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    Default Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    They did a check during the game. If you are not familiar, Bison 1660 , owned by Radio FM Media, has a revenue sharing agreement. Basically 30% of all advertising revenue goes straight to our athletic department. Fans should want to see the station do well because it's success benefits us.

    Hope this number continues to grow because with budget cuts and the rest of the Conference getting more competitive, revenue is everything. The station is only a year old but we still need to get the word out.

    If you are not familiar, Bison 1660 AM or 92.7 FM has 2 daily talk shows from 11-1 and 4-6. They air extended pre game shows (Bison tailgate show), live football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, and softball games plus weekly coaches shows, press conferences, etc.

    If you live outside of Fargo you can listen live on the Bison 1660 mobile app or on Bison1660.com

    If you want to support NDSU athletics, listen to the shows, download the mobile app, spread the word, or flat out advertise with them.
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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    Quote Originally Posted by HerdBot View Post
    They did a check during the game. If you are not familiar, Bison 1660 , owned by Radio FM Media, has a revenue sharing agreement. Basically 30% of all advertising revenue goes straight to our athletic department. Fans should want to see the station do well because it's success benefits us.

    Hope this number continues to grow because with budget cuts and the rest of the Conference getting more competitive, revenue is everything. The station is only a year old but we still need to get the word out.

    If you are not familiar, Bison 1660 AM or 92.7 FM has 2 daily talk shows from 11-1 and 4-6. They air extended pre game shows (Bison tailgate show), live football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, and softball games plus weekly coaches shows, press conferences, etc.

    If you live outside of Fargo you can listen live on the Bison 1660 mobile app or on Bison1660.com

    If you want to support NDSU athletics, listen to the shows, download the mobile app, spread the word, or flat out advertise with them.
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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    I have no idea what the going rate is for radio advertising but that number seems a bit low. Hopefully 1660 is getting better ratings now than they were last year at this time so they can charge more for advertising and up that amount going forward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Professor Chaos View Post
    I have no idea what the going rate is for radio advertising but that number seems a bit low. Hopefully 1660 is getting better ratings now than they were last year at this time so they can charge more for advertising and up that amount going forward.
    No idea of the costs of advertising. The station is pretty much new. It launched last year on August 1st with only one 2-hour show (the insiders) and then on August 15th, Keith Brakes 2 hour show launched. A month later they were in the ratings period which were pretty low obviously since it was brand new and didn't have much for new content and not many people knew they existed. Next ratings they were worse but that is to be expected since there was no football or basketball.

    I hope this ratings period we as Bison fans see an uptick as they have a year in the books and the word is getting out.

    I would imagine the Insiders, The Brakedown, and the Saturday morning tailgating show will get some good listeners. The football and basketball games will obviously get some listeners as will the Klieman/Richman/Walseth call in Radio shows. The hardcore fans will listen to the weekly press conferences

    It's the rest of the content that is Fox Sports programming like Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd, and NFL games on Sunday that don't so much for listeners

    The station has described it's online numbers as "off the charts", especially on game day

    Hope the revenue keeps growing and they can find some more unique local non syndicated programming which will help numbers. Better ratings = more revenue for athletics.

    As Bison fans if you get one of those ratings books in the mail it would help the station out by filling it out. And if you don't live in the Fargo Moorhead area, download the mobile app, listen online, or follow them on social media.

    Even their social media started at zero last August but its grown from zero to a respectable amount in a year.
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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    When I was working at Y94, we billed 100k a month. I'll bet that's doubled in almost 20 years.
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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    Quote Originally Posted by Bison 4 Life View Post
    When I was working at Y94, we billed 100k a month. I'll bet that's doubled in almost 20 years.
    That's what I mean... $115K is 30% of only about $400k. So either radio advertising is going for about a third of what it was when you were at Y94 or 1660 advertising revenue was very low this first year in comparison.... either way hopefully it takes a significant hike this next year.

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    When I was working at Y94, we billed 100k a month. I'll bet that's doubled in almost 20 years.
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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    I've seen the packages they are selling for this year and to me, compared to other forms of advertising in town, their rates are pretty reasonable but have the opportunity to bring in some nice money for NDSU.

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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    I know it is hard to figure out with all the free ads and promo's, but what would have WDAY or the IN forum cut a check to NDSU for?

    Comparing the dollars is one variable, but having the Bison Brand front and center everyday is obviously worth something that you would not have gotten with Forum Communications.

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    Default Re: Bison 1660 generates 110k in revenue for NDSU athletics

    Quote Originally Posted by kab1one View Post
    I know it is hard to figure out with all the free ads and promo's, but what would have WDAY or the IN forum cut a check to NDSU for?

    Comparing the dollars is one variable, but having the Bison Brand front and center everyday is obviously worth something that you would not have gotten with Forum Communications.
    I wonder if we will see something like this with Kolpack in the future? Basically, the Wichita State beat writer is moving over to the Athletics side at WSU. His position is being mothballed at The Eagle but they will still rely on him for their day to day articles, except they will be paying WSU for them now instead of having a guy on staff.

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