WAVG.
This should get interesting! I would be surprised to see more that one local time slot, if that much!

Click here for the rest of the story:

The: http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2008/11/17/daily36.html

Business First of Louisville - by Brent Adams Staff Writer

Cumulus Media Inc. Tuesday informed employees and listeners of WQKC-FM 93.9, that it would shift its sports-talk format to sister station WAVG-AM 1450.

Karrie Sudbrack, a Cincinnati-based market manager for Cumulus’ Louisville and Lexington, Ky. markets, said Cumulus will roll out a new, music-oriented format for the station “very shortly.” She declined to say what that format will be.

WQKC, which operated as 93.9 The Ticket, was an ESPN Radio affiliate, but carried local programming featuring local sportswriters and ex-professional athletes with ties to Louisville.
 
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