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Good morning.

There is some news about the X station. CC has named a new sports director. He will do a morning two hour talk show on AM 970 (sports?) Then do sports afternoons on the X with Stan Savaran.

Pittsburgh can not support so many sports stations so something has to give. Hopefully it will open a new talk station and a slot for Q&R. Or possibly Q&R on 970 early then the new sports director doing his morning show there after them...maybe at 9 or 10.

No matter what it looks like a solid conservative talk station is done.

Posting this to the group list and others who frequent the Q&R thread. Sorry if I missed anyone.

FYI from Voy forums, Pittsburgh Radio...

FWIW!

The Future at CC 104.7 FM -- Dysfuncion Junction, 13:00:26 02/07/14 Fri [1] So the dust has sort of settled over at CC on top of Green Tree Hill.

105.9 The X is going back towards a more music formatted audience with Abby going to mornings, Tim Benz off to AM 970, MM going all talk, no music & the forgotton addition of Mike Steel now on 6p-12a (MM's old producer).

So is that the end of the 'changes' to take place? Not exactly.

The word is that 104.7 could still very well flip formats to 1 of 2 things....ESPN Radio/24 hr sports or....Country!

Yes, that's right there is still talk about these changes. Of course, it could stay News/Talk.

So what's the deal here? Pretty Simple, you have 3 people at CC either butting heads/in disagreement on what the next step is for the station.

1 Gregg Henson- The PD of 104.7 does some sort of show from 6-8 pm M-F & to be honest, unless you are actually tuned into the station, you would have no idea they even do sports. Much of what he does is nothing more than replay clips from 940 AM's shows like Stan Savran & David Todd (is he still paying to be on 970???) so if and when he has an opinion on something topical, you really must tune into hear it. Henson wants 104.7 FM to flip. If it does, pray he's not in charge as it would be a disaster. Chance of this happening < 50%

2. David Edgar- One of the suits at CC who sits above Henson, but is more on the Web end of things. Edgar seems to favor a flip to a Country format. I'm not sure cost wise if that is a better choice for CC, as they would have to go with a morning show (most likely syndicated) & some live jocks, where a sports flip means taking the existing 'talent' and moving them from AM 970 to FM. Chance of this happening < 25%

3. Gene Romano- The Capo di tutti capi (ok he's Executive Vice President Clear Channel Media+Entertainment) and thinks 104.7 should stay News/Talk. Since this idea doesn't cost anything, you can almost be assured that the Chance of this happening is > 99.9%

Talk amongst yourselves people....