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Confirmed today (2 flips) in Columbus
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Imagine the TSL!
and a total cume of under 500!
No advertiser would touch such a mess of a concept with a 10-foot pole.
It's been done with the last 100 years of music, and the show only runs on 35+ stations:
About Cruisin' The Decades - Cruisin' The Decades
Cruisin’ The Decades is a one-of-a-kind weekly 60-minute radio program broadcasting over 100 years of recorded music, playing one song per decade from the 1920’s to the 2020’s. Cruisin’ The Decades shines a spotlight on several genres of music, while focusing on the history, technology of...
cruisinthedecades.com
It's a labor of love for Brad, 35 stations is pretty good for an independent just doing it himself.
I think Columbus could handle 2 Regional Mexican stations or even maybe a Spanish Urban station. The Current signals used don't come close to what 102.5 was
And that's only an hour-long program. Applying such a concept as a full-time format would be unworkable.It's been done with the last 100 years of music, and the show only runs on 35+ stations:
About Cruisin' The Decades - Cruisin' The Decades
Cruisin’ The Decades is a one-of-a-kind weekly 60-minute radio program broadcasting over 100 years of recorded music, playing one song per decade from the 1920’s to the 2020’s. Cruisin’ The Decades shines a spotlight on several genres of music, while focusing on the history, technology of...
Truthfully if you look at Columbus, OH AM signals, I would not be surprised if the real estate for most of them would net more. 920 AM, 820 AM, 1580 AM, 1460 AM are all surrounded by development and I could see their sites all potential redevelopment opportunities for the right price. I would say even AM 610 but iHeart likely would not consider given WODC 93.3 also transmits from there and I assume WTVN still bills fairly well.
Maybe but also problem is who would flip? You got very few operators that I can see who would consider Spanish. Given ownership in this town I don't know who would I do not see iHeart, Columbus Radio Group or NABCO doing it. Radio One already has Spanish with their partnership with La Mega.
So that pretty much leaves the LPFMs, someone possibility prying 95.9 or 98.9 out of Salem's hands or someone leasing/buying 92.9/1580/1550.
Vertical Bridge owns the WTVN site. It's up to them if they want to sell the land around the towers or remove any of them.
Very possibly. "Regional Mexican" is a "gringo" term that covers music that can be used for a half a dozen separate formats in Mexico itself.
That is a good way of describing the reggaetón and trap based format that has a fairly wide appeal all over Latin America.
Good to know - I didn't realize the WTVN/WODC site was owned by Vertical Bridge these days (but totally not surprised given the major media companies selling off properties over the years).
So 92.9 will go Spanish on the 1st?
Good luck - Just make sure you pay your lease on time - or you will end up like the folks at CD 92.9 did.
Was listening to the oldies format today on 92.9 and noticed dead after songs going into ad blocks. (Happened more than once in the 3pm hour). The "oldies" format was for sure something not found in many spots of the dial these days.