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Radio BDC

Probably not until new ownership takes a look at the costs. It doesn't seem to be generating much buzz.
 
wickedwritah said:
With the Globe up for sale again, does anyone know how this will affect Radio BDC?
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All depends on who buys them. At the end of the day, it's all how they're monetizing the live radio stream.
So far, not so much.
 
Yes, but you're also paying through the nose for royalties.

Is it generating enough revenue to cover the investment in the facilities and the full time staff? That remains to be seen.
 
promixcuous said:
The sustainability of a station must be easier when you haven't borrowed millions to buy a frequency.
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In this case, Aaron Kushner will be borrowing millions to buy a content company. It's more about the business
model and the state of business.

Right now, there's no big money in this particular part of the digital content business. Will there ever be?
It's up to Aaron Kushner to figure it out.
 
According to articles I have read this morning in the Telegram, Globe and Herald, no one is lending money to buy newspapers. If Aaron Kushner is still interested in buying the papers (not sure about that because he now owns the Orange County Register in California), he will have to do it with his own money or assemble a team of investors.

Warren Buffett has also emerged as having interest and he definitely has the deep pockets.
 
I sure as hell wouldn't want my business attached to a newspaper!!

Investing in a newspaper right now is like investing in a buggy business around 1915. The writing is already on the wall.
 
WNTIRadio said:
Investing in a newspaper right now is like investing in a buggy business around 1915.
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That analogy doesn't work. The problem isn't that nobody wants what the Globe is selling, it's that nobody is willing to pay for it at the level they used to (which wasn't even cost because of the advertising and classifieds). At this point, the Globe does not seem destined for obsolescence they way a buggy business was in 1915.
 
Radio BDC is pretty low overhead for the Globe. The studios are in the already-paid-off Globe building in (presumably) what was unused office space. I'd bet you $100 the jocks are not full-time staffers and just part-timers or independent contractors.
 
wickedwritah said:
I'd bet you $100 the jocks are not full-time staffers and just part-timers or independent contractors.
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I would take that bet any day of the week. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
 
i dont even know what radio bdc is?? is it Boston Dot Com?? is that even an "asset" or is it just a desk in a side office...?
 
That analogy doesn't work. The problem isn't that nobody wants what the Globe is selling, it's that nobody is willing to pay for it at the level they used to (which wasn't even cost because of the advertising and classifieds). At this point, the Globe does not seem destined for obsolescence they way a buggy business was in 1915.
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Print media is a buggy in 1915.

The Globe will have to evolve to online to remain in business.

Nobody under 30 is buying a newspaper anymore, and very few people I know from 30 on up are too. Even Newsweek bit the dust as a print edition. Why pay for paper, ink, distribution, delivery when someone can download a PDF?
 
WNTIRadio said:
That analogy doesn't work. The problem isn't that nobody wants what the Globe is selling, it's that nobody is willing to pay for it at the level they used to (which wasn't even cost because of the advertising and classifieds). At this point, the Globe does not seem destined for obsolescence they way a buggy business was in 1915.
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Print media is a buggy in 1915.

The Globe will have to evolve to online to remain in business.

Nobody under 30 is buying a newspaper anymore, and very few people I know from 30 on up are too. Even Newsweek bit the dust as a print edition. Why pay for paper, ink, distribution, delivery when someone can download a PDF?
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That said, Boston.com has had an excellent web presence since its inception back in 1995. For an old media brand, The Globe has been at the forefront of new media for a while, now.
 
rockcaptain said:
wickedwritah said:
I'd bet you $100 the jocks are not full-time staffers and just part-timers or independent contractors.
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I would take that bet any day of the week. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
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Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong.
 
WBZ is reporting that Ernie Boch Jr. and Bruce Mittman (yes that Bruce Mittman) is putting together an offer to buy the Globe. Would think that if they are the new owners, Radio BDC may survive.
 
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