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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music

DavidEduardo said:
Argentina is not in Latin America. It is the southernmost country in Europe. The largest heritage group there is Italian, but it is full of later generation Germans, Russians, British, French, Spaniards, Poles, etc.

But rock there is only slightly divided into distinct genres. There are flavors, but not separate listener groups. And only one station (and its network) plays all Spanish language rock. Others, and there are many, play English language rock. And most of the Argentine Spanish language rock is unknown in most of the rest of Latin America as very few stations ever played a lot of Spanish language rock.

And, as I have mentioned, I was the consultant who created and programmed the only Spanish language rock station in Argentina so I am very familiar with the genre, the country and the psychographics.
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There's no cross-pollination with Chile, just across the mountains, or Uruguay? Just curious. Some of the Uruguayan demographics, at least, seem similar to Argentina's.
 
boombox4 said:
There's no cross-pollination with Chile, just across the mountains, or Uruguay? Just curious. Some of the Uruguayan demographics, at least, seem similar to Argentina's.
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About Chile: Once on a cab ride from the airport to downtown in Santiago, I saw a new highway. I asked and was told it was the trans-Andean road to Argentina. I asked how long it took to get to Argentina. The Chilean driver said, "it is not about how long. It is about why you'd even want to."

In language, history, customs and culture Chile and Argentina are more different that similar. Chile is mostly Spanish heritage, Argentina is everything but.

Uruguay is a lot like Argentina in many ways, but it's not a big cultural force. And it does not have anywhere near the mixed European heritage that Argentina does.
 
JoeyBagODonuts said:
Is August 31 too early to start playing Christmas music?
Asking for a friend 😉
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Actually, if Emmis has the goal of using something with low expenses that will increase ratings to demonstrate the station’s “value”, that’s not a bad idea. Provided they think they can offload it no later than January 2025.

I also think a Jack-esque format could accomplish this same goal.
 
I wonder what will happen to the call letters. The lease will end in just a few days and no request for a change has been made. I can't image the WEPN-FM call letters staying for long without some sort of agreement between Emmis and Good Karma Brands.
 
MichaelD1972 said:
I wonder what will happen to the call letters. The lease will end in just a few days and no request for a change has been made. I can't image the WEPN-FM call letters staying for long without some sort of agreement between Emmis and Good Karma Brands.
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No one outside of radio geeks is losing any sleep over this. The call letters have close to zero value, as they are only mentioned in the TOH ID. A simple handshake agreement likely is all that's needed to keep them on 98.7 during its who-cares era of placeholder programming. Nobody is going to mistake whatever format-in-a-can goes on 98.7 on Sunday for ESPN or sports radio.
 
MichaelD1972 said:
I wonder what will happen to the call letters.
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If Emmis had a sense of humor, they could keep the WEPN calls, stick an Active Rock format on it and call it "98.7 The Weapon" with the slogan "Locked and loaded to Rock!" Peter Gunn in morning drive, Billy '45' Colt middays, and Doc Glock driving you home. Of course, that's if they had a sense of humor...
 
exdjted said:
If Emmis had a sense of humor, they could keep the WEPN calls, stick an Active Rock format on it and call it "98.7 The Weapon" with the slogan "Locked and loaded to Rock!" Peter Gunn in morning drive, Billy '45' Colt middays, and Doc Glock driving you home. Of course, that's if they had a sense of humor...
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If it does end up bringing back alternative or, like you said, active rock, I hope they bring back the WRXP call letters. I'm surprised they didn't do that for ALT 92.3
 
exdjted said:
If Emmis had a sense of humor, they could keep the WEPN calls, stick an Active Rock format on it and call it "98.7 The Weapon" with the slogan "Locked and loaded to Rock!" Peter Gunn in morning drive, Billy '45' Colt middays, and Doc Glock driving you home. Of course, that's if they had a sense of humor...
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I got something better, Peter Gunn could be in the evening or late night. How about Smith & Wesson in the Morning?!?!?
 
How about this...

Let's have 98.7 replay airchecks of these classic DJs:
Dr. Johnny Fever in morning drive
Rex Earhardt in middays
Dean "the Dream" in afternoon drive
Venus Flytrap in evenings
(Gathers No) Moss Steiger in overnights
Rip Tide, Heavy Early and Wolfman Jack on weekends

Let's call it "98.7 WKRP Rewind".

See how ridiculous this speculation has become?? Patience has become a lost virtue in the digital era.

All questions will be answered on Sunday. Wait until then.
 
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NYRadioFan22 said:
So tomorrow is the final Friday on the FM. I wonder if Michael Kay will say something about the switch
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They've been talking about the switch for weeks. As I'm sure the other hosts on the station have, but I only listen to the Kay show. "Reset your presets" has been the phrase that pays this summer.

Are you expecting some special send-off for 98.7? Doubtful. It'll be business as usual.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
They've been talking about the switch for weeks. As I'm sure the other hosts on the station have, but I only listen to the Kay show. "Reset your presets" has been the phrase that pays this summer.

Are you expecting some special send-off for 98.7? Doubtful. It'll be business as usual.
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Maybe they’ll drop some hints on the new format
 
Maybe Emmis kept an old hard drive of 98.7 Kiss FM, and are ready to pick up where they left off. Just run it automated, and that's your turn-key solution to a music format and imaging.
 
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