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To: RightOnline
Here's a link to Listen WKDN - Family Radio Network 106.9 FM Camden, NJ Live Radio Broadcast Channel Online.

The losing AM station is stupid.
I spent some time in PNE and actually learned to like FRANK SINATRA - THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD from that losing station.
But if they're stupid enough to drop Rush, then they deserve to fall into the waste pile of history.
More power to WKDN - Family Radio Network 106.9 FM Camden, NJ.
14 posted on 04/10/2012 1:25:49 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die!)
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To: Yosemitest

I have to say, in AM680’s defense, here again....it wasn’t their choice. “Ownership” of Limbaugh’s programming, not the station itself, decided to pull it and put it on another local (FM) station that they owned. IOW, stick it on one of their own properties vs. AM680. I imagine the station management got very, very drunk the day they learned of this.


15 posted on 04/10/2012 1:28:38 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: Yosemitest
WKDN is technically owned or WILL BE owned by Merlin Media but operates them under a Limited Marketing Agreement from Family Radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKDN

>>WKDN (106.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Camden, New Jersey and the Philadelphia market. The station is owned by Merlin Media, and is currently operated under a local marketing agreement by WKDN's former longtime owner, Family Stations, Inc..On December 6, 2011, Merlin Media, LLC announced it would acquire WKDN from Family Radio. Since the sale was completed on March 6, 2012, Family Radio has continued to operate WKDN under a local marketing agreement while Merlin constructs new facilities for the station. Based on web domain reservations and programming changes at other Philadelphia stations, Merlin is expected to convert WKDN to a format of news, talk, or news/talk combination. (The former format would mirror that of Merlin stations in New York City and Chicago.)

16 posted on 04/10/2012 1:29:53 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Yosemitest

CBS owns WPHT.
As it says in article:
>>Premiere recently notified WPHT they will be syndicating Rush Limbaugh on a new station in Philadelphia,” CBS Radio said in a statement emailed to the Daily News. “As a result, we are pleased to be able to now showcase Michael, who is a well-known and acclaimed broadcaster in Philadelphia, in this new time period.

So maybe Premiere pulled to have WKDN run him (Merlin) and/or
CBS wants to have Smerconish in that slot. Right now
he’s 3-7 pm, though he does a national edition at noon
I think (WTKK in Boston runs him)

Also from the philly.com article:
>>Smerconish will be a major change in tone from the bombastic and unfailingly conservative Limbaugh. Although he was once a local GOP official and has conservative views on some issues like racial profiling, Smerconish backed Obama in 2008 and has become a registered independent.


17 posted on 04/10/2012 1:33:38 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Yosemitest
But if they're stupid enough to drop Rush, then they deserve to fall into the waste pile of history.

They may be dropping Rush, and they may not. Rush might be dropping them, due to ongoing preemptions for baseball. Or a better deal at the new station.

In any case Rush will be heard by the people who want to hear him, and will continue to make oodles of money, as will the station he is transferring to, whomever that is.

The station he's leaving, well, good luck to them. It is possible to make money without airing Rush's show. But it is more difficult.

64 posted on 04/10/2012 7:13:58 AM PDT by Cheburashka (It's legal to be out at night in spacesuits, even carrying a rag dolly. Cops hauled us in anyway.)
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