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ESPN 98.7 FM to be no more come August 31, 2024

Any kind of format discussion will be based on the owner. A religious owner won't go for a dance format. So any realistic speculation needs to wait until an owner emerges.
 
rosecitymedia said:
UT ain't a company, partner. Years ago, they gave me a piece o' paper with some scribblin' on it sayin' I got educated there. Believe it's still just a big ol' school.
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Surprise, but even non-profit stations are generally operated by an incorporated non-profit (redundancy intentional) corporation.
 
Don CT said:
Honestly who wants that.
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I would if this was 2013. But I listen to TuneIn and rarely listen to the FM dial locally. Most likely a religious broadcasting company will want to buy 98.7. IMO, I feel that Star 99.1 should take the opportunity and move to 98.7.
 
I wonder whether WXBK 94.7 would be worth enough on the market for Audacy to be tempted to sell it, and purchase 98.7. As was mentioned, being high in debt hasn’t kept broadcasters from making occasional purchases.
94.7 could be of interest to ethnic broadcasters that have considerable funds, but couldn’t afford 98.7.
 
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Barry said:
I wonder whether WXBK 94.7 would be worth enough on the market for Audacy to be tempted to sell it, and purchase 98.7. As was mentioned, being high in debt hasn’t kept broadcasters from making occasional purchases.
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I don't know of any examples of Audacy buying a station for this amount of money in the last four years. The problem is that there has been a huge change in the advertising environment in just the last year. So there isn't enough potential revenue to support this expenditure. They are selling stations just to meet payroll now. They would have to sell a bunch of stations, not just 94.7, to fund this purchase.
 
NickD said:
Randy Michaels did a great job with RXP 2.0. He should have kept the alternative format instead of trying and failing with FM News.
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I don't know that you can put the words "Randy Michaels" and "great job" in the same sentence.

Randy is the one who fired Matt Pinfield and Leslie Framm for the all news format. It was after all-news failed that he tried to revive RXP, but it was too late and he was too far in debt.
 
Forget the predictions. Come back in spring of next year when EMF buys it out for $50,000,000 and flips it to Air 1. That's the ONLY PLAUSIBLE option for this frequency. Who else is buying out radio stations lately? EMF *AND* VCY. Did I say Audacy? IHeart? Cumulus? A radio geek who wants to put dance and EDM on a full-power signal?

It's going to be EMF. A sign of the times. Niche formats are either dying or going to streaming, so I'm thankful I can record webstreams of these small-town and obscure stations *while I can*...before owners die and kids sell the station off to EMF, or EMF gives them an offer they won't and can't refuse.
 
Passion and excitement in radio is dead. It'll be interesting to see where this sale goes. It will be a good indication of where terrestrial radio is heading.
 
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