Beasley Broadcast Group Sells 92.5, 96.5 to CBS radio, CBS sells 610 AM to Beasley

[TheBigA]

Is that why GM doesn't do live and local in the mornings on WPEN? Are they afraid that they would take listeners away from Preston & Steve or John DeBella?

They're very different formats. The issue being discussed is having two AM sports talk stations.

 

[Unregistered]

Is that why GM doesn't do live and local in the mornings on WPEN? Are they afraid that they would take listeners away from Preston & Steve or John DeBella?

No.

 

[Jul]

Julius, Julius, Julius. WIP makes more money than right-wing talk. It did on AM and it does on FM. Maybe WPEN does, too. But that's not going to happen with yet another syndicated, turn-key sports talk outlet on AM. It didn't on 610. It didn't on 950. And why would CBS spend money to do another local-live sports talk station where the best they can hope for is to cannibalize WIP? There are only so many people in town who want to listen to sports talk. Add another station and all you do is end up having the same pie with more slices.

Anything would be better to replace the talk format at this point on 1210 AM. They can't stay with the status quo forever , no matter how much money it makes. 1210 AM is failing, and and CBS radio in NYC needs to do something about it. I would also be in favor of the Eagles games moving to 1210 from 610 AM with the sports format that might happen someday.

 

[Unregistered]

In the literal sense, no one can stay with anything forever, so there's nothing I herently unique in WPHT's situation. But the reality is they can, and will, stay with it for the foreseeable future precisely because business is about one thing: making money. There is nothing out there that will do better on AM, so they can ride this thing into the ground. Is that a year, five years or ten years? Who knows with certaintity? And perhaps they make some adjustments to help the bottom line along the way, but those aside, what you see is what you get.

 

[FredLeonard]

Anything would be better to replace the talk format at this point on 1210 AM.

Anything, Julius?

Be careful what you wish for? You might get it?

Paid includes: Foreign language. Paid religion. All brokered; all the time. Infomercials.

If - a big "if" - 1210 ends up doing sports, it's most likely ESPN Deportes.

 

[Jul]

Anything, Julius?

Be careful what you wish for? You might get it?

Paid includes: Foreign language. Paid religion. All brokered; all the time. Infomercials.

If - a big "if" - 1210 ends up doing sports, it's most likely ESPN Deportes.

I would like to see CBS radio take the ESPN radio affiliation away from 97.5 and put it on 1210, not ESPN Deportes , if they decide not to put CBS Sports radio on the frequency .

 

[Rick_E]

Side note.............As expected both 92.5 & 96.5 were yanked off the I Heart Radio App. today

 

[Unregistered]

Does IHeartMedia always preclude Beasley stations? Do they just not like Beasley? (Don't get me wrong. I'm certainly not in love with them. LOL.)

 

[Bill_W]

They're both on radio.com

 

[Kent]

Side note.............As expected both 92.5 & 96.5 were yanked off the I Heart Radio App. today

If the streaming link changes, they'll fall off the iHeartRadio station list automatically, though you might still be able to find the station's page with a broken link if you access it directly. Beasley uses Triton, which is also the backbone behind Radio.com. So, it's possible they were yanked.

The new Beasley stations have yet to arrive on iHeartRadio. There's a Beasleyi link for them that works, but I'm not sure if the TuneIn link has been updated or if they're on iRadioNow. Only a handful of the CBS Local pages have been moved to Beasley's server.