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Disney Sells 1110 KRDC to KWVE Owner Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa

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Ryan Williams

More details to come...

- The deal does include Pasadena-licensed (but located in Arcadia) translator K256CX, 99.1 FM. Expect this to be reconfigured.
- Price is $5,000,000.
- Do not see any LMA/TBA prior to the close.
 
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Ryan Williams said:
More details to come...

- The deal does include Pasadena-licensed (but located in Arcadia) translator K256CX, 99.1 FM. Expect this to be reconfigured.
- Price is $5,000,000.
- Do not see any LMA/TBA prior to the close.
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Looks like K-Wave going to expand its reach in L.A. with its primary signal serving mainly the OC. If the FM comes to fruition, they'll be, at least in the northern part of the L.A. area 2 Christian stations next to each other in K-Wave at 99.1 & KKLA at 99.5. Not far away from that at 100.3 is K-Love as well. I guess this is what Calvary Chapel wants to do with the money they made off of selling various transmitter stations in far-flung locals like Barstow & Las Vegas, which SoCal Broadcast Engineer on YouTube, former employee at K-Wave, has documented.
 
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Presumably the 1110 call will be changed to KWVE? I see 107.9 is already KWVE-FM.

Has KTWV ever had any issues with the other "Wave" branding?
 
i don’t live in LA anymore. But, isn’t kspn’s signal weaker now since the change in tower site move? I just don’t see how kspn survives, unless their trying to find their way to FM.
 
I was thinking would calvery chapel be willing to broadcast sports if so they would make a lot of money doing it. Then during the day broadcast religious programming. Just a thought
 
34james said:
I was thinking would calvery chapel be willing to broadcast sports if so they would make a lot of money doing it. Then during the day broadcast religious programming. Just a thought
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That will not be happening unless the sports team you are thinking about is the Calvary Chapel High School Eagles.

Jokes aside, it's going to be very hard for a committed religious broadcaster (which Calvary Chapel certainly is), to participate with pro and most college-level sports broadcasts. And it is getting harder.

The reason is that more and more of the overall advertising pool is in categories that would either make the broadcaster very uncomfortable or would violate their doctrinal positions and code of conduct policies, such as adult beverages and and sports gambling.
 
NYCsporty said:
Looks like K-Wave going to expand its reach in L.A. with its primary signal serving mainly the OC. If the FM comes to fruition, they'll be, at least in the northern part of the L.A. area
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The FM is a directional translator and it barely covers a portion of the foothills around Azusa. The 65 dbu covers just over 50,000 persons and not "the northern part of the LA area".
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2 Christian stations next to each other in K-Wave at 99.1 & KKLA at 99.5.
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In a tiny, tiny area for the translator.
 
While Calvary Chapel was buying 1150 KRDC in LA, Family Life Radio (Michigan) was buying WDRQ 93.1 Detroit. I put Michigan in parentheses because there's also a Family Life Radio in New York State and Pennsylvania that's been buying up radio stations as well. I guess we'll call them Family Life Radio (New York).

Add EMF, the K-Love people, and VCY in Milwaukee, and we see lots of formerly mainstream, full power radio stations being bought by Christian broadcasters.

KRDC 1150 broadcasts at the maximum power, 50,000 watts, around the clock. Its one of several LA-area radio stations at full power day and night. But it has a directional antenna, so its signal is not the same as 640 KFI or 1070 KNX, which are non-directional 50,000 watt stations.
 
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KRDC 1150 broadcasts at the maximum power, 50,000 watts, around the clock.
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And very directional.
Gregg. said:
Its one of several LA-area radio stations at full power day and night. But it has a directional antenna, so its signal is not the same as 640 KFI or 1070 KNX, which are non-directional 50,000 watt stations.
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And it is half-way up the dial from KFI and located in an area with much poorer ground conductivity. The 10 mV/m population coverage of KFI is more than double the population covered by KRDC.
 
Gregg. said:
While Calvary Chapel was buying 1150 KRDC in LA, Family Life Radio (Michigan) was buying WDRQ 93.1 Detroit. I put Michigan in parentheses because there's also a Family Life Radio in New York State and Pennsylvania that's been buying up radio stations as well. I guess we'll call them Family Life Radio (New York).

Add EMF, the K-Love people, and VCY in Milwaukee, and we see lots of formerly mainstream, full power radio stations being bought by Christian broadcasters.

KRDC 1150 broadcasts at the maximum power, 50,000 watts, around the clock. Its one of several LA-area radio stations at full power day and night. But it has a directional antenna, so its signal is not the same as 640 KFI or 1070 KNX, which are non-directional 50,000 watt stations.
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1110 not 1150
 
ercjncpr said:
1110 not 1150
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Good catch. I did not even notice that. 1150 is also 50 kw fulltime, diplexed into the KTNQ-1020 array in City of Industry.
 
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