Chapter 7 For JAM Media Solutions

Retspin · Oct 23, 2023

JAM Media Solutions Goes Into Chapter 7 Liquidation - RadioInsight

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October 2022, the assets of JAM Media Solutions were transferred to trustee Jeffrey T. Testa for Chapter 7 liquidation in August and filed with the FCC today. Jonathan A Mason Sr.’s company, which owns stations in Muscatine IA and the Outer...

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vchimpanzee · Oct 24, 2023

And this means what?

radiofan2023 · Oct 24, 2023

The trustee is going to try to sell the stations, and use whatever money is raised from the sale to pay the creditors.

vchimpanzee · Oct 25, 2023

But which stations?

Weiserguy · Oct 25, 2023

Just so no one's confused, this JAM seems to be totally unrelated to JAM Creative Productions, Jon Wolfert's jingle house down in Dallas.

radiofan2023 · Oct 25, 2023

vchimpanzee said:
But which stations?

Read the article and you’ll find out.

vchimpanzee · Oct 25, 2023

Just so no one else actually has to click on the link, Country “Big 94.5” WCMS, Hot AC “Beach 104” 104.1 WCXL, Rock “Z92.3” WZPR and AAA “99.1 The Sound” WVOD, all in the Elizabeth City area.

radiofan2023 · Oct 25, 2023

vchimpanzee said:
Just so no one else actually has to click on the link, Country “Big 94.5” WCMS, Hot AC “Beach 104” 104.1 WCXL, Rock “Z92.3” WZPR and AAA “99.1 The Sound” WVOD, all in the Elizabeth City area.

You missed some stations and a website

vchimpanzee · Oct 25, 2023

radiofan2023 said:
You missed some stations and a website

But those are the stations that make it relevant to Eastern NC.

Todd Mitchell · Oct 26, 2023

vchimpanzee said:
Just so no one else actually has to click on the link, Country “Big 94.5” WCMS, Hot AC “Beach 104” 104.1 WCXL, Rock “Z92.3” WZPR and AAA “99.1 The Sound” WVOD, all in the Elizabeth City area.

Eh...more like the Outer Banks, further south/southeast

vchimpanzee · Oct 26, 2023

Todd Mitchell said:
Eh...more like the Outer Banks, further south/southeast

Maybe, but if I'm remembering correctly, there were Nielsen ratings for Elizabeth City some years ago that included this area. I would think Elizabeth City itself would be in the Norfolk market.

w00t · Oct 28, 2023

All of that area is in the Norfolk market. 15 or so years ago Arbitron released ratings for the NC side of the market as a sub-market.

vchimpanzee · Oct 28, 2023

w00t said:
All of that area is in the Norfolk market. 15 or so years ago Arbitron released ratings for the NC side of the market as a sub-market.

That's what I figured. Wow, was it Arbitron? That has been a while.

Todd Mitchell · Oct 28, 2023

w00t said:
All of that area is in the Norfolk market. 15 or so years ago Arbitron released ratings for the NC side of the market as a sub-market.

Until 2006. "NC side of the (Norfolk) market" didn't quite go down the OBX, though.

w00t · Oct 29, 2023

Todd Mitchell said:
Until 2006. "NC side of the (Norfolk) market" didn't quite go down the OBX, though.

Only Hyde is in the Greenville market. Everything north of Ocracoke is in the Norfolk market.

I'm wowing at 2006 being the end of that! More like 20 years ago, not 15.

Todd Mitchell · Oct 29, 2023

My earlier point: these stations focus on Dare, not in either the Norfolk or Greenville Nielsen Audio markets. (I worked in Dare for several years, and commuted to an additional station in Greenville...late 80's/early 90's, which seems like 10 or 15 years ago...lol)

w00t · Oct 29, 2023

True. Remember when 104.1 unsuccessfully tried to position as a HR station back in the Ray-D-O Biz days? I think they were 24/7 satellite fed at that.

JJSPC · Oct 30, 2023

Not likely they will get anywhere close to the $965,000 they originally paid for Muscatine, Iowa.

midatlanticengineer · Nov 7, 2023

w00t said:
True. Remember when 104.1 unsuccessfully tried to position as a HR station back in the Ray-D-O Biz days? I think they were 24/7 satellite fed at that.

Who could forget those days?!?! Outside of the Carolina/Virginia Morning Show, and the Friday Coastal Automart remotes, it was indeed satellite

Kelly A · Nov 7, 2023

Sign of the times...