Mpower Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 from www.dcrtv.com CC's Zier To Run Snyder's Red Zebra - 1/11 - On Wednesday afternoon, Clear Channel announced that Bennett Zier (right), head of its Washington/Baltimore radio operations, is leaving the company to become CEO of Red Zebra Broadcasting, a group being launched by Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder. According to Radio And Records, Snyder, who recently seized control of the Six Flags amusement park chain, reportedly wants to build a media empire and is putting Zier in charge of sniffing out radio, television, and internet opportunities nationwide. R&R adds that while rumors have been swirling that Snyder is jockeying to buy Mega Communications' three-station DC area radio cluster, Mega has denied that a deal is in the works. A well-placed DC radio source tells DCRTV that Mega's stations are a "pathetic collection of signals." Also, DCRTV hears that the domain name of redzebraradio.com was registered to the Redskins on 1/9. DCRTV also hears that Zier was known as "Blue Zebra" by some at Clear Channel. "He jumped off the Clear Channel bridge before he was pushed," we're told. Another source says: "The staff will be told at a 2 PM meeting. Clear Channel wanted Bennett out as of today but he got them to let him stay until Friday. After that, CC's senior VP for the area will come in and run things until a new person is selected." For about two weeks, DCRTV has been exclusively reporting rumors that Snyder is negotiating to purchase three radio stations from Mega - Spanish language WBZS (92.7 FM), WBPS (94.3 FM), and WKDL (730 AM) - to start a sports talk format and move the team from CBS/Infinity's WJFK-FM. The current line of thinking is that WBZS and WBPS will flip to English language sports talk and will carry the Skins in 2006, possibly with the addition of Clear Channel's SportsTalk 980 (WTEM), while WKDL will remain Spanish language with possible Spanish coverage of the Skins. Stay tuned..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinstzar Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Wow. Bennett Zier has been a huge media mogul in the DC area for a long long time. Nobody knows DC radio better than that guy. When Snyder does something big it always succeeds. I bet his first order of business should he buy 980 would be to fire Czaban. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gortiz Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I bet his first order of business should he buy 980 would be to fire Czaban. While I think your post was hilirious, I think a Czaban is a not even close to being on The Dannys radar ... I really hope another sports station comes out of any of these dealings ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDSCNZ20 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 dang.. thats big.. go snyder make more Cash.. and you what they say about cash.. Cash > salary cap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsFan47 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 synder has lead the skins from his 800million buying price to over 1.1 billion in just a few years, and has made the redskins the second most valueble sports fanchise in the world only behing manchester uniter soccer, his media company is gonna be huge and sucessful, if i had the moeny id buy stock http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/30/Rank_1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gridironmike Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I was hoping that Redskins partner XM Satellite Radio would become the flagship station for Redskins football and then make one (or more) of the D.C. stations an affiliate so that fans wouldn't be shut out from Redskins broadcasts on terrestrial radio. If XM signed them, there would be nothing Sirius could do to keep at least one NFL broadcast off of XM, and XM would get their name on Sirius during every Redskins broadcast (unless Sirius decided to carry only the opposition broadcast). Snyder is enough of a maverick to do this. Oh well, wishful thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncskinsfan71 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 What does this mean to the Redskins network of stations outside the Metro area? Will we lose Sonny and Sam here in NC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
min7th Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 The answer is elementary my dear Watson, Redskins.com, over the internet. Just be sure to hire Sonny and Sam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-O-G Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Is this a radio station that fans outside of Virginia can listen too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinstzar Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 While I think your post was hilirious, I think a Czaban is a not even close to being on The Dannys radar ... I really hope another sports station comes out of any of these dealings ... You're probably right. Czaban is an ant in Dan Snyder's world. I have grown really tired of his act and would love to see him axed at the hands of somene he so often bashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neongel Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Doesn't Sirius (or the other one) have exclusive rights to broadcast NFL games, at least outside of the home market? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Last week called, it would like its news back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neongel Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Last week called, it would like its news back I thought the whole idea was to resuscitate existing threads instead of creating new ones. It can't work both ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoGood28 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 On another note but pertaining to Dan Snyder's business ventures, I thought it interesting that Snyder has banned smoking inside of all Six Flags theme parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOskins56 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 If XM signed them, there would be nothing Sirius could do to keep at least one NFL broadcast off of XM, and XM would get their name on Sirius during every Redskins broadcast (unless Sirius decided to carry only the opposition broadcast). Snyder is enough of a maverick to do this. Oh well, wishful thinking. At the end of the day doesn't the NFL own the national broadcasting rights to the Redskins? Look at how the NFL shut down the Cowboys and Falcons cable tv channels because of the NFL Network. I seriously doubt that Snyder will be able to block Sirius & the NFL from the Redskins radio broadcasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefPowhatan17 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I don't know if this is good or bad, as long as Sonny and Sam stay on the radio for gameday I don't care.:logo::logo::logo: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I thought the whole idea was to resuscitate existing threads instead of creating new ones. It can't work both ways. New article, new thread. Same as it always was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 What does this mean to the Redskins network of stations outside the Metro area? Will we lose Sonny and Sam here in NC? You are either on an affiliate of WJFK or your station bought into the broadcast. I wouldn't worry. Where there is interest there will be broadcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-O-G Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Can somebody answer my question on the first page of the thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 This will be nice and yeah I'd like to have them on XM radio too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarpon75 Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 If I am not mistaken the Skins over took Manchester United as the wealthiest sports franchise in the world this past year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonnyRules Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 I can have all his studio microphone arms custom made in burgundy & gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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