On 30 Mar 2004 15:06:16 GMT, Doug Smith W9WI
wrote:

Steven J Sobol wrote:
Which one? They only own one Akron AM and one Cleveland AM.

I suppose the Akron one... (which one do they own?)

IIRC WTAM-1100 is their Cleveland AM - I'm sure they'll want to keep
that - but nothing in Akron comes anywhere near the proposed Stow
signal, IMHO they'd be glad to trade it to Family Stations if that gets
them approval for the 1170 move.

Clear Channel actually owns two AMs in this market (Akron). In
addition to WTOU "Fox Sports 1350" (the historic country WSLR), which
they picked up in the Barnstable deal with WKDD/96.5, they recently
bought WHLO/640 from Salem. WHLO was flipped to a news/talk format
shortly after the purchase.

My gut tells me that they won't give up either 640 or 1350 to Family
Radio...and that somehow they'll move or pay FR to shutter 1150 to get
the move accomplished.

Of course, since the Barnstable purchase, 96.5 - still licensed to
Akron - became Cleveland market "96.5 Kiss FM", and the WKDD
programming moved to 98.1 Canton...the former WHK-FM, once owned by
Salem.

My gut tells me that they won't give up either 640 or 1350 to Family
Radio...and that somehow they'll move or pay FR to shutter 1150 to get
the move accomplished.


Which is what they did in CA to get two co-channel 1150s off of L.A.'s 1150 in
order to do a 50/44 kW upgrade there.