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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music

Mark Roberts said:
Because it seems like there's a lot of wishful thinking. "Paging Dr. Rohrshach on Line 2".

There's going to be a presidential election in a few months. The media are into full-on horse-race coverage. Polls are being conducted, and reported on. But the only poll that matters is more than a couple of months in the future. The media are roundly criticized for their emphasis on "who's ahead" and "what's going to happen" and "can I get an exclusive interview" rather than on more substantive matters. That criticism hasn't stopped them yet. Same principle here.

So put some Serbian folk music on the turntable, get out the popcorn, and watch the show.
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Mark: As you know 98.7 is not some rim shot but a prime FM signal in market #1.
I'm sure they have a plan, but somebody forgot to tell them they need to report it to the press. 😆
 
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.

And all I can say is, Mike McGann is a sensational midday guy, and I can take it over Race Taylor from WCBS-FM on middays, and he did a fantastic job playing MOR/standards the way it sounded back in the glory days of the good old WNEW-AM “11-3 O” and WQEW 1560AM in New York City.

Overall, I don’t see standards going to 1050 anytime soon.
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They are putting the national ESPN feed on 1050.
 
Miss Tuned said:
Maybe, maybe not, we'll have to wait and see. What we won't have to wait long for is more of these posts "wondering" about things.
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Indeed. What's the upside to making an announcement? Particularly if you take into account what Lance has hinted at, very little. It would just mean the complaints would start sooner.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Best guess is that after Good Karma finalized the LMA for 880, they and Emmis agreed to end the 98.7 LMA earlier.
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It's possible they may use the last few days of the month to run a loop redirecting stragglers to the new signal on 880. Even with all the news coverage, there is no shortage of listeners who will be blindsided by this change (as there invariably is for any kind of musical chairs scenario). Most people just aren't paying close attention, radio is way down their priority chain.
 
Miss Tuned said:
Maybe, maybe not, we'll have to wait and see. What we won't have to wait long for is more of these posts "wondering" about things.
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Mark Roberts said:
Indeed. What's the upside to making an announcement? Particularly if you take into account what Lance has hinted at, very little. It would just mean the complaints would start sooner.
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Because I mean, we already got the WCBS 880 announcement ahead of time, yet still nothing about 98.7. I thought we'd at least have an idea of what's happening by now
 
NYRadioFan22 said:
Because I mean, we already got the WCBS 880 announcement ahead of time, yet still nothing about 98.7. I thought we'd at least have an idea of what's happening by now
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Different operators can choose to make different decisions. They've got their reasons.
 
TheBigA said:
I've already heard several promos on 98.7 for the change.
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Yet you're primed to hear it, as anyone who participated on RD would. But for some percentage of listeners, the mentions go in one ear and out the other. Come a week from tomorrow, they might have heard a thousand promos, but the switch will still come as a surprise.
 
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