FCC Okays CC Purchase of WOR

[bigtom101]

CC gonna make it rain pink slips soon enough...gotta make that 4th quarter look good!

 

[Shredder]

CC gonna make it rain pink slips soon enough...gotta make that 4th quarter look good!

remember when companies where meant to fail and go out of biz? now you just get bought by a large monster.....

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Look for Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other Premiere talk hosts to start appearing on WOR-710 the first of the year (George Noory's "Coast To Coast A.M." is already on the station).

 

[wadio]

An interesting hypothetical -- if WABC were to pick up all the programs WOR may dump, would WABC continue to pull roughly double WOR's (6+) cume or would that flip along with the programming?

I've never understood why, though some significant programming changes on both sides, the ratings ratio between these two stations never budges.

 

[qwerty809]

I always understood it. WOR is a bad station, it sounds like 1940 radio, they never upgraded. Dead air on WABC would beat anyone on WOR...

 

[TimeIsTight]

Look for Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other Premiere talk hosts to start appearing on WOR-710 the first of the year

Sean Hannity's show syndication is co-managed by by both Clear Channel and Cumulus.

The show is produced in Cumulus studios, and that company owns the syndication rights in cities where it has a station, like WABC.

Clear Channel handles the syndication on all non-Cumulus radio stations.

So, unless that deal is over, Hannity is probably staying right where he is. No doubt, Rush will change stations when the current contract with WABC ends.

Other than Rush, the current WABC lineup will likely stay the same. Mark Levin, Savage, Batchelor, Geraldo, Imus, Red Eye are all Cumulus syndications.

 

[DToTheJ]

In Tampa, Todd Schnitt is hosting his final week of shows for his current flagship WFLA. Says he'll be continuing the show, though... I wonder, could he perhaps be calling WOR his new flagship come next year? (By the way, Schnitt is syndicated by Compass Media Networks, not Premiere/CC.)

 

[DToTheJ]

In Tampa, Todd Schnitt is hosting his final week of shows for his current flagship WFLA. Says he'll be continuing the show, though... I wonder, could he perhaps be calling WOR his new flagship come next year? (By the way, Schnitt is syndicated by Compass Media Networks, not Premiere/CC.)

 

[wadio]

I always understood it. WOR is a bad station, it sounds like 1940 radio, they never upgraded. Dead air on WABC would beat anyone on WOR...

Thanks for those deep and well crafted thoughts ... they really help move the conversation forward. It sounds like you haven't listened to WOR since 1940.

 

[qwerty809]

I always understood it. WOR is a bad station, it sounds like 1940 radio, they never upgraded. Dead air on WABC would beat anyone on WOR...

Thanks for those deep and well crafted thoughts ... they really help move the conversation forward. It sounds like you haven't listened to WOR since 1940.

No its more like that i listen a lot to 880, 1010, 660, 770, and even WMCA 570. And then i tune in to WOR to find myself in the medieval times of radio. Thanks for reading.

 

[Hardrocker9]

Could it be that CC might put a comedy station on AM, like they have up in Boston? That would be great.

 

[Bill790]

Could it be that CC might put a comedy station on AM, like they have up in Boston? That would be great.

That reminds me of the days (in the mid-70's) when WOR had Bob & Ray in PM drive. They were very funny.

 

[kevinsealy]

With Rush Limbuagh going to WOR make the future for WOR look brighter. And with Mike Huckabee going against Limbaugh is going to make talk radio even more competitive.

But whether Sean Hannity stays with WABC or hops to WOR, WABC needs a replacement for Afternoon Drive.






Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy

 

[Ai4i]

WOR...sounds like 1940 radio, they never upgraded.

This is W-W-W-W-Somebody-Stop-Me-O-R.
This is W-W-W-W-Somebody-Stop-Me-O-R.
1440 Broadway, 710 on your dial,
That Powerful Powerful Station with the fifty kilowatt smile.
This is W-W-W-W-Heard both near and far,
This is W-W-W-W-Somebody-Stop-Me-OR!
;D
(Compliments of the late Jean Shepherd)

 

[disney fanatic]

Could it be that CC might put a comedy station on AM, like they have up in Boston? That would be great.

I don't think so. If you want a comedy station, there's WJIP's "Comedy 1370" in Ellenville running "24/7 Comedy" network, but I don't see "24/7 Comedy" coming to NYC anytime soon. If not, put it on 105.1 on the FM dial. That's what you'll get a "24/7 Comedy" network in New York City.

 

[qwerty809]

With Rush Limbuagh going to WOR make the future for WOR look brighter. And with Mike Huckabee going against Limbaugh is going to make talk radio even more competitive.

I do not believe WABC will put Huck on against Rush. I think they are smarter than that.

 

[WNTIRadio]

Comedy in Boston is a fill in format for a signal that not many knew/know is there. Look at the numbers. CC isn't going to waste $40 million to put other people's jokes on 710.

1200 in Boston has a whopping .3, or a cume of about 40,000. That's within statistical error territory, so they could have 0 listeners.

 

[Ai4i]

Correction on my previous post:
Line five of six should have read:
"Mutual Mutual Mutual Mutual, heard both near and far"

 

[davideduardo]

Comedy in Boston is a fill in format for a signal that not many knew/know is there. Look at the numbers. CC isn't going to waste $40 million to put other people's jokes on 710.

You mean because Clear Channel is a big enough joke all by itself?

 

[DanStrassberg]

1200 in Boston has a whopping .3, or a cume of about 40,000. That's within statistical error territory, so they could have 0 listeners.

I heard it was a 0.6. Could we be talking about different demos? I don't think the demo in which WXKS (AM) registered a 0.6 was mentioned in the posting in which I saw the 0.6 cume.

I live in Arlington, a close-in suburb maybe 10 miles northwest of downtown Boston. I have not been in downtown Boston since WXKS (AM) flipped to comedy. However, if CCU has been promoting WXKS (AM)'s 24/7 comedy format, it must be in other parts of the market. Where I live, I have seen nothing. I wouldn't expect to see billboards in Arlington--I don't think we have any here, but taxi tops and bus placards I would expect to see _IF_ CCU were spending any $$ promoting the format. As I said, I've seen zero, zip, nada!