That Pennsylvania market (Nielsen market #72) was not mentioned as part of the original plan to divest stations to stay under FCC caps. Entercom currently has 6 signals in Wilkes-Barre, WGGY (Froggy 101) is a country station. Entercom also owns an Adult Rocker (WKRZ) HD-2 signal at 98.5, a news and sports station (WILK AM and FM), a CHR (WKRZ) and a Classic Hits station (WMQX). EMF has 13 signals in the state of Pennsylvania, none in Wilkes-Barre.
EMF CEO Mike Novak tells Radio Ink the two formats EMF specializes in, K-LOVE now has over 700 signals and Air1 has around 230.
Back in February Entercom announced there were six markets where the company needed to divest about 15 stations. Those markets are: Boston, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. Wilkes-Barre was not part of that original announcement.
KLOVE has become the radio equivalent of Star Trek’s “the Borg”. Assimilating radio stations, purging all human individuals and feeding their 700+ unmanned transmitters a single program. There’s no scheduling, no logs, so variables at all, not even sure if their stations air a legal ID. Dead simple to just plug a single feed into a transmitter. “God’s word” has put a lot of good people out of work. Resistance is futile.
Klove has four signals in Louisville, KY including an FM repeater that is blocking our commercial FM station. They have said they are turning down the power and even moving the translator further south but depending on the day and the weather they are still blocking part of our signal.
Who cares???