CBS Radio consists of 117 stations in 26 markets, including clusters in every one of the top 14 markets. BIA estimated CBS stations generated nearly $1.3 billion in 2014 and CBS Radio consistently has five of the top 10 billing radio stations in the country. They are iconic brands such as WCBS in New York, WBBM in Chicago, KYW in Philadelphia, KMOX in St. Louis, KDKA in Pittsburgh, the list goes on and on. Here’s a complete listing of the stations many companies will be salivating to get a shot at purchasing.
MARKET #1 – NEW YORK
WBMP-FM Top 40
WCBS-AM News
WCBS-FM Classic Hits
WFAN-AM Sports
WFAN-FM Sports
WINS-AM News
WWFS-FM Hot AC
MARKET #2 – LOS ANGELES
KAMP-FM Top 40
KCBS-FM Adult Hits
KNX-AM News
KROQ-FM Alternative
KRTH-FM Classic Hits
KTWV-FM Smooth AC
MARKET #3 – CHICAGO
WBBM-AM News
WBBM-FM Top 40
WCFS-FM News
WJMK-FM Classic Hits
WSCR-AM Sports
WUSN-FM Country
WXRT-FM Adult Alternative
MARKET #4 – SAN FRANCISCO
KCBS-AM News
KFRC-FM News
KITS-FM Alternative
KLLC-FM Hot AC
KMVQ-FM Top 40
* CBS RADIO also owns and operates KZDG-AM in San Francisco. The station is programmed by Cinemaya Media through a Time Brokerage Agreement and features a Hindi-language format.
MARKET #5 – DALLAS
KJKK-FM Adult Hits
KLUV-FM Classic Hits
KMVK-FM Spanish
KRLD-AM News
KRLD-FM Sports
KVIL-FM Hot AC
MARKET #6 – HOUSTON
KHMX-FM Hot AC
KIKK-AM Sports
KILT-AM Sports
KILT-FM Country
KKHH-FM Top 40
KLOL-FM Spanish
MARKET #7 – WASHINGTON, DC
WIAD-FM Hot AC
WJFK-AM Sports
WJFK-FM Sports
WLZL-FM Spanish
WPGC-FM Rhythmic Top 40
** CBS RADIO also owns and operates WNEW-FM in Washington, D.C. The station is programmed by Bloomberg Radio through a Time Brokerage Agreement and features business news/talk.
MARKET #8 – PHILADELPHIA
KYW-AM News
WIP-FM Sports
WOGL-FM Classic Hits
WPHT-AM News/Talk
WXTU-FM Country
WZMP-FM Top 40
MARKET #9 – ATLANTA
WAOK-AM News/Talk
WVEE-FM Urban
WZGC-FM Sports
MARKET #10 – BOSTON
WBMX-FM Hot AC
WBZ-AM News
WBZ-FM Sports
WODS-FM Top 40
WZLX-FM Classic Rock
MARKET #11 – MIAMI
WKIS-FM Country
WPOW-FM Top 40
WQAM-AM Sports
MARKET #12 – DETROIT
WDZH-FMTop 40
WOMC-FM Classic Hits
WWJ-AM News
WXYT-AM Sports
WXYT-FM Sports
WYCD-FM Country
MARKET #13 – SEATTLE
KFNQ-AM Sports
KJAQ-FM Adult Hits
KMPS-FM Country
KZOK-FM Classic Rock1
MARKET #14 – PHOENIX
KMLE-FM Country
KOOL-FM Classic Hits
KZON-FM Top 40
MARKET #16 – MINNEAPOLIS
KMNB-FM Country
KZJK-FM Adult Hits
WCCO-AM News/Talk
MARKET #17 – SAN DIEGO
KEGY-FM Top 40
KYXY-FM Adult Contemporary
MARKET #21 – BALTIMORE
WJZ-AM Sports
WJZ-FM Sports
WLIF-FM Adult Contemporary
WWMX-FM Top 40
MARKET #22 – ST LOUIS
KEZK-FM Adult Contemporary
KMOX-AM News/Talk
KYKY-FM Hot AC
MARKET #25 – PITTSBURGH
KDKA-AM News/Talk
KDKA-FM Sports
WBZZ-FM Hot AC
WDSY-FM Country
MARKET #26 – RIVERSIDE
KFRG-FM Country
KRAK-AM Sports
KVFG-FM Classic Hits
KXFG-FM Country
MARKET #27 – SACRAMENTO
KHTK-AM Sports
KNCI-FM Country
KSFM-FM Rhythmic Top 40
KYMX-FM Adult Contemporary
KZZO-FM Hot AC
MARKET #31 – CLEVELAND
WDOK-FM Adult Contemporary
WKRK-FM Sports
WNCX-FM Classic Rock
WQAL-FM Hot AC
MARKET #32 – LAS VEGAS
KLUC-FM Top 40
KMXB-FM Hot AC
KXNT-AM News/Talk
KXQQ-FM Rhythmic AC
KXST-AM Sports
KXTE-FM Alternative
MARKET #33 – ORLANDO
WOCL-FM Classic Hits
WOMX-FM Hot AC
WQMP-FM Top 40
MARKET #52 – HARTFORD
WRCH-FM Adult Contemporary1
WTIC-AM News/Talk
WTIC-FM Hot AC
WZMX-FM Rhythmic Top 40
MARKET #138 – PALM SPRING
KEZN-FM Adult Contemporary
Moonves hates radio, and this has been evident for the past several years. This guy has given the entire AM-FM radio industry a black eye. The local press is bad mouthing broadcast radio in a very negative
way. Good riddance to Moonves and CBS. Bill Paley would have had some very appropriate comments
for Mr. Moonves.
Saul Levine
Is this the very same destroyer of America’s native art form, Jazz, speaking?
Thank goodness the banks won’t lend Cumulus or iHeart a dime to capture some of these iconic stations. The question is, are there any companies out there that could buy all of them, or will it end-up with some possible market-only sales? I would hate to see heritage stations like WBZ, KDKA, WIP, WCBS, WBBM, WWJ, WFAN (WNBC), KNX, WINS, KMOX and WTIC lose their status by someone who doesn’t understand the historical importance of these stations. Time to buy a PowerBall ticket, but even that wouldn’t be enough to buy all of Market #1 stations owned by CBS/Infinity/Group W Westinghouse.
Lemme unnerstan’ this, Shel.
Huge outfits with enough debt to keep a fleet of nuclear submarines on the bottom are actually in line to take a run at the CBS assets…?
(I’m going to go hide under the covers until I get your response.)
We all know iFart or Ruinulus would love to flip these properties over really fast & convert them all into the country’s first Harbor Freight Tools 24-Hour Superstores [all of the facilities’ control rooms would be kept intact so a “valued associate” — a/k/a fired & re-hired air personalities — could announce the hourly Blue Light Specials] …
… or another “branding guru type” would work his “call letter magic” and change WCBS to “The Dweeb”, KCBS-FM to “Burpin’,” WBBM to “The Koala,” et. al.
Then again, Moonves & wife Julie Chen could form a shell corporation — Big Brother & The Holding Company — and buy the entire slate of stations outright. “Expect the unexpected!”