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WFNX being sold to Clear Channel

That sucks. I just got into them not too long ago and I'm really into their music selection. I wish their current employees well.
Anybody think CC will keep the Alternative format here? Maybe as one similar to Radio 104.5 or a PC Alt format (the latter is better than nothing, though not by much)? Or any guesses as to what it will flip to?
 
It's a fringe signal in that it doesn't cover the whole market. A niche format probably does best here - if not alternative, then something like urban, dance or Spanish. Boston already had a multitude of FM talk stations (provided you count sports and public outlets).

Didn't CC buy Indie 103 in LA and keep the format for awhile and try to make it work?
 
Yikes just saw on another board. If it were a simulcast of WXKS (AM) it wouldn't be Rush Radio, a name they gave up a little while ago.
 
Mark S tweet: $11 million. Also: "I'm told Mindich was in tears when addressing the troops in Lynn this morning." Espanol en 101.7?
 
I figured someday it might, but it's still a bit of a shock.

Coverage: as usual, not totally accurate but...
http://radio-locator.com/pats/WFNX_FM_LU.gif

I was a news intern there in late 83, helping out Henry Santoro, Cindy Farias and the late
Margie Coombs. Was there election night, Flynn vs. King. Had supreme responsibility at times
of getting a sandwich and tea at a place across the street for operations dir Judith Brackley.
Steve Strick, Jerry Goodwin, and Russ Mottla were there and the latter 2, maybe all 3,
got cut. The late Rich Buono ("a small Italian with everything") production dir.
 
Will they move the mia 1430 format to 101.7?

I hope that CC at least adds something different to the FM landscape.

Would presume with the limited signal they will play to the city.
 
Scott Fybush just mentioned the possibility of tweaks to soon-to-be co-owned WWBB Providence, the first-adjacent that prevented a more southern move. I hadn't even thought of that.
 
CC is doing OK to great with its version of the 'alternative' format in other markets (LA, Houston, DC, Philly, Denver, etc), with numbers generally trending upwards in the latest PPMs, so it's not certain that they'll drop it here. Depends on where they see the best potential for this limited signal, I suppose.
 
i thought i saw in the article that the intellectual property and stuff stay with the phoenix, so cc will flip to something else and try to boost the signal, It is a sad day in Boston radio!!
 
Lots of tweets on this. Has been said staff let go. Some wonder about AC, hot AC?

>>With that signal a 2 share does its job. Take 1-1.5 from Magic/Mix and you eliminate a threat to Kiss/Jam'n in female demos.
 
Very bad news. Another Giant gobbling up independent radio. Great loss.

I never thought I'd see the day.


You wonder why all the younger people are finding other ways to listen to music besides radio?
 
On Fybush's facebook he mentions the trouble CC will have in trying to upgrade WFNX's
signal (tower move, etc.)--other stations (yes CC does own WGIR-FM and WWBB-FM)
matter (WBUR somehow does!) in possible tower moves. I'd expect a lot more on that in
the next NERW or perhaps a mid week update.
 
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