Is WCRB up for sale?

[Dan.Strassberg]

This won't happen, of course; it makes too much sense: Suppose
Entercom were to buy 99.5 and move WAAF there. The 99.5 signal
downtown is good enough that 97.7 might no longer be needed as a WAAF
simulcast--although 97.7's South Shore coverage might be an asset to
99.5. Then the "classics" (I'm putting that in quotes to forestall
another of Mr Glavin's diatribes) could move up the dial to 107.3 and
Entercom might even be smart enough to move 107.3 back to where it
belongs--on Asnebumsket Hilll in Paxton (assuming the FCC hasn't shut
that door)--because the WCRB format is unduplicated in the rest of the
old 107.3 coverage area, so the larger signal would potentially be
saleable to advertisers as a regional signal. If "classical" (quotes
again; they're getting as tiresome as Mr G's venting) can't be sold on
an essentially Boston signal, it might be a little more saleable on a
signal that covered half the land area of New England and WAY more
than half the population.

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Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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Subject: Is WCRB up for sale?


Tom Taylor, in his free email-subscription newsletter, says today he
is hearing that WCRB is now on
the market ("Star Media Group's Doug Ferber has the listing to sell
WCRB" -- available by free
subscription via http://www.radio-info.com )
We know about Entercom and Nassau and how their agreement fell through
(to put
WEEI on several Nassau stations, and Entercom would get half of 99.5).
But now Taylor's
hearing that Nassau is peddling the longtime classical outlet. Would
the new owners keep
it classical, or find a way to satisfy that longterm agreement to keep
classical by
putting it on an HD, an AM signal they may have, a smaller FM, etc.?