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WCBS FM

BruceNYC said:
I believe the contract states that 101.1 FM can retain the WCBS-FM calls for 20 years after the deal was made. Thus that would not be until 2037
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I'm not going to bet the mortgage on Audacy, but they also have KCBS in San Francisco and KCBS-FM ("Jack") in Los Angeles to rename and rebrand (to whatever extent will be necessary in the next decade). So they're probably not going to procrastinate until the last minute. (Though again, it's Audacy, and by then they may not own those stations anymore, or even exist.)
 
Why would they want to change it anyway? The CBS-FM calls are legendary.
 
Ed Nielson said:
Why would they want to change it anyway? The CBS-FM calls are legendary.
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They shouldn't until they have to. They may be able to renegotiate the agreement to extend the due date to a later time, or get a permanent lease on the calls, or for all we know, the whole CBS branding may get retired by some successor entity to Paramount. By 2037 this whole discussion could be moot. But until then we can only discuss the facts at hand, right?
 
Weiserguy said:
I'm not going to bet the mortgage on Audacy, but they also have KCBS in San Francisco and KCBS-FM ("Jack") in Los Angeles to rename and rebrand (to whatever extent will be necessary in the next decade). So they're probably not going to procrastinate until the last minute. (Though again, it's Audacy, and by then they may not own those stations anymore, or even exist.)
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They also have WBBM (AM/FM), WWJ (AM/FM), KYW, KDKA (AM/FM), WWJ, WJZ (AM/FM), WCCO and WBZ (the AM is owned by IHeart, FM by Audacy). I can imagine KDKA and WCCO will be very difficult to change, as both the radio and TV stations identify heavily by their call letters. And unlike the other stations, which are all-news, all-sports or, in the case of WBBM-FM, CHR station B96, those two are simply middle-of-the-road news/talk stations with very prominent call signs.
 
Weiserguy said:
Is there any indication he's live or does he sound canned today? Can't imagine the boss regularly pulling a seven day week. (Unless he's taking all of next week off, for whatever reason.)

Assume he was live yesterday, and live today, and then does his normal Monday-to-Friday. That's a 12 day stretch, plus he's got all his other, off-the-air duties. That's a burnout schedule. Many of us have had to pull a schedule like that in a crunch, but combined with an AM Drive air shift he's not going to sound very energetic on air for long.

Back when WOR-FM, and then WNEW-FM, launched back in the '60s, the air staff routinely were heard 7 days a week. But they also pre-taped two of those shows, so they really were only working five actual days each week. You could spread out the recording sessions over the other 5 days so it wasn't onerous. But those guys also weren't the program director. (Except, eventually, Scott Muni at 'NEW, but by then they had enough staff not to need the "five live, two taped" schedule anymore.) But that's sixty freakin' years ago and it's a different world.
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Your memory is good but as I remember it, it was a few DJs who did one extra show a week. It wasn't all of them. As you said, Scott Muni didn't do it. I don't think Dave Hermann or Alison Steele did either. I only remember Pete Fornatelle and Jonathan Schwartz. Maybe it was two a week with more DJs before I began listening to WNEW-FM. Since each DJ programmed his own music (no playlists in those days) and had to talk about what he was playing, I suppose management wasn't sure the weekend DJs would be as good.

And you could tell when they were prerecorded. The substitute DJs they had running the board would do the live commercials, not the prerecorded ones. I'm sure those people would be shocked to know these days that some radio stations in small markets have only voicetracked DJs on the air, pretending they are in Binghamton or Mobile.
 
Fighting Irish said:
They also have WBBM (AM/FM), WWJ (AM/FM), KYW, KDKA (AM/FM), WWJ, WJZ (AM/FM), WCCO and WBZ (the AM is owned by IHeart, FM by Audacy). I can imagine KDKA and WCCO will be very difficult to change, as both the radio and TV stations identify heavily by their call letters. And unlike the other stations, which are all-news, all-sports or, in the case of WBBM-FM, CHR station B96, those two are simply middle-of-the-road news/talk stations with very prominent call signs.
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And those need not be changed. Only those with CBS in the call.
 
Before anyone comes back and posts this weekend, hes not on this weekend at all, budget cuts but will be on Mon 3-7
 
Fighting Irish said:
They also have WBBM (AM/FM), WWJ (AM/FM), KYW, KDKA (AM/FM), WWJ, WJZ (AM/FM), WCCO and WBZ (the AM is owned by IHeart, FM by Audacy). I can imagine KDKA and WCCO will be very difficult to change, as both the radio and TV stations identify heavily by their call letters. And unlike the other stations, which are all-news, all-sports or, in the case of WBBM-FM, CHR station B96, those two are simply middle-of-the-road news/talk stations with very prominent call signs.
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Sorry - I posted this BEFORE I had read the rest of the thread, where these two points were made.

Two things:

1 - WBZ-FM is owned by Beasley, not Audacy;

2 - Only the radio outlets with "CBS" in their call signs (WCBS-FM, KCBS, KCBS-FM) have to cede those call letters by 2037; the rest of the former CBS O&O's do not. That's in the agreement. But, as is pointed out, ANYTHING can happen by then.
 
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CTListener said:
Then why would the station schedule him for a five-hour shift? The contract language would have been written by station management, no? Bizarre "guess."
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Bill was demoted from afternoons. And he could be operating under the terms of the afternoon drive contract he signed, when he had only a 4 hour shift.
 
>>> Only the radio outlets with "CBS" in their call signs (WCBS-FM, KCBS, KCBS-FM) have to cede those call letters by 2037 <<<

Get ready for "101.1 The Spot"
 


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