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Golden Opportunity Missed By These "Professional" Broadcasters!

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Many people who commuted enjoyed tuning their FM radio to 87.7 to listen to the audio portion of Channel Six news. They went digital and now the AF signal is gone.

Why didn't somebody have the business sense to make a deal to rebroadcast their signal? If not 6 then how about one of the others?

Oh I see, interupting the same old sh-- on and on complaining about the liberals would be just so-o-o-o terrible.

And the owners and managers just can't understand why revenues, listenership and demographics are what they are!

R-I-P RADIO!!!!!!!!
 
Too bad you do not have the business sense to realize that the local TV stations has no rights to sign an agreement with a Radio Station to rebroadcast any of the ABC, CBS, or NBC programming that is on over 50 minutes of each hour from 7-9AM - nor will the networks give them the rights to do so.

R-I-P Business School Dropouts.
 
You never know what the networks might be willing to do these days unless you ask. My good friend Clark Smidt can testify to that: he bought WCAP in Lowell, Massachusetts a couple of years ago and arranged pretty quickly to simulcast the local newscasts from the ABC affiliate in Boston.

That worked out pretty well, and it occurred to Clark that listeners commuting home might want to hear the ABC World News at 6:30, too. The appropriate inquiries were made, and now WCAP carries Diane Sawyer, too.

Would they let him carry Good Morning America? He's got a pretty good morning show running already, but if he asked, I suspect the answer might very well be "yes."

I don't think Clark ever went to business school, but he certainly has a graduate degree in real-life radio.
 
A lifetime ago...21 years ago I was up North at an AC station that worked out a deal to simulcast the local news of one of the TV stations in the market. The Noon half-hour cast and the 5pm half hour local newscasts were carried. The radio station was prohibited from running any spots during the newscasts...the TV audio feed could not be broken as part of the deal. Only spots just before the start of the newscast and directly after could be ran. The radio station received mentions on the TV station and some ten second spots. This was on a 50KW FM...one that was not a ratings performer. In six months time there were no gains in the ratings or revenue from running the newscasts and eventually the radio station and TV station broke the agreement and the radio station changed format. Could something similar be done agaion...sure...but someone must be willing to sacrifice 30 minutes of program time and spot avails....so, the only ones who might be able to afford that would be at the bottom of the ratings heap.
 
Scott Fybush said:
You never know what the networks might be willing to do these days unless you ask. My good friend Clark Smidt can testify to that: he bought WCAP in Lowell, Massachusetts a couple of years ago and arranged pretty quickly to simulcast the local newscasts from the ABC affiliate in Boston.

That worked out pretty well, and it occurred to Clark that listeners commuting home might want to hear the ABC World News at 6:30, too. The appropriate inquiries were made, and now WCAP carries Diane Sawyer, too.

Would they let him carry Good Morning America? He's got a pretty good morning show running already, but if he asked, I suspect the answer might very well be "yes."

I don't think Clark ever went to business school, but he certainly has a graduate degree in real-life radio.
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Though I respect the hell out of your knowledge of transmission facilities, you are 180 degrees off the mark here. ABC will NOT license audio of any of the TV Network audio to radio stations simulcast. In fact, the Networks are now claiming as late as 7 days ago the local TV affilates do not even have the right to broadcast their programming on the stations Mobile DTV.
 
Kabrich said:
Though I respect the hell out of your knowledge of transmission facilities, you are 180 degrees off the mark here. ABC will NOT license audio of any of the TV Network audio to radio stations simulcast.
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Scott was not wrong. Look at the 6:30-7:00p slot for Monday-Friday.

http://www.980wcap.com/page.php?id=1
 
Kabrich...Did I say to rebroadcast the network news feed??? DID I????? No. I said to rebroadcast the LOCAL news feed. If the TV stations aren't interested then the cable news channel might be very open to the additional exposure. Of course, that would mean management and ownership of a station would need to be open to doing things differently rather than doing what everybody else does as an easy way out. Kind of like in the 70's every market just had to have a station with "Q" in their callsign and somebody named "Sebastian" on the air. Yes, the business model of today's radio...its just so-o-o great. Maybe we should transfer it to say, the car business. We can have a dealership with all the same models, the same colors, the same features. We can have the lot strewn with litter because ownership won't hire people to do the job. And we can have management and ownership who don't hasve the gumption to make their own decisions, instead when the consultant says all the cars must be black, then heaven forbid we have a red one on the line! Afterall, the "consultant" knows what he's talking about and who are we to question god?
 
DXDXDX said:
Kabrich...Did I say to rebroadcast the network news feed??? DID I????? No. I said to rebroadcast the LOCAL news feed. If the TV stations aren't interested then the cable news channel might be very open to the additional exposure. Of course, that would mean management and ownership of a station would need to be open to doing things differently rather than doing what everybody else does as an easy way out. Kind of like in the 70's every market just had to have a station with "Q" in their callsign and somebody named "Sebastian" on the air. Yes, the business model of today's radio...its just so-o-o great. Maybe we should transfer it to say, the car business. We can have a dealership with all the same models, the same colors, the same features. We can have the lot strewn with litter because ownership won't hire people to do the job. And we can have management and ownership who don't hasve the gumption to make their own decisions, instead when the consultant says all the cars must be black, then heaven forbid we have a red one on the line! Afterall, the "consultant" knows what he's talking about and who are we to question god?
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No radio station is going to hand off 1 hour of morning drive to a TV Simulcast and then have a totally different program from 7am on - or I should say, one that has any listeners.
 
AN-OPINION said:
Kabrich said:
Though I respect the hell out of your knowledge of transmission facilities, you are 180 degrees off the mark here. ABC will NOT license audio of any of the TV Network audio to radio stations simulcast.
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Scott was not wrong. Look at the 6:30-7:00p slot for Monday-Friday.

http://www.980wcap.com/page.php?id=1
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Actually, yes he is wrong. I said ABC will not LICENSE audio of the TV Network and that remains a fact. However, you will be happy to know that you have made a TON of billable hours for a number of lawyers. You should ask for a commission.

Its actually also proves the point of how worthless the programming is, as the station is in a 7 way tie for 46th in the timeslot - the AQH is 0 every other month - and 100 people the other months.....meaning it averages 50 people 6+ in Boston over several months. One good thing about having no listeners - people don't catch you stealing copyrighted material.....until someone posts it on the internet.

Considering Orlando has roughly 1/4 the population of Boston, that would mean about 12 people would listen in Orlando.

So much for being a great ratings idea.
 
Here in the Naples/Fort Myers FL market the number one FM carries an hour of local TV news sound each weekday morning 6 to 7 am
 
Kabrich said:
Actually, yes he is wrong. I said ABC will not LICENSE audio of the TV Network and that remains a fact. However, you will be happy to know that you have made a TON of billable hours for a number of lawyers. You should ask for a commission.
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ROFLOL

Looks like that battery of imaginary attorneys were unable to get an order for WCAP to stop airing the TV network.

http://www.980wcap.com/page.php?id=1

It would be interesting to hear someone in the market air LOCAL morning and midday and drive home simulcasts. Unfortunately...the AM stations that might do this (WEUS, 1520 and the rest at the bottom of the heap) all have signal/coverage issues...especially when sunset rules come into play during parts of the year.
 
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