Whatever. Nitpicking. Doesn't change the situation one bit.
BTW his father died almost two years ago, in February 2022.
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Whatever. Nitpicking. Doesn't change the situation one bit.
BTW his father died almost two years ago, in February 2022.
I'd hardly call it nitpicking. You simply can't present an opinion as a fact.
You should say “it‘s unsuccessful format after 40 years.”
Yet KYST plans to abandon Spanish Full Service in favor of Conservative News/Talk "in 100% English."
Yes, and KYST is an AM station with a bad signal.
No group of people listens to AM less than Hispanics. In fact, Mexico declared AM dead some years back and allowed 80% of all AMs to move to FM. The only ones remaining are almost all on the US border or in the 3 biggest cities in Mexico.
Yet the NAB is pushing hard to keep AM alive with those "PSAs" member stations play. I've heard them on standalone FMs, which is ridiculous!
Then it looks like Univision bailed-out at just the right time, and found the ideal buyer. Someone with deep pockets and no knowledge of radio.
Why can't you allow yourself to just say you made a mistake and be done? You've gone as far as to play mental gymnastics with the definition of words before admitting a simple mistake.
Your post was presented as a fact when in reality it was an opinion (a poor one, but still an opinion nonetheless).
No one has been wondering.
And 40 years? Are you sure about that? Because KYST has seen several formats come and go under the Velasquez family. At one point, the station was even a Tejano station and then a Regional Mexican station in the 90s.
It's an opinion to say that the "meeting" (no reasonable person who has seen the picture would call it one) was what caused him to change formats.
The post you're referencing clearly states that the event was an "...opportunity (that) ties into an upcoming business move...". He even has a hat made prior to the event.
They got an amazing deal on some ocean front property in Arizona.
So he was at an event that featured Donald Trump, and thought that Conservative News/Talk might be a viable format. Another format for a station that has flipped formats several times over the years. That's what I understood, not that he had a one-on-one meeting with The Donald and was pursuaded to go in that direction.
As I said, this is not the first time KYST has changed formats, and it won't be the last.
Because it wasn't a mistake.
Read the posts before #40. You'll see lots of people wondering.
Nope. He's claiming he isn't doing this for the money. He actually compared it to KPFT.
An opinion presented as a fact isn't a mistake? Nevermind that you called this a "meeting" when you know no reasonable person would call it that...but I digress.
I didn't present it as fact. I posted it on a discussion board. People do this every day. In fact YOU do it here all the time.
You have no idea what LMN plans to do with their stations. But you've already called it "propaganda." Opinion as fact.
You did. You even presented Matt's financial expectations as fact.
I haven't said I did. That's the difference.
Propaganda in a relative matter. What I perceive to be (or potentially be) propaganda may not be propaganda for you. I've also called conservative talk propaganda in the past. But that's neither here nor there.
Wouldn't it be easier to just admit your post was an opinion and not a fact instead of reducing yourself into searching post history for material?
The first words of my post were "From what I can see." Maybe you missed it.
Once again I've never said it was a fact. Just my observation.
But KPFT isn't a Conservative News/Talk station. Far from it. And the only ones who became rich from KPFT was the recepient of the Lovett property sale.
NAB is protecting the investments of members, which is its job. As long as AM owners want to keep the stations they have, and as long as they are on the air the NAB will defend them. There are about 4490 AM stations on the air or licensed to be on the air right now. Only a couple of dozen a year sign off permanently, meaning the owners still want them.
Of course they're going to look after their members, even if that segment of the industry is on decline. How many of the nearly 4500 U.S. AM stations are making good money though?
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