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WKRS Waukegan

Posted by JJSPC on September 3, 2019, 12:30 pm

Just curious if anyone has heard what WKRS is planning on doing when the Spanish ESPN network shuts down on the 8th.

Re: WKRS Waukegan

Posted by Boss on September 3, 2019, 12:59 pm, in reply to "WKRS Waukegan"

They will flip to regional mexican throwbacks. All the greatest regional mexican hits from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

Re: WKRS Waukegan

Posted by Jeremy Andrews on September 3, 2019, 1:02 pm, in reply to "WKRS Waukegan"

Zip. Nothing. I’m guessing they’ll expand their local programming.

They move to Gurnee Mills in December or January. They might not do much until then. The studio building they’re moving out of is a disaster. They have plastic covering the walls where the flood damage was 2 years ago. Launching a new format there would probably not be the best idea.

Re: WKRS Waukegan

Posted by Whaaaaa???? on September 3, 2019, 1:15 pm, in reply to "Re: WKRS Waukegan"

Building condition should not hold them back launching a new format that can make them money.

Re: WKRS Waukegan

Posted by Jeremy Andrews on September 3, 2019, 6:14 pm, in reply to "Re: WKRS Waukegan"

I figure they’ll either keep the local programming running on a new and replay basis until the new studio and offices are finished.

If they don’t, it will probably wind up simulcasting another station until it’s ready.

They seem more focused on this studio move and finding an engineer (Which they seem to be unable to do, been posting ads for one for months) than they are WKRS’s format change. There’s nothing anywhere as far as any signs of a major format change. They even have the ESPN Deportes 1220 logo on the wall by where the studio in the mall will be, as well as in the Mall directories.

Guess we’ll find out Monday. Plenty of other Spanish formats, and I believe it will stay Spanish.

Re: WKRS Waukegan

Posted by Jeremy Andrews on September 4, 2019, 12:26 pm, in reply to "Re: WKRS Waukegan"

It will stay Spanish Sports. Univision Deportes (Tudn)

Re: WKRS Waukegan

Posted by JJSPC on September 4, 2019, 12:40 pm, in reply to "Re: WKRS Waukegan"

Thumbs down. But then again what else can they really do with it in 2019.

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