In a latest cost-cutting pierce during Disney, a association is seeking buyers for 6 AM and one FM radio hire that are partial of a Radio Disney portfolio in a United States.

Disney Media Networks is doing a sale of a stations in small- to mid-sized markets: Albany, New York; Kansas City, Missouri; Little Rock, Arkansas; Milwaukee, Wisc.; Richmond, Virginia; Salt Lake City, Utah; and San Antonio, Texas. The radio hire in Little Rock is on a FM dial.

It is misleading only how most silver Disney could collect from a sale of a stations directed during kids, tweens and families. The association does not mangle out formula from a radio stations in gain reports, incorporating them, instead, with a media networks group, that also includes foster and wire TV networks like ABC, Disney Channel and ESPN.

Disney still considers Radio Disney a clever item — generally as a height to foster a immature Walt Disney Records and Disney Channel stars, as good as association TV shows, thesis parks, online, diversion and film properties.

But it sees a sale as a approach for Burbank-based Radio Disney to concentration on a 24 stations it operates in a tip 25 markets, with a difference of Baltimore, Maryland. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas turn out a tip five.

Sale also comes as Disney is looking to boost income and urge distinction margins companywide by a sale of resources or staff reductions.

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This isn’t a initial time Disney is looking to sell off Radio Disney stations. It silenced 6 stations in 2010, also in small- to mid-market cities like Riviera Beach, Florida and Portsmouth, Virginia, as it sought buyers.

All of Radio Disney’s stations, are upheld by internal and inhabitant advertisers, while it also generates income from inhabitant advertisers on a digital and satellite placement platforms like RadioDisney.com, SiriusXM satellite radio, iTunes Radio Tuner, Facebook and mobile phones. Programming can also be downloaded around a iTunes Store.

“In a past year, we’ve driven new calm smoothness and ad sales income opportunities with Radio Disney Junior and a Radio Disney Music Awards, among others initiatives, and we intend to build on those opportunities while gripping a classification clever and focused on portion a listeners with programming that entertains and is suitable for kids- and families,” pronounced Phil Guerini, VP, programming and ubiquitous manager, Radio Disney, in a statement.

Disney also operates 12 Radio Disney stations in South America, that are not partial of a sale.

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Disney kept tenure of Radio Disney when it sole ABC Radio Holdings to Citadel Broadcasting Corp in 2007. Sale during a time consisted of 22 large-market radio stations and a ABC Radio Network.

Radio Disney started broadcasting in late 1996, with a slogan, “We’re all ears.” It launched Radio Disney Music Awards in 2002.