The main opposition to the CBS/Entercom merger, Ed Stolz, had sold KDND Sacramento to Entercom and got a big case of seller's remorse after the station's infamous "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest (a variation of the Hands on a Hardbody contest that turned out to be fatal for one of the contestants--the station fired the employees responsible, including the entire wacky morning drive on-air team, but still had to pay the family of the contestant damages after a lawsuit--the Entercom management in Sacramento, NOT Entercom corporate). Stolz tried to get KDND's license revoked, to which Entercom responded by taking KDND off the air completely shortly after the CBS/Entercom merger was first announced earlier this year (the Top 40 format was moved to another Entercom station in Sacramento). Stolz tried to stop the merger by citing CBS TV actions (the Stephen Colbert monologue where he called Trump "Putin's c--k holster"--even though the phrase was bleeped and blurred, Stolz claimed that the fact that they use wireless mikes still makes it an "indecent" broadcast--and alleged biased reporting by the "Evening News" on the death of Rep. Scalise), but the FCC seemed to look at this as grasping at straws.
Meanwhile, a bigger problem popped up in Boston, where there was much surprise when Entercom announced that they were trading off one of Boston's heritage stations, CBS' WBZ, to iHeart (along with their right-wing talk WRKO and urban adult contemporary WKAF and CBS' classic rock WZLX). Currently, WBZ, run by Westinghouse for decades before the merger of Group W with CBS, is all-news from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. and relatively-balanced 100% local talk at night. Obviously, iHeart is not really known for either of these things and it didn't help matters when they first announced that all employees were going to have to reapply and that they were not going to honor SAG/AFTRA contracts for on-air talent and news writers. As the online petitions started popping up along with the Twitter hashtag #SaveWBZRadio, iHeart changed heart and announced that they would honor the contracts. It's believed that iHeart will take over WBZ and the other stations by Local Management Agreement a week from tomorrow and that the one-foot-from bankruptcy company is going to look for a new owner for BZ ASAP. <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:43 PM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > > AllAccess > <https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/171355/fcc-signs-off-on-entercom-cbs-radio-merger> > (link) featured the expected gushing from Entercom chief David Field, and > links to the official paperwork > <http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1109/DA-17-1100A1.pdf> > at the Commission (link). > > B > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
