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RE: Am I missing something here?
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:28:28 -0400
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid@wrko.com>
Subject: Re: Am I missing something here?
>>it appears that Clear Channel Communications themselves are disappointed
>>with the passage of these new rules....Did I miss something?<<
>
>Yes. What you missed is that Mays wants more stations, and he's not going
>to get them under the revised rules.
I also heard that the new market definitions - by Arbitron location
rather than by signal contour - make it impossible for Clear Channel
to expand in Boston unless they sell off elsewhere. The new definitions
put them up to the eight station limit here.
If what I saw posted on the Radio-Info board is correct, Manchester NH
and Worcester are now considered parts of the Boston market. This means
that WGIR AM & FM, WSRS and WTAG are now included as their stations in
the Boston market along with WXKS AM & FM, WJMN, and WKOX. That's eight!
The only two sucessful major Boston signals there are WXKS-FM and WJMN.
WXKS-AM doesn't come in clearly southwest of Cambridge at night, WKOX is
still a Framingham rimshotter which (I think) may be still held up by the
City of Newton from building a new antenna array there, WSRS and WGIR-FM
are both sucessful in their local areas but despite fair rimshot signals
into Boston their formats are already locked up here by Boston stations,
no one listens to the weak Boston area WGIR-AM signal with so much other
local n/t here, and WTAG is splashed by adjacent interference within 128.
If this is true, they're up to their limit of eight stations in Boston,
with only two really good Boston signals.
I can see why CC would be PO'ed about this situation, and perhaps other
similar situations elsewhere, wherein their policy of buying as much as
possible everywhere shot themselves in the foot in some markets with the
new regs. As for me, if this is true, I have to chuckle at their expense...
Eli Polonsky
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