Meet the New Red! - Willie Harris

but I would bet that AC/DC gets 100 times the radio play that Whitney does. Classic rock stations are ubiquitous, but early 90s R&B is not.

“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone…”

THWACK!

“Mom!”

If they didn’t have to pay regular people like him so much money, they could give more money to the Reds, and make Joey Votto an even bigger millionaire!

I feel like I heard a long time ago that Marge Schott had the chance to by WSTR years ago, but didn’t want to spend the money, and if she would have bought WSTR the Reds would have made a ton of money from broadcasting revenue.

If FSO knows the Reds have no interest in creating their own Regional Sports Network, then the Reds are at their mercy for the next four years. If the Reds can credibly threaten to leave FSO in 2016 to start their own RSN, then maybe FSO goes along with an adjustment to the current deal. It’d be nice if the deal was up in two rather than four years so that prolonging the Votto window was at least an option.

I mentioned the cable stuff in a Reposter earlier this winter. From what I cobbled together then and now, the Reds’ cable revenues are about 1/4 of Houston’s, 1/8 of San Diego’s, 1/8 of the Rangers’, something around 1/9 of Washington’s, and 1/15 of LAA’s. The deficit is big and getting bigger all the time.

It’s REALLY expensive to get a TV/Radio station off the ground, much less a network.

A fair amount of Cubs and White Sox games are broadcasted on local over the air stations, not only on WGN, but WCIU, because people in Chicago really really really want to watch every Cubs game, bars, not just in Wrigglyville, fill up with people just to watch the game.

Some Braves games are broadcasted on a local over the air network as well.

Outside of opening day I don’t think a game has been shown on a local network (other than national games) in 15 years.

Also, WLW likely shared ad revenues to some degree. And WLW can run their station IDs, promos, weather and traffic updates during the breaks. The big thing there is the promos. WLW can – in just one Reds game – familiarize you with their entire lineup, as well as who is going to be on the next show.

Even if one were to assume that WLW lost money on its Reds contract, it could be referred to as a productive “Loss Leader” in that if they lost $200k a year on the deal, it might be worth that cost to reach other listeners and to keep them tuned in before/after the game. Additional ratings during Reds game “spillover” can be monetized with higher rates on ads during the spillover-induced ratings boost. If they are able to sell an additional $600k in radio ads during the spillover, then doing the broadcasts earned them a net $400k.

“***putting down the pipe, stepping away from the computer****

Volume.