Entercom-CBS-Beasley-iHeart

[M.Casey]

Is there a chance that iHeart might sell WBZ AM, for cash, to another group 
shortly after the takeover?
Mark Casey

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Fybush
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 3:38 PM
To: Gary's Ice Cream
Cc: Ron Bello ; Rob Landry ; Boston Radio Group
Subject: RE: Entercom-CBS-Beasley-iHeart

It would be interesting to see the economics of that.  I can't imagine that
the total expenses of Dan's show - his salary, producer's salary, whatever
production bits Mike Coleman does - can be more than maybe $150k a year.
Even less for overnights. If they go syndicated at night, they drop those
expenses, but there goes a bunch of local ad revenue and a ton of goodwill,
too.

OTOH, it's just not the iHeart model of doing talk, outside of maybe KFI
and WLW.

But then,  they'll have 680 and maybe 1200 to clear their own Premiere
stuff.  So... who knows?

On Nov 3, 2017 6:38 PM, "Gary's Ice Cream" <gary@garysicecream.com> wrote:

I suspect that Dan Rea and the overnight live programming will be gone from
WBZ shortly after the takeover.

                    Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA
www.garysicecream.com           www.icecreamcollege.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-
bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Ron Bello
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 11:24 AM
To: Rob Landry
Cc: Boston Radio Group
Subject: Re: Entercom-CBS-Beasley-iHeart

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Rob Landry <011010001@interpring.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Sean Smyth wrote:
>
> Any chance iHeart would make WBZ all-talk and move news to 680?
>>
>
> They would be well advised to pay heed to a sign that legend says is
> posted deep inside the offices of Frito-Lay Corporation. The sign reads:
> "don't f--- with Fritos."
>
> WBZ is the most lucrative AM station in Boston. They'd be crazy to
> mess with it.
>
> Moreover, they'll recall what happened when they moved Rush Limbaugh
> to
> 1200 in their ill-fated attempt to go after WRKO with their own
> conservative talk format, "Rush Radio". The listeners stayed with WRKO.
>
> I imagine they'll put Rush back on 680 now.
>

​If they want to do All News, keep it on 1030 although the format is
expensive to produce and how much news and how many listeners for news
after 8-9pm ?


>
> How much longer is Bloomberg going to stay on 1200, now that they have
> 1330 and the FM?
>

​Coverage of Bloomberg on 1330 and 106.1 x 2 is terrible Impossible to
listen in MetroWest area​ or south of Brockton

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>