What radio company do you think made the biggest mistake in their company's history?
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The Biggest Mistakes
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BJ Steigner said:
Don Burden's Star Stations group... bribing congressmen and losing all the licenses.
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BJ Steigner said:
Well...each of them made the biggest mistake in "their" company's history.
Think about it.
BJ Steigner said:
The Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation (WHDH, Inc.) for losing the license of Boston's Channel 5 (the original WHDH-TV) in 1972. It is chronicled in Sterling Quinlan's book "The One Hundred Million Dollar Lunch". In the 15 year history of this station (1957-72), it never had a license that lasted more than 6 months at a time (at the time, 3 years was the norm). When WHDH left the air on 3/19/1972, today's WCVB-TV took to the air 12 minutes after WHDH-TV breathed it's last (2:30 AM). The loss of the WHDH-TV license, was the death of the co-owned Boston Herald-Traveller newspaper some three months later. The WHDH/WHDH-FM stations were sold to another media company (John Blair). The WHDH-TV license was always in limbo from the moment it signed-on the air on November 26, 1957. Apparently there were some "irregularities" on how Herald-Traveller obtained the original license. It was apparently mulled over a lunch with an FCC official, thus "The One-hundred Million Dollar Lunch" was so appropriately named.
CBS Radio = no doubt.
1. Turning WCBS, a classic oldies station to "Jack"
2. Thinking that a Free FM format would work....especially on how bad the hot talk format was on WNEW (except Opie/Anthony)
3. Mix 102.7. While it was better than "Blink", it was just another 'kTU in a market where two classic dance stations couldn't sustain.
1. Turning WCBS, a classic oldies station to "Jack"
2. Thinking that a Free FM format would work....especially on how bad the hot talk format was on WNEW (except Opie/Anthony)
3. Mix 102.7. While it was better than "Blink", it was just another 'kTU in a market where two classic dance stations couldn't sustain.
sfradio said:
The problem was that the 107.1 signals covered a very, very tiny percentage of the NY metro Hispanic population. Doomed to failure.
sfradio said:
One thing you've got to remember about Free FM is that it bombed nationwide (with the exception of LA) and not just in NY. The only reason why KLSX survived is because it was already a successful talk station prior to. KLSX is the only station left that still calls itself "Free FM" even though they cut way back on it.
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