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Is there a reasonably accurate Station Database that you use?

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Used to have access to that financial database that made it very easy to look at a market and see who-owns-what.

Is there a publicly-available database that does the same thing....where you could, for example, look at all iHeart stations in the country...or in Washington...or look at Portland or Spokaloo or Seattle and see who owns which?

Using FCC one is not very good for this sort of thing. I'm just trying to find an easy way to see what stations have changed hands since I last snooped...and get some insight as to why they might sound they way they do (based on regional/national programmers, etc.)
 
They are rather expensive, but Broadcasting and Cable Magazine used to publish the US Radio and TV Directory. That has basic technical info, station ownership, rep firm, network affiliations, etc., for all the US radio and TV properties. It's about the size of two traditional phone books.
 
Was hoping for something online like the BIA one....where you can say "Houston" or "iHeart" and see listings. I know several hobbyists had done a few, but they were dated quickly.
 
Kelly A said:
They are rather expensive, but Broadcasting and Cable Magazine used to publish the US Radio and TV Directory. That has basic technical info, station ownership, rep firm, network affiliations, etc., for all the US radio and TV properties. It's about the size of two traditional phone books.
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The last Broadcasting Yearbook was 2010, so rather out of date.

In any case, all of them from 1935 to the end are at www.americanradiohistory.com

There are several less expensive data sources but they do not have as much as BIA. One is the Inside Radio data source. Their site has all the details.
 
Would the Radio-Locator "Gold" service help? Has anybody on this board used it? I personally find R/L handy for it listings of AM's that have FM translators. I have noticed about a two week lag in listings verses the FCC.

I have used it as a starting point. The transmitter location link, is handy. I used it once to find an AM site of a station that was for sale. They had twenty + foot tress growing under the guys, and next to the tower. Plus it wasn't fenced or signed like the FCC requires. I doubt the FCC would ever "inspect" this site because it is down a 3 mile dirt road. But I told my client to expect to replace the ground radials and put up fencing, when I emailed the pictures. The deal never happened.
 
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