Last week the Allentown papers reported <http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/spanish-language_espn_deportes.html> (LVLive link) iHeart -- not totally unexperienced in non-English programming -- traded in its Premiere Networks-backed Fox Sports Radio format built around area teams like the Phillies and minor-league hockey Phantoms on AM1470* for an ESPN Deportes affiliation where (once the current MLB season ends) whatever future play-by-play will be
*en Español...*I soooo want to think another station owner has made a move to flip something they own, in Philly if not locally, to English-speaking sports to compensate, but we Lehigh Valley-ites are still waiting for whatever was supposed to follow another area AM peashooter's flip to Latin tropical dance/pop back in 2007... iFart won't toss Seacrest-centered pop, heritage rock, and lousy-rated rightie talk on the other three in the cluster. *This station never knew a format they didn't like, having jumped back and forth among pop, standards, country, "oldies" and progressive rock**, and have had their owners and those of competitors repeatedly swipe call signs from each other until one that ultimately merged into ClearChannel seemingly restored order in the 2000s... **As they were in the process of one of those format flips, it was on their billboard, along a busy expressway, that three desperate guys camped for months in 1983, until one got arrested for drugs, and the remaining two eventually being both awarded recreational vehicles among many other prizes just to get them off... B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
