{"id":11177,"date":"2014-08-13T21:49:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T01:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2014-08-15T03:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T07:45:38","slug":"radio-disney-pulls-the-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=11177","title":{"rendered":"Radio Disney pulls the plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rbr.com\/radio-disney-ditching-air-for-digital\/\">the story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Radio Disney has always been unorthodox.  They run a significant network of potentially valuable AM stations in major markets.  The stations are targeted specifically at children, up through early teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>I think they exclusively play music from artists they developed internally singing music they wrote &#8211; avoiding having to deal with ASCAP and BMI.   To my ear, Disney&#8217;s music is total dreck &#8211; but I would admit, it might be me.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other commercial radio stations, Radio Disney doesn&#8217;t rely on advertising.   It makes its money by selling music and convincing children to drag their parents to Florida or California and pay $100 a day to stand in line for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The story mentioned September 26 as the date that Disney radio will end, and go completely to Internet-based distribution, other than the mothership in Anaheim  California.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Disney finally realize that teenagers no longer run around with pink transistor AM radios.<\/p>\n<p>Who could possibly want to buy $100 million worth of AM radio stations?  The Catholic church (EWTN)?  Univision?  A newspaper chain freed of FCC restrictions in the last two weeks?   Rupert Murdoch?<\/p>\n<p>Since these are all major market stations, The existing big radio station owners \u2013 clear channel, Cumulus, CBS mostly can&#8217;t buy them because they are restricted by FCC ownership caps.  ESPN is a logical choice, other than Disney already owns (80% of) ESPN. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the story Radio Disney has always been unorthodox. They run a significant network of potentially valuable AM stations in major markets. The stations are targeted specifically at children, up through early teenagers. I think they exclusively play music from artists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=11177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,112,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-biz","category-radio-news","category-station-sales-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11185,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions\/11185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}