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[Rob Landry]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Martin Waters via Boston-Radio-Interest wrote:

> adamnw wrote:

> If they get rid of Dan Rea and overnight programming, I am sure many of 
> people >say "we've seen this movie >before." As many will recall, when 
> Brudnoy was let >go that didn't last very long.        You're confusing 
> Westinghouse/CBS with iHeart. As their opening machine-gun blast against 
> the individual employees and the union should tell us, iHeart is a whole 
> different animal. And don't think this little settlement at the moment 
> means there is not a near certainty of very ugly goings-on that won't be 
> overturned by any public-pressure campaigns. It's very unfortunate that 
> there could not have been a local buyer for WBZ (AM), along the lines of 
> local buyers who now have the potential to preserve as quality news 
> outlets such newspapers as the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and the 
> Philadelphia Inquirer.

There could not have been a local buyer in this case, because CBS and 
Entercom didn't want to pay the tax pemalty the sale of any station would 
have incurred. The deal was done as a swap: WBZ, WRKO, WKAF, and WZLX to 
Eyeheart in exhange for all the Eyeheart stations in Richmond and 
Chattanooga.


Rob