secondchoice said:NO
Citadel has a “trump” card: WABC NY. If CC wants to move Rush to FM in Chicago on one of their poor performing FM’s from WLS (Citadel) and or 100.3 in Knoxville, Citadel could threaten to drop Rush in NYC. CC’s Music FMs in NY are generating some serious cash and blowing one of them up to install a labor expensive news talk operation is not practical. The all syndicated model has not worked too well in Atlanta (WGST) for CC, so I do not see any reason for CC to “rock the boat”. But then again CC does occasionally do strange things. Now if Citadel flips 98.7 then definitely!
There is 50,000 watts WOR in NYC who would gladly clear Rush, they already have Beck and C2C both Premiere shows.