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WKNR On FM?

Time to light this fire again:

Anyone think GK will spring for an FM frequency for WKNR now that their new rival is "tanking"?

And for the record, no, I am not in the "tank" tank; I agree that it's way early to bury WKRK at this point in time... But given how WKNR and WKRK both finished last month, would you think GK would want to get an FM stick to try and extend on their current advantage over The Fan?
 
DToTheJ said:
Time to light this fire again:

Anyone think GK will spring for an FM frequency for WKNR now that their new rival is "tanking"?
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Yeah. Mel's going to call his old buddies at CBS and say " Look let me buy 92.3 in Cleveland so my kid can have KNR 1, 2 & 3 " ;D
 
DToTheJ said:
Time to light this fire again:

Anyone think GK will spring for an FM frequency for WKNR now that their new rival is "tanking"?

And for the record, no, I am not in the "tank" tank; I agree that it's way early to bury WKRK at this point in time... But given how WKNR and WKRK both finished last month, would you think GK would want to get an FM stick to try and extend on their current advantage over The Fan?
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What FM signal can Craig K. get?

CBS will never sell to him for obvious reasons; Salem will ask for too much to remotely consider unloading 95.5, and ELBC just sold 107.3 to Rubber City. Plus Radio One isn't going anywhere (even if they even considered leaving). CC and ideastream are total non-starters.

Unless the Moody Bible Institute wants to get out of the radio business entirely, there's absolutely nothing for Craig K. to choose from. I personally feel he dropped the ball re:107.3, but there's nothing to suggest that he was ever interested could get enough investors together in the first place... Thom Mandel was essentially bidding against himself for that signal for close to a year.

WKNR is landlocked on 850, whether they like it or not.
 
It is way too early to "tank" WKRK at this point..Craig just doesnt have the wherewithal to pull off an FM buy right now. As I've said in the past about Moody/WCRF, they've built up too much of a legacy in Northeast Ohio to consider selling out unless they could get either an AM (outmoded) or a noncommercial FM (none available) to approximate the coverage area they have right now on 103.3. Plus, they've just completed a fund drive to replace outdated equipment at WCRF and some of their other stations. If they were ever going to leave Cleveland, they wouldnt bother with that expense.
 
Moody is not selling WCRF, period. Ever.

Salem has been offering all of its stations in this market to just about everyone short of yours truly. But when the rubber (not Rubber City) meets the road, they aren't willing to let 95.5 go at even the kind of price Rubber City got for 107.3.

And Craig probably wasn't even in the ballpark for 107.3, as Nathan suggests. As Thom Mandel was waiting for the price to drop, Craig was on 850/1540 saying that an FM wasn't "in the cards", strongly hinting that money wasn't the reason.

If Craig can't come up with $6 mill for a full-market B, what CAN he do? Is he trying to figure out how to move an FM translator into the Parma farm? Because Clear Channel has already beat him to that, give or take whatever engineering moves CC has to make to get 99.1 on the air.

One or two decent books vs. an FM competitor on 2011 doesn't mean Craig can stay on 850(/1540) alone forever.
 
The next 5 to 10 years should be very interesting with respect to the value of FM and AM radio stations.

Why? When cheap, adequate, widely available broadband comes to "internet car radios"...the whole world will begin to change.

It won't be about towers and coverage and which band you're on...it'll be about the level of awareness your radio brand has in the minds of consumers.

Translation: the change of delivery systems from towers and transmitters to websites will change the media world.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
And Craig probably wasn't even in the ballpark for 107.3, as Nathan suggests. As Thom Mandel was waiting for the price to drop, Craig was on 850/1540 saying that an FM wasn't "in the cards", strongly hinting that money wasn't the reason.
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I meant "was" the reason.
 
Wouldn't having The Fan as part of WKNR give the station a sports monopoly? I think having competition among sports talk is better for the market than ALL sports stations owned by one company.

If it wasn't for the Fan, KNR would've remained the same as it was before they recently tweaked the lineup. Not to mention, the hatred for Hammer and Fedor would be stronger than ever!
 
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