Goodradio.TV leaves Ironton behind!

[Tom Taggart]

Interesting story there.

About a week or so ago CC filed an app. to move WREO-FM (97.1-Class B) to McDonald Ohio, a Youngstown suburb & downgrade it to an A. Then they were going to move WBBG Niles (a Class A) from the Youngstown area to Geneva on the Lake, which is near Ashtabula.

This was after the sale of the Ashtabula cluster was announced on various industry sites but before any official announcement.

Now, a day or so ago I see that the Ashtabula to McDonald move is canceled, and now the announcement of a deal being cut...hmmm, somehow I think the two events were connected.

Ashtabula is an independent, though unrated market. The only competing media in-market is an AM and an FM (Class A) in Conneaut. That FM is religious on 105.5, while I am not sure if the AM still exists. The area is far-suburban to most of the Cleveland stations, which are located south of downtown towards Akron. Only 107.9 (the End) and 95.5 (Salem's contemporary Christian station) have towers on the east side of Cleveland.

WREO-FM, especially,reaches the far eastern Cleveland suburbs in Geauga county. Lots of money there. So, for that cluster, 3.5 million is a bit pricey but not that bad.

[Zak Tyler]

WFUN
WFXJ
WREO
WYBL
WZOO

so, call me dumbass, but can call letters be sold for profit? if so, looks like at least a couple lucrative calls on that list.

[Arp2]

so, call me dumbass, but can call letters be sold for profit?

Sure....that's why I asked the "what of the call letters that will be departing" question back when the sale was announced. CCU has "parked" "legendary" call letters on little stations all over the country (many in Ohio), and I've been curious about what they were going to do with them.....

[sportsvoice]

Interesting story there.

About a week or so ago CC filed an app. to move WREO-FM (97.1-Class B) to McDonald Ohio, a Youngstown suburb & downgrade it to an A. Then they were going to move WBBG Niles (a Class A) from the Youngstown area to Geneva on the Lake, which is near Ashtabula.

This was after the sale of the Ashtabula cluster was announced on various industry sites but before any official announcement.

Now, a day or so ago I see that the Ashtabula to McDonald move is canceled, and now the announcement of a deal being cut...hmmm, somehow I think the two events were connected.

Ashtabula is an independent, though unrated market. The only competing media in-market is an AM and an FM (Class A) in Conneaut. That FM is religious on 105.5, while I am not sure if the AM still exists. The area is far-suburban to most of the Cleveland stations, which are located south of downtown towards Akron. Only 107.9 (the End) and 95.5 (Salem's contemporary Christian station) have towers on the east side of Cleveland.

WREO-FM, especially,reaches the far eastern Cleveland suburbs in Geauga county. Lots of money there. So, for that cluster, 3.5 million is a bit pricey but not that bad.

The Conneaut AM (1360) is still there but now runs Catholic religious programming.

[Ace Purple]

WFUN
WFXJ
WREO
WYBL
WZOO

so, call me dumbass, but can call letters be sold for profit? if so, looks like at least a couple lucrative calls on that list.

From what I understand, yes they can. I've seen it done before within a market as part of the "intellectual property" of a station.

Emmis.com (01/18/2001)
Radio One will acquire WTLC-FM's 'intellectual property,' including the station call letters, trademarks, service marks, symbols and logos as well as contracts relating to the operation of the station, and most of the station employees. EMMIS will continue to own and operate frequency 105.7 FM under a to-be-announced format.

I've heard that the owner of WGAB in Evansville, IN has been shopping those call letters for years to news/talk stations.

[Ace Purple]

The wheels are in motion.

From All Access:

CLEAR CHANNEL has filed additional paperwork with the FCC sending another 71 stations, including stations in the HARTFORD, FRESNO, OCEAN CITY-SALISBURY, HUNTINGTON, and AKRON markets, to the ALOHA STATION TRUST, doubling the number of stations for which trust assignments have been requested.

[Tom Taggart]

See my post in Ohio radio.

Radio and Records lists the Cleveland stations as the ones going into trust (including WMMS) as well as the Dayton cluster of stations.

[Tom Taggart]

Aha, I see (said the blind man, as he picked up the hammer and saw)

They are now sending the AKRON stations into the trust as well. Also Huntington, because of the grandfathering problem.

[The Interpreter]

And? And?

[Big Media]

Funny. I was sitting, happily reading along believing this was something new that just went down... then, I looked at the date of the original thread. I feel like a jackass, now.

Goodradio.tv is dead, isn't it?

[Tom Taggart]

It's Dead, Jim.

[Hoosier Daddy]

It's Dead, Jim.