: MediaTakeOut.com just learned that Emmis Communications announced that ESPN Radio is the NEW OWNER of New York's 98.7 FM, and they are expected to STOP broadcasting urban music - and instead broadcast ONLY Sports Radio.

Emmis also entered into a transaction to sell the intellectual property rights of Kiss FM, the current format Emmis programs on 98.7FM, to MAGIC JOHNSON, who is in the process of acquiring New York radio stations WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM.

Dang . . .

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comfortably numb

Thats very disappointing! Gospel Sunday, kiss after dark, Motown...smh


Boogie_b

Well I don't live there so idgaf...but Magic Johnson gon have y'all straight!


porsche-212

Kiss after dark was my ish!


Miss_Super_Negra

Well ... Money is power It's a business

Oh well


onlyloveblackppl

anything that has *** rappers on Air should B *** down all over the world.


opinionatedbich

A shame.

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flaboy3

yea i agree with replacing kiss radio for espn radio. new york sports have rose to another level with the things they have their now. carmelo anthony, jr smith, chipper jones, jay z and the team he is trying to move over there. the city has sports teams on espn top teams in every sport.


animosity

I guess. WBLS is my station anyway

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addicted2gossip

1st CD101.9, NOW KISS? THIS IS FOUL


AthleticLatino

Wow. I'll miss that station. It was always on my presets.


dknickfan

@addicted2gossip word up all these stations are gonna sound the same now, Pandora is the way to go


xCivicx

That sucks. I live in Atl now but I'm from Brooklyn I'll never forget all those late *** driving through NY with my dad while he had his 98.7 kiss fm jazz playing. That's a majority of the reason why I still listen to jazz and I aspire to be a jazz guitarist


addicted2gossip

Goodlooking out @dknickfan, I wll definitely check it out. thanks


sayitsayit

i see some of you idiots commenting dont know what the *** you are talking about. KISS FM is not Hot 97. KISS FM plays real music old school grown *** sexy music and has positive programming that is intouch with the black community. Its the only station i can listen too that plays a variety of quality music. They play Monica Mary J Blige SWV TLC Luther Vandross Whitney Houston. Music from the 70s 80s 90s and throwback soul artists from the new millenium like Jill Scott Alicia Keys Ledisi Ginuwine etc


Alisha22

GOTDAMN!!!!!! NOW how am i suppose to indulge in sunday classics w/ Randy Hernandez, & my Michael Biaison ( spell check) show,*** Damn ***!!!!!!! (>_<)



Alisha22

That's some suckersh!t!!!!


Lianthe

no more Michael Baisden...i guess every cloud has a silver lining...


blkleo

oh well I'll get mad when wbls is off the air but that sucks kiss fm was pretty good and people 'justtoomuch and others' commenting about them playing rap music etc are not from ny you wouldn't understand so cut it out


Brooke Maxine

While the black community is busy spending hard earned money on strippers, lush jewelry and ultra expensive cars...honkey's are creeping and purchasing all the property that "REALLY MATTERS". Soon y'all have nowhere to hear Drake, Wakka flocka, and Iil Wayne? Bet those rednecks saying: Keep the crystal coming...Bunch of idiots!


koulpeeplz

I hope they get rid of Angie Martinez...TIRED of listening to a 45yr old woman talk like she's 13!

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caramel730

you know this is more serious than you can imagine. they took them off the air because WHITE AMERICA went underground and decided to buy Kiss fm due to the intellectual topics daily from 3pm and on sunday. they made sure they bought that station so they can stop Michael Baisden and the kiss crew so they cannot continue to give us news about our people around the country. they also helped Obama into the seat. You see its a bigger picture that nobody have not figured out yet. Our blacks are too busy , partying, drinking, fighting one another and just too plain ignorant to figure it out. kiss was one of the most influential black stations on radio.Evevtually blacks will be driven further apart due to there lack of knowledge.... GOD ... help our people we are in trouble . from what I am reading on this page we are in trouble..... keep on doing what the white man wants you to do stay ... STUPID... PEACE


juz2smov

I AGREE WITH sayitsayit! I GREW UP LISTENING TO 98.7 KISS FM AS A KID WHEN ISSAC HAYES USED TO BE ON THE AIR! THIS WAS EVEN BEFORE 105.1 CAME ON!! I AM GOING TO MISS THAT STATION. ALL THE "REAL NEW YORKERS" KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!


apnj

I'm gonna miss Kiss FM, they were the only thing postive on NY black radio, SMH!!!