Entercom surrenders KDND/Sacramento license after challenge

[retailisking]

The move helps clear the way for the CBS Radio merger
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/162357/entercom-surrenders-license-of-kdnd-sacramento-mov

[shore72]

Too often I lose touch with what's going on in the radio business; going through the list of CBS owned stations shows, to me, how out of control things have gotten. Look at what they own in markets like NYC & Philadelphia-they call that competition?

I remember 25 years ago they wouldn't let a local guy start a station because he was publishing a weekly newspaper in a town 30 miles away. He had a prior record of owning a station & would have replicated the format: heavy on local news & public affairs, along with music that nobody else played (old, traditional C&W). Things changed quite a bit...not for the better?

[giantsfan2016]

In 1996 they loosened the rules of the number of stations one company own - both in each market and across the country. In the largest markets it's 8. Up to 5 on either band (FM/AM).

Examples - Hartford, Connecticut:

CBS:
93.7 Hip-hop
96.5 Top 40
100.5 Adult Contemporary
1080 News/Talk

I-Heart (formerly Clear Channel)
92.5 Country
95.7 Top 40
97.9 Sports Talk
105.9 Variety Hits
1410 Talk

Other Stations in Hartford
102.9 Classic Rock and 1360 Talk are owned by a small company called Connoisseur (1360 is also on 3 other AM stations throughout the state)

104.1 Alt Rock and 990/96.1 Oldies are owned by a local company called Red Wolf Broadcasting (96.1 is a low-power repeater of AM 990). Red Wolf also has a network of 5 Low-Power stations across the state that run a Spanish Top 40 format and that's based at 104.1 HD2.

The low-power repeaters do not count against ownership caps.

Boston:

CBS:
98.5 Sports Talk
100.7 Classic Rock
103.3 Top 40
104.1 MIX
1030 All News

TV:
4-CBS
38-My Network TV

Entercom:
93.7 Sports Talk (Local)
97.7 R&B From the 90s, 00s, and today
107.3 Rock
680 Talk
850 ESPN

I-Heart:
94.5 Hip-Hop
101.7 Country
107.9 Top 40
1200 Bloomberg Business Programming
1430 Talk

Beasley
92.9 Alt. Rock
96.9 Throwback Hip-hop and R&B with some new Hip-Hop and R&B
102.5 Country
105.7 Classic Hits
106.7 Adult Contemporary
1330/106.1 Currently Off the Air

[TheFugitive]

IMHO the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which instituted those changes was perhaps
the most corrupt piece of legislation to ever pass Congress.

And THAT'S really saying something.