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CBS selling radio division, Houston impact?

KTN Corp said:
Now that CBS is gone from radio, KTRH may never have CBS TOH news and/or be a CBS all-news station.
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It depends on what CBS Radio will be. It has to be more than just owned and operated stations. Will they revive the CBS Radio Network? If they do, the network could go back to distributing CBS News Radio (rather than the current situation) and they might also distribute CBS Sports Radio.

As far as concentration of ownership, the media landscape is much bigger now than just AM, FM, and TV. Even though the FCC can't see this, the marketplace knows it is true. So media concentration isn't as big an issue as it was 20 years ago.
 
TheBigA said:
It depends on what CBS Radio will be. It has to be more than just owned and operated stations. Will they revive the CBS Radio Network? If they do, the network could go back to distributing CBS News Radio (rather than the current situation) and they might also distribute CBS Sports Radio.

As far as concentration of ownership, the media landscape is much bigger now than just AM, FM, and TV. Even though the FCC can't see this, the marketplace knows it is true. So media concentration isn't as big an issue as it was 20 years ago.
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Depends on how each radio asset is divested. Spunoff as a whole, CBS Radio consists of AM/FM stations and the networks that create the news/sports content. Right now the CBS Radio News is the only network from the golden age left. Apparently ABC Radio (the old NBC Blue network) closed down last year under Cumulus' ownership and a few months later ABC decided to start a de novo network. NBC (Red) is dead and buried for sure and Mutual is not coming back (odd name for a network these days). In parts, well...

The FCC still makes owning a newspaper a severe impediment to owning a combination of TV/radio stations in the same market. For example, Tribune's troubles in Chicago. I doubt that they would be able to acquire an FM (especially re-acquire WFMT and make it WGN-FM again) due to the outdated rules, even though they have been "grandfathered." I wonder if Comcast could own an FM station or two, especially in markets NBC/Telemundo O&O duopolies, especially with the added complication of Xfinity being available in all or most of the market? Cable operators may be the 21st Century equivalent of newspaper publishers.
 
KTN Corp said:
Depends on how each radio asset is divested. Spunoff as a whole, CBS Radio consists of AM/FM stations and the networks that create the news/sports content. Right now the CBS Radio News is the only network from the golden age left.
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CBS News Radio is not a network. It is part of CBS News, not CBS Radio, and is syndicated by Westwood One. ABC Radio News is a similar service owned by ABC News, and syndicated independently by ABC.
 
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