But how would this work given what you say about different Hispanic nationalities in different cities?
I think that Salem was considering some national shows but mostly local or regional brokered shows.
I can't for the life of me see them keeping Mambi with local hosts.
That is the only way the station would continue to be successful. The very name, highly historical, represents four decades of anti-Socialist government discussion for Latin Americans.
I think the best thing that could have happened to Mambi was LMN. They were able to keep doing what they wanted to do with no interference. Thats why I say this wasn't political.
Yet the talent did not want to be associated with a group financed by Soros who has openly encouraged restoring open relationships with Cuba. In Miami, that is treason.
Salem doesn't do local radio. They own stations that carry their national programming. Even in NYC, they run mainly the national talk.
Or they sell block programming. But if they thought they could do national Spanish language programming, they were way off in their evaluations.
What was the nature of the paid programming? Political or religious? I understand the religious idea, but not political.
Since they did not disclose any of their plans, this is just specuclation.
I'll throw it back at you: How would an international investment company interested in making money have ever found out about a group of AM radio stations?
It was not a group of AM stations. There are FMs in McAllen, Dallas, Las Vegas and Fresno. Half of the portfolio is FM. And any announcement of the availability of a package of that value would have gone to all the major sources of financing.
Especially given the past 8 years of radio bankruptcies? It makes no sense. It makes more sense that the women heard about it in Miami, and sought the funding.
Neither of those women were part of the sociopolitical society in Miami. In fact, until due diligence by Salem was begun, nobody below the head of the radio group even knew this was being planned.
If you read their original press release, a lot of those people are in Miami.
Those are people they recruited for their names after the deal was done.
A person I know talked recently with Eva Longoria. She did not even know what kind of programming is on the stations!
If Salem had bought the stations, Radio Mambi would have gone away.
Or Mambí, being conservative in the International sense, it might have been the flagship station of a conservative network.
