-- In addition to Wild 95.5 dropping Elvis Duran, and voice tracking Mack, Nina, and Nick, the afternoon hosts on WHYI Y-100 100.7, for the morning drive show on Wild 95.5 WLDI in Fort Pierce for the West Palm Market . . . .
-- Kool 105.5’s morning show with Mo and Sally in West Palm Beach adding 95.3 WOLZ in Fort Myers . . .
--West Palm Beach is getting Brooke & Jubal in place of Chelsea and Tim. Alpha Media is pretty big on the syndicated Brooke & Jubal Morning Show from Premiere. They are running it on their stations in Portland, Seattle, San Antonio, and Peoria – on both country and CHR stations as one-size-fits-all morning show.
B & J are even on in Biloxi on a Hip-Hop station and a Hot AC in Louisville, Kentucky – and now they are on another Alpha station, WIRK. So, Chelsea and Tim Tiny Burger are out at Country WIRK 103.1 and replaced by Brooke & Jubal. Does anyone think its probably all in a cost cutting move by Alpha, like when they got rid of the Sid Rosenberg show on 640 AM WMEN?
-- Big 105.9 WBGG hired Dave Hill as it’s new PD and Night Time Jock to replace Micheal “Mud” Gross, who left back in April. Hill was out in Portland, worked in Albany at WQBK, WMRQ Hardford and WIYY Baltimore. WBGG is #10 overall. Ratings went up during last four books from 3.0 (back in April when Mud left), to 3.2 and most recently to a 3.7 (without a PD, but Alex Tear was overseeing things).
But Hill never reported to work or took over the 7 to 12 pm shift. Big Rig has taken over nights . . . and the PD for WINZ and WIOD, Grace Blazer, is BIG 105.9's new PD . . . and starting this past Sunday, the 18th, the started introducing pop songs into the format, and now, have removed all references to classic rock. Looks like, in the absence of Magic 102.7, Big is now a classic hits outlet playing, "The best of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.'' Modern English "Stop the World and Melt with You" in the same set as "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, you bet! Listener chatter on their FB page is in the negative.
Grace Blazer comes from Boston's WTKK. She left the talk outlet when it flipped to rhythmic AC. She was also at WPHT in Philadelphia. She got the job at WINZ and WOID when Ken Charles to a VP of programming job at IHeart's Sacrmento cluster.
-- Zoo Communications, who run the EDM Revolution 93.5 W228BY Miami for I Heart purchased 93.5 The Bull W228BV from Reach Communications. Right now, Zoo also runs/operates the Revolution EDM format on 104.7 W284CS Miami and the “other” 93.5 WZFL in Islamorada/Key Largo. It is speculated that it will be the end of the Bull in Miami/Fort Lauderdale and the EDM from 93.5 Miami will be carried on 93.5 Fort Lauderdale. It is planned to carry 93.9 WMIA HD 2 (not sure what format that is). Sold for $410,000 bucks.
-- JVC Media is taking their “The Talk” branding of their West Palm Beach AM station WSWN to Gainsville, on their FM at 104.9, now know as “104.9 The Talk of Gainesville.” It’s a class A rimshot that has had hard time finding an audience as Smooth 104.9, and it was Party 104.9 before that. Like WSWN, WYCG is going to carry Imus in the Morning and Brian Kilmeade in the middays. Does anyone think its sad that FM’s are now going the way of AMs – time brokering infomercial programming. Guess they have to, times are tough for radio. The days of tall sticks in big fields are over, as they say.
-- Spanish Broadcasting System flipped WRMA 95.7 from its Spanish Hot AC to Cuban Hip Hop. Things were so bad with the Spanish Hot AC, it wasn’t even publishing its ratings/not showing up in the books. Ouch. It’s gonna play Reggaeton / Latin Hip Hop mix. They are talking about “10 main Cuban artists in the format” and “there are over 100 songs in the format.” A format with only 100 songs? That sounds a little bit too tight for comfort. SBS also operates Zeta 92.3 WCMQ which is the highest rated of their three Miami stations with a 4.8 share in July and came in #5. They also run WXDJ El Zol 106.7 and of course, the non-rated WRMA. Does anyone thing there are simply too many Spanish stations in the market?
-- Another Spanish flip . . . iHeartMedia has relaunched Spanish Hot AC “Mega 94.9” WMGE Miami as “Tú 94.9“. Enrique Santos will join the station starting Monday, October 3. He exited Univision’s “Mix 98.3” WRTO earlier this September. In addition to hosting mornings at WMGE, Santos is als Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of the company’s new iHeartLatino division. His program will also be syndicated nationally via Premiere Radio Networks. Prior to joining WRTO in 2008, Santos was on SBS’ “El Zol 95.7” WXDJ.
-- KXBD 1480 AM in Dallas, which was part of the now defunct James Crystal Radio, Inc, just went back on the air with full time Indian (India) music with no announcers or spots. It was playing classic country and running the same old ID they used when they were country. Dallas is the fifth largest market, with four Regional Mexican stations and three Spanish variety Christian stations. So, going with music from India is an interesting way to go to create a unique niche.
As for the other in limbo JCR property, WFLL 1400 (which was classic country, then Brazilian, until it went dark) – as of 7/14/2016 according to the FCC database, it again extended its extension to remain silent authority (STA) and shows construction permit in place (which has been discussed, is a big to get onto one of the WEXY 1520 towers.
-- Took nine months, but Spam is out at as the MD and afternoon host. That’s rough, considering he was at WHFS Washington/Baltimore for 16 years. Entercom was advertising on their site and on All Access for a new Music Director. They finally got a new MD this week of 9/18, Zach McHugh, who was known as Vaughn on 98.7 Modern Rock in Wilmington, NC.
However, no new PD or MD for WMXJ 102.7 The Beach. John O’Connell was officially hired for double duty as the PD for both the Shark and The Beach (to replace Patti Moreno. Apparently, John’s doing a good job at the Beach. An Entercom press release talked about the station’s cume growing to 953,000.
But the Shark seems a bit flat. Its #21 overall with a 1.6 to 1.7 – which no better, and even worse, when it was simulcasting the sports from 790 AM the Ticket in a failed bid to rebrand as an FM sports station. And, in evenings and weekends, they have the displaced Spanish, from afternoon’s at 93.5 The Bar, at the station.
-- Reach sold another translator. 94.5 W233AP Oakland Park to Edgewater Broadcasting for $50,000. It going to carry their religions format from 89.1 WLOG Markleysburg PA in South Florida. Dpes anyone think this is odd. . . aren't translator supposed to be "local" to the station it translates? There is an opinion about the rules for translators being poorly written, riddled with "loopholes" that allow non profits and churches to create "mini radio networks" via translators. Thought?
-- Kool 105.5’s morning show with Mo and Sally in West Palm Beach adding 95.3 WOLZ in Fort Myers . . .
--West Palm Beach is getting Brooke & Jubal in place of Chelsea and Tim. Alpha Media is pretty big on the syndicated Brooke & Jubal Morning Show from Premiere. They are running it on their stations in Portland, Seattle, San Antonio, and Peoria – on both country and CHR stations as one-size-fits-all morning show.
B & J are even on in Biloxi on a Hip-Hop station and a Hot AC in Louisville, Kentucky – and now they are on another Alpha station, WIRK. So, Chelsea and Tim Tiny Burger are out at Country WIRK 103.1 and replaced by Brooke & Jubal. Does anyone think its probably all in a cost cutting move by Alpha, like when they got rid of the Sid Rosenberg show on 640 AM WMEN?
-- Big 105.9 WBGG hired Dave Hill as it’s new PD and Night Time Jock to replace Micheal “Mud” Gross, who left back in April. Hill was out in Portland, worked in Albany at WQBK, WMRQ Hardford and WIYY Baltimore. WBGG is #10 overall. Ratings went up during last four books from 3.0 (back in April when Mud left), to 3.2 and most recently to a 3.7 (without a PD, but Alex Tear was overseeing things).
But Hill never reported to work or took over the 7 to 12 pm shift. Big Rig has taken over nights . . . and the PD for WINZ and WIOD, Grace Blazer, is BIG 105.9's new PD . . . and starting this past Sunday, the 18th, the started introducing pop songs into the format, and now, have removed all references to classic rock. Looks like, in the absence of Magic 102.7, Big is now a classic hits outlet playing, "The best of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.'' Modern English "Stop the World and Melt with You" in the same set as "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, you bet! Listener chatter on their FB page is in the negative.
Grace Blazer comes from Boston's WTKK. She left the talk outlet when it flipped to rhythmic AC. She was also at WPHT in Philadelphia. She got the job at WINZ and WOID when Ken Charles to a VP of programming job at IHeart's Sacrmento cluster.
-- Zoo Communications, who run the EDM Revolution 93.5 W228BY Miami for I Heart purchased 93.5 The Bull W228BV from Reach Communications. Right now, Zoo also runs/operates the Revolution EDM format on 104.7 W284CS Miami and the “other” 93.5 WZFL in Islamorada/Key Largo. It is speculated that it will be the end of the Bull in Miami/Fort Lauderdale and the EDM from 93.5 Miami will be carried on 93.5 Fort Lauderdale. It is planned to carry 93.9 WMIA HD 2 (not sure what format that is). Sold for $410,000 bucks.
-- JVC Media is taking their “The Talk” branding of their West Palm Beach AM station WSWN to Gainsville, on their FM at 104.9, now know as “104.9 The Talk of Gainesville.” It’s a class A rimshot that has had hard time finding an audience as Smooth 104.9, and it was Party 104.9 before that. Like WSWN, WYCG is going to carry Imus in the Morning and Brian Kilmeade in the middays. Does anyone think its sad that FM’s are now going the way of AMs – time brokering infomercial programming. Guess they have to, times are tough for radio. The days of tall sticks in big fields are over, as they say.
-- Spanish Broadcasting System flipped WRMA 95.7 from its Spanish Hot AC to Cuban Hip Hop. Things were so bad with the Spanish Hot AC, it wasn’t even publishing its ratings/not showing up in the books. Ouch. It’s gonna play Reggaeton / Latin Hip Hop mix. They are talking about “10 main Cuban artists in the format” and “there are over 100 songs in the format.” A format with only 100 songs? That sounds a little bit too tight for comfort. SBS also operates Zeta 92.3 WCMQ which is the highest rated of their three Miami stations with a 4.8 share in July and came in #5. They also run WXDJ El Zol 106.7 and of course, the non-rated WRMA. Does anyone thing there are simply too many Spanish stations in the market?
-- Another Spanish flip . . . iHeartMedia has relaunched Spanish Hot AC “Mega 94.9” WMGE Miami as “Tú 94.9“. Enrique Santos will join the station starting Monday, October 3. He exited Univision’s “Mix 98.3” WRTO earlier this September. In addition to hosting mornings at WMGE, Santos is als Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of the company’s new iHeartLatino division. His program will also be syndicated nationally via Premiere Radio Networks. Prior to joining WRTO in 2008, Santos was on SBS’ “El Zol 95.7” WXDJ.
-- KXBD 1480 AM in Dallas, which was part of the now defunct James Crystal Radio, Inc, just went back on the air with full time Indian (India) music with no announcers or spots. It was playing classic country and running the same old ID they used when they were country. Dallas is the fifth largest market, with four Regional Mexican stations and three Spanish variety Christian stations. So, going with music from India is an interesting way to go to create a unique niche.
As for the other in limbo JCR property, WFLL 1400 (which was classic country, then Brazilian, until it went dark) – as of 7/14/2016 according to the FCC database, it again extended its extension to remain silent authority (STA) and shows construction permit in place (which has been discussed, is a big to get onto one of the WEXY 1520 towers.
-- Took nine months, but Spam is out at as the MD and afternoon host. That’s rough, considering he was at WHFS Washington/Baltimore for 16 years. Entercom was advertising on their site and on All Access for a new Music Director. They finally got a new MD this week of 9/18, Zach McHugh, who was known as Vaughn on 98.7 Modern Rock in Wilmington, NC.
However, no new PD or MD for WMXJ 102.7 The Beach. John O’Connell was officially hired for double duty as the PD for both the Shark and The Beach (to replace Patti Moreno. Apparently, John’s doing a good job at the Beach. An Entercom press release talked about the station’s cume growing to 953,000.
But the Shark seems a bit flat. Its #21 overall with a 1.6 to 1.7 – which no better, and even worse, when it was simulcasting the sports from 790 AM the Ticket in a failed bid to rebrand as an FM sports station. And, in evenings and weekends, they have the displaced Spanish, from afternoon’s at 93.5 The Bar, at the station.
-- Reach sold another translator. 94.5 W233AP Oakland Park to Edgewater Broadcasting for $50,000. It going to carry their religions format from 89.1 WLOG Markleysburg PA in South Florida. Dpes anyone think this is odd. . . aren't translator supposed to be "local" to the station it translates? There is an opinion about the rules for translators being poorly written, riddled with "loopholes" that allow non profits and churches to create "mini radio networks" via translators. Thought?
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