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When, if so - how much

So, "crazy" theories and pseudoscience are fringe science and tin foil hat stuff.... until they become acceptable and then just SCIENCE.

Five years or more, I inquired about the stand alone sale of WLKK, and after everyone was done and stopped laughing, " Oh, he is serious ?!. " And following, this poster should just let the grown up post,
and everybody said Entercom / Audacy won't just drop a station from the cluster.

In addition, corporate America just doesn't go against the standards without NDA and me asking what if;
however, no one had WTSS ( the original ) being sold out of Buffalo as a stand alone from this market on their bingo card.

In 2018, it was just another "crazy post" from me, but in 2023 _ what other station from Audacy will be gone from Buffalo / Rochester within the next few years ??

I'm thinking, once Janet & Nick *finally* call it quits, WKSE will be sold. In the meantime, stations such as 1400 - 107.3 could go to the right buyer, or 1520 could find a new owner.

When? who knows, but how much is anybody's guess, and my guess would be
between 9 - 12M for wkse as a stand alone. The combo 14x/ 107.3 would land around 5 - 6 M. In the unlikely event Audacy gets wind of demand it may ramp up the sticker price, but is there anything that will drive the value downwards ?

Since I'm routinely lit up in this board, I considered my professional vibe to this post in an effort to garner more responses.
 
Audacy is in big trouble. The sale of 102.5 was one of desperation. The Buffalo cluster is now even less relevant than it was before. It's very possible they will sell the remaining stations at some point. The problem is none of them have much value. The AMs are worthless. 107.7 might fetch half a million in a sale (if lucky). KISS is the only full FM signal they have. The combined price for ALL the Audacy Buffalo stations might be under 4 million. That's not an exaggeration. Just Radio in 2023...
 
Five years or more, I inquired about the stand alone sale of WLKK, and after everyone was done and stopped laughing, "Oh, he is serious ?!. " And following, this poster should just let the grown up post, and everybody said Entercom / Audacy won't just drop a station from the cluster. Since I'm routinely lit up in this board, I considered my professional vibe to this post in an effort to garner more responses.
You're not the only one who suggested that WLKK or another individual station in the then-Entercom Buffalo cluster might be spun separately. A certain banished-from-the-board local owner, and a few other posters suggested the possibility, especially as it applied to 107.7. So you were prescient. Huzzah to you!

But five years ago might as well have been the Golden Era for Entercom-Audacy. It was difficult for us lowly know-it-alls to have imagined the Buffalo cluster being parceled off. Of course, five years ago, Entercom-Audacy shares were trading around $7 as opposed to today's trading, around 70 cents. These days, Audacy is being suffocated by debt service. Gasping.

That noted, a suggested $4MM price for the entire Buffalo cluster sounds absurdly low. WBEN and WGR continue to bill. Kiss is generating respectable revenue; and the Wolf, as abominable as it sounds ... the ludicrous "60 minutes every hour" slogan ... is very likely running in the black. Could Audacy Buffalo be split up and piece-meal'd. Who the fig knows?! Magic 8-Ball says, "Anything is possible... It's Audacy."
 
There had been discussions in this very group about an Audacy-Cumulus trade, with Cumulus getting Audacy's Buffalo cluster in exchange for the Cumulus Memphis cluster. That went down in flames a while back. But a similar trade could still happen. Cumulus has lots of news, talk, and sports content that they could put on WBEN and WGR. Since most of the radio groups are in debt, a trade is easier than a sale.
 
five years ago, Entercom-Audacy shares were trading around $7 as opposed to today's trading, around 70 cents. These days, Audacy is being suffocated by debt service. Gasping.

That noted, a suggested $4MM price for the entire Buffalo cluster sounds absurdly low. WBEN and WGR continue to bill. Kiss is generating respectable revenue
WBEN and WGR may be generating decent revenue, but it's moot. It amounts to a spit in the river. Audacy's debt is catastrophic. Who would be interested in buying the AM signals? They are saddled with 4 there...
 
You're not the only one who suggested that WLKK or another individual station in the then-Entercom Buffalo cluster might be spun separately. A certain banished-from-the-board local owner, and a few other posters suggested the possibility, especially as it applied to 107.7. So you were prescient. Huzzah to you!

But five years ago might as well have been the Golden Era for Entercom-Audacy. It was difficult for us lowly know-it-alls to have imagined the Buffalo cluster being parceled off. Of course, five years ago, Entercom-Audacy shares were trading around $7 as opposed to today's trading, around 70 cents. These days, Audacy is being suffocated by debt service. Gasping.

That noted, a suggested $4MM price for the entire Buffalo cluster sounds absurdly low. WBEN and WGR continue to bill. Kiss is generating respectable revenue; and the Wolf, as abominable as it sounds ... the ludicrous "60 minutes every hour" slogan ... is very likely running in the black. Could Audacy Buffalo be split up and piece-meal'd. Who the fig knows?! Magic 8-Ball says, "Anything is possible... It's Audacy."

You're not the only one who suggested that WLKK or another individual station in the then-Entercom Buffalo cluster might be spun separately. A certain banished-from-the-board local owner,
... he actually was that said WLKK isn't a stand alone locally owned do nothing FM..
but again that was a while ago - and ever since then, WLKK never tried to be Rochester's station... find that interesting
 
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