K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
That's doubtful, since accepted bookkeeping and accounting practices would dictate that revenue be allocated to each station by its billing.
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Good Karma To Lease 880; WCBS News Programming To End
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That's doubtful, since accepted bookkeeping and accounting practices would dictate that revenue be allocated to each station by its billing.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
My guess (and it's only that, since I barely understand the original agreement between Entercom and CBS for call letters used on the latter's O&O television stations) is that either the format change required Audacy to change the calls, or the LMA forced them to do so.
My expectation is that GKB will transfer its clients from 98.7 to 880, and Audacy will transfer any news clients to WINS. The Mets games will stay as they are.
Or the FM news in Chicago at 101.1
Would a single station in NYC work for a small-potatoes (relatively) operator like Connoisseur, or would they be smarter to remain focused on Long Island and Connecticut? It's also been established that New York is a dead market for country music -- too first-generation ethnic, too Latino, too rhythmic.
That's not necessarily true. Games can be played with regard to how revenue is allocated on a station by station basis. Some third party sources that provide such info usually use estimates, provide disclaimers to that effect, and in some instances are nearly spot on and in other instances are "off" by leaps and bounds, depending on station.
And if you look at the significant names in independent operators, from Storer to Metromedia, they were all departing in that era. And the last of the significant 7/7 operators like Metroplex were also gone as consolidations began. And smaller but significant groups like Palmer (Iowa and Florida) were getting out by the late 80's, too.
It depends. So much of cluster sales is done with combos of more than one station, it's really up to the operator to allocate what they "think" is the portion to consider for each operation.
I know of a case of two stations in San Diego, where one had double the ratings of the other. Yet all combo sales were "booked" at half for each station under the premise that the sale would not have come through without both of the stations being together.
In that case, the Miller-Kaplans reported the station's internal figure, but BIA did a presumed allocation showing a big difference.
All-News is the costliest format to operate. Just because it has a lot of billing doesn't mean all of that becomes revenue. Taking the LMA fees while continuing the make money off the Mets broadcasts will lessen the overall billing, but it will be nearly all profit with no overhead.
Since Harold flushed $100M of company money on his "end times" prediction, then died, their last transaction buying any AM stations was WQEW New York from Disney for $13M back in 2015. They found out really quickly that the value was in holding onto remaining FM stations, then sell when they need a quick influx of operating funds.
Yeah. I think the CBS TOH news sounds cheap with the sponsor during the intro. I noticed it and cringed when I heard it for the first time on Litchfield County's 97.3 WZBG.
USA Radio News shutdown? Didn't know that. What I noticed was for around 3 weeks our Classic Hits Station in Suburban Hartford (96.1/990) was running the same 1 minute newscast from USA Radio everyday/every hour. Then all of a sudden the newscast just disappeared.
ABC Audio did the same thing they emphasize themselves as the podcasting label for ABC News. Disney itself was in the process of shifting from affiliation deals to direct-to-consumer platforms when they ended their affiliation deal with Cumulus nearly a decade ago. We said something similar where Disney saw the writing on the wall to lower the demos and look where the target audience is going and they emphasized boosting their podcast operations in the past decade.
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Here's an article that's somewhat relevant to this thread: Audacy did a study on the value of the sports format for marketing:
www.insideradio.com
Sports Radio A Winning Proposition For Marketers, Audacy Study Finds.
A new report by Audacy takes a deep dive into the topic of sports radio and sports fans — and how marketers can benefit from all the intensity and passion.
Writers Guild Decries WCBS Newsradio 880 Closure, Lost Jobs.
The Writers Guild of America East on Monday took aim at Audacy over the shuttering of WCBS Newsradio 880, saying the union lost 23 members and that it’s “devastated” over
Here is writers guild response to 880 AM's format flip.
Well, one good thing MAY come out of the WCBS LMA to sports: Less Dr. Lederman commercials!
I realize that. In many cases I think they're in worse shape than the U.S. stations. I don't know how many stations there are in Canada, certainly not umpteen gazillion like the U.S. And the ratio of government CBC stations to commercial stations, along with the ones in French for the Quebec population.
Oh, hell [pun intended] yes. I'd take sports over religious or ethnic programming, depending on the ethnic programming. If there was one speaking Gaelic, I'd probably listen even though my Gaelic is now rustier then the Tin Man caught in a salty multi-day rainstorm. Just like a lot of things, if you don't use it daily you tend to forget how to speak/use/wear it. Couldn't call on my long dead grandparents or great-grandparents to translate for me.
If the demos for 880 were too old with a top-tier heritage news station, then how can anyone think they will be any different, better or younger for a sports talk format with no history or brand awareness on the frequency? Virtually no 30-year old or 40-year old is going to find that AM radio station and start listening to it now, especially when ESPN already trails WFAN by a mile, and even more so since WFAN will still be on FM.
I guess bankrupt Audacy gets lucky enough to rent out the signal and collect a juicy do-nothing paycheck but Karmazin's strategy with this is rather baffling.
I guess bankrupt Audacy gets lucky enough to rent out the signal and collect a juicy do-nothing paycheck but Karmazin's strategy with this is rather baffling.
Southern Middle Tennessee to be more exact.
If WINS follows the lead of sister station KYW in Philly they will pick up the CBS News TOH but only broadcast them late evenings and overnights.
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