Continuing to work the News\/Talk station list, there were problems with Qantum Radio in South Carolina. Poking around brought up a recent news story of a complex 3 way station swap. Qantum is giving its stations to Clear Channel (14? 29?) in exchange for WALK AM\/FM – and then selling those two stations to another owner, putting themselves out of business. This feels like a forced sale by a lender.<\/p>\n
AllAccess news story<\/a><\/p>\n The FCC just approved the deal, but the money and paperwork hasn’t yet “closed” – sometimes deals fall through after the FCC approval.<\/p>\n Assuming this does close, a large bunch of stations and related streams will move. Clear Channel will likely change some station formats. It could be weeks or months before the new stations emerge online, but Clear Channel has lots of practice at buying and integrating stations.<\/p>\n Danger here is that in a few weeks \u2013 after I’ve applied all of the changes \u2013 a volunteer blindly following TuneIn.com might start reverting all of my changes back to say that the stations are owned by qantum. I would request that before you make changes to station formats or website URLs \u2013 please click the red history link in the station editor and see if I made changes in the recent past. Assume that I know what I am doing.<\/strong> I have been doing this for 10 years, and I am and have been the industry expert on this data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing to work the News\/Talk station list, there were problems with Qantum Radio in South Carolina. Poking around brought up a recent news story of a complex 3 way station swap. Qantum is giving its stations to Clear Channel (14? … Continue reading