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Any new news on KRBE sells?
- Thread starter jras20
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allisonmarie
Guest
> Anyone got any new news about who might get KRBE? I'm realy
> hoping they stay the same who ever buys them, but gues we'll
> wait and see what comes around.
>
Any of you in tune with the "deafining silence" when it comes to all these prospective station sales? I predict that there is going to be a massive realignment of stations throughtout more than just the Susquehanna and ABC
Radio groups there will be many owners involved before and when the dust settles! I think we will all be surprised to see the many players making changes to their station clusters. Lots of horse trading going on behind the
scenes which is usually the case when we don't hear anything.
> hoping they stay the same who ever buys them, but gues we'll
> wait and see what comes around.
>
Any of you in tune with the "deafining silence" when it comes to all these prospective station sales? I predict that there is going to be a massive realignment of stations throughtout more than just the Susquehanna and ABC
Radio groups there will be many owners involved before and when the dust settles! I think we will all be surprised to see the many players making changes to their station clusters. Lots of horse trading going on behind the
scenes which is usually the case when we don't hear anything.
M
Mike_O
Guest
> > Anyone got any new news about who might get KRBE? I'm realy
> > hoping they stay the same who ever buys them, but gues we'll
> > wait and see what comes around.
> >
> Any of you in tune with the "deafining silence" when it
> comes to all these prospective station sales? I predict that
> there is going to be a massive realignment of stations
> throughtout more than just the Susquehanna and ABC
> Radio groups there will be many owners involved before and
> when the dust settles! I think we will all be surprised to
> see the many players making changes to their station
> clusters. Lots of horse trading going on behind the
> scenes which is usually the case when we don't hear
> anything.
>
Allisonmarie the last I read about three weeks ago was that Susquehanna had not even made up their mind if all the stations would be sold as one group to a company, sell by metro clusters or sell individual stations. One of the executives has enough stock options to buy some of the best Susquehanna properties and I don't think a decision had even been made by the person if he wanted to buy any stations with his stock or pass on the deal.
Bottom line is no one has made any firm decisions on how to divest the Susquehanna properties. It could very go down as you describe. Especially if Susquehanna decides to sell all the stations to one company that will undoubtly be over the limit in many cities and will have to sell off lesser properties to other companies.
It may well be first quarter of 2006 before we see what happens with KRBE.
Mike O
> > hoping they stay the same who ever buys them, but gues we'll
> > wait and see what comes around.
> >
> Any of you in tune with the "deafining silence" when it
> comes to all these prospective station sales? I predict that
> there is going to be a massive realignment of stations
> throughtout more than just the Susquehanna and ABC
> Radio groups there will be many owners involved before and
> when the dust settles! I think we will all be surprised to
> see the many players making changes to their station
> clusters. Lots of horse trading going on behind the
> scenes which is usually the case when we don't hear
> anything.
>
Allisonmarie the last I read about three weeks ago was that Susquehanna had not even made up their mind if all the stations would be sold as one group to a company, sell by metro clusters or sell individual stations. One of the executives has enough stock options to buy some of the best Susquehanna properties and I don't think a decision had even been made by the person if he wanted to buy any stations with his stock or pass on the deal.
Bottom line is no one has made any firm decisions on how to divest the Susquehanna properties. It could very go down as you describe. Especially if Susquehanna decides to sell all the stations to one company that will undoubtly be over the limit in many cities and will have to sell off lesser properties to other companies.
It may well be first quarter of 2006 before we see what happens with KRBE.
Mike O
Is Infinity/CBS a player at all in the KRBE stakes? I would imagine they'd want to add to their meager Houston FM roster, and 104 would be a huge feather in their cap.
Otherwise my choice would be: ANYONE but Clear Channel. If they got it, I bet you anything it would change to "104.1 KISS FM" in an instant. Eck.
Otherwise my choice would be: ANYONE but Clear Channel. If they got it, I bet you anything it would change to "104.1 KISS FM" in an instant. Eck.
M
Mike_O
Guest
> Is Infinity/CBS a player at all in the KRBE stakes? I would
> imagine they'd want to add to their meager Houston FM
> roster, and 104 would be a huge feather in their cap.
>
> Otherwise my choice would be: ANYONE but Clear Channel. If
> they got it, I bet you anything it would change to "104.1
> KISS FM" in an instant. Eck.
>
I personally would rate Infinity/CBS near the top of contenders for KRBE. Infinity is well under the cap in Houston with KILT 610, KIKK 650, KILT-FM 100.3 and KHJZ 95.7. They can still add four stations and Infinity would be a good company to take control of KRBE.
I wouldn't rule out anyone though. Even Cumulus is eyeing KRBE, they would love to move KIOL on to 104.1. John Walton made the comment this AM that he was getting interference on both 103.7 and 97.5 when he was driving in to the Galleria. He said it is probably those Corpus Christi stations again. The other night around 2am Bob-FM 103.5 Austin was riding over KIOL. Cumulus realizes that they will never be a real player in Houston radio with those frequencies and they have done all they can do getting a signal into Houston. Liberman would gladly sell a couple of rim shot stations to have a city signal and go head to head with Univision and KLTN or KOVE. Unless the entire Susquehanna portfolio of stations is sold to one company, which may be a possibiility, I would look for someone that already is established in Houston to buy KRBE and if it puts them over the limit of stations to sell off the least desirable signal they have. As Allisonmarie said, "the sale of KRBE could set off a chain reaction of stations changing hands". It could be real interesting when KRBE is sold or it could just be a simple transaction like Infinity adding 104 to their stations.
Mike O
> imagine they'd want to add to their meager Houston FM
> roster, and 104 would be a huge feather in their cap.
>
> Otherwise my choice would be: ANYONE but Clear Channel. If
> they got it, I bet you anything it would change to "104.1
> KISS FM" in an instant. Eck.
>
I personally would rate Infinity/CBS near the top of contenders for KRBE. Infinity is well under the cap in Houston with KILT 610, KIKK 650, KILT-FM 100.3 and KHJZ 95.7. They can still add four stations and Infinity would be a good company to take control of KRBE.
I wouldn't rule out anyone though. Even Cumulus is eyeing KRBE, they would love to move KIOL on to 104.1. John Walton made the comment this AM that he was getting interference on both 103.7 and 97.5 when he was driving in to the Galleria. He said it is probably those Corpus Christi stations again. The other night around 2am Bob-FM 103.5 Austin was riding over KIOL. Cumulus realizes that they will never be a real player in Houston radio with those frequencies and they have done all they can do getting a signal into Houston. Liberman would gladly sell a couple of rim shot stations to have a city signal and go head to head with Univision and KLTN or KOVE. Unless the entire Susquehanna portfolio of stations is sold to one company, which may be a possibiility, I would look for someone that already is established in Houston to buy KRBE and if it puts them over the limit of stations to sell off the least desirable signal they have. As Allisonmarie said, "the sale of KRBE could set off a chain reaction of stations changing hands". It could be real interesting when KRBE is sold or it could just be a simple transaction like Infinity adding 104 to their stations.
Mike O
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