KNX news still has a presence of the new 97.1. They’ve still been doing hourly updates
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Sports to replace KNX News simulcast at 97.1 FM
- Thread starter Rollo-Smokes
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One wonders how long those updates will last. I understand using the FM reports to promote the all news AM 1070. But how long will the sports fans sit through a 60-90 second newscast? If I were the pd and had to do that, I'd make that more promo/less newscast.
Try this: "Now on KNX AM 1070, catch the latest on Governor Newsom's new tax plans, Mayor Bass reacting to the rise in crime and President Trump on the stalemate in Iran. Plus weather and traffic every 10 minutes. KNX AM 1070 your 24/7 home for news." How long did that take? Sure you're still breaking format on 97.1. But it's more obviously a promotion to redirect the news audience to its new (exclusive) home. Same purpose; better execution.
That promo took 20 seconds. Not 60. Not long enough to distract your new sports audience.
If the goal is to build FM Sports on 97.1, don't throw a big obstacle in its way.
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I’d imagine so, but what I’m getting at is as of last season the major NFL games were under contract by iHLA. I also believe the contract for those games (and whatever other WW1 PBP packages they offer) are separate contracts from a WW1S contract. Different paperwork for potentially different stations. I don’t believe that by being a WW1S linear stream affiliate that you also get access to any PBP. I have no idea how long iHLA’s marquee football game contract is for, so they could totally be on 97.1 come September, but if the iHLA contract is still in effect for the next few years it’ll have to be broken for them to air elsewhere. I honestly don’t think WW1 would care that much to break their contract early.
Brock and Alex is ROUGH. Why is Brock even there, Alex keeps talking over him. It felt like listening in to a first date where someone is trying to get the person to like them but never asks questions about them. It’s just one talking. Zero chemistry.
There's also the Sunday afternoon NFL doubleheader syndicated by Compass
But as I said, the foundation of sports stations is the talk hosts. Not play by play.
For example, when the Yankees have a day game, it airs on AM, and the talk shows air on FM.
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there are some who think this will fail
ESPN LA, AM 570 and 97.1 The Fan — Who Prevails in the Los Angeles Sports Radio Battle?
"Whether Los Angeles can truly sustain four full-time sports stations remains to be seen, but one thing is undeniable: the battle lines have officially been drawn."barrettmedia.com
Some of the people quoted in the article said that Los Angeles is either the first or only 3-or-4 station (depending on how you define the stations) sports market. Those quoted are wrong! If you counted the pure number of sports radio stations, up until last fall, Phoenix had 5. If counted by ownership, then Phoenix had 4. With the departure of KQFN from the format last fall, you have either 3 or 4 in the Phoenix market, depending on if you count Bonnville's KTAR-AM and KMVP-FM separately (which I do because other than overnights and some Cardinals and Diamondbacks games, those 2 stations do *not* simulcast each other.)
fccdata.org shows that both transmit from Mt. Wilson, but the 93.1 antenna is higher, and so it's coverage is significantly larger, despite having about the same ERP as 97.1. I have noticed this myself, driving out to the I.E. How useful this is, when the 93.1 signal is an HD2, I can't say.
My thoughts exactly when I tuned in today. She's great at being a TV broadcaster but she is really annoying on the radio.
I listened to the first day of programming in the car. You can actually listen to the stream on YouTube.
I don't give this lineup three months before there's a change. The station has amateur podcaster vibe right now. The energy for a first day launch was pretty weak. They assumed everyone knew who they were. They didn't really give any host introductions at the beginning of segments which would have been helpful for a first day launch.
They pretty much only talk about the Lakers and the Dodgers. The production quality is pretty bad. The hosts would ask the producer to play clips and they didn't have them ready.
I feel like it's weird for Derek Fisher to be talking about baseball, it's very unnatural. Brock Vereen and Alex Curry have no on-air chemistry. The silver lining is Doug McKain. That man should host mornings solo. He knows his Dodgers.
If I was Audacy, I would back up the Brinks truck to Petros & Money, get them on FM, and run Doug in the AM, P&M in the PM, and syndicated programming through the rest of the blocks.
I don't give this lineup three months before there's a change. The station has amateur podcaster vibe right now. The energy for a first day launch was pretty weak. They assumed everyone knew who they were. They didn't really give any host introductions at the beginning of segments which would have been helpful for a first day launch.
They pretty much only talk about the Lakers and the Dodgers. The production quality is pretty bad. The hosts would ask the producer to play clips and they didn't have them ready.
I feel like it's weird for Derek Fisher to be talking about baseball, it's very unnatural. Brock Vereen and Alex Curry have no on-air chemistry. The silver lining is Doug McKain. That man should host mornings solo. He knows his Dodgers.
If I was Audacy, I would back up the Brinks truck to Petros & Money, get them on FM, and run Doug in the AM, P&M in the PM, and syndicated programming through the rest of the blocks.
Technical difficulties with the stream; since around 10:45 PM PT on Monday night 5/18/2026
the stream is mostly silent except for a couple of station IDs at 11 PM + 11:30 PM PT.
As of about Midnight Tuesday morning 5/19/2026 they've been running a recorded loop:
"Our local studios are experiencing a network outage affecting the availability of this stream.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Thank you."
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More "techy-type" issues:
Apparently they didn't have the video set up properly to record everything starting at launch;
the videos from the recorded "live-streams" available on YouTube are missing the 1st two hours of "Derek + Decker"
and there was audio missing from the 1st "Brock + Alex" segment.
As long as the audio podcasts are intact, that should suffice.
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Schedule note: for at least the first evening, Joe Ceraulo of CBS Sports + VSIN was on live from 6 PM to 9 PM.
the stream is mostly silent except for a couple of station IDs at 11 PM + 11:30 PM PT.
As of about Midnight Tuesday morning 5/19/2026 they've been running a recorded loop:
"Our local studios are experiencing a network outage affecting the availability of this stream.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
Thank you."
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More "techy-type" issues:
Apparently they didn't have the video set up properly to record everything starting at launch;
the videos from the recorded "live-streams" available on YouTube are missing the 1st two hours of "Derek + Decker"
and there was audio missing from the 1st "Brock + Alex" segment.
As long as the audio podcasts are intact, that should suffice.
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Schedule note: for at least the first evening, Joe Ceraulo of CBS Sports + VSIN was on live from 6 PM to 9 PM.
I must admit, when I listened to US sports radio (online) for the first time, I was surprised there wasn't news at the top of the hour (except some having a sports update at the top of the hour).
It's par for the course here in Australia for news to be at the top of the hour (at least 6am to 6pm) on SEN, and on the the former Marquarie Sports Radio. The only 'sports' station that didn't was RSN/3UZ. Even then, they had it in the morning, before switching to continous Horse/Harness/Greyhound racing from noon.
SEN now produce their news in-house, which means like a shorter news bulletin, but in the past they'd take the full 5 minute 3AW news every hour, 24 hours a day (execpt during live football coverage).
On iHeart-owned KLAC AM 570 LA Sports, 15-30 second "news headline updates" produced by sister station KFI AM 640 appear about once an hour.
I could be wrong, but I think those same updates appear on other L.A. iHeart stations (even the music-formatted ones).
Yeah it wasn’t ideal. I think mornings have a real chance to make an impact. Middays was entertaining. But, afternoons I just couldn’t get through. I switched back to petros and money.
My theory is that Audacy chose 97.1 for this format because if it does flop, they can quietly flip back to KNX News. They know what they’re up against
KNX News is still on 97.1 at 5:45am. Are they just not doing the Fan programming overnight?
OK they switched to the Fan at 6am
To be fair, give it some time. Nothing in the first few days or week is going to be perfect. There will be glitches, hosts finding their way, getting comfortable with their new co hosts, etc.Think about when you started a new job, would you want everyone making judgements right away about your job performance when you're just starting out? And of course, some people won't work out, and changes will be implemented.. Audacy has a track record of success with Sports talk...give it time.
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