[Sudetenland]

LOL!!! OH NOES! NOT EVIL CLEAR CHANNEL! NOT RUSH LIMBAUGH'S NETWORK!!!

I can see liberals heads exploding already.

[raccoonradio]

Howie Carr list ping.

Some thoughts:

--Some think it may go Spanish. Ironically enough Stephen Mindich is married to Judge Maria Lopez ("YOU SIT DOWN RIGHT NOW!!!") and for years people thought Mindich would flip it to Spanish and put her in charge of it.

--Dare we think, the new FM home of Talk 1200? Imagine Jeff Katz, Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Severin, (HOWIE?????), Hannity etc on 101.7...

--Or who knows. It will continue as it is for now but when FCC approves it.. we'll see. Sale price about $11 million. I was a WFNX news intern Sept 83-Jan 84 and helped Henry Santoro, Cindy Farias, and the late Margie Coombs. I helped a bit on election night (Ray Flynn vs. Mel King.)

Coverage map:

[ConservativeStatement]

And yet Kiss-108 maintains its popularity. Ugh.

[raccoonradio]

I would have hopes of a “Talk 1200 on 101.7” but not sure it would happen. Expert Mark Schnyder of Boston Radio Watch
tweeted to me: “Let me put it this way -Clear Channel just didnt spend $11 mill on a city FM signal just so 101.7 could be Howie Carr’s new home “

Spanish? Adult contemporary?

btw a little while back a newspaper/site called the Weekly Dig put out a story saying they heard Entercom was buying WFNX so they could put “Mike 93.7” on 101.7, and flip
93.7 to WEEI sports. (The latter part DID happen.) I was suspicious about the story since a)nobody else had it and Ent. and Boston Phoenix were both denying it, and b) The Dig is a competitor of the Phoenix. Obviously they were tweaking the nose of their competitor!

[ConservativeStatement]

BTW, not sure if this interests you and perhaps you have knowledge, but saw this a few weeks ago in a crappy free newspaper while at the airport...

http://dirtywaternews.com/index.php/current-issue/issue-63/boston-living/1459-the-memories-station

[Fractal Trader]

I’ve started a new commute and have become quite frustrated in the morning. My old standby of WBOS changed its format to depressing grunge and its dial neighbor at 92.5 (The River) has lost it, too.

Ideally, I loke a mixture of old and new. I was listening to 104.5 this morning and they had the right mix, but too much talking. In fact, all across the dial, chummy conversations are taking up more minutes than the music itself.

For right now, I am doing 103.3, which is a little too disco for me, but has limited talking. Any suggestions for me?

[Drew68]

Because this is an emotional announcement to make, let me cut right to the chase."We'll now play the same 20 songs for 35 minutes each hour." Yay! Clear Channel!