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WROU WDHT Dayton

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You know what really fries me is how things played out in Dayton about 8? years ago.

After the whole fight between Hawes-Saunders broadcasting and Radio One, then Radio One ended up stealing WROU and WRNB from Hawes-Saunders..... Radio One eventually sold off 96.9, and then both stations WROU and WDHT in 2007.

I feel the whole situation was shady, just messed up the market, not to mention killed off another mom and pop minority owner and just got me really fried over that. They coulda just left the market alone, left U92 and WRNB 96.9 as it was. Shoulda never bought WING.
 
Yeah, this hella shady indeed. Radio One knew that market was fine with a strong full-service urban like the original WROU alone. Dayton had a station that was locally owned and community oriented now they have a prop shop for syndicated BS like most other markets. Instead they wanted their usual fanfare of mainstream urban or rhythmic (that was basically an urban), urban AC, and gospel. Most markets don't need spliced urban radio because it just divides an already small audience even further.
 
Mac Black said:
It's not personal, it's business.
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If Radio One knew their business then they wouldn't have been delisted on the NYSE more than once. Trust, this is one business transaction if that company had a solid strategy wouldn't have never ventured into a market like Dayton.
 
Radio One only cares about making that money, unfortunately they're not very good at it. They're also not very good at running radio stations, hence why they left the market. The people in Dayton weren't supporting their crap & they figured that out. Not personal, business. They squeezed that station for all the money they could get.
 
I remember the U92 logo with the same "U" that Usher used to use for his chain ^ _^ i still have some of those bumper stickers in my collection and airchecks although one of my most favorite airchecks of U92 was lost when my car was stolen, along with others pre-99 =[


And yes all the above is very true they are not good at it and can give a real big **** about anything but money, but even as the company failed, execs (aka family) got huge payouts.
 
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