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WRCA.... rumor has it

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a source has told me that all the leased time programs have been given a months notice that their contracts are being torn up and there is a format change on the way.

I was also told that Stu Fink is not going to be part of the operation once the flip happens.

Not surprising about the flip, leased time on the 106.1 translator Beasley just laid out 400K to get the CP wasn't going to happen.

Now the question is what will Beasley put on WRCA and the 106.1 translator ?

Can anyone confirm what I have heard?
 
WLYNWAZNgm said:
Yes, there are format changes in the air for WRCA
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After I made my post last night, I got to see the letter sent to my source by Beasley's attorney, cancelling the contract as on November 15.

I understand that Beasley is " Quick to fire, slow to hire" and that came straight from someone in Beasley... but if Stu Fink is being shown the door, that sucks.

He has been running their only Boston station for a while now and in return they are tossing him out like old program logs.

I wonder what the date for flipping 106.1 on is?

Does WLYN or WAZN have any open inventory?
 
Someone from Crystal's Time Machine posted on Facebook that their show will end on WRCA Nov 11 and they will shop around their show to other stations like WCAP, WBOQ, WUML and WNBP.(I think it said UML..which is non comm...)

Ok found it:
After Crystal's Time Machine ends on 1330 WRCA next month, I'm going to shop other radio stations to air my show including 980 WCAP and 91.5 WUML in Lowell and WHAV in Haverhill. At the request of my mom, I'm also going to try 104.9 WBOQ in Gloucester and WNBP in Newburyport; The Legends. I'm going to try my hardest to keep the show running because I love the show and I love my audience. I will keep you informed of my progress, you will know first hand if anything happens. Thank you for all your love and support, please listen to the last 4 shows on WRCA coming soon. We will be on until Veteran's Day 2016 and then we'll say goodbye... for now.
 
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We mentioned WRCA is about to change format, and they have a 106.1 translator coming.Interesting situation in Barre VT.Fans of conservative talker WSNO 1450 found the likes of Rush and Howie were cast aside for top 40. It turns out WSNO was about to launch an FM translator and they did, as "Vermont's Beat". Under rules the AM and FM must be totally simulcast. So to justify the new music FM, the AM had to change.

That could be what's going on with WRCA.
 
raccoonradio said:
Under rules the AM and FM must be totally simulcast. So to justify the new music FM, the AM had to change..
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The exception of course being day-time only AMers that are on translators. And I would think there's an exception in the case of technical difficulties.

A few weeks ago Full-Power Radio's WNTY AM 990 in Southington, Connecticut was off the air for 15+ hours due to a power failure in that part of Southington (as the result of 3 poles being damaged in a car crash), but their Oldies format continued uninterrupted on their 96.1 Translator which has its antenna on their FM sister station's tower on Meriden Mountain.
 
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The exception of course being day-time only AMers that are on translators. And I would think there's an exception in the case of technical difficulties.
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Interesting, Cumulus let WTOD go dark.....but continued to run the translator....not sure how this was allowed.
 
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MarcB said:
The exception of course being day-time only AMers that are on translators. And I would think there's an exception in the case of technical difficulties.
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Which begs the question what's wrong with an FM Translator simulcasting its AM daytimer talk station during the day and running music only on the FM after the AM signs off? On a side note there is an exception in the case of "bona fide" technical difficulties for a certain amount of time..
 
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Interesting, Cumulus let WTOD go dark.....but continued to run the translator....not sure how this was allowed.
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The Cumulus translator in Toledo wasn't tied to the AM revitalization rules, which require a minimum four year simulcast period (though daytimers can operate translators after hours). Cumulus simply turned off the AM, moved the programming to an HD2, and changed the originating station of the translator.
 
When 106.1 gets on air, prob a music format on both that and 1330 and most likely the FM will get mentioned most of all.
Look at Barre VT; the new 105.7 is prominently mentioned on their site but the AM it's simulcasting (WSNO 1450) isn't even mentioned at all. Yet flipping the AM to CHR is necessary under the rules.
http://www.thebeatvermont.com/

106.1 predicted coverage area, not bad
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=W231BI-FX&s=C
 
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But what format? And particularly, what format can co-exist with the rest of the future Beasley cluster?

Latin pop (a la WYUU/Tampa) and urban AC (a la WBAV/Charlotte) are the holes I see. Beasley clearly wants to run things on the cheap, and regardless of air talent, a Spanish station is going to need a bilingual sales staff. To keep headcount low, I think urban AC will be the match.
 
encarta95 said:
But what format? And particularly, what format can co-exist with the rest of the future Beasley cluster?

Latin pop (a la WYUU/Tampa) and urban AC (a la WBAV/Charlotte) are the holes I see. Beasley clearly wants to run things on the cheap, and regardless of air talent, a Spanish station is going to need a bilingual sales staff. To keep headcount low, I think urban AC will be the match.
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I am wondering what Beasley will do with the cluster if anything? Possible cutbacks could happen I guess we'll see.
 
encarta95 said:
But what format? And particularly, what format can co-exist with the rest of the future Beasley cluster?

Latin pop (a la WYUU/Tampa) and urban AC (a la WBAV/Charlotte) are the holes I see. Beasley clearly wants to run things on the cheap, and regardless of air talent, a Spanish station is going to need a bilingual sales staff. To keep headcount low, I think urban AC will be the match.
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I dunno. There's already Spanish Tropical on 890AM and in the Suburbs on 1400AM/95.1 FM, and 800AM/102.9 FM. I don't know if 890 is getting a translator like 1400 did.
 
MarcB said:
I dunno. There's already Spanish Tropical on 890AM and in the Suburbs on 1400AM/95.1 FM, and 800AM/102.9 FM. I don't know if 890 is getting a translator like 1400 did.
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I agree that the Merrimack Valley is well covered with Spanish tropical/pop on FM (and AM, for that matter). But given that WEEI-FM and WCRB don't sound all that great within Boston itself, I can't imagine the translators are getting too far into the city.
 
encarta95 said:
To keep headcount low, I think urban AC will be the match.
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Some derivative of urban seems pretty likely to me, too. At the risk of sounding like John Madden, they'll either do something that compliments one of the stations in the cluster or something that expands the reach of the cluster into a segment of the audience they're not reaching now.

From what I've seen in the trades, nobody expects Greater Media's corporate programmers to make the transition to Beasley. That will probably help make things more interesting to those of us on the outside.
 
Another talker?

The other format the "New Beasley Cluster" doesn't have is talk. Crowded field but...
 
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Former said:
The other format the "New Beasley Cluster" doesn't have is talk. Crowded field but...
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Someone, elsewhere, suggested that WMEX dump talk and reach out to WRCAʼs soon-to-be homeless and go brokered.
 
Uncle Kaimbridge said:
Someone, elsewhere, suggested that WMEX dump talk and reach out to WRCAʼs soon-to-be homeless and go brokered.
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If you think 1510 has trouble covering expenses now, that would make it even worse IMHO.

BTW Beasley just named Buzz Knight VP in charge of Programming.... a position he holds now with Greater Media which Beasley is in the process of buying
 
MRBIboredop said:
BTW Beasley just named Buzz Knight VP in charge of Programming.... a position he holds now with Greater Media which Beasley is in the process of buying
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Looks like this was one the trades got wrong. None of the ones I saw expected Buzz to be kept around. Don't know what it means for programming at Beasley. With the exception of Charlotte (and, until a few months ago, Detroit), Greater Media already had a pretty lean operation.
 
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