Just like "all Americans" don't like the same radio format, all Mexicans don't all like just one format or kind of music.
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ESPN 98.7 FM to be no more come August 31, 2024
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No, they sold them all.
Do you have $50 million? That's what it'll take.
Audacy's got more important things to worry about like their finances with their stock being really low & having to resort to selling off stations. I could see Hope Media Group off of getting WVIP 93.5 for their Spanish Christian format, put their main WayFM format on 98.7 next year. Crazy to think seeing L.A. & potentially NYC, not necessarily thought by many as "Bible Belt" markets, but having so many Christian radio stations.
RIP to ESPN New York. The signal on 1050 is abysmal and few will listen to it. I will place my bet on one of the various religious broadcasters buying the signal for yet another Christian format. They don't care about ratings and are willing to spend the money because their owners view it as part of their overall proselytizing mission.
I wonder what the Knicks and Jets are going to do as their radio broadcasts are on 98.7. I doubt they'll want them on 1050 again.
I wonder what the Knicks and Jets are going to do as their radio broadcasts are on 98.7. I doubt they'll want them on 1050 again.
If you haven't been following...the last of the ESPN Radio O&Os were sold by Disney in the past two years: WEPN (AM), WMVP in Chicago and KSPN in Los Angeles went to Good Karma, and their Dallas-Fort Worth market FM was sold to VCY America.
That doesn't count KRDC in LA, which was simulcasting KSPN after Radio Disney Country went away, until they finally got sold earlier this year and switched to a religious format.
The article says they've been informed of the changes.
The Minnesota Timberwolves seem content to go all in for streaming.
Those of us who remember when probably would. Problem is, that ship has sailed. The intellectual property was sold to WBLS, and the calls were assigned elsewhere to make sure no one in New York could get them. Building back Kiss 98.7 from the ground up would be a lot of work and cost a lot.
No, but Urban One might!
Although, in view of the info Kent shared, it sounds like WBLS owns the former Kiss intellectual property. So, a return to Urban AC would require a different handle.
Also, does Emmis have an equity stake in Mediaco? That in and of itself would likely preempt any Urban AC possibility for 98.7.
So more of the same for Market No. 1: Rhythmic, rhythmic, rhythmic, regardless of genre or language. At what point do New York Hispanic musical preferences drift as they have in markets like San Antonio, where country does well among English-dominant Hispanics who've been there for generations?
Yes, although one would assume that the Mediaco stake would be available for purchase as Emmis winds itself down from the radio industry.
Salem also doesn't have that kind of money.
"Tejanos" have been in Texas since well before Davy Crockett and Sam Houston and their gang arrived. So they began to have their musical tastes influence by the newcomers a couple of centuries ago.
In fact, Tejano music has elements not just of northern Mexican genres but of all the ancestors of country music and the like. That's why, with rare exceptions, most Tejano music never became "big" in Mexico itself as the cultural influence is different.
In New York City and the surrounding radio market, the Hispanic community started to be of significance after WW II, and those two decades of the 50's and 60's saw about a quarter of all the people in Puerto Rico migrate to the area. Then the Cubans started coming, followed by Ecuadorians and then Dominicans, Mexicans, Colombians and Venezuelan and a smattering of others.
So the NYC adult Hispanic community is at most in its third generation. In Texas, it goes back 8 to 10 generations in some cases!
And in most of Texas, nearly all the immigrants until very recently (Katyzuela for example) are Mexicans and the rest are Mexican Americans of much later generations. Similar culture, similar ethnicity. In New York City, you have Afro-Antilleans (Cuba, PR, Dominicans as well as coastal Venezuelans and Colombians), the Indigenous influence of much of Colombia and Ecuador and more recently the very different Indigenous cultures of Mexico and northern Central America.
But the music of the majority of New York Hispanics comes from the Afro-Antillean culture of Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia, Vallenato and those style's ancestors like the mambo and charanga and such. That is where the rhythmic affinity with Black music... influenced by the same African heritage as Motown and Soul were flavored by.
Salem has money issues and is not buying anything at the moment. But if they were to buy a full-market NYC FM, they would install its CCM "Fish" format on it.
if Salem wanted to buy a ccm station they would just buy star 99.1 it’s already established why waste the time and effort launching a brand new station on 98..7
Because 99.1 doesn't really have a good signal in the NYC area, pretty much east of the city, it's unlistenable. If they went with ur idea, it'd be similar to the situation Salem has in L.A. where they have a CCM station in 95.9, but really only covers Orange County. And of course, 95.9 The Fish was around before K-Love, um Positive Encouraging 100.3 came around, so they're well-established in CCM in the SoCal market compared to NYC, which I don't see Salem doing.
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98.7 is for sale. 99.1 probably is not.
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