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- From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
- Subject: Infinity, and other Boston radio happenings (was Howard Stern Show..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.140424.16301@gagme.chi.il.us>
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- Sender: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
- Organization: _
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:04:24 GMT
- Approved: rrb@airwaves.chi.il.us
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- >Cities that don't have the show, but a(some) station(s) is(are) in
- >negotiations:
- > Fresno, CA
- > San Francisco, CA (?)
- > Denver, CO
- > Hartford, CT
- > Miami, FL (?)
- > Atlanta, GA
- > Boston, MA
- > Detroit, MI
- > Pittsburgh, PA
- > Seattle, WA
-
- Boston will be there very shortly. Atlanta could be there too.
- The FCC also has apparently backed away from its threat to delay or
- block Infinity's $100million purchase of WZLX in Boston,WZGC in Atlanta
- and WUSN in Chicago because of Stern's 1991 on-air remarks for which
- Infinity was slapped with a $600,000 fine this past week.
-
- On Friday,5 FCC comissioners took a vote and they voted 4-1 to grant the
- application to assign licenses of those 3 stations from Cook Inlet to
- Infinity.
-
- FCC Chairman Al Sikes was the only vote to opposed the sale.
-
- Speaking of Boston,WSSH-FM(99.5 "WISH",soft AC sound) was sold by Noble
- Broadcasting Group(I couldn't remember their name in my previous post
- about Boston recent radio ratings) to Granum Communications for $18.5
- million.
- Granum bought another Boston station(WBOS,92.9 "Soft Album Rock") earlier
- year.
- The WSSH deal will take 3 month for official FCC approval. According to
- Granum president,Herb McCord, WSSH's format will not be changed.
-
- This is the 4th such deal in the Boston market since September when the
- FCC relaxed its ownership regulation :
-
- 1. Infinity(WBCN FM) bought Cook Inlet's WZLX(FM).
- 2. Pyramid(WXKS-FM,WXKS-AM) took over Atlantic Ventures(WBMX-FM,WRKO-AM)
- in a friendly merger to form Boston Radio Group. BRG then also acquired
- WHDH-AM.
-
- 3. Greter Media(WMJX-FM) signed an agreement to buy Emmis'(WCDJ-FM)
- 4. Granum Comm.(WBOS-FM) signed an agreement to buy Noble's(WSSH-FM)
-
- -Mark.
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