Radio One acquires Connersville FM

[uh_clem]

From the business section of the Indianapolis Star Friday March 10, 2006:

CONNERSVILLE-Radio One, the Washington based broadcasting company that caters to black and urban listeners, has bought WIFE-FM (100.3) in Connersville for
$18 million in cash. Radio One plans to move the station to Cincinnati and merge it with company operations there. (Star report)



What kind of signal will they put into the Queen City?

 

[xmtrucker]

> From the business section of the Indianapolis Star Friday
> March 10, 2006:
>
> CONNERSVILLE-Radio One, the Washington based broadcasting
> company that caters to black and urban listeners, has bought
> WIFE-FM (100.3) in Connersville for
> $18 million in cash. Radio One plans to move the station to
> Cincinnati and merge it with company operations there.
> (Star report)
>
>
>
> What kind of signal will they put into the Queen City?

It was reported as Norwood, Oh on a widely read web site. Will this mean that Connersville and East Central Indiana are going to be without local radio??

 

[Apollo79]

> > From the business section of the Indianapolis Star Friday
> > March 10, 2006:
> >
> > CONNERSVILLE-Radio One, the Washington based broadcasting
> > company that caters to black and urban listeners, has
> bought
> > WIFE-FM (100.3) in Connersville for
> > $18 million in cash. Radio One plans to move the station
> to
> > Cincinnati and merge it with company operations there.
> > (Star report)
> >
> >
> >
> > What kind of signal will they put into the Queen City?
>
> It was reported as Norwood, Oh on a widely read web site.
> Will this mean that Connersville and East Central Indiana
> are going to be without local radio??
>

Not necessarily. Connersville will still be served with 100.3's sister station and simulcast partner, 1580 WCNB, but what I'm wondering is whether Whitewater Broadcasting will close down the Connersville office and move 1580 to Richmond (with sister stations WFMG, WZZY, & WKBV) once the sale is complete. The only drawback is whether the Richmond facility can handle another station. I hear space is already crammed as it is. As for local radio besides 1580, Richmond, Rushville, and New Castle will effectively serve Connersville and East-central Indiana, and 100.3's displaced country listeners will have at least 3 different country stations to choose from.

WIFE appears to put in a pretty decent signal into Cincinnati. In fact, much better than the proposed 97.7 in Mason. Radio One $18 million investment will not go to waste.

 

[wd45]

According to the Connersville newspaper's website, they are searching for another FM frequency to put into Connersville.

> > > From the business section of the Indianapolis Star
> Friday
> > > March 10, 2006:
> > >
> > > CONNERSVILLE-Radio One, the Washington based
> broadcasting
> > > company that caters to black and urban listeners, has
> > bought
> > > WIFE-FM (100.3) in Connersville for
> > > $18 million in cash. Radio One plans to move the
> station
> > to
> > > Cincinnati and merge it with company operations there.
>
> > > (Star report)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What kind of signal will they put into the Queen City?
> >
> > It was reported as Norwood, Oh on a widely read web site.
> > Will this mean that Connersville and East Central Indiana
> > are going to be without local radio??
> >
>
> Not necessarily. Connersville will still be served with
> 100.3's sister station and simulcast partner, 1580 WCNB, but
> what I'm wondering is whether Whitewater Broadcasting will
> close down the Connersville office and move 1580 to Richmond
> (with sister stations WFMG, WZZY, & WKBV) once the sale is
> complete. The only drawback is whether the Richmond
> facility can handle another station. I hear space is
> already crammed as it is. As for local radio besides 1580,
> Richmond, Rushville, and New Castle will effectively serve
> Connersville and East-central Indiana, and 100.3's displaced
> country listeners will have at least 3 different country
> stations to choose from.
>
> WIFE appears to put in a pretty decent signal into
> Cincinnati. In fact, much better than the proposed 97.7 in
> Mason. Radio One $18 million investment will not go to
> waste.
>

 

[Wazzie]

I guess if someone waved $18 mill under my nose, I would sell-out too. But it's a shame that another frequency is leaving for a larger market. Just what Cincinnati needs is another FM station.

"The only drawback is whether the Richmond facility can handle another station. I hear space is already crammed as it is". Any station can be run from a computer. Space should not be an issue unless they plan on being a full-service station. And I doubt they're planning on doing that. <P ID="signature">______________
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[gr8oldies]

Cincy will get the urban A/C that they don't really have now. Connersville won't exactly have no radio stations to listen to, there are five under 20 miles away.

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/locate?select=city&city=Connersville&state=IN&x=12&y=4

I don't know if the fact that a station was assigned to a certain town years ago means that it should stay until the end of time.<P ID="signature">______________
"Your right to know supersedes your right to exist"..Gary Burbank</P>