Well, she's off the website already.
EDIT: They have yet to update their Daily Schedule page, so she's not entirely off the website just yet.
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Nathan Graham out at WTDY... changes coming?
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EDIT: They have yet to update their Daily Schedule page, so she's not entirely off the website just yet.
Well, at least we got four pages of conversation out of it!
So Bennett is basically the only person at the station. PD was let go, morning show co-host was let go. It's just Bennett as morning host and MD, voicetracked middays and afternoons from Audacy national, and automated nights.
I get Audacy is having a rough go of it now, but man... that's just sad.
But no listener (proverbially, not literally) knows nor cares where a host is. Good, bad or indifferent, people aren’t going show by show pondering if the host is live nor where they are working from.
That aside, if I were wasting money gambling, it would be on no imminent change.
Also, kudos to Bennett. He's a good talent, and CBS/Entercom/Audacy has realized that. He's survived through Wired, Amp, Today's, and TDY on 96.5 (with some added tracking on B101).
Oh I agree, but it's just sad that a major market station has essentially one person working for it.
After seeing Raven laid off but Bennett staying, I agree. It looks like they'll stay the course and run it cheaply for a while and see if the needle moves at all.
A change is always not happening until it happens.
Though if you wait long enough, a broad prediction may seem to come true. Eventually. 😉
Meh, just simulcast WKRZ out of NE PA. (And no, that’s not actually serious.)
Maybe it’s just me. I don’t focus solely on who’s sitting in a studio to count who works for them. Plenty of other people doing their best to create whatever the product is.
I tend to enjoy Ben-FM (and other adult hits stations). Does it matter to me they have one host? Nah. The music matters. I don’t miss chatter at all. They do what they’re mandated to for contests and such, but otherwise give me the tunes to work/drive/study/relax/do chores too. Perhaps that’s heresy. 🤷🏻♂️
Does it work for top 40? Does it work if you accept you’re the “also-ran” top 40? Does it work when the whole cluster is taken into consideration? Don’t really have any answer. Just fun and speculative conversations.
I have worked at exactly one radio station. When we were in the process of being sold, the buyers assured us the format was staying the same.
At precisely midnight on the day the sale became final, they shut us down. Every single person was fired.
It could I don't know the numbers for that market but you'd be surprised for a sports station that has to have 2-3 local hosts for every show and then you have call offs and overtime etc. I mean you could put CBS Sports radio on but that could also mean a significant ratings drop. As well as selling advertising on a sports station is totally different. It's easier to pair ad sales with a crappy CHR and a top rated AC than a sports station. The way it seems now Audacy just wants to be on cruise control and sell off the assets that can't be centralized . They want to combine everything and make passive income not the other way around so yes I think they will end up selling some of their sports stations .
There’s almost no single place to begin with that.
You mean, “More FM at 96.5”. 😂
Well none of the suggestions that have already been suggested are going to happen. There's some rational behind what I'm saying they did something similar in the Chicago forum . Audacy is going to sell the AM station that the sports radio station is on . They already confirmed they weren't going to blow up the two stations in question B96 and 104.3 Jams in favor of saving that signal . But Audacy just sold two radio stations one in TN and one in upstate NY . So the company selling stations isn't out of the question and if they are trying to downsize and make some big money to try and avoid bankruptcy they should sell off some big assets, and try and streamline the formats they can . Now I know they probably won't sell off popular music stations but it's expensive to run a straight talk format radio station you can't streamline that .
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Audacy isn't going to toss its profitable all sports brand in Chicago to the curb, and they sold (so far) one radio station in TN, not two. If the land housing the AM 670 & AM 780 transmitter site were to ever be sold, WSCR would find a new home on the radio dial, and that home would likely be 104.3 FM.
Selling "big assets" only makes sense if the sale price is a big multiple of per annum EBITDA.
WTSS in Buffalo is a very popular music station.
Selling "big assets" only makes sense if the sale price is a big multiple of per annum EBITDA.
WTSS in Buffalo is a very popular music station.
WSTW is CHR.
WSTW charts as a Hot AC (at least at Mediabase).
But they have always threaded the needle and kind of tilted back and forth between CHR and Hot AC for decades now.
Tony Santiago (Spelling) anyone?
WSTW has always seemed to lean more Hot AC than CHR to me.
The previous regime already dumped the AM sports station, albeit in a trade, once they moved to FM. The comparisons between the clusters in the two markets aren't very parallel. Putting a few stations into a trust to offload is not remotely "they're going to sell the top sports station in Philly." Moreover, Audacy invests as well as cuts. At one point in the not too distant past, WPHT "turned off the lights" at noon (figure of speech there) to run syndicated shows the other 18 hours of the day. Now, they run local until 7 p.m. (sports notwithstanding). They've added local programming time on some other stations as well. It's not an all or nothing proposition.
Could they sell 96.5? Of course. If someone has the cash, great. Not a lot of buyers out there--meaning it's basically EMF at this point who has deep enough pockets. But that wasn't what precipitated this particular branch of the conversation; it was rumors of a format change, not an asset sale. If they're going to sell something here, it's 96.5, not 94. Not in a million years.
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