Radio Show I found this when I did a search for the TJ Show . Could be some kind of talk show
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Who’s paying Emmis right now for this format? Is something like this expensive?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
If you think Emmis is going to change the call letters on a station they are trying to sell just to match temporary stunt programming, I don't know what to say in response.
Oh, wait ... yes, I do: $190 application fee plus whatever Emmis' attorneys charge them to file it. Not worth the bother, even if the expense comes out of petty cash.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
A few probabilities are likely, in my opinion.
Mix-and-match pieces of these scenarios: Maybe TJ's syndicator has an "inside" contact at Emmis and approached same as soon as word got out about the LMA ending with no buyer in sight. Maybe TJ himself has an contact. Maybe said contact owed the syndicator a favor. Maybe Emmis itself had some unredeemed favor to the syndicator left over from when they still owed stations. Maybe TJ and/or the syndicator just got there ahead of everyone else, no "insider". Maybe the syndicator is paying Emmis to run the programming for a few days and there's no agreement in place after tomorrow.
Unless either Emmis, the syndicator, or TJ himself say something, we'll never know. All we have are "maybes".
I don't see an application for that callsign, either, or any applications for that facility. It does not look like "WEPN" is trademarked in any way, so even less incentive for Emmis to change the callsign for what is ultimately a placeholder format.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
A further legal point: Good Karma, which "owns" the call letters by virtue of them being on 1050, had to grant "permission" for Emmis to change the calls on 98.7 from WRKS in 2012 to facilitate the LMA. I would be surprised if that permission contained a requirement to abandon the calls once the LMA ended; it's more likely that GK "assumed" that to be the case ... or it was simply overlooked at the time.
Of course, I think Emmis should request permission to use its original calls of W71NY until they sell it.
The call letters are going to be WRAZ... when SBS moves them up from South Florida to do Regional Mexican there.
All of them are very plausible, and I'm sure Lance is working to get the facts from the source, but can't report anything until after tomorrow's surprise.
The Galaxy people are outside the box thinkers, and have some money in the bank after buying United Stations. If they can make a big splash with this tomorrow, it could have long term benefits for them. As I said in the other thread, the main product for TJ is the podcast. So if they can build audience for that, it's all they need. The radio show just promotes the podcast. That's what Ben Shapiro and others do. My question is will tomorrow's show be completely about/for NYC, or will it just be their standard show. I would think it's the former.
Like everything, it's negotiable.
SBS might want to finish paying for its purchase of KROI first, before buying anything in NYC. The KROI sale was approved almost a year ago and still hasn’t closed.
So far we know Emmis partnered with Gemini XIII to put one of their flagship shows on the station, someone who does have experience in the market as a New Jersey native and spending a lot of time on Elvis Duran's show. We know Radio.cloud is providing the automation since they're being promoted in the top of the hour ID. Judy DeAngelis is doing promos because she was TJ Taormina's professor at FDU.
Scotty Meyers, who is Gemini XIII's Vice President of Entertainment and Special Projects handles the syndication sales for the TJ Show, is nicknamed "Pitbull" for his relentlessness. Prior to joining them, he spent 25 years at John Tesh's TeshMedia running their syndication. His fingerprints are all over this.
One major correction, for TJ the syndicated show is the primary product in terms of revenue generation, not the podcast. They're just being smart and proactive realizing they need to think about the future as well.
Agreed. SBS is scheduled to close on KROI in late October or early November. There's not a doubt the purchase will close.
Charles Steinhauer is the main guy there, and you might want to reach out to him.
Maybe. The radio show isn't in a lot of markets. It can't be billing very well based on the size of its audience. That may change as a result of this. But there seems to be better money in podcasts once they reach the million downloads point. If they also have video, they can put that on YouTube.
I admit I missed this completely. But now that it's out there, it makes sense.
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For a show that launched about 18 months ago to already have 60 clearances is massive these days. With the amount of shows in the marketplace and many companies only using programming from their internal units or ones they have partnerships with like Townsquare and Connoisseur with Compass, it is hard to get on a bunch of stations. As Scotty told me at CRS earlier this year, he goes for quantity first then proves with quality to get bigger fish.
Scotty is a good radio friend of mine and was a big help with Tesh when I was at KWCA. Guy knows his stuff and treats his stations very well, even the peons like mine.
I've seen some messages from scotty who gets messages from stations about how ratings are increasing .. and pretty big in some places. That would clearly, eventually translate to revenue.
Thanks brother!
From my limited listening this morning, the TJ show is very tame and "family-friendly". Almost like it belongs on K-Love -- which may be intentional, considering one of the potential buyers Emmis is courting.
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