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New Year and New Decade predictions

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gr8oldies

What's going to happen in Cincinnati and Dayton radio in the new year? How about the new decade?

Clear Channel blows up WEBN for a WLW simulcast, or WLW moves to 102.7 and Homer moves to 700?
Wolf Country moves to yet another frequency?
94.1 flips to..something?
The WCIN sale to Alchemy finally goes through? Or it falls through and oldies has no home
CC finally finds a buyer for 94.5 and 106.5?
WONE cracks a one share?
 
I find the WLW simulcast happening on 94.1 to be a bit more plausible. Dunno though.

Wolf Country is pretty much out of frequencies, aren't they? :D
 
DJJack1 said:
I find the WLW simulcast happening on 94.1 to be a bit more plausible. Dunno though.
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Unless CC makes a deal with Cumulus again for 94.1 will not happen. WLW would have to simulcast on either 102.7 or 107.1 which are the only FM's CC has left in town. CC now has more AM stations in the market which will become dinosaurs in the near future.
 
Within the next decade....

** All radio (and most likely TV) will become a pay to listen/watch service.

** Over the air broadcasts as we know them today will dissappear as more and more bandwidth is cunsumed by cellular, wireless and streaming feeds.

** Newspaper and print media will not survive the avialiblity of instant information on your mobile devices.

** Network television will be offered on an ala cart basis, you just pay for what you watch.

** and in the year 2525........ ::)
 
gr8oldies said:
Clear Channel blows up WEBN for a WLW simulcast, or WLW moves to 102.7 and Homer moves to 700?
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Why Would CC blow up WEBN to move WLW to FM and lose most of its wide AM Coverage. and move over Homer when Homer is also on a 50,000 watt signall
 
CC is between a rock and a hard place while WLW is the #1 station their average age listener is over 35. Moving WLW to FM would've made sense when they had 94.1 and 92.5. I predict you will see CC leaving the market within the next 5 yrs before they are forced to make a decision on moving WLW to FM. It will not happen this year.
 
If WLW is still strong 45-54 they are OK for now. They were about the first old line AM to go younger back in the 80s and I'm sure it bought them some time
 
Kahuna1 said:
Within the next decade....

** All radio (and most likely TV) will become a pay to listen/watch service.

** Over the air broadcasts as we know them today will dissappear as more and more bandwidth is cunsumed by cellular, wireless and streaming feeds.

** Newspaper and print media will not survive the avialiblity of instant information on your mobile devices.

** Network television will be offered on an ala cart basis, you just pay for what you watch.

** and in the year 2525........ ::)
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...and hopefully you'll learn to use spell check or a dictionary! :)
 
With WLW still holding a comfortable lead at #1, why is there a rush to move it to FM? Not every great talk station on AM needs a FM simulcast. WLW is known for it being the best at AM, WEBN is doing fine, KISS is doing fine, 92.5 - well, that's another story. Most of CC Cinci is fine.
 
lovejamminoldies said:
With WLW still holding a comfortable lead at #1, why is there a rush to move it to FM? Not every great talk station on AM needs a FM simulcast. WLW is known for it being the best at AM, WEBN is doing fine, KISS is doing fine, 92.5 - well, that's another story. Most of CC Cinci is fine.
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Jammin:

As with all formats, their success or failure depends not upon 12 plus numbers (as you are so fond of quoting or referring to), but the demos that are not published by Arbitron). You can be #1 in a market...and still lose money. (though I don't suggest this is happening with WLW). Why? Read on:

But, fact is: WLW's demographics are growing older by the year. To the station's credit, they are doing things to try and bring those demos down. (In fact, one could argue that they did that successfully once under Randy Michaels' tenure as PD). But the numbers naturally grow older for an AM station simply because almost no one under 45 bothers to turn AM on anymore. There's many people under 40 who probably can say they've NEVER listened to an AM station, unless it was with their parents in a car!

If too large a percentage of a station's audience grows older than about 50, advertisers get nervous, or else refuse to buy the product. (And no, "But we're WLW!" doesn't work.) With the Agency buyers, it's "demos, demos, demos", with "rate" falling right behind that.

Some stations (let's use WHIO in Dayton as an example) actually lowered their demos when they put a simulcast on the air. (As talk hosts such as Rush and Hannity proved they were capable of getting 25-54 numbers...it's just that the younger potential talk listeners were already on FM and wouldn't change. And that would be why some might suggest putting WLW's programming on an FM stick might be beneficial to them. Yes...even despite the border blasting 50K AM signal. And WHIO is not the only talk station seeing this, either.

That having been said, I still think WLW will be around for a long time. But, when the baby boomers are gone, I think that could be the end of AM radio. And that would be too bad. But time marches on...
 
WLW does not need a move to FM at this point. Some of those other stations that did move to FM (WIBC is a good example as is WHIO) have terrible nighttime signals. WIBC and WHIO were smart to move to FM since parts of those markets can't hear them at night.

Jammin'...Clear Channel does not own 92.5 anymore

Mike...When CBS decided to put sports on FM, the WJZ call letters were used. FCC will allow it.

WCIN is doing seller financing. Looks like they'll get it together.
 
Elephant said:
WLW does not need a move to FM at this point. Some of those other stations that did move to FM (WIBC is a good example as is WHIO) have terrible nighttime signals. WIBC and WHIO were smart to move to FM since parts of those markets can't hear them at night.

Jammin'...Clear Channel does not own 92.5 anymore

Mike...When CBS decided to put sports on FM, the WJZ call letters were used. FCC will allow it.

WCIN is doing seller financing. Looks like they'll get it together.
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I would agree with you WLW does not "need" an FM right now. But, don't think those demos aren't being watched very, very closely.
 
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