WRIKER said:
Nope just 102.9 all the other stations are safe townsquare just wants to get rid of KAR. Actually they won't until they find a buyer that is most likley why they put another person in charage t manage ROck 102.9.
Like I said, that's my theory, too. However, they could sell any one station in Ft. Collins to comply with FCC ownership limits. I can remember in '96 when Infinity Broadcasting (before the CBS merger) put KLUV Dallas into a trust simply because it was in a separate location from their other stations. Their intention was always to divest one of their other stations, but they couldn't put it into a trust as easily because it was co-located with the former KYNG 105.3. Of course, I don't think this applies to Townsquare in Ft. Collins because they probably wouldn't put 102.9 into a divestiture trust if they were planning to unload something else as all of their properties are in the same location.
By the way, the rules for establishing a divestiture trust requires the station in that trust to have a different general manager. It's also usually moved to a separate location because stations in a trust can't show any form of operation in combination with the formerly co-owned stations. If they do share services, they have to be very careful and to do some very meticulous accounting as the stations in trust are required to pay for those services. They also have to pay the market value for those services and must use the station's profits to cover those services. I remember when the old Capstar bought Triathalon in either '98 or '99. They had too many stations in Wichita and put some of the extra stations into a trust. The people who worked for the stations in a trust said it was a terrible situation. Triathalon did a terrible job supporting them when they owned them, and it was far worse when they couldn't depend on Triathalon or AMFM for support!
CD playing WOW! I thought that went out since everyone is using Mp3's now to play their commericals, that is one outdated radio station that you used to work at, and a very hard way to do it to. I know that ll stations now don't even use CD in fact (if you didn't notice all known) computers now do that job(amazing isn't it?).
Nowadays PD's are optng to keep the stream going and play the commerical's anyways since it is to much of a hastle to turn it off and on again. SInce that leads to a major mess and can cause missing a song or having the computer over play the commerical online. Btw I know a thing or two about radio as well.
Having worked with various automation systems, all of them have ways to black out the agency spots. The simplest way is to send everything through your encoder, and you can just tell the streaming software to block commercial numbers of AFTRA spots. Also, I understand the AFTRA royalty doesn't apply to spots that were cut specifically for the internet. So, you could air the same spot on both your stream and your air signal, you'd just have to originate one on your over-the-air machine and the other, cut specifically for streaming, on your streaming machine! Of course, most agencies don't go to those levels unless it involves extremely large clients.
Yes, the last station I worked for used CD's for music and agency spots. That, by the way, was only a year and a half ago! I was actually trying to push the owner and the PD into getting a full-scale automation system, especially after we acquired two stations that used Maestro. However, the owner said he felt like running music off of computer was bad business. He also complained he could tell the difference between playing songs off of CD and off of computer because of the compression ratio. The PD quickly told me to shut up because he was afraid the owner would start firing people once he realized how easy automating the stations really was! I argued that was a non-issue because he was keeping Maestro on the two other stations and would find out anyway. Ultimately, that was what happened, though it took him two and a half years to figure it out!
By contrast, in '01, I worked at KOQL in Columbia, MO. That was the first station in the entire country to put all of its music on hard drive. The year was '95, and the entire music library was on eight hard discs cabled together! The computer had the sides taken off with only two or three of the hard drives being mounted inside the machine. The other ones were stacked on top of each other on the top of the case!
