However, if a station sells time to ethnic groups, the "reach" is based on the areas where that group is concentrated, not the whole general market.
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WABC-Building a Brand
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An article in the New York Post states that WABC’s owner, John Catsimatidis is interested in buying CNN, should it be available for sale. Apparently in part due to his experience with improving WABC, he feels he could turn around the news outlet, which has been experiencing many issues.
In the interview with the Post, Cats said he would make CNN less slanted toward the left or right, and more open to views from both sides. If he were to actually acquire it, I wonder whether there could be some synergy with WABC, such as adding some news from CNN to the station.
CNN Next?
In the interview with the Post, Cats said he would make CNN less slanted toward the left or right, and more open to views from both sides. If he were to actually acquire it, I wonder whether there could be some synergy with WABC, such as adding some news from CNN to the station.
CNN Next?
The thing about that is such cable news services already exist with things like Cheddar. What we've seen is that straight news isn't the kind of thing that drives ratings. Consider the network evening news. Very dull and boring, and not great ratings.
CNN already tried that. It just pissed off viewers from both sides. It also frustrated the guests.
Do AM stations really need FM translators nowadays? Everyone has a smartphone to where they can download an AM’s station’s app and listen clearly that way. Companies have overspent on translators and getting “AM to FM” in an era where smartphones are everywhere
For a 45+ targeted format, they do need a translator. That is a demo that did not grow up with smartphones and streaming and the like.
And not everyone’s car radio/sound system is new enough to allow streaming through your phone
*raises hand**
Only asking out of curiosity, not trying to seem like I’m attacking. But, is using a radio station app on our phones easy to figure out? Smartphones are about 15 years old. So we all learned. I mean, where’s the nearest pay phone?
But are outside of built up areas salable to a radio station’s format? Cars have WiFi now.
It isn't easy to figure out if you are using the Audacy app which I’ve found has a habit of dropping (going to seconds or minutes of silence)
Well north of that and I darned sure can work cell phones and similar technology fine.
Many of us can... some of us can write code in a variety of languages. But in my own family, we even have a person younger than me who was given an iPhone and at best can make calls and send text messages. Can't even figure out how to take a picture and send it in a text.
I gave another family member a subscription to Netflix. Had to drive 120 miles to their home to activate it. I have a daughter with 4 law degrees and who speaks 5 languages proficiently and several more adequately... but who has to send me her laptop every time she replaces it to set up her accounts and software.
There are many people who are technically challenged, but the older you look at, the better the chance of them not "getting it".
Simple test: ask if they understand the difference between "memory" (RAM) and "hard disk" or "SSD" (Storage). A huge percentage of people over about 45 or 50 have no clue. Heck, they don't know the difference between an SSD and a HD (They think "HD" is high resolution television, usually).
Hey, I know the difference between an SSD and an STD!
WABC has added Roger Stone on Sunday afternoons. Trump called into his first show, yesterday.
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It would be hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic. A broadcast novice like Roger getting a show mostly out of his notoriety alone is not good business practice.
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