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March 19, 2007

UMaine Moves Sports; Angers King

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*When one of your town's most famous citizens is Stephen King, you probably don't want to get him publicly riled up - especially if you're the University of MAINE, and it's King's radio stations that have been the flagship carriers for your sports coverage for many years.

And in fairness, it's not the university itself that made the decision last week to move its sports rights from King's WZON (620 Bangor) over to Clear Channel's WVOM (103.9 Howland) and WGUY (102.1 Dexter) - that call came from Learfield Sports, to which the University sold its sports rights, under the name "Black Bear Sports." It's Black Bear that did the deal with Clear Channel, placing UMaine football and hockey on WVOM, men's and women's basketball and some baseball and softball games on WGUY, and creating a network that will carry the games to other parts of the state as well.

Promoting the move on WVOM's morning show Thursday, station officials said it would give the broadcasts a wider reach across Maine, as well as restoring former Maine sports play-by-play voice George Hale to a role in the broadcasts. (While semi-retired, Hale still does some work with WVOM, a sister station to his longtime broadcast home, WABI 910.)

King and his wife Tabitha have been frequent donors to the university, and he fired back on the station's website Thursday:

"Tabby and I are very disappointed with the University's decision to move its sports broadcasting rights to Clear Channel, a company which is based far from the college it will be serving. We understand that monetary considerations were a prime consideration, but feel the Athletic Department in particular and the University in general may not understand that making money the prime consideration in any dealing is usually short-sighted. My wife and I feel that may prove to be the case here; we feel that what UM Athletics has gained for their programs may be offset by a loss in the area of community relations."

As with any good Stephen King yarn, there's another twist to the story: the Bangor stations are among the more than 400 nationwide that Clear Channel is trying to sell. Bids for the cluster were due a few weeks ago, and Clear Channel is expected to announce a buyer for the Bangor group any day now. Executives there say the sale won't affect the UMaine deal, whatever happens.

Comments from listeners on the Bangor Daily News website over the weekend were strongly on the side of the Kings and WZON, and it will be interesting to watch this dispute play out. We'll be following it here on NERW.

*One more little bit of Maine news: congratulations to WMME (92.3 Augusta), which just celebrated its 20th anniversary as "92 Moose"; it flipped to top 40 from WRDO-FM in March 1987.

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*In other news from New England, there's yet another TV station sale to report in RHODE ISLAND (though technically, this one's a MASSACHUSETTS station), as Freedom Communications has reached a deal to sell ABC affiliate WLNE (Channel 6) to Global Broadcasting LLC for an as-yet-undisclosed price.

Global is headed by Kevin O'Brien, who's spent time at the helm of the Cox and Meredith TV station groups, departing the latter in 2004 after what Broadcasting & Cable describes as a "stormy tenure" in which most of the company's stations changed general managers and news directors, not to mention an investigation of EEO violations.

Will the arrival of O'Brien and partner Robinson Ewert be less tumultuous at WLNE, which is sitting firmly in third place in the Providence market under Freedom? If nothing else, Global enters at a time when the rest of the market's unsettled, too - Media General just recently took over WJAR (Channel 10) from NBC, while CBS is in the process of spinning off CW affiliate WLWC (Channel 28) to new owners, leaving only the LIN duopoly of WPRI (Channel 12) and WNAC (Channel 64) under stable ownership at the moment.

*In MASSACHUSETTS, Bob Bittner is trying something new at his standalone AM station, WJIB (740 Cambridge). We've reported in recent months on Bob's struggle with music rights fees, which have skyrocketed now that WJIB has begun to make regular appearances to the left of the decimal point in the ratings. WJIB also lost the income it was receiving from leasing two morning weekday hours to Radio France International, and now Bob says he needs to raise $88,000 this year just to keep the lights on.

The result: an announcement last week that WJIB will experiment with listener support. If Bob can raise the needed money by June 30, he'll keep his standards format on the air at WJIB with no commercials and only a few interruptions (mostly for the Sunday church services that help keep the station afloat.) If he doesn't get enough money by June 30, Bob says he'll return whatever donations have come in by then - and he'll have some tough decisions to make. He doesn't want to air commercials, so one possibility is that WJIB may go up for sale. Whaever happens, Bob says his other station, WJTO (730) in Bath, Maine, is safe, since it's not under the royalty-fee pressure that WJIB faces.

Clear Channel's "Kiss 108" (WXKS-FM 107.9 Medford) was in the headlines last week for what apparently turned out to be an intricate (and rather confused) radio hoax. Morning host Matt Siegel took a call Tuesday morning from a woman who claimed she was going into labor while driving through Weymouth, prompting a morning-long search by Weymouth police (who were contacted by the station) that turned up no pregnant woman and no baby.

The phone call and the search made the TV news that night, of course - and then on Thursday, Siegel took another call from the same woman, who claimed someone paid her $500 to carry out the call. Only problem was, the call was supposed to have gone to rival morning guy John Lander of WBMX (Mix 98.5), as some sort of retaliation for one of Lander's "Nutcracker" on-air phone pranks. Why did "Jade" call Kiss instead? Why aren't Weymouth police going to press charges - or at least seek reimbursement for the expenses they incurred on the search? We don't know...but we're quite sure Siegel and Kiss don't mind the publicity, in any case. (And no, we're not implying they were in on the hoax.)

Radio People on the Move: Laura Rieder is inbound from Seattle, where she was marketing manager for Entercom, to do the same job at WRKO and WEEI in Boston. Former WRKO/WEEI exec Bev Tilden has a new job as marketing director for Connecticut School of Broadcasting, which has just opened a new Boston campus at 73 TV Place in Needham, right along the driveway leading into the WCVB studios. (Speaking of WCVB, they'll mark their 35th anniversary with a "5 at 35" special tonight.) And Doug MacAskill, former production whiz at WJMN (Jam'n 94.5), takes the same post at WODS (103.3).

While we're thinking about station anniversaries, the former WHAV (1490 Haverhill) would have been 60 on Friday, and the webcaster that's keeping its legacy alive, WHAV.net, has produced an anniversary special that aired throughout the weekend. "WHAV's 60th Anniversary: A Promise Fulfilled" includes guest appearances from Tom Bergeron, who got his start at WHAV, as well as Gary LaPierre, who worked there in 1961. It's on again tonight at 10, if you missed it.

Our condolences to the family and friends of Boston DJ Victor Pryles, who was known as "Victor K" on WROR (105.7 Framingham) and "Vic Martin" on WKLB (102.5 Waltham). Pryles had been a fill-in and weekend jock at what's now the Greater Media cluster for many years; earlier on, he was at WFEA in Manchester in the seventies, where he served for a time as PD under the air name "Penrod Rideout." Pryles died of a heart attack Thursday night while working as a club DJ on the South Shore; he was 57.

*In VERMONT, "Willobee" gets a promotion at WEQX (102.7 Manchester), adding operations manager duties to his role as PD and afternoon jock.

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*A well-known former NEW YORK, Boston and Providence PD has a new challenge: David Bernstein has just been named PD of Air America as the network reinvents itself under new ownership.

Bernstein's resume includes stops at WBZ, WOR and most recently at WPRO in Providence. He's been consulting since leaving WPRO in 2005, and he starts his new gig at Air America today.

The College of Staten Island has finally won a license renewal for its WSIA (88.9 Staten Island), more than a year after applying for what's normally a rubber-stamp process. In this case, though, a community group called "The Voice of Staten Island" and a resident named Dr. David Shear filed a slew of complaints against the station. Shear claimed that WSIA failed to maintain backup power or emergency broadcasting capability, that it caused interference with other stations, and that its programming violated the Fairness Doctrine. The VSI group also made the Fairness Doctrine claim, as well as alleging that the college's administration had improperly handed management of the station over to the student union.

The FCC tossed all those complaints, pointing out that it stopped enforcing the Fairness Doctrine years ago, that stations aren't required to have emergency generators, and that established policy allows colleges to delegate station operation to student groups. The FCC did acknowledge one complaint from VSI - it said that WSIA was improperly restricting access to the station's public file, and the FCC agreed, admonishing the station for that violation.

Up in Rochester, it looks like there's a new AM directional array on the way. We're still catching up on the flood of AM applications that poured into the FCC in January, and a closer look at what we thought was a very minor application from Holy Family Communications' WHIC (1460) shows that it's actually a pretty big deal.

WHIC, the former WHEC/WAXC/WWWG, lost its longtime three-tower transmitter site (above) on South Winton Road in Brighton last year, moving to a diplex with WROC (950 Rochester) at its transmitter site a mile or so to the west. But WHIC never fully built out that diplex (which would have had it running 4500 watts day, 5000 watts night, DA-N), and now it's planning to depart the WROC site, where it's been running 4500 watts day, 1500 watts night, ND under special temporary authority.

In its FCC filing, WHIC says WROC owner Entercom believes "the diplex operation will technically compromise the operation of WROC." So WHIC has instead found a piece of land about two miles to the southwest, off Commerce Drive in Henrietta. At that site, halfway between Marketplace Mall and the Rochester Institute of Technology, WHIC would run 3700 watts day, 5000 watts night, DA-N from a new array of three 199-foot towers.

Also in Rochester, WHAM (1180) has sold naming rights to its studios. At least once an hour through the end of the year, the Clear Channel news-talker will ID the "Reliant Community Credit Union Broadcast Center."

A few TV People on the Move this week: WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York is looking for a new morning anchor after parting ways with Steve Bartelstein. Much to the glee of the tabloids, Bartelstein was abruptly fired after he reportedly slept through a newsbreak a week ago. Upstate, another Channel 7 morning anchor is on the way out: the Buffalo News reports Pete Kenworthy is leaving WKBW (Channel 7) at the end of the week, heading west to Cleveland. Kenworthy's former morning co-anchor, Joanna Pasceri, has replaced Susan Banks on the 6 and 11 PM shows, with Erika von Tiehl as her morning replacement. WKBW's also getting a new news director, as Glen Horn arrives from KAKE-TV in Wichita to replace Bill Payer, who's now at WIAT in Birmingham, Alabama. And to complete the Channel 7 anchor-change triple play this week, up at WWNY (Channel 7) in Watertown, Susan (Brown) Hedrick is stepping down as co-anchor of the 11 PM newscast and anchor/producer of the 10 PM news on sister Fox station WNYF-CA. She'll continue to work part-time at the stations, with reporter Chris Onorato replacing her at 10 and 11. One more non-7 story: Sean McNamara, marketing director at WSTM (Channel 3) in Syracuse, and before that news director of News 10 Now there, heads south to Orlando as news director of Central Florida News 13. (Sean's cable news career included an early gig at R News in Rochester; he's also worked at KCOY in Santa Maria, California and at WOKR in Rochester.)

One Radio Person on the Move, too: Nik Rivers is heading north from WPBZ in West Palm Beach to become assistant operations manager at Albany Broadcasting. He'll also serve as APD and afternoon guy for WZMR (104.9 Altamont).

*It's either the worst-kept secret in western PENNSYLVANIA radio or some really clever stunting, but we're betting that the impending format change at CBS Radio's WRKZ (93.7 Pittsburgh) is for real. If blog postings from former WDVE stalwart Scott Paulsen and former KDKA talk host John McIntire are to be believed, "K-Rock" will relaunch April 2 as "The Zone," with FM talk and a lineup that will include Paulsen in afternoon drive. WRKZ already airs Opie & Anthony's syndicated morning show, which will stay, and the rumor mill suggests some of CBS' "Free FM" offerings from elsewhere in the country will fill some of the less-prime slots in the "Zone" schedule.

Over at community station WYEP (91.3 Pittsburgh), Kyle Smith is moving out of morning drive to become "director of programming-audio content"; the search for a new morning host is now underway.

And Renda's WJAS (1320 Pittsburgh) is adding John Tesh's syndicated show in the evenings. Tesh is also heard overnight on sister station WSHH (99.7 Pittsburgh).

Longtime Pittsburgh TV news anchor Tom Finn died March 8 at his home on Sea Island, Georgia. Finn started at WQED in the mid-fifties, then joined KDKA-TV as the anchor of its "World Tonight" newscast. He later went to Washington's WMAL-TV before returning to Pittsburgh's WIIC-TV (now WPXI) in 1971. Finn was 73.

Over in Philadelphia, the moving vans keep shuttling across Market Street as CBS clears out the KYW building on Independence Mall East. WYSP (94.1 Free FM) moves its studios over to Fourth and Market today, and Friday's supposed to be moving day for KYW-TV (Channel 3) and WPSG (Channel 57)'s news and engineering departments; everyone else from the TV stations is already in place at 1500 Spring Garden Street.

*In CANADA, the CRTC is putting out a call for applicants for new radio stations in Owen Sound, Ontario. That market is currently served by just one commercial broadcaster: Bayshore Broadcasting, which is maxed out with one AM (CFOS) and two FMs.

The CRTC turned down My Broadcasting's application for a new station on 95.3 in Pembroke. The new classic rock station would have been a sister to CIMY (104.9), and would have competed with Standard Radio's CHVR (96.7). Standard argued that the market can't support a third station, and the CRTC agreed.

The programming shuffle at CBC Radio has killed off the terrestrial simulcast of CBC Radio 3. The new service, aimed at a younger audience than the CBC's Radio 1 and Radio 2 listeners, was getting some weekend airtime on Radio 2, but a revamp of the Radio 2 schedule (stripping its new "Canada Live," "The Signal" and "Nightstream" shows across all seven days of the week) meant that Saturday's Radio 3 broadcast, which consisted of a retrospective of Radio 3's history was the last one over there. Radio 3 continues on the web and on Sirius Satellite Radio.

*Ready for some baseball? NERW's look at this year's Major League radio lineup is coming in our March 26 issue - and then we'll begin tackling the minor leagues (go, Red Wings!) on April 2, just in time for Opening Day. See you then!

From the NERW Archives

(Yup, we've been doing this a long time now, and so we're digging back into the vaults for a look at what NERW was covering one, five and ten years ago this week, or thereabouts - the column appeared on an erratic schedule in its earliest years as "New England Radio Watch," and didn't go to a regular weekly schedule until 1997. Thanks to LARadio.com for the idea - and thanks to you, our readers, for the support that's made all these years of NERW possible!)

March 20, 2006 -

  • Few TV anchors have ever had the impact on a market that Bill Beutel did over more than three decades in NEW YORK at WABC-TV (Channel 7). The Cleveland native came to the third-rated station in 1962 after a stint with CBS radio, working for both the local news and for ABC's network news operation. In 1968, Beutel went to London as ABC's bureau chief there. Two years later, he returned to New York and WABC-TV to launch a new experiment called "Eyewitness News," and in the years that followed, Beutel and co-anchor Roger Grimsby set a new standard for hard-hitting, fast-paced local TV news. Beutel and Grimsby remained together on the anchor desk (and atop the ratings) for 16 years, with Beutel taking on another assignment in 1975, serving as anchor of "AM America," the ABC network morning offering that would evolve (without Beutel) into "Good Morning America" the following year. Beutel left the anchor desk at WABC in 2001, though he remained with the station as a reporter until his retirement in 2003. Beutel died Saturday at his home in Pinehurst, N.C. He was 75.
  • Over at WABC radio, morning host Curtis Sliwa spent most of last week on vacation, while the station waits to see how the tension between Sliwa and co-host Ron Kuby plays out. Kuby was subpoenaed to testify in defense of "Junior" Gotti, on trial for allegedly ordering a hit on Sliwa in 1992. Sliwa and Kuby were last on the air together last Monday, and while they're both professionals, there's no question that the real-life drama outside their studio has to be adding some tension to their radio partnership. (And what is it about Mob hits on radio hosts, anyway? Last Sunday's "60 Minutes" carried an interview with a former colleague of fugitive Whitey Bulger who claimed that he almost carried out a hit on Boston Herald columnist and WRKO host Howie Carr a few years back...)
  • There's a format change of sorts on the NEW JERSEY shore, where WJSE (102.7 Petersburg) moves from modern rock "Digital 102.7" to a more mainstream approach as "102.7 the Ace." Early listening suggests that there's still plenty of modern rock mixed into the "Ace" format.
  • Absolute Broadcasting is growing its station holdings in NEW HAMPSHIRE. The company, which owns WSMN and WSNH in Nashua, has reached a deal to buy WKBR (1250 Manchester) from Steve Silberberg's Devon Broadcasting. Absolute will begin operating WKBR today, flipping it from oldies to Fox Sports Radio as "Fox Sports 1250." The station will also carry the "Friday Night Lights" football show from WSNH. No purchase price has been announced so far.

March 25, 2002 -

  • Over the last few years, we've seen Clear Channel enter plenty of markets in NERW-land (and beyond) with "Kiss"-branded CHR stations, often challenging entrenched CHR competitors. But it's rare to see one of those competitors change course as quickly as in Harrisburg, PENNSYLVANIA, where Cumulus pulled the plug on CHR at "Wink 104" (WNNK 104.1) last week after more than a decade and a half in the format. The move comes less than a year after Clear Channel flipped oldies WWKL-FM (99.3) to "Kiss" as WHKF; despite a much smaller signal, WHKF had pulled even with WNNK in the 12+ numbers by the most recent book. It didn't help, either, that WNNK parted ways with afternoon host Bruce Bond, one of the market's best-known personalities, last winter. (We hear Bond just might resurface in the market as an AM talker once his non-compete expires, by the way...) WNNK is still "Wink 104," but it's competing in the hot AC arena now, offering up "The Best Music of the 80s, 90s and Today" and adding older tracks by Celine Dion and the like to the playlist.
  • A bit of radio history died last week with the passing, at age 95, of the Rev. Dr. Carl McIntire. He was best known, perhaps, as the rabidly right-wing preacher whose "Reformation Hour" was heard on the radio from the 1960s until his recent retirement, but in radio circles he'll be forever known for the license revocation of WXUR and WXUR-FM in Media, near Philadelphia, in 1973. The FCC revoked the stations' licenses after finding they had violated the (now-defunct) Fairness Doctrine by refusing to present the views of those opposed to McIntire's fiery anti-Communist, anti-modernist editorials. After the stations were silenced (the AM frequency, 690, reappeared later in the seventies as WPHE Phoenixville, while the FM side remained dark until 1983 when it reappeared as WKSZ, now WPLY), McIntire moved his operation to a ship anchored off the New Jersey shore, from which he operated on 1160 kHz for a few days until a fire broke out and destroyed much of the equipment. McIntire never attempted to return to radio ownership after that, but his commentaries continued to air (most recently on WTMR in Camden) until he ceased producing them three years ago. He died Tuesday (March 19) in Voorhees, N.J.
  • Moving across to NEW JERSEY, the FCC has approved one of the longest-delayed transactions on the table: the sale of WNJO (94.5 Trenton) and WCHR (920 Trenton) from Great Scott Broadcasting to Nassau. The approval came as part of the Commission's attempt to clear a backlog of transactions that had been flagged for market-concentration issues; while WNJO-WCHR and four other old transactions were greenlighted, the FCC told Clear Channel it could not acquire WUMX in Charlottesville, Virginia, setting up a potential new round of challenges to the Commission's still-vague concentration guidelines. As for WNJO and WCHR, Nassau has been operating them under an LMA for so long that most people in the market probably thought the deal had long since gone through.
  • WBZ-TV (Channel 4) is pulling the plug on its 7 PM newscast on sister station WSBK (Channel 38). It'll be replaced next month with a 10 PM show on WSBK, the second time in a decade that WBZ has produced a 10 o'clock newscast for WSBK.
  • A pioneer in CANADA's multilingual broadcasting scene has died. Johnny Lombardi had to fight hard to get the CRTC to approve a station in a language other than English or French, but he won the license for CHIN in Toronto in 1966, eventually expanding to two full-time services on AM and FM, a new construction permit in Ottawa and a weekend schedule of TV (via CITY-TV Toronto), in a total of more than 30 languages. Lombardi, who remained a vibrant presence at CHIN and in Toronto's Italian community well into his eighties, died Monday (March 18) at 86. His family continues to own the CHIN stations.

March 28, 1997-

  • Live, local, and late-breaking: There's another urban station in Hartford. Mega Broadcasting has flipped WNEZ (910 New Britain) from Spanish romance music to urban as "910 Jamz." There's no urban FM in Hartford; the competition is Windsor's WKND (1480).
  • Boston's WCVB-TV (Channel 5) is getting a new owner. Hearst Broadcasting is merging with Argyle Broadcasting, and that means you can now list WCVB as a Hearst-Argyle station. The merger means the company will have to sell WNAC-TV (Channel 64) in Providence, a Fox affiliate operated under LMA by Clear Channel's WPRI-TV (Channel 12), because of the signal overlap between WCVB and WNAC. Late word is that Hearst is selling its radio properties in Milwaukee (WISN/WLTQ) and Pittsburgh (WTAE/WVTY) to SFX to help pay for the Argyle deal. The Providence market will have another LMA'd TV outlet by next week. WLWC-TV (Channel 28) New Bedford-Providence is due to sign on March 31, operated as a WB affiliate by NBC's WJAR-TV (Channel 10) Providence. Channel 28 will have a 10pm newscast produced by WJAR-TV.
  • Call letter news: Boston University's FM station is no longer WBUR(FM). It's changed calls to WBUR-FM, allowing the former WUOK(AM) in West Yarmouth to become WBUR(AM). WBUR(AM) simulcasts the NPR news and talk programming from WBUR-FM for Cape Cod listeners on 1240. Another historic Boston call has returned to the airwaves. WVBF, the calls associated with 105.7 in Framingham from 1970 until 1993, now can be heard each hour on AM 1530 in Middleborough. The new WVBF(AM) is the former WCEG(AM), and broadcasts programming for the blind from the Talking Information Center in Marshfield. The new public radio station on 91.1 from Nantucket will be WNAN(FM), and Sound of Life's new religious outlet in Glens Falls NY will be WARD(FM). The WARD calls were last seen on what's now WKQV(AM) 1550 in Pittston PA. 96.1 in Poughkeepsie NY is no longer WNSX; the new calls there are WTND, reflecting its "Thunder Country" simulcast with WTHN (99.3) Ellenville NY.
  • In business news: Congratulations to Bob Bittner, whose purchase of WJTO (730) Bath ME was approved earlier this month. Bob's now sorting his way through all the old stuff he's finding buried deep in the WJTO studio/transmitter facility. WMDI (107.7) Bar Harbor ME has been sold by MDI Communications to Bridge Broadcast Corp. Pilot Communications has sold its radio properties in the Northeast to Broadcasting Partners Holdings LP. The stations include WTVL/WEBB (1490/98.5) Waterville ME; WEZW/WMME (1400/92.3) Augusta ME; and WLTI (105.9), WNSS (1260), WNTQ (93.1) and WAQX (95.7 Manlius) in the Syracuse NY market. WLTI has just been granted a power increase to 4 kW.

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*It's here! As seen in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Chicago Sun-Times, and soon on WCVB's "Chronicle," Tower Site Calendar 2007 is not only now shipping - it's close to a sellout! If you're waiting for the 2007 edition to go on clearance sale, don't keep waiting - the word from the shipping department is that fewer than 200 copies remain, and we expect to sell them all in the next month or two.

This year's edition features what we think are the finest tower images yet - from the cover image of WCCO Minneapolis all the way to the back-cover centerfold of WBZ in Boston, and from KGO San Francisco to KOIL Omaha to Philadelphia's famed Roxborough tower farm, captured in a dramatic dusk shot with the lights all aglow.

This sixth annual edition once again contains plenty of historic dates from radio and television history in the Northeast and beyond, and as always, it comes to you shrink-wrapped and shipped first class mail for safe arrival.

You can even get your 2007 calendar free with your new or renewal subscription to NERW at the $60 level.

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