In fairness, it was an oddly tangential bit of nonsense, even considering the track record.
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This is, again, the failure to understand the fact that not all stations are driven by ratings. The best example are sports stations that outperform their 12+ ratings by enormous amounts.
Other examples are non-commercial stations driven by donations, and ethnic formats that, other than Spanish language ones, don't appear in ratings. Or narrow but valuable targeted stations like Bloomberg Radio.
To clarify what I meant by a flamethrower, 610 had in the past and probably still has a better daytime signal then 1060 or 1210, agreed not being a 50kw clear channel or 50kw 24HAD operation, their signal was heard from NYC to Baltimore Cape May to Scranton, at night also. What I also meant was speaking with many African Americans who listen to talk mostly all prefer Black owned and operated WURD which they feel is more concerned with their local needs not some national feed. So to the two posters (A+M), that constantly flame me when they get a break from their mailboy duties take up space with something useful, instead of getting kicks degrading people you dont even know...
When I talk to many Martians, they always say they prefer Q102, but the elves prefer 96.5. Weird how that happens.
CBS Radio launched The Sports Hub in Boston. Entercom made the poor decision of keeping WEEI and selling Sports Hub to Beasley when they bought the CBS Stations
The decision on which stations to keep or swap out was more of a deal with the Dept. Of Justice at the time so that none of the parties involved (Entercom, Beasley or iHeart) would have more than 40% of total Boston market revenue.
Entercom may have had little choice but to give up The Sports Hub to Beasley - everything is a negotiation.
Admittedly, WEEI was their "own" station previous to the deal and has had broadcasting rights to the Red Sox for many years before and since, giving them hope that they'd continue to be successful.
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Entercom may have had little choice but to give up The Sports Hub to Beasley - everything is a negotiation.
Admittedly, WEEI was their "own" station previous to the deal and has had broadcasting rights to the Red Sox for many years before and since, giving them hope that they'd continue to be successful.
DOJ Approval Means Entercom-CBS Deal All But Done.
After months of back and forth with the Department of Justice, it took one sale, two swaps and one Local Marketing Agreement to gain antitrust approval for the massive merger
But the fact that sports had huge shares in the market and the merger would give virtually 100% of that audience to a single operator caused both the FCC and the DoJ to "create" a market within a market.
They had no choice as trying to keep the criteria limited to just the 8-station limit would have prolonged the approval process beyond what anyone wanted.
Getting back to the original statement by "RadioGuyForLife" (with apologies for dragging this out on a Philadelphia board):
Was there any way that Entercom could have held on to WBZ-FM The Sports Hub and spun off WEEI-FM to Beasley?
Or were there too many pre-existing entanglements to allow that to happen?
Or was Beasley insistent on "Sports Hub only or we are out"?
I understand if we'll never really know due to what went in to the details.
Was there any way that Entercom could have held on to WBZ-FM The Sports Hub and spun off WEEI-FM to Beasley?
Or were there too many pre-existing entanglements to allow that to happen?
Or was Beasley insistent on "Sports Hub only or we are out"?
I understand if we'll never really know due to what went in to the details.
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