iHeartMedia Donates Dayton Pair From Aloha Stations Trust

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

iHeartMedia Donates Dayton Pair From Aloha Stations Trust - RadioInsight

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iHeart is donating its two Dayton OH market FMs Country “B94.5” WYDB Englewood and Oldies “Big 106.5” WRZX Greenville to Delmarva Educational Association. The deal is structured with iHeartMedia donating the equipment associated with both station’s transmitters while Delmarva will pay iHeartMedia $200,000 to reimburse for costs incurred for the maintenance of the trust and divestiture of the stations. Delmarva will assume the obligations for the WYDB’s tower lease and enter into a sublease for WRZX.

 

[xmusicmatt]

Interesting. Wonder what formats Delmarva will install there.. Clearly they won't stay Oldies and Country.

 

[TheBigA]

Interesting. Wonder what formats Delmarva will install there.. Clearly they won't stay Oldies and Country.

If you look at Delmarva's other stations around the country, the tend to favor Religious and Conservative Talk.

They are a cousin of Salem.

 

[xmusicmatt]

If you look at Delmarva's other stations around the country, the tend to favor Religious and Conservative Talk.

They are a cousin of Salem.

Yeah I figure it's some religious format for sure. Dayton is a over-religious-ed market though so will be interesting what they settle with. You are likely right with some form of Conserv talk and or preaching/teaching. I don't know if they would consider it but if I was Delmarva I would go with a "gospel" format on one of them.

 

[gr8oldies]

Yeah I figure it's some religious format for sure. Dayton is a over-religious-ed market though so will be interesting what they settle with. You are likely right with some form of Conserv talk and or preaching/teaching. I don't know if they would consider it but if I was Delmarva I would go with a "gospel" format on one of them.

If it's a cousin of Salem, Salem is as whitebread as you can get, so gospel is unlikely. But I guess Dayton still needs some savin', WFCJ, WEEC, the K-Love and Air 1 stations, WGNZ and anyone I forgot ain't doing the job as there's still sinnin' going on.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

Most of Delmarva's stations around the country are teaching and preaching, so I would expect at least one of these two in Dayton to flip to "The Truth". The other will probably be conservative talk, similar to WMLB in Atlanta, which they launched a couple months ago.

 

[TheBigA]

New owner Delmarva did what I predicted in post #3, and flipped WYDB to conservative talk:

WYDB/Dayton has flipped from Country to Talk following the transfer of control from iHeart's Aloha Stations Trust to Delmarva Educational Association. No airstaff were displaced as WYDB's lineup was all out-of-market. iHeart donated all transmitter equipment to Delmarva in exchange for $200,000 reimbursement for maintenance of the divestiture trust since 2008. WYDB was ranked No. 15 in the market with a 1.5 share in June's Nielsen ratings

 

[MarkW]

No one will miss B94.5, but the loss of Classic Hits on 106.5 is a real bummer.

If low rated 103.9 doesn't flip to fill the void, this creates a golden opportunity for Alpha's 92.9 and to a lesser degree (because of signal limitations) Cox's 95.3.

 

[bobgoodbob]

The old websites are already gone. They both redirect to the iHeartRadio website now. Pretty sure the web streams are gone too.

I wonder what's going to happen to the Airstaff on both stations? I wonder if they going to move to other stations in the Dayton area?

 

[TheBigA]

I wonder what's going to happen to the Airstaff on both stations?

There was no local airstaff on the country station. All premium choice. I guess the websites were not included in the donations.

 

[gr8oldies]

There was no local airstaff on the country station. All premium choice. I guess the websites were not included in the donations.

Kim Faris's retirement date was conveniently the date the deal was closed, so I'm thinking she was "offered" retirement to cut another body from the payroll. Feneric versions of Big and whatever the country format was should be available on the iHeart app

 

[bobgoodbob]

There was no local airstaff on the country station. All premium choice. I guess the websites were not included in the donations.

Kim Faris's retirement date was conveniently the date the deal was closed, so I'm thinking she was "offered" retirement to cut another body from the payroll. Feneric versions of Big and whatever the country format was should be available on the iHeart app

Oh, I forgot about that the Airstaff on B94.5 was out of market.