Boston pubcasting giant WGBH buys commercial station WCRB for $14M (according to radio-info.com and radio blogger Scott Fybush), only a few months after The New York Times dealt with Univision and WNYC to transfer WQXR to WNYC (and switch QXR's frequency to the weaker 105.9, as Univision's Spanish WCAA "La Kalle" moves to QXR's old 96.3 slot):
http://www.wgbh.org/support/keepclassicalalive_main.cfm It's unclear whether CRB will be commercial or become a non-com like QXR will become on Oct. 8, when the frequency flip and WNYC takeover takes place, or if it will continue programming mostly only the Top 500 Most Loved Classical Favorites like most classical stations these days (their PD started the strategy at the long-defunct NY commercial station WNCN). It is safe to say that GBH's daytime programming will become all-news-talk, putting them against competing all-NPR-news-talk station WBUR (home of Click and Clack, Robin Young and Tom Ashbrook)-- GBH will continue to play jazz at night and above-92 commercial station that acts like a college station WHRB (owned by an NFP affiliated with Harvard) plays a lot of classical music. And three of the biggest radio deals of the year all involve public radio stations (KERA in Dallas is buying religious non-com KVTT for $18M to convert it in November to AAA KKXT). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
