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Potential 97.5 Changes Coming
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According to the KFNC website, the national Rich Eisen show on ESPN Radio will now run Noon to 3pm.
Didn’t listen on Tuesday, but checking the end of the afternoon podcast Jeremy Branham and Joe George announced that both Joel Blank and Paul Gallant had been laid off due to budget cuts at Gow Media. Both had been on the air as usual on Monday.
Sounds like KFNC is swiftly circling the drain. One of the hosts said it had been a “brutal year for the station.” How much longer before the plug is pulled and 97.5 sold?
RadioInsight reports on the KFNC cuts. Wonder how many other behind the scenes people were booted by Gow Media?
radioinsight.com
Paul Gallant & Joel Blank Exit As Part Of Cuts At ESPN 97.5 Houston
Budget cuts have been made at Gow Media Sports "ESPN 97.5" KFNC Mont Belvieu/Houston TX as hosts Paul Gallant and
radioinsight.com
KGYM in Cedar Rapids did the same thing several weeks ago. How much does ESPN programming generally cost?
True, but it won’t save the format. The competition now has many more hours of local SportsTalk. I think Gow has 97.5 in minimal survival mode while it seeks a buyer for the station. They may finally have to forget the original sale price and put it up for bidding in order to get rid of it. I simply don’t see them carrying on this way for much longer.
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Leaving him only owning a stand-alone, high-end AM facility in the market that is such a pile of garbage that its stuck on the night array, has a day array that's built in a swamp, and hasn't done jack shit since it was still taking up a piece of land in Port Lavaca.
C'mon, 🐸. You are one of the more intelligent and brilliant minds this board has to offer. It's cute, the rabid speculation and all, but you can't really believe that Gow is going to entertain that particular future for his company.
If he gives up on 97.5, it'll be leased out like 1560 was, he'll wash his hands of the daily programming responsibilities, and simply collect the rent.
We tend to forget about KGOW in our discussions about KFNC, but I think the assumption has been that Gow would get rid of both stations.
I am somewhat surprised that Viet Media hasn’t purchased KGOW outright, as they did with KNGO in DFW. Perhaps all the transmitter issues are something they’d prefer not to deal with.
Awww, 🌹, you flatter me.😆
Gow would still have all the “Map” websites if they pivoted to an online focus. Should note they shut down the national SB Nation sports network about the time KFNC sale speculation started last year.
We haven’t really considered 97.5 being put up for lease, but quite the possibility. Perhaps Space City Broadcasting, which supposedly has its eyes on 97.5, would go the LMA route.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the remaining local hosts on KFNC disappeared one day, with the station running ESPN full time awaiting a sale or lease. Happened with 103.3 in DFW.
I still sense religion is in the future for 97.5 whether it is the next format, or the “next next” format.
They let the licensing thing with Vox Media go and branded it as SportsMap Radio for a brief moment before pulling the plug.
I was told by someone that the first year with SNR was profitable and then it started losing money.
I don't know if that's true or not, but if so I admire the patience for giving it a go for that long.
It's pretty brutal out there, especially for independent media.