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Davis Purchases WNSY & WCHK-A In Georgia
DAVIS BROADCASTING buys Oldies WNSY/TALKING ROCK, GA and Country WCHK-A/CANTON, GA from MCCLURE BROADCASTING for $3.8 million. DAVIS already owns WLKQ/BUFORD, GA in that area.

Thoughts? I'm thinking simulcast of Spanish. What a shame if that happens.
 
I'm sorry...this Atlanta board is reserved for threads about WGST, 99x, Dave FM, and The Regular Guys ONLY. ;) Just kidding! Finally!! A thread about something ELSE!!!
 
So, it will affect Q100, Clear Channel will LMA the stations, the Regular Guys will get hired AND fired from there because they made fun of the guys on LKQ, then switching to Christmas music all year long with Krok yelling all over the songs.

Gee, I should be a radio consultant...
 
Noooooooooooooo! God no! I really hope they leave the formats and the DJs ALONE! You need not change anything with these stations.
 
johnnykool said:
Noooooooooooooo! God no! I really hope they leave the formats and the DJs ALONE! You need not change anything with these stations.
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Davis said WLKQ would not change formats, and now look at it. Say to goodbye to Sunny 100 and whatever is on WCHK. :-[
 
Oh yes the best thing for North Georgia another Hispanic station! Woo Hoo! LOL Talk about over saturation. There has to be at least 15 of them. don't we have enough of that already? Competition is a great thing but theres way too much of it. I know there are a ton of Spanish speaking people here but if you have a ton of stations how many of them will be listening to you? There's only a few of them that even make it into the Arbitron ratings today. And you thought this market area was saturated with Country. Sheesh!
 
Well,
We all knew it would happen.. Davis, PLEASE leave these stations alone.
We dont care if you want to make money, this is the last straw.. Please
dont kill the last local oldies station for [EDIT]the crap you hear on a spanish station.




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I certainly hope not.. I would hate to see another station change to hispanic.
But if it does, nothing I can do except protest the change. WHICH I and all of
my friends would do.
 
Unfortunatly Canton is Like Tiajuana...so thay will probobly be playing the borito bounce before you know it, this stiks becouse I live in Ball Ground and get this station well and listen to it alot....OH well maybe I WILL buy that sirius unit this xmas.
 
We dont care if you want to make money, this is the last straw..
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Isn't making money a key function of business? As long as you serve the public interest (please define as the FCC has never really done so) it needs to make money with a format that can draw the largest possible audience and hold them for the longest possible time. In the real world that may mean changing formats because the audience you have isn't as big as your want (or need). It takes guts to sign a multi-million dollar note and you have to do whatever it takes to be able to pay it and the other expenses. So come join us in the grown up world....
 
ricksegers said:
We dont care if you want to make money, this is the last straw..
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Isn't making money a key function of business? As long as you serve the public interest (please define as the FCC has never really done so) it needs to make money with a format that can draw the largest possible audience and hold them for the longest possible time. In the real world that may mean changing formats because the audience you have isn't as big as your want (or need). It takes guts to sign a multi-million dollar note and you have to do whatever it takes to be able to pay it and the other expenses. So come join us in the grown up world....
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I agree...but I don't have to like it....besides this is America...if you don't want to learn English GET OUT!!! (oh and just so you know my family was immigrants...oh and we speak English), I don't really care one way or the other anymore because Atlanta radio is unlistenable and I listen mostly to Internet (MoreFM out if New Zealand is great) and XM. I happen to have friends at Sunny and I hate to see them loose there jobs (like so many others have) just so some investor can import foreign programming so he can afford one more ivory back scratcher. The FCC could care less about public interests it is only interested in increasing revenue either through fines or auctions.

oh BTW I do live in the real world and I know nothing is going to change...especially when everyone has a money motivated atitude....thats a shame besouse music and radio used to be about creativity and entertainment.
 
ricksegers said:
Isn't making money a key function of business? As long as you serve the public interest (please define as the FCC has never really done so) it needs to make money with a format that can draw the largest possible audience and hold them for the longest possible time. In the real world that may mean changing formats because the audience you have isn't as big as your want (or need). It takes guts to sign a multi-million dollar note and you have to do whatever it takes to be able to pay it and the other expenses. So come join us in the grown up world....
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Look at the bigger picture though. Davis wouldn't sign a multi-million dollar note if he didn't think he could make enough money to cover it!

The problem is scarcity, and the solution is more regulation. If we don't have unlimited broadcast spectrum, we need regulation to protect against situations like this. Maybe ownership restrictions.

If we can make the dollar value of the stations go down, we will have more stations geared toward niche interests which would then be profitable without the high capital outlay. For example, oldies. Sure, the poor ol' McClure family wouldn't be able to add as much to their already great wealth, but their wealth developed as part of a government-enforced monopoly anyway.
 
Fifteen stations? I didn't realize there were a high number of mountain dwelling Mexicans in North Georgia.
 
Be careful as to what you say on this board ! You may upset someone... Like I did on yesterday. One of the faithful posters decided because I didnt want another mexican, spanish station that makes me a bigot. I don't agree with this premise because it's so very true, we have enough in Atlanta already. Davis destroyed Lake
102 for us in Gwinnett, and now we face this again! Gwinnett county has three radio station's to choose from.. 610 am Wplo(Used to be full service country) and served the area well, 1460 am WDYX, another loss of a great station, then finally
most of the area began to really enjoy this one, Lake 102.3 WLKQ.. Now all three are spanish and they only serve the spanish speaking community's. This is not only
NOT serving the whole gwinnett county area, but It only serves once again the mexican area's and what about the english speaking population, What do we do?
Were left with two stations to at least get somewhat local news and info on, which are WSB, the better of the two, then WGST, well ok, one station to get info from.
Also if this format flips this will be the last oldies station to flip, that atlanta can
sorta pick up. Its just not right.. I still say I think all who believe as I do, we need to protest the licence and the purchase of the station.. It could make a difference.
 
Hey guys I'm working in a spanish radio station... I'm sorry because you guys think that we come here to take your jobs... that was not my idea coming from LA to Atlanta.
Anyway i don't think that Sunny 100 will change to spanish format because in that area there is not a lot of latinos.

God bless you all!
 
Alex the job issue is one thing, and the over saturation of spanish radio is another.
I don't want anyone who wants to be in radio and is qualified not to have a chance at the mike but it's also very poor taste in the way things have been done in the area I live in. But I can always go the way of sirus radio. Regular am or fm radio
in Atlanta is just beyond what I can stand anymore.
 
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