Precisely. Those that know ain't telling, and there's no reason for them do so until the end of August.
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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music
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NYRadioFan22
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Yeah but who does he think he is telling us to stop speculating in a SPECULATION THREAD?!?!?!?
I think it's fine to speculate about the new owner. There have been a bunch of good ones. Unless iHeart or Audacy can get a waiver for ownership limits, I doubt we'll see a conventional music format. Because those kinds of formats (alternative or country) will only work as part of a cluster. Not alone.
If you're referring to David, well, David is a moderator. It's pretty clear from the way he wrote his post that he was rather reluctant to say something, but the situation had gotten ridiculous.
KEXC is what it is, a repeater for a Seattle non-commercial FM. Not fair to compare them to stations that are in it to make a profit. And they're just getting themselves established, though their music mix at least has a pulse and their personalities show a passion for the music. Whether the Seattle sensibility will translate into some modest success in the inner ring around San Francisco (because 92.7 is not even close to a full-market SFBA signal) remains to be seen.
The station you really should analogize to is their predecessor, "Crazy Ed" Stolz's KREV/92.7, which wasn't successful in anything he tried.
They do have plans to do more with the station than to have it just be a repeater. They're proceeding carefully, it appears.
I don't think his criteria for success were discernible to the vast majority of the population. And his modus operandi definitely wouldn't be applicable to the New York situation.
NYRadioFan22
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But what else besides alternative or country are you expecting? Spanish? Gospel? Return of Kiss FM?
Uh, WHN?
Or the Y-107 quadcast from 1996 to 2002, which did well in the suburban markets around NYC.
But country music hasn't been the same since after 9/11, when it changed from a pop-friendly sound to a more rural sound, with lyrics about dirt roads and pickup trucks.
You certainly won't hear a "Saturday Night Dance Party" on a country station these days, like Y-107 had during the line dancing era!
The only music I see on the frequency is a bland palate cleanser of generic pop on autopilot to keep the transmitter warm until a buyer with a format ready to roll emerges. Clear Channel did that with active rock WFNX in the Boston market when it took the floundering station off the Boston Phoenix's hands. "The Harbor" played jockless AC for a few months.
The possible new owners, who own other stations in the market and are under the ownership cap are MediaCo, SBS, Family Radio and EMF.
Actually there's a guy named B-Dub who hosts a syndicated Saturday country party show.
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NYRadioFan22
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What number is the ownership cap? How many stations are owned by each company?
K.M. Richards
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On those rare occasions when I issue a press release about something, Lance tends to go with an edited version of same; perhaps that is a nod to our longtime friendship ... or perhaps I am just good at writing press releases ...
NYRadioFan22
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Cumulus currently doesn’t own any stations in NYC Station Finder › Cumulus Media
So add them to the list of possibilities
K.M. Richards
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Still licensed, and received an extension of their silent and alternate site STA just today, in fact.
They exited the market. Why would they come back with a single FM?
They sold WPLJ and WABC in 2019, saying they couldn't compete for sales with only two stations
Cumulus Sells Six Stations To EMF, Swaps Three With Entercom.
Cumulus Media will sell six radio stations, including WPLJ New York and WYAY Atlanta, to Educational Media Foundation for $103.5 million in cash. Cumulus has also cut a deal to
Having only one is not an improvement.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Wasn't it Cumulus that got out of the NYC market by selling WABC to Red Apple and WPLJ to EMF only five years ago?
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