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

In my opinion, the only way Urban One would be interested in 98.7 is if it could establish a cluster in NYC by acquiring the MediaCo stations concurrently. They're not in the business of operating one-off stations in major markets.
 
MarkW said:
In my opinion, the only way Urban One would be interested in 98.7 is if it could establish a cluster in NYC by acquiring the MediaCo stations concurrently. They're not in the business of operating one-off stations in major markets.
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Seems like this thread has gone full circle…
 
CTListener said:
Is it possible that no one can come up with any format that would come close to defraying the cost of acquiring WEPN, and the advertising recession just gets deeper, thus there is no sale, the license is turned in, and the frequency goes dark?
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Is it possible? Anything is possible, but the likelihood of an FM signal in the Number 1 market in the country going dark in 2024 is less than one thirteenth of one percent. They will sell it for 15 to 20 million first.
 
crainbebo said:
EMF (Air 1, K-LOVE) doesn't need advertising. They need support and they get plenty from those radiothons, promoting free gas for a year or a $3,000 Amazon gift card to the lucky caller who pledged $100 a month. How else can they put on a glitzy CCM awards show on TBN?
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Ironically, you can turn on TBN nowadays & they air commercials as they ditched the annual telethons, replacing them with ads & infomercials disguised as 'Praise' shows for products from guests.
 
MarkW said:
In my opinion, the only way Urban One would be interested in 98.7 is if it could establish a cluster in NYC by acquiring the MediaCo stations concurrently. They're not in the business of operating one-off stations in major markets.
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There was an entire thread on this subject a couple months ago, hypothesizing that Urban One would buy WBLS and SBS would buy Hot:


This additional frequency would give Urban two stations in NYC.

SBS is in the middle of a transaction now with Urban One in Houston. Urban One is sitting on $145 million from selling it's stake in a DC casino:

www.insideradio.com

Urban One Cashes Out Its Investment in MGM National Harbor Casino.

Urban One has a $145.5 million pay day coming up next month. The company on March 8 issued a “put notice” that requires MGM National Harbor to buy back all
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com
 
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Ironically, you can turn on TBN nowadays & they air commercials as they ditched the annual telethons, replacing them with ads & infomercials disguised as 'Praise' shows for products from guests.
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Jordan Rubin is often selling this CBD powder on TBN. I'm not sure how they can get away with that. Maybe it's like those late-morning lifestyle shows on local TV stations when a guest comes to sell a product.
 
An article in RadioInsight adds Press Communications, which operates several stations along the NJ shore, to the mix of possibilities.
 
They have the Thunder country music simulcast in NJ along with a few other stations. But what would they air on that frequency, I wonder?
All this time I didn't realize that 96.7 Air 1 rimshots into NYC. But they are spotty in Manhattan and barely reaches the NJ side from the New Rochelle transmitter.
Are you sure Pillar of Fire doesn't have the $50,000,000 to simulcast WAWZ on 98.7?
 
crainbebo said:
Are you sure Pillar of Fire doesn't have the $50,000,000 to simulcast WAWZ on 98.7?
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We are all getting hung up on this $50 million. As a good friend and business associate of my father once told me, "just because they are asking (insert price here) doesn't mean they are going to get it." Yes, it's a full market FM in market number 1, but advertising dollars are not what they used to be.
 
TheBigA said:
Non profits like Pillar of Fire don't base their price on advertising dollars.
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I don't think that RadioGuy was thinking they do. On the other hand, if commercial operators can't put up "bigger money" then then the lower valuations and pricing standards employed by the non-profit operators come into play.
 
crainbebo said:
They have the Thunder country music simulcast in NJ along with a few other stations. But what would they air on that frequency, I wonder?
All this time I didn't realize that 96.7 Air 1 rimshots into NYC. But they are spotty in Manhattan and barely reaches the NJ side from the New Rochelle transmitter.
Are you sure Pillar of Fire doesn't have the $50,000,000 to simulcast WAWZ on 98.7?
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it rimshots because it was moved which caused WTSX FM on 96.7 in Port Jervis to move to 96.7 on Lehman Twp. PA in the Poconos by Stroudsburg back in 2012, 28 miles southwest and covering nowhere near the original signal.
 
TheBigA said:
But at the time, they weren't granted permission from the FCC to do what they were doing, which is why I said "basically a pirate."
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Permission for what? WNYZ-LP was, and is, licensed as a TV station. They were broadcasting visual content as well as audio. Many TV stations on channel 6 promoted the fact that their audio carrier could be received on an FM radio, not just WNYZ-LP or the FrankenFMs.
 
TheBigA said:
What they were doing was an issue that was ultimately resolved.
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The issue was resolved three years before WNYZ-LP went on the air, and eight years before the debut of "Pulse 87":


R&R said:
When contacted at the FCC by R&R, Bernstein said the matter was officially resolved in September 2000 and that KZND is properly operating under the FCC's television-licensing standards. "We don't care if they want to hold themselves out as an FM station," Bernstein said. "As long as they do the required station identification, they are meeting FCC regulations."
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There were Franken FMs before 2008, but Pulse 87 really brought attention to them. Pulse was the first one that got Arbitron to include 87.7 in the radio ratings
 
NickD said:
There were Franken FMs before 2008, but Pulse 87 really brought attention to them. Pulse was the first one that got Arbitron to include 87.7 in the radio ratings
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IIRC, Pulse was the first FrankenFM to actually buy Arbitron ratings.

The FCC does not look at market size to focus attention. If Pulse were the first to get any attention from the FCC, it might have been due to a complaint, not market size.
 
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