Interesting setup in Dallas. The struggling CBS O/O has a local show weeknights until 1 a.m., so they farm out Ferrall to the Ticket. After 1 a.m. they pick up the network.
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In Houston, they air the final hour of Ferrall on 610AM at midnight and that's all she wrote. 610AM also runs The D.A. Show. Of course it doesn't help that the CBS Sports Radio affiliate in H-Town, 650AM, is a daytime AM and 610AM does local sports talk until midnight. I pretty much like CBS Sports Radio, but I wonder if TBD In The AM runs in its entirety in any markets.
Minneapolis/St. Paul runs the entire CBSSN, including the morning show, in its entirety. I would guess others do as well (Philly on WIP-AM is CBSSN 24/7, correct?)
They just lost their Cincinnati affiliate this morning (WCFN 100.3). The station has reverted back to the urban oldies format they had before launching a sports format with the CBS affiliation (with local talk 6am-9am and 3pm-7am weekdays, one hour Saturdays, and 10am-noon Sundays) beginning January 2.
billf82 said:
So a non O&O reverts back to it's previous format 6 months after making a 180 to sports? Might be an isolated situation but this might smell of "This ain't a good sign" with CBSSR.
The station was owned by Radio One. Not a good idea from the beginning. Radio One has mostly urban stations nationwide. They did next to nothing to promote the station until putting up billboards literally a few weeks ago. Here's the thing. Cumulus helps distribute the CBS Sports Radio network. There's five Cumulus stations in Cincinnati, and they didn't want to flip the formats of any of the stations for CBS Sports back in January.
Doesn't look like there's a spot for CBS Sports Radio in Cincinnati. Clear Channel has the ESPN and Fox Sports Radio rights. None of the FM's are going to change formats. And, aside from the four talk / sports stations Clear Channel owns, the rest of the AM stations are low-wattage oldies or religion stations.
Doesn't look like there's a spot for CBS Sports Radio in Cincinnati. Clear Channel has the ESPN and Fox Sports Radio rights. None of the FM's are going to change formats. And, aside from the four talk / sports stations Clear Channel owns, the rest of the AM stations are low-wattage oldies or religion stations.
In NY, CBS had planned to to put CBS Sports Radio on 50 kW AM blaster 660 AM and move WFAN's live and local to 101.9 FM but that plan is now on hold. CBS definitely wants CBS SR on a New York signal, but taking WFAN off 660 is a major risk. CBS Sports Radio is currently available in NY on 101.1 HD-3. Anyone own an HD radio? I actually heard CBS SR on 101.1 HD-3 in a Cadillac on display at the NY Auto Show.
WEPN is returning to Central Suffolk County LI on translator 96.9 FM in Selden and to the East End on 107.1 FM.
Here's the link from Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/espn-radio-coming-to-east-end-1.5788813
WEPN is returning to Central Suffolk County LI on translator 96.9 FM in Selden and to the East End on 107.1 FM.
Here's the link from Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/sports/media/espn-radio-coming-to-east-end-1.5788813
"DENVER clones: The Jungle is back on 105.5 FM"
And that's for the FM, with local shows during the day, correct?
The AM sister station, that has CBS Sports Radio 24/7, doesn't even show up in the ratings anymore. That tells me nobody is listening, and CBS Radio didn't wanna bother paying for that station's rating (or lack of) to be visible on the ratings chart.
It doesn't help that Clear Channel has the rights to the Rays, Lightning, and Buccaneers.
The AM sister station, that has CBS Sports Radio 24/7, doesn't even show up in the ratings anymore. That tells me nobody is listening, and CBS Radio didn't wanna bother paying for that station's rating (or lack of) to be visible on the ratings chart.
It doesn't help that Clear Channel has the rights to the Rays, Lightning, and Buccaneers.
Or that CBS has no rights to broadcast any national sporting events like Bowl Games, the World Series, SuperBowl, etc.
However, they're running the national feed on frequencies that, by and large, aren't strong and this provides a conduit to sell national ads and relatively low cost programming.
I have to believe they are meeting their business objectives on this.
However, they're running the national feed on frequencies that, by and large, aren't strong and this provides a conduit to sell national ads and relatively low cost programming.
I have to believe they are meeting their business objectives on this.
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