Tampa, Charlotte (NC) and Philadelphia are the cities affected. CBS gets stations in Philadelphia and Beasley gets these smaller market “Southern” radio stations. wHFS-FM in Florida has already switched from sports talk to “holiday” music in preperation for a new format in January
The FCC signed off on the deal, and the paperwork has been shuffled. No money changed hands. Beasley’s stations have the licensee of WCHZ Licenses.
The Beasley web site lists URLs for the stations, but they just send you to CBS. I would expect in a few days things will be migrated to their control.
In a little twist to this deal, Beasley gets WIP-AM 610 in Philadelphia, which has been carrying CBS Sports Radio after successfully shunting its local sports programming to to what is now known as WIP-FM. (I think it’s the former WYSP.) Beasley wants to change the 610 call letters to WTEL, which it used to use on another AM frequency in Philadelphia (900, if I’m not mistaken).
I’m guessing that Beasley will not keep the CBS Sports Radio programming. I wonder how long four national sports radio networks can continue to survive.
You are correct. As I was going through the stations, Beasley already has a WTEL web site – it didn’t have any real content, but had the look of a political news/talk format
http://www.610amwtel.com/