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WCRB To Be "Country" by August

Any thoughts on what we can expect 99.5 to turn in to? Would it's new owners DARE make it Classical (not that it would bother me, it's a shame to lose classical) Let's say Clear Channel were to scoop up 99.5, can we expect a KTU kind of station out of that? I've been wracking my brain thinking of what format isn't already taken (and worthwhile having) in Boston... and I just can't! Any ideas?
 
nhradioguy said:
Any thoughts on what we can expect 99.5 to turn in to? Would it's new owners DARE make it Classical (not that it would bother me, it's a shame to lose classical)
Greater Media would give away the intellectual property of WCRB if the new owner of 99.5 wanted it; clearly they wouldn't be talking to WERS if they wanted WCRB to die a sudden death. Bonneville owns several other classical outlets (WGMS/WGYS Washington, KDFC San Francisco), though then again they pulled the plug on WNIB (now WDRV) in Chicago. But as I'd said, Bonneville probably wouldn't enter a market for one station.
nhradioguy said:
Let's say Clear Channel were to scoop up 99.5, can we expect a KTU kind of station out of that? I've been wracking my brain thinking of what format isn't already taken (and worthwhile having) in Boston... and I just can't! Any ideas?
We did have WQSX, which in the end didn't really work out. Smooth jazz wasn't a huge ratings getter on WOAZ and WSJZ, but with WMJX leaning more toward hot AC these days and WCRB's demise in the near future, could an attempt at SJ grab the at-work audience? There's Spanish-language too, but Univision is a mess at the moment, SBS doesn't really seem to have a clear set of goals, and Costa-Eagle probably doesn't have the money. But if Costa-Eagle, or Bustos, or another company does, it is a possibility. The 99.5 signal hits Hispanic areas from Lawrence to Brockton to Boston to Worcester, and would work well. We don't have a CCM outlet either, but do we want one?
 
CCM could conceivably work as a niche format north of Boston, also grabbing listeners in New Hampshire as well.
 
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