I checked the station finder for both K-Love and Air1, and nothing has been added yet for Yuma.
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Rest of Arizona K-Love acquires 95.1 KTTI & 100.9 KQSR in Yuma leaving KJLZ 93.1 as lone commercial English station
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as i kinda already said.
I believe they were asking which one...K-Love or Air1.
100.9 is Klove says my local source who just listened over the air
When I first traveled through Yuma back in June of1975, both the 93.1 and 95.1 frequencies were easy listening stations. The 93.1 frequency switched shortly thereafter (I heard it in November of the same year at Glamis) to an automated top-40 format, but (as you said), the 95.1 frequency didn't switch to country until 1981.
KTTI is back on air in spanish
Radio Nueva Vida?
Both KLJZ and KCYK do not stream. Too bad, as I wanted to hear how KCYK is handling the end of their competitor - on air. Maybe @SomeRadioGuy can find out from his source if they are doing on air announcements "rolling out the welcome mat to former KTTI listeners".
I would think their programmer would be all over that.
I would think their programmer would be all over that.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Wouldn't be a PD decision. Something like that would require concurrence from the GM.
And, since KCYK and KLJZ are owned by a local outfit, I'm sure that the GM is not only well aware of the situation but has already made (probably in consultation with the owner) the decision on how the situation will be handled.
Maybe it has happened before, but I can’t recall a case where K-Love took over multiple licenses in a market and put RNV on the strongest signal…in this case the 50,000 watt KTTI. It makes strategic sense given the heavy Hispanic population on both sides of the border.
There is already a local Spanish Christian broadcaster in the market affiliated with Inspiracom. It makes me wonder whether K-Love’s priority was getting coverage in the 282nd ranked market in the US or being the second Spanish Christian outlet in Yuma AZ.
@ted chittenden @K.M. Richards
The majority owner, Keith Lewis, died recently. Their OM/ND is also by default, PD... is also minority owner after working there 20 plus years. Theres a surprise coming April 1st theyve announced on AM 1400, i suspect thats likely someone theyve hired that was let go from El Dorado... but format wise, not much is going to change at 93.1 or 1400.
K-Love has filed a Notice of Consummation for the sale of the two Yuma stations.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You know, I think the time has come for us to not track sales to K-Love in such detail. They have been doing this for a long time, removing actual radio stations from markets in favor of what amounts to high-powered translators, all running the same feed.
Before the main studio rule was eliminated, they routinely got waivers for same, and their game plan has been the same every single time they acquire more stations for their "holy empire"; shut down the local operation, install a satellite dish or broadband connection at the transmitter site, and run on auto-pilot 24/7. (In fact, I would go so far as to say that they border on "coveting" those stations.) I don't even want to think about how many local broadcast jobs have been eliminated by this one station group. It is certainly more than either iHeart or Audacy, because at least those groups still have local -- or at least regional -- studios and staff. K-Love has neither.
There is obviously no stopping them, much as I would like to knock them down a few pegs. Because of their business model of soliciting listener donations, and because they are a tax-exempt non-profit and can therefore sit on that pile of cash until they need some of it for their next acquisition, we are essentially powerless to halt their spreading further.
I still think that amassing that many stations and gaming the system so they can keep all the money that they entice their listeners to send (I worry sometimes, actually, that some of those donations come from people who really can't afford it but feel guilty ignoring the requests) is at odds with actual Christianity. They should never have been allowed to get this big ... to turn religion into a mass marketing scheme, in effect, but it's too late to close the barn door because they have already ridden the horses out of town.
IMNSHO, the best thing we can do is ignore them, or at least confine our comments to the local impact of their takeovers. I do not care when they file the consummation. I don't care if they file to change call letters. In fact, posts like the one above this one just irritate me further.
I keep hoping that when the Second Coming happens, Jesus Christ will go to their headquarters and ask why they think He and His Father needed this many radio stations, and whether it was Christian to put so many people out of work as a result. It would serve them right.
(Okay, off my soapbox and back to work now.)
Before the main studio rule was eliminated, they routinely got waivers for same, and their game plan has been the same every single time they acquire more stations for their "holy empire"; shut down the local operation, install a satellite dish or broadband connection at the transmitter site, and run on auto-pilot 24/7. (In fact, I would go so far as to say that they border on "coveting" those stations.) I don't even want to think about how many local broadcast jobs have been eliminated by this one station group. It is certainly more than either iHeart or Audacy, because at least those groups still have local -- or at least regional -- studios and staff. K-Love has neither.
There is obviously no stopping them, much as I would like to knock them down a few pegs. Because of their business model of soliciting listener donations, and because they are a tax-exempt non-profit and can therefore sit on that pile of cash until they need some of it for their next acquisition, we are essentially powerless to halt their spreading further.
I still think that amassing that many stations and gaming the system so they can keep all the money that they entice their listeners to send (I worry sometimes, actually, that some of those donations come from people who really can't afford it but feel guilty ignoring the requests) is at odds with actual Christianity. They should never have been allowed to get this big ... to turn religion into a mass marketing scheme, in effect, but it's too late to close the barn door because they have already ridden the horses out of town.
IMNSHO, the best thing we can do is ignore them, or at least confine our comments to the local impact of their takeovers. I do not care when they file the consummation. I don't care if they file to change call letters. In fact, posts like the one above this one just irritate me further.
I keep hoping that when the Second Coming happens, Jesus Christ will go to their headquarters and ask why they think He and His Father needed this many radio stations, and whether it was Christian to put so many people out of work as a result. It would serve them right.
(Okay, off my soapbox and back to work now.)
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He'd find an empty headquarters, but the elevator would still work. Just keep pressing the "Down" button and he'd eventually find all the EMF suits in their eternal sauna.
Wheres the disdain for the owners who sell to Klove? BEcause I can tell you, Klvoe is not holding a gun to anyones head to sell.,...... quite often, the sellers approach Klove.
I Get why people dont like Klove.. i do. BUT NEVER in the discussions that show disdain for Klove do I see anything flung at the sellers.
Theres no gaurentee whoever bought the stations would keep it the same.
What if SOS or Pilgrim bought them? What if Radio Lazer bought them?
There's be very little if any local programming here and it might not even be in english
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Then I fault them for knowing, at the outset, that their local employees will be out of a job afterwards. And that -- in my view -- is not Christian either.
I have seen those types of comments from time to time, and I believe that is the kind of discussion we should have, shifting the focus away from K-Love and concentrating on the local impacts.
I didn't say any of them were exactly saints, either ... 🧐
At least Radio Lazer pays taxes on its revenue, unlike your other two examples. And I would rather see a commercial broadcaster on a commercial frequency speaking Spanish than another K-Love "translator".
K love pays local property t axes where applicable.
Why is it Kloves job to know who theyre putting out of work when they buy a local station? I would be pissed if I worked for a station that got sold and it cost me my job./ But.. their business model doesnt include having local staff.
Here i am, sitting in one of the studios for 4 stations owned by a local guy who never left town.,. im not advocating for what Klove does, but looking at it from a business perspective.. theyre not doing anything wrong.. and no hate is ever flung at the sellers in these cases