I’m ready to declare that if you own a radio station license and are not streaming, you are either stubborn, not actually in the communications business, are frugal beyond reason or have questionable business judgement.<\/p>\n
With Clear Channel, Cumulus, Cox and Emmis lining up with iHeartRadio (and CBS doing their own thing), either every major company is the radio business has no idea what they are doing or the people who still refuse to make their programming available on the Internet a decade after the technology was widely available are the smart ones.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I’m going to go with the big guys.<\/p>\n
Here are the folks who still do not have a single radio station they have licensed to them with an internet stream:<\/p>\n
\r\n+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+-------------+\r\n| licensee | parent | license_count | streamcount |\r\n+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+-------------+\r\n| FOREVER BROADCASTING, LLC | Alt\/Confer Trusts | 21 | 0 |\r\n| LEGEND COMMUNICATIONS OF WYOMING, LLC | Big Horn Radio | 15 | 0 |\r\n| LEGACY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC | Legacy Communications | 15 | 0 |\r\n| W. RUSSELL WITHERS, JR. | Withers | 12 | 0 |\r\n| COCHISE BROADCASTING LLC | Cochise Media | 12 | 0 |\r\n| MT. RUSHMORE BROADCASTING, INC. | Wyoming Radio | 11 | 0 |\r\n| URBAN RADIO LICENSES, LLC | Urban Radio (Goldman Sachs) | 11 | 0 |\r\n| CHARLES W. DOWDY, DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION | --- | 10 | 0 |\r\n| BURBACH OF DE, LLC | Alt\/Confer Trusts | 10 | 0 |\r\n| CEDAR COVE BROADCASTING, INC. | --- | 9 | 0 |\r\n| CASA MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC | --- | 9 | 0 |\r\n| CCR-ST. GEORGE IV, LLC | Cherry Creek | 8 | 0 |\r\n| TALLGRASS BROADCASTING, LLC | --- | 8 | 0 |\r\n| BLUEBERRY BROADCASTING, LLC | Blueberry | 8 | 0 |\r\n| BL BROADCASTING, INC. | --- | 8 | 0 |\r\n| MAGNUM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. | --- | 8 | 0 |\r\n| BICOASTAL MEDIA LICENSES, LLC | BiCoastal | 8 | 0 |\r\n| ZIA BROADCASTING COMPANY | --- | 8 | 0 |\r\n| HISPANIC TARGET MEDIA, INC. | --- | 7 | 0 |\r\n| MORGAN COUNTY INDUSTRIES, INC. | --- | 7 | 0 |\r\n| COMMUNITY BROADCASTERS, LLC | --- | 7 | 0 |\r\n| ANDERSON RADIO BROADCASTING, INC. | --- | 7 | 0 |\r\n| ADELANTE MEDIA OF EASTERN WASHINGTON LIC | Adelante Media | 7 | 0 |\r\n| DIERKING COMMUNICATIONS, INC. | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| MAPLETON LICENSE OF MEDFORD, LLC | Mapleton | 6 | 0 |\r\n| NEWPORT BROADCASTING COMPANY | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| SOUND COMMUNICATIONS, LLC | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| HISPANIC FAMILY CHRISTIAN NETWORK, INC. | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| PRITCHARD BROADCASTING CORPORATION | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| NEW RUSHMORE RADIO, INC. | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| LOVCOM, INC. | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| CCR-HELENA IV, LLC | Cherry Creek | 6 | 0 |\r\n| HIGH COUNTRY ADVENTURES, LLC | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| EUREKA BROADCASTING CO., INC. | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| WRD ENTERTAINMENT, INC. | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| MAJESTIC BROADCASTING, LLC | --- | 6 | 0 |\r\n| CAMERON BROADCASTING, INC. | Cameron | 5 | 0 |\r\n| QANTUM OF AUBURN LICENSE COMPANY, LLC | Qantum | 5 | 0 |\r\n| CCR-GREAT FALLS IV, LLC | Cherry Creek | 5 | 0 |\r\n| KTTR-KZNN, INC. | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| TKC, INC. | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| COHAN RADIO GROUP, INC. | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| GERALD W. HUNT | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| OPUS BROADCASTING SYSTEMS, INC. | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| RADIO CLEVELAND, INC. | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| BEE BROADCASTING, INC. | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| NORTHEAST COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| VICTORIA RADIOWORKS, LLC | --- | 5 | 0 |\r\n| WITHERS BROADCASTING OF SOUTHERN ILLINOI | Withers | 5 | 0 |\r\n+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------+-------------+\r\n<\/pre>\nI recognize many in the list as having recently gone through bankruptcy, recent ownership changes or companies where the owner died and didn’t have a clear plan of succession so nobody is able to make decisions.<\/p>\n
It’s possible a few recently might have added streaming, but I doubt it. If you spot errors, just post a reply and I’ll get right on it. Note that some owners have only a few of their stations streaming, and that’s enough to stay off of this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m ready to declare that if you own a radio station license and are not streaming, you are either stubborn, not actually in the communications business, are frugal beyond reason or have questionable business judgement. With Clear Channel, Cumulus, Cox … Continue reading