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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music

MTNProductions said:
Put an oldies format on 1050, or a standards format on 1050, and maybe they might be doing better. Look at WLML’s “Legends 100.3” down in South Florida. They played a lot of great standards music like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and others, just like what WNEW-AM “11-3 O” and WQEW did back in the 1980’s and 1990’s. WLML is owned by Dick Robinson Entertainment, the same guy who created “American Standards By The Sea” every Saturday and Sunday, and I hope maybe 1050 might be a candidate for a standards format to put it on AM as “Legends 1050”.
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Try selling that calcified music to any advertiser in New York City.
 
K.M. Richards said:
HUH? 🤔
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Weiserguy said:
Did I not write it clearly enough? Emmis only owns one remaining station besides 98.7, 1190 WLIB. If you assume WLIB's gospel format is a non-starter as the originator of a simulcast, and Emmis doesn't own anything else, then it would have to be someone else's station. Call it an LMA, call it a goodwill offer, call it a favor, I don't care.
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No, it still isn't clear enough for me to understand why "the station(s) couldn't be co-owned if Emmis no longer owns any other radio properties". It reads as if 98.7 could only simulcast a co-owned station, and I don't believe that is what you mean.
 
MTNProductions said:
Put an oldies format on 1050, or a standards format on 1050, and maybe they might be doing better. Look at WLML’s “Legends 100.3” down in South Florida. They played a lot of great standards music like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and others, just like what WNEW-AM “11-3 O” and WQEW did back in the 1980’s and 1990’s. WLML is owned by Dick Robinson Entertainment, the same guy who created “American Standards By The Sea” every Saturday and Sunday, and I hope maybe 1050 might be a candidate for a standards format to put it on AM as “Legends 1050”. This might go back to the days of WHN from 1962 until 1973 when it flipped to country.
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CTListener said:
Try selling that calcified music to any advertiser in New York City.
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Indeed. Another dreamer/armchair quarterback heard from.

I have been using "formats that are past their prime" in pitching my format to stations. They are: Middle-Of-The Road, Beautiful Music, Music Of Your Life, Smooth Jazz, and Oldies.

You may consider that to also be a list of formats I do not expect to land on 98.7, even in the interim.
 
Xale57 said:
Is it possible, VCY America ditches the 103.9 frequency and takes on the bigger 98.7 frequency, like K Love going from 96.7 to 95.5?
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VCY America is in expansion mode, but it seems they are looking for bargain deals. The WEPN-FM asking price is likely far too high.

Some of us on the Houston board were expecting VCY to bite on supposedly up for sale basket case KFNC, but nothing has happened.
 
Emmis is pretty limited in what they can do in terms of asking price, aren’t they?

I can’t remember where I read that this deal will cover the costs of future businesses for them.
 
Radiopaw said:
Emmis is pretty limited in what they can do in terms of asking price, aren’t they?

I can’t remember where I read that this deal will cover the costs of future businesses for them.
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If you expect to sell your car for enough over market that you can pay off your house mortgage, that's a wonderful aspiration but only a wealthy sucker's going to play along. You pay what the item's worth in the current open market, and in the case of Emmis and 98.7, that number is not $50 Million.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Bite your tongue. That's one of the last things any of us want to see.
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In a way, it would be nice if they sold 103.9 and the Wolf picked it up to simulcast. It would serve the areas that have trouble due to 103.1 the Bridge + give people in Suburban NJ/NY/CT a Country station. I don't feel 98.7 is going to end up a format that will be well received, regardless.
 
Xale57 said:
In a way, it would be nice if they sold 103.9 and the Wolf picked it up to simulcast. It would serve the areas that have trouble due to 103.1 the Bridge + give people in Suburban NJ/NY/CT a Country station. I don't feel 98.7 is going to end up a format that will be well received, regardless.
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Someone at Connosseur thanked me for an E mail I sent them re a LMA for The Wolf on 98.7. I do not think that they will do it.
 
CTListener said:
Don't invite David to respond. He'll only admonish you that "Spanish" is not a format!
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Thanks for saving me the need to respond...
 
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