Or a live audio feed of people who actually listen to WEPN for anything other than the games
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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music
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Still dead carrier after more than an hour.
Also no HD -- RDS only, scrolling "98.7 ESPN Your City, Your Teams, Your Station!" But I can't remember if WEPN normally broadcasts in HD.
Also no HD -- RDS only, scrolling "98.7 ESPN Your City, Your Teams, Your Station!" But I can't remember if WEPN normally broadcasts in HD.
Asian companies (in most cases Chinese or Japanese, in this case Indonesian) are known to buy previously used domain names, even though their previous use is unrelated to the current use. Why do they do it, I can't really understand.
And Kiss FM certainly won't be on that domain.
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They can't admit defeat and turn off the transmitter legally until that license they mailed to the FCC yesterday gets there, and there's no delivery on Sunday.
Programming is back on now.
Well, that lets out the Trappist Monks buying the station and calling it "Quiet 98.7 - All Silence, All The Time".
Now, back to our regular programming of wild speculation...
My best guess is if it’s a music format it’ll either be alternative or country as those are the two major holes in the NYC market. They’re not known to work in NYC, mind you. Alternative has a marginally better chance IMO, and it was briefly successful when Z100 ran it in the mid-90’s. Country as far as I know has never worked in NYC, even briefly. As short-term placeholder formats they’ll hold until they get a sale to a buyer with more of a long term plan, though.
Otherwise, it’ll be a simulcast of an AM channel Emmis owns.
Would they whisper the legal ID or not do it at all?
Don't Indian companies do it a lot of the time as well?
Chant...
I’ve been told a Taylor Swift format can’t work.
Using chimes to ring out the ID in Morse code.
As long as this is wild speculation, you might be missing the lede here. Note that the phony-baloney title on that phony-baloney website is "MARVEL77". Free-associate on that for a moment...
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Tibetan frequency-shift keying?
Emmis could easily run one of the second or third tier national sports radio networks until the station is under contract with a purchaser. Rebroadcasting AM 1190 is certainly an option.
Here's a crazy thought: how about a curtain call for the chill music format that briefly aired on 101.9 nearly 20 years ago?
Here's a crazy thought: how about a curtain call for the chill music format that briefly aired on 101.9 nearly 20 years ago?
If a station "goes silent" they have a period of time to notify the FCC. You don't have to get approval previously.
For example, if a station is taken off the air due to a natural disaster (forest fire, quake, flood, hurricane) or local issue (car knocked down tower, building foreclosed on, owner's death, etc) they must later notify the FCC, but you don't need "approval" for going off due to a fire or other calamity.
Going off temporarily does not mean license cancellation. There have been cases of stations being off for years due to trouble finding a new site, getting zoning, etc.
Assistant Sub-Moderator / Slave talking: I think we have gone far enough with idle and silly speculations on what this station will or should do.
Jeff Smulyan is one of the brightest minds we have had in radio in the last half-century. He will do what is best for his company as he ends his involvement with OTA radio.
Jeff Smulyan is one of the brightest minds we have had in radio in the last half-century. He will do what is best for his company as he ends his involvement with OTA radio.
With all due respect, David, the site is Radio-Discussions, not Radio-Wait-For-The-Corporate-Announcement.
There is no reason why speculating about the the future of 98.7 in any way diminishes our respect for Jeff Smulyan. One has nothing to do with the other.
Frankly, the group of people on this site who keep making comments aimed at shutting down the discussion come across as pretty arrogant. That's not aimed at you, David, but the non-moderators here who feel like they have to keep making their power plays. Members here should be free to speculate and the know-it-alls should be just as free to disagree without calling for the conversation to be shut down.
It's your prerogative if you want to lock it, but moderating this kind of discussion in such a heavy-handed manner in red text smacks of the bad old days around here.
Hey David, take two of these and contact me in the morning:
Most of us are just having some fun with this situation. (Ignore the ones that aren't.) With all due respect, you need to chill.
But this thread has gone beyond discussion into a series of senseless posts.
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