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AM 580/CKWW sold & Bell cuts

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50kguy

Bell Media has announced 1,300 job cuts and several radio changes. Among them, "It is also selling Hamilton’s AM Radio 1150 and AM 820, as well as Windsor’s AM 580, to an undisclosed third party, subject to CRTC approval."

Cursory glance at CRTC site shows no notice of sale yet. Any rumours about who be taking over AM 580/CKWW? Would Bell allow station to continue to be associated with The Big 8?

The station is running 500 watts through four towers with good U.S. coverage. It was getting some numbers in Detroit before Bell closed US sales office & dropped Nielsen membership.
 
50kguy said:
Bell Media has announced 1,300 job cuts and several radio changes. Among them, "It is also selling Hamilton’s AM Radio 1150 and AM 820, as well as Windsor’s AM 580, to an undisclosed third party, subject to CRTC approval."

Cursory glance at CRTC site shows no notice of sale yet. Any rumours about who be taking over AM 580/CKWW? Would Bell allow station to continue to be associated with The Big 8?

The station is running 500 watts through four towers with good U.S. coverage. It was getting some numbers in Detroit before Bell closed US sales office & dropped Nielsen membership.
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I certainly hope the oldies can continue! They're sadly a vanishing species from the airwaves....
 
580 used to register about a 1.5 share in the Detroit book 20 to 25 years ago. They might've reached a 2 share on occasion. That was when the station played adult standards. By the time diaries were dropped for PPM, they were at or just below a 1 share. When HD radio came about, the sidebands from 560 WRDT were interfering with CKWW during the day.

It is doubtful the station had anything more than perhaps 25,000 weekly listeners on the U.S. side of the border when Bell pulled the plug on its suburban Detroit office in Southfield. True, some of those folks were very avid listeners of the station.

I've been hearing little paid advertising on the station for a long time.

I suspect a foreign language broadcaster will snap up 580.
 
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