Salem Media Group Reacquires KKOL Seattle.
KKOL is back within the Salem Media Group Seattle portfolio. The conservative and Christian-focused broadcaster is buying the signal from Intelli LLC for $500,000. Salem traded the station to Intelli
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Salem buys back KKOL
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I'm actually a little surprised that it's worth $500,000...
And 1680 is Regional Mexican, simulcast on 1300? Not sure Seattle needs an AM Regional Mexican station when it has an FM Regional Mexican outlet, 64,000 watt 99.3 KDDS, La Gran D. Although that one is a rim shot, with a tower near Skokomish.
The rest of the world doesn't know what to do with AM stations far up the dial. But Salem buys them and makes them profitable with some sort of brokered format, brokered religion, brokered business, brokered health shows, you name it. It's hard to get businesses to buy 60 second spots. But Salem finds people willing to buy 30 or 60 minutes, five days a week, to have their own shows.
KKOL is 50,000 watts by day, 3,200 watts at night. It's the second oldest radio station in Seattle. KKDZ 1250 signed on in April 1922 and KKOL was on the air in May 1922. KIRO, KTTH and KVI came years later.
The rest of the world doesn't know what to do with AM stations far up the dial. But Salem buys them and makes them profitable with some sort of brokered format, brokered religion, brokered business, brokered health shows, you name it. It's hard to get businesses to buy 60 second spots. But Salem finds people willing to buy 30 or 60 minutes, five days a week, to have their own shows.
KKOL is 50,000 watts by day, 3,200 watts at night. It's the second oldest radio station in Seattle. KKDZ 1250 signed on in April 1922 and KKOL was on the air in May 1922. KIRO, KTTH and KVI came years later.
"Regional Mexican" is an Angloamerican term which is broad and inaccurate.
There are a variety of formats within that marquee. They might do well with a gold-based format variant such as used by Lotus' KFWB (AM) in LA.
Intelli LLC has bought several stations that theyve never done much of anything with.. 1550 Atlanta? It's mentioned in their ID's on other stations, but its only been on air a few days a year with automated oldies to save the license.
Progrmaming comes from KAZA 1290 in San Jose and is simulcast across all the stations
They had 1510 near LA.. lost the tower site.
How do these vietnamese stay afloat and what is their business plan?
Progrmaming comes from KAZA 1290 in San Jose and is simulcast across all the stations
They had 1510 near LA.. lost the tower site.
How do these vietnamese stay afloat and what is their business plan?
You could probably ask the Punjabi language broadcasters the same thing. The local one in the Seattle metro has a lot of spots for Punjabi and South Asian businesses in the area. Maybe the Viets have a similar business practice.
Well, it sounds liek the Punjabi's have some local content, commercials at least.. maybe some shows. You missed the point of my post.. I've never heard any of that on the Vietnamese stations Intelli, LLC runs... so i wanna know how they stay afloat .. and buy stations and never do anything with them
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