WFME?

[Testifyjack]

I heard a rumor that Family Radio may be looking to unload WFME? While this seems very suspect to me? If it were to happen...

Question 1) Do you think they might want to flip with a station on FM?

Question 2) If not who do you think would buy?

 

[Tim L]

I heard a rumor that Family Radio may be looking to unload WFME? While this seems very suspect to me? If it were to happen...

Question 1) Do you think they might want to flip with a station on FM?

Question 2) If not who do you think would buy?

While it may be suspect, there is precedence for such a move, as they flipped from 106.9 KEAR to 610 KFRC (now known as KEAR-AM)..

Can hardly believe it's been 22 years since Family Radio was donated WCUE-1150 AM Cuyahoga Falls/Akron, Ohio

 

[luperm]

That's an ongoing rumor that surfaces every so often. Who has the money to buy that stick these days? Bloomberg? Rumor has it that Bloomberg is looking at the 96.7 move-in.

As far as KEAR goes...Family Radio made a killing. They are on an low-dial AM stick in SF (which in some places is better than FM given the terrain), and Family hit the cash register when valuations were higher than what they are today.

106.9 in SF is now a simulcast of KCBS/740 AM. I have to believe CBS took a beating there.

 

[neo11]

A trade with Bloomberg seems like it would be plausible...Family Radio gets a pretty decent AM signal on 1130 and Bloomberg gets an FM signal that covers the entire Metropolitan area on 94.7. If Family Radio does unload the station, would they get rid of 88.9 out on Long Island as well? That signal covers a pretty decent chunk of the Island and coastal CT.

 

[davideduardo]

106.9 in SF is now a simulcast of KCBS/740 AM. I have to believe CBS took a beating there.

And that is likely to be as big a beating as Bonneville's move of all news WTOP to FM.

 

[radioguybroadcasting]

I heard a rumor that Family Radio may be looking to unload WFME? While this seems very suspect to me? If it were to happen...

Question 1) Do you think they might want to flip with a station on FM?

Question 2) If not who do you think would buy?

It's not a rumour, it is fact...harold Camping likes ig Ams for the mere fact of a bigger signal.

Any of Family Radio's big FMs are for sale.

 

[GSP163]

94.7 WINS would be nice

 

[nd2023]

Pulse 94.7 would be great too

 

[pjc1961]

That's an ongoing rumor that surfaces every so often. Who has the money to buy that stick these days? Bloomberg? Rumor has it that Bloomberg is looking at the 96.7 move-in.

As far as KEAR goes...Family Radio made a killing. They are on an low-dial AM stick in SF (which in some places is better than FM given the terrain), and Family hit the cash register when valuations were higher than what they are today.

106.9 in SF is now a simulcast of KCBS/740 AM. I have to believe CBS took a beating there.

Turns out the Bloomberg presence on FM that has been rumored is: Bloomberg News being responsible for the production of the hourly newscasts on WQXR-FM-96.3 (Classical music-owned by The N.Y. Times).

 

[cawasinnj]

Turns out the Bloomberg presence on FM that has been rumored is: Bloomberg News being responsible for the production of the hourly newscasts on WQXR-FM-96.3 (Classical music-owned by The N.Y. Times).

That makes precisely zero sense. The NY Times' main business is, uh, NEWS. Unless this means they're actually getting out of the news business which would be one of the biggest business stories in many years. And I'm pretty sure that's not it.

 

[Metropolite]

Re: WQXR Changes

QXR is trying to save money. Why shoud they pay a TOH news announcer for two weekday shifts when they can use Bloomberg?

They also dropped live announcers overnight on weekends. It's now continuous music with an occasional recorded station ID and tag telling listeners to visit the web site for listings of what they are hearing.