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New owners for KBME?

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purpledevil

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Thumbing through the FCC website, I noticed that KBME has an application on file to transfer control from Clear Channel to a BT Triple Crown Merger Co. Inc. effective 10-09-07. BTC-20061212BXW is the application number. Is Clear Channel divesting KBME? CW/jd....anyone?
 
Ah..thank you Juan, I must've simply overlooked this thread in the past. Gosh, I sure miss Mike_O's commentary on things like this. Looks like the ball is rolling for the divesture then. Wonder who's gonna be the taker on KBME? Man, I wish Great Radio Houston had the assets to make an offer.
 
Triple Crown Merger Co. is the name being used by the Equity partners (I think Bain is one of them) to group the CC channels that will be held. I believe KBME is in the group not being sold. Triple Crown will still be operating as Clear Channel Communications. From what I recall, KPRC, KHMX and KKRW are the stations they will try to unload from the Houston cluster. The thread started by our dear old friend Mike O last year said this. God Bless You Mike wherever you are.
 
Adguy, the stations Mike_O stated were being transferred to Triple T were KODA, Mega, KBME, KTRH, and KTBZ. I have never found any additional information about this until I ran across the form filed with the FCC for Transfer of Control of KBME a couple of days ago, dated 10-09. I would personally be surprised if 790 stays with the cluster. I can't recall KBME ever rating very highly, and the sports format hasn't really found it's niche even 3 years in. Call me biased. KBME should still be what the calls stand for...The "Best Music Ever".
 
The story I hear is the KTRH, KBME, KODA AND KTBZ are the keepers. It would make sense. KTRH is still the leading AM market station with KODA & KTBZ the big revenue producers on the FM side. I guess Mega represents any future they MIGHT have in the Spanish language space and KBME represents a safety outlet when the Rockets and Astros go up against each other on the same night. KKRW and KPRC? KKRW has been a bit lost for several years in the ratings dept and they planted a nuke at KPRC and made it worthless today.
 
adguy said:
The story I hear is the KTRH, KBME, KODA AND KTBZ are the keepers. It would make sense. KTRH is still the leading AM market station with KODA & KTBZ the big revenue producers on the FM side. I guess Mega represents any future they MIGHT have in the Spanish language space and KBME represents a safety outlet when the Rockets and Astros go up against each other on the same night. KKRW and KPRC? KKRW has been a bit lost for several years in the ratings dept and they planted a nuke at KPRC and made it worthless today.
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Have you seeen the numbers since the switch to PPM? KKRW is consistently top 2 25-54... it's a bigger cash cow than KODA at this point.
 
adguy said:
 
I guess Mega represents any future they MIGHT have in the Spanish language space and KBME represents a safety outlet when the Rockets and Astros go up against each other on the same night. 
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I thought KILT had the rights for the Rockets?
 
-juan- said:
adguy said:
I guess Mega represents any future they MIGHT have in the Spanish language space and KBME represents a safety outlet when the Rockets and Astros go up against each other on the same night.
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I thought KILT had the rights for the Rockets?
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I think you're right. KTRH used to have the Rockets broadcasts, when they were a winning team. ;D
 
I stand corrected. KILT has the Rockets and Texans. KTRH has the Rockets, but KBME still operated as a safety valve for KTRH's regularly scheduled programming when KTRH has a Rockets game. Furthermore, KBME is another outlet if and when CC (owners of CC) goes for the Rockets, Texans or any other pro/college team in the future. And...studies must show that sports stations are the wave of the future in radio revenue. Why would so many pop up suddenly across the country and 4 RIGHT HERE IN HOUSTON!
 
Sports radio format growth is a result of the giant bulge in baby boomer males who have out grown old tired rock formats and are looking for talk to entertain themselves. Thats why we have not only four sports stations but several man talk stations as well. However, there isn't enough male demo ad buys out there to support all these outlets. Within one year, one sports station will be gone and I think we all know which one that is. The two most recent entries into sports are looking to knock off KBME. That could be a mistake taking on CC or whatever they call themselves. KILT owns the legacy position and is safe for now. And look for KPRC to be evolved into something different than it is today. Thats radio, constantly evolving.
 
SPOTS FOR DOTS said:
Sports radio format growth is a result of the giant bulge in baby boomer males who have out grown old tired rock formats and are looking for talk to entertain themselves. Thats why we have not only four sports stations but several man talk stations as well. However, there isn't enough male demo ad buys out there to support all these outlets. Within one year, one sports station will be gone and I think we all know which one that is. The two most recent entries into sports are looking to knock off KBME. That could be a mistake taking on CC or whatever they call themselves. KILT owns the legacy position and is safe for now. And look for KPRC to be evolved into something different than it is today. Thats radio, constantly evolving.
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My previous post above was definitely tongue in cheek. As for advertisers available to male demos, that segment is most definitely growing. Many traditional Adult buys are reskewing toward men along with many traditional Women demos skewing back toward adults. The proliferation of erictile dysfunction has created the ED drug segment that is now one of the largest ad categories active today. Other medical such as back pain, cardiac care, cancer care, etc... has grown tremendously in the Houston market alone. Automotive toward men is growing. The sports bar market is growing in major markets with 2 or more pro sports franchises and many traditional casual dining restaurants are now trying to attract the sports viewer with large flat screen in their restaurants. All of this has almost doubled the amount of ad dollars skewed toward men in the last five years.

As for the four sports (male-talk) station in Houston I most definitely agree that at least one will go by the wayside within a year. Even with all the male skewed advertising now available there is definitely not enough to support four stations. I doubt there is enough to fully support two, much less three. I won't be surprised to see the FM sports station (97.something) gone. They have no signal and FM is not where the other guys are when your flipping between commercials. 1590 will be a crap shoot. It appears their signal woes have been addressed, but when the sun goes down at 5PM next week, they could lose a significant number of PM Drive listeners when they have to power down. And, they still don't have a major pro franchise to hang their hats like KILT and KTRH/KBME. If a second station fails it will most likely be 1590.
 
Very good points you make but I believe you mean 1560 don't you, adguy?
 
adguy said:
Yes I do. Sorry! 1560 is so close to 1590 not only on the dial, but in the brain. I have kids that love 1590.
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Something in there is definitly "Mickey Mouse".
 
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