Funny...isn't that what people said when it was owned by Cumulus? Back then Meruelo was seen as the savior.
Maybe one of the billionaire musicians in LA will part with some of their money and buy a radio station the way Stevie Wonder did.
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Kevin & Sluggo Cut At KLOS
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Funny...isn't that what people said when it was owned by Cumulus? Back then Meruelo was seen as the savior.
Maybe one of the billionaire musicians in LA will part with some of their money and buy a radio station the way Stevie Wonder did.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You beat me to saying that, A.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
– George Santayana, "The Life of Reason", 1905
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
If I were Beharrell, I'd start looking for options.
Let's hope someone buys the cluster and fixes Klos back to what it was. Meruelo has done irreparable harm to there cluster especially Klos. Use to be a good station not to terribly long ago. Not anymore!
Meruelo will sell the KLOS intellectual property to a new owner, who will then move it to Utah.😳🤨😆
Meruelo will then take 95.5 silent, promising to return to the air sometime in the future.🤯
After deciding there is no business case for 95.5 Meruelo will return the license to the FCC.😒🥴
The FCC won’t know what to do with it and will pretend it doesn’t exist.🫠🫥
Arizona Coyotes fans have already figured this out.😛🤣
Perhaps
He still has his syndicated show, too.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
It was sarcasm, Patrick ...
Actually, the FCC would be quite happy that they could auction an FM frequency in the nation's second-largest market. $$$$$$$$ even in radio's current attenuated state.
Beware of outlandish scenarios: they may come true!
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Meruelo would rather sell at a loss, like he did with channel 22. Turning in the license nets him zero.
You mean, whenever they got around to holding an auction.
Here's a scenario that I think they might actually be considering in that "media center" on Pico Blvd,: Once they have gotten rid of the last live person on KLOS, they move KDAY to 95.5 and keep running the KLOS format as a jukebox on the 93.5 pairs while they look for some sucker who will pay more than they are worth.
And that will be their fatal error, because KLOS' billings are what's paying the bills for all four of their stations.
KJLH? The station Stevie Wonder can't see, and the rest of us can't hear?
But I like where you're going, however unintentionally. What if music stations had to be owned by musicians, news stations had to be owned by newsmen, and sports stations had to be owned by athletes. Instead of by artless financial speculators who operate like bulls in china shops.
(Before anyone yells "first amendment" or "discrimination," I'm only asking what if planes had to be flown by pilots, and surgeries had to be performed by surgeons.)
They'd be very different. Tavis Smiley is actually trying to get some athletes to invest in his AM talk station.
I think the business model for radio is obsolete. Simply put, radio stations can't sell enough spots to cover the expenses of a major market FM.
Well, sure. I think it took about 10 years for them to do so for the Contemporary Media stations in the Midwest.
You can't spell "lose" without "LOS".
You do know that the KLOS calls were once in Albuquerque. Went bankrupt in 1967 and became KZIA, which is now KIVA.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I'll go you one better. KLOS was not ABC's first choice of calls when they changed from KABC-FM:
The truth about ABC and its 1971 FM call letter changes
I would like the see the daypart figures over the same period, but the 6+ figures tell an interesting story over the past few months.
| 2.7 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | KLOS-FM | 95.5 KLOS | Classic Rock | Meruelo Group | 1,041,500 |
I know that that's y I said perhaps
Source for this? https://ratings.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb003 only shows 4 months.
Yes, but the changes were made in this time range. My question is, did Marci Wiser's former shift go up, without air talent?
Six months shown here:
Los Angeles
Nielsen Audio PPM Monthly Ratings Los Angeles (Market #2) Population: 11,160,800 Black: 783,800 - Hispanic: 4,977,600 Average Quarter Hour Share
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
My immediate seat-of-the-pants guess is that whatever difference there was in the six months (she was let go in mid-February) is within the margin of error. The 6+ numbers didn't change significantly enough month-to-month to indicate any kind of seismic shift in dayparts or demos.
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