Anyone wanna buy a radio station?

[diva77]

Last edited Wed Mar 8, 2023, 01:23 PM - Edit history (1)

Listings here:
https://www.radiotvdeals.com/35.html?m8:search2[sel_text0]=AM%20Station;search2[sel_text1]=Mkt%20201%2B;search2[group]=2624560;search2[nested]=1

Surprising to see you can buy a station in Florida for as little as $250K.
https://www.radiotvdeals.com/35m8/florida.html

[Tetrachloride]

1. finding advertisers, hurricane insurance, vandalism insurance

libel insurance, polka insurance.

costs

[diva77]

2. what's polka insurance?

[Tetrachloride]

4. As a polka fan, i can attest to how much it is disliked

by the Villages. A saboteur could sneak in, play Roll Out The Barrel and the radio station could lose half its audience in 5 minutes.

With DeSantis in office, polka insurance is vital as he doesn’t like happiness.

[diva77]

5. Media landscape is so dominated by rethugs -- Dems should grab opportunities to get some

more air time by buying up stations -- and there are actually stations out there priced so that you don't have to be an oligarch to own one.

[brooklynite]

6. But are they in markets where Democrats will listen?

People don’t listen to RW talk radio because its the only station available; they listen because it tells them their existing beliefs are true.

Add to which, the radio audience is aging out. Most Millenials aren’t tuning in to terrestrial radio.

[diva77]

9. I don't know any specifics about the stations for sale. However, you underestimate

the power and popularity of radio -- here's an article from 2021(?) (couldn't find date).

https://www.soocial.com/radio-listening-statistics/

Where did you get your info?

[JI7]

3. no

[PSPS]

8. Those low-priced ones are low-power daytime-only AM stations

Their only source of revenue is vanity programming where some yokel buys airtime and then does a talk show with either self-produced ads for $50 a pop or the host asking for donations, or resold airtime to a syndication market (how limbaugh got started 40 years ago) for $1/listener. If it was a money maker, they wouldn't be selling it.

[Frasier Balzov]

10. You might as well mine bitcoin.

A hard way to make easy money.

[diva77]

12. I changed it. Apologies if I offended you.

The ongoing fascist practices of DeSantis were the reason for the "crack."

[Tommy Carcetti]

13. No problem. nt