Not just AM. The FM station we know as "CBS-FM" will have to get a new branding as well.
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WCBS AM Moving Further Away From News?
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I referenced WBZ-FM, which is sports 24/7.
I was idly checking various markets on this board (I'm now out of radio longer than I'd been IN it but the communications itch will never leave). Terrific stuff here, by the way.
Anyhoe, there was one station -- I forget the market -- that the Nielsens listed as 'News/Talk/Sports'
Is such an agenda the wave of the future?
(Anyone here remember The Wave at stadiums?
Anyhoe, there was one station -- I forget the market -- that the Nielsens listed as 'News/Talk/Sports'
Is such an agenda the wave of the future?
(Anyone here remember The Wave at stadiums?
I would expect to hear the broadcasts here
They will air there as well, but it will be a non-com broadcast, done by students. Also the signal is pretty limited to the mid-state.
Of course, you are not looking deep enough. In their respective markets, there are many very high billing sports stations. With a couple of exceptions, they just are not in that little batch of the very top billers.
There are cities with the reputation of being good sports towns and bad sports towns. Boston and Philadelphia fall into the good category and sports radio there thrives. Others, like Atlanta and Phoenix, are full of notorious front-runner fans who only follow local teams when they're doing well and aren't obsessed with talking about them on the radio.
...and which is 99.9% known as "The Sports Hub". They've never used the callsign for on-air branding in any way.
That I misread, indeed, it's 20 years.Entercom has a 20-year use (starting in 2017) of call letters they share with CBS owned TV stations. So it's actually 2037.
Entercom Can Keep CBS Digital PortalsāFor Now.
The pending merger of CBS Radio into Entercom will bring a slow-motion unplugging of the unified radio-television portals that have been a key part of CBS Corpās local digital strategywww.insideradio.com
What's interesting to me is that the CBS owned-and-operated TV stations are clearly soft rebranding as "CBS (Name of City)" and "CBS News (Name of City)", excising the channel number and calls. Of course it's already awkward having KYW radio partnered with NBC-owned WCAU, let alone the confusion brought about when then-KDKA radio host Wendy Bell was fired over inflammatory statements and KDKA-TV had to issue a disclaimer stating they were no longer co-owned.
Not quite. WBZ-AM (iHeart) is the N-T hybrid, WBZ-FM (Beasley) is all sports.
Not only that, but also, in regards to Atlanta & especially Phoenix, as well as many Sunbelt cities as a whole, lots of transplants who move there from out-of-town who'll still root for the team they grew up with.
RSU has always produced their own student led broadcasts for Rutgers Athletics, but those have been strictly student affairs, not the professional productions that you get from the "Rutgers Radio Network". Also if you look at the contour map of RSU's reach, it's basically Northern Middlesex and southeastern Somerset Counties and nothing else, as you would expect from a college radio station (since its primary community of interest is the university community).
WMCA and WNYM didn't carry St. John's last season. The school and Learfield opted to go streaming-only.
Salem New York also is losing the rights to Seton Hall men's basketball and Army football, also controlled by Learfield, to streaming. Unless something changes, we will only have Syracuse football and men's hoops, and the syndicated "College Football Tonight" weekly game on 970.
(I'm trying to use my influence at the station to consider becoming an Ohio State football affiliate. Lots of Buckeyes in this area. š)
They'll eventually have to give up the call letters. 88 WINS anyone?
Not if they continue to license them from CBS. And what would happen to 1010?
At some point, Audacy will either have to flip one of its music FMs or abandon the news format. What would happen to 880 and 1010 when all generations after Gen X don't use AM? Dunno. Go dark? Continue with news but with a skeleton staff, filling time with irrelevant-to-NY national and world news?
The problem with all news is not the AM band... it is the age group that likes that format. On AM, FM or streamed, all news is an older person's format.
For example KNX in LA added FM because the AM, at a high frequency and far from much of the population, was no longer listenable indoors in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valley areas so they were losing audience gradually even in the core 50 and over age group.
Even in the two markets where all news is top rated, DC and SF, WTOP is 5th in 25-54 and most of that is 45-54, and KCBS isn't in the Top 10 at all 25-54.
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