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Panama City Magic's Panama City stations to be sold
- Thread starter K.M. Richards
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That explains the “ticking” sound they were playing when I checked around 8:30 this morning. 97.7 was rocking this afternoon.
You're overthinking it. It was a matter of simply keeping the Rock format on the frequency known to Rock audiences. Radio companies do not give themselves marketing budgets so they're not going to spend time moving formats to different frequencies. This whole deal appears to be about simply operating the Panama City stations cheap out of Fort Walton Beach.
Is Island 106 switching formats?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You should try reading our fearless leader's main site once in a while.
97X Panama City Gets Boned; More Changes To Follow?
As JVC Broadcasting prepares to close on its $1.25 million purchase of Magic Broadcasting's four stations in Panama City FL,
radioinsight.com
It appears that all of the former Magic stations in Panama City are changing formats to either simulcast or replicate JVC's Fort Walton Beach stations.
Remember this mantra, which is usually true: New ownership means programming changes.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Now that is a question worth asking.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Given the demographics, I don't see a fully Urban format being an option.
Further, I think Lance's guess is closer, as JVC appears to have purchased the stations to expand the reach of their present formats in Fort Walton to Panama City.
They do? "RX" could be Rock. Could be for something branded X or B. Plus the calls could theoretically be swapped with one of JVC's other market stations like they did when they launched the "Bone" in Fort Walton Beach and moved WBON from its Spanish station on Long Island. i wouldn't draw any conclusions based on those calls
That wasn't a guess. Every public comment made since the sale says as much.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Mea culpa. I read that sentence in your article as opinion but not fact, but then I admit to not having read all the public comments. That's what I read RadioInsight for.
As of 9pm Monday night, they were still classic country. No liners, just music with a TOH ID
still that way today (Wednesday)
WILN Starts Jingling
CHR “Island 106” WILN has begun stunting with television theme song and commercial jingles ahead the closing of its sale to JVC Broadcasting.
Currently ID’ing as “Jingle 105.9“, the move would mark the third major change at the four station cluster since JVC announced its $1.25 million purchase of the cluster from Magic Broadcasting in late June.
CHR “Island 106” WILN has begun stunting with television theme song and commercial jingles ahead the closing of its sale to JVC Broadcasting.
Currently ID’ing as “Jingle 105.9“, the move would mark the third major change at the four station cluster since JVC announced its $1.25 million purchase of the cluster from Magic Broadcasting in late June.
I wonder who will take CHR.
No press release. They promoted it on their social media and was noted on-air by a listener when I reported.
Are you saying they are back to Island or off the air?