WHAT FAMILY RADIO DID IN SAN FRANCISCO COULD HAPPEN IN PHILADELPHIA

[towernews]

Harold Camping swapped or sold a very lucrative FM station in San Franciscco for millions and settled on a cheaper property KFRC 610 on the AM dial. This could happen to Philadelphia, WPEN OR WHAT.

 

[LA_Guy]

WURD is owned by Levas Communications, which is in turn is privately held by Dr. Walter Lomax.

 

[phils07]

What would Greater Media make 106.9? That shouldn't be a simulcast of 97.5.

 

[klutch00]

There's a rumor that in Annapolis MD, Family Radio may be getting ready to unload WFSI (107.9).

 

[luperm]

There's a rumor that in Annapolis MD, Family Radio may be getting ready to unload WFSI (107.9).

It's not a rumor. The station is on the block along with WKDN.

 

[klutch00]

There's a rumor that in Annapolis MD, Family Radio may be getting ready to unload WFSI (107.9).

It's not a rumor. The station is on the block along with WKDN.

I wonder if FS will do swaps like they did in SF. If this must happen, I would hope that the 'exile' would be 990 in Philly (make Salem an offer they couldn't refuse); 950 might work, too. Frankly, I wouldn't lose any sleep if they got a hold of 1340, but do you really think they'll buy such an inferior facility?

Now in the Baltimore-Washington area, I find it a bit puzzling that FS bought both WBMD (750) and WBGR (860) in Baltimore a few years back. Why they did this is beyond me. If they intend to have a presence there, they ought to seriously consider getting rid of both of those facilities and buy something a little more substantial. My suggestion would be to make The Mangione family (owners of both WCBM [680] and WVIE [1370])an offer the can't refuse and buy WVIE. If the Mangiones want to continue to operate another AM in the area, they can make Citicasters an offer and buy WCAO and either they or Radio One could try to buy 107.9 and put a Black Gospel format there. If Radio One was the buyer, they could sell 104.1 in Waldorf as 107.9 covers much more of the target audience with one signal. All of Prince George's County, the Washington and Baltimore areas as well as northern Charles County lie within 107.9's primary service area, which is where most of the target audience lives. As a Black Gospel station, 107.9 won't bring in stellar numbers, but they'll be respectable.

 

[wprt949]

in todays TRI he said merlin media could be the group that bids on it but he also said there mabye other groups who would want 106.9 its going to be fun to watch and see who gets it

 

[InSearchOfGear]

There's a rumor that in Annapolis MD, Family Radio may be getting ready to unload WFSI (107.9).

It's not a rumor. The station is on the block along with WKDN.

When they put WFME Newark on the block, THAT will be huge.

 

[klutch00]

There's a rumor that in Annapolis MD, Family Radio may be getting ready to unload WFSI (107.9).

It's not a rumor. The station is on the block along with WKDN.

When they put WFME Newark on the block, THAT will be huge.

what Salem should've done is made Family Radio an offer they couldn't refuse and made a swap with 94.7. That would've made a helluva lot more sense than buying and sabotaging WAMD in Aberdeen MD just so WNYM could have a 50-kilowatt daytime signal! Granted, you could argue that WAMD was and still is a marginal outlet, but there was NO justification in sabotaging its signal!

 

[aindik]

IMO, the best buyer I can think of for the Camden station is CBS in a swap for 610.