What I actually meant to say was that Emmis would acquire the stations in the markets Entercom's divesting stations in, and Emmis would trade their St. Louis stations to Entercom. I only thought of Emmis since their stations would seem to fit well with the stations Entercom will soon own in St. Louis, albeit having to spin a station or two.
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Reading into Entercom's Divestures
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What I actually meant to say was that Emmis would acquire the stations in the markets Entercom's divesting stations in, and Emmis would trade their St. Louis stations to Entercom. I only thought of Emmis since their stations would seem to fit well with the stations Entercom will soon own in St. Louis, albeit having to spin a station or two.
I've always been under the assumption that the stations will go to someone already in the market. On a note not related to Seattle, how many stations would Entercom have to spin in order for them to aquire Beasley's Las Vegas cluster? It's never made sense to me why Beasley is in that market when all their other stations are back east.
Agreed. The 'Jack-FM' branding is used under license by CBS. The new owner could see that as a liability and dump it.
The new owner of KFNQ may keep it or dump it for something more profitable, or that fits there views. We shall see.
Your point does not guarantee that a new owner will not change it. For example; when Bonneville acquired what is now KMVP, it had a format like Jack, and they blew it up for sports.
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If it makes Beasley money, they'll keep it.
Bonneville does like to blow things up like KBSG, imagine what they would do if the got KPLZ. Does KPLZ bring in new listeners or are they serving an older pop demo. Jack may make money but does not bring in new listeners and it's a royalty format. They could easily duplicate the format on an HD channel and consolidate the listener base to KZOK and the HD channel with a Jack type rotation.
I'm almost ready to call it, Jack will be...Sppppp, but who's the buyer?
I'm almost ready to call it, Jack will be...Sppppp, but who's the buyer?
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The logical choice is Bonneville. So, will it be '96-5 the Fan', or '96-5 ESPN Seattle'.
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The thought that occurred to me was that Bonneville makes a trade with Entercom with their Phoenix cluster, keeps KJAQ and takes it sports, trades KZOK to another broadcaster who wants classic rock, for an under performing signal (Hubbard and KVRQ comes to mind, or iHM and KPWK), and sells KFNQ to Salem.
Entercom and Bonneville have done trades before, and like to make deals that bring in $$.
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When this deal is done, it will be neither CBS nor Entercom who has KJAQ.
Neither CBS not Entercom do the licensing for Jack. It is a separate, independent company called Sparknet Communications.
It's more of a "contract" than a "license".
Jack is no different than any syndicated format.
In the top 50 markets, the format is customized and produced locally with a locally researched and curated playlist under Sparknet consulting. In smaller markets, the format is delivered with a standardized playlist, but with custom imaging and broad guidance.
And stations that don't want to license the name are free to come up with their own names for the variety hits format. Boston had "Mike" until the station was blown up for sports talk, and it sounded an awful lot like "Jack" sounded in other markets. Ditto for New Hampshire's "Frank."
Hmmmm, how about a Spanish-language variety hits format called "Eduardo"?
Hmmmm, how about a Spanish-language variety hits format called "Eduardo"?
As I mentioned before, it's possible that Entercom could move the Jack format to one of their stations. Until Entercom reveals the buyer of their Seattle stations, we don't know what will happen.
Emmis is completely broke. You might as well say "PTBoardOp94 will be buying stations spun off from Entercom". Ain't. Gonna. Happen.
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