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bossforever
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Is Clear Channel is San Diego up for sale? Read some info regarding it all the talkers and music stations maybe air america will get the boot on the LSD station wow
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mteran5
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If Clear Channel does go for sell in San Diego, it would be good if all 7 stations would all go there seperate way and there would be more competion, and I agree maybe KLSD should be a ESPN affilate because 800AM has a weak signal.
bossforever said:
The only CCU stations that may be sold are in small markets, where economies of scale do not work.
There is an announcement that Clear may go private, but that is a transfer of control of the company to private shareholders from the public equity markets, not a sale of the stations.
Garrett said:
Fargo is a good example. CCU just sold to Ingstad, who is a local operator in the Dakotas and Minnesota. CCU has high expenses with major market based benefits programs and such, and can not make good money in many small markets. Ingstad and similar local or smaller regional operators can... and they will also do more local programming and service, because they understand the communities and live in them.
YES, EXACTLY!
David, you are exactly right!
You hit the nail on the head and just said what I've been thinking for a while now. Here in Lubbock, the big operators like CC (and Capstar before them), completely gutted the staffs, and automated everything. We all hoped that CC would make things sound better, but with all the big markets they had to spend money on, Lubbock (and markets our size) were the odd ones out. Instead, CC used the bigger regional markets (like Dallas, San Antonio) to voice track to the smaller markets like us. After all, why waste money on maket 189, when you high stakes in markets 1-20? So what we got in the end was just more voice tracking and empty studios, with minimal staff, unless you count the sales. Plus, to compete, other non-CC owned stations in the market had to make cuts too. I mean its a big domino effect. And I am not saying this to bash CC or anyone, it is just the economics of it. While it's probably true that CC can take advantage of imaging and networking from other stations in the chain, I think I'd rather have local programming and quality.
Than again, I was not in Lubbock before deregulation, but people tell me things sounded a lot better, and I have some airchecks to prove it. After spending some time in Boston and San Diego since CC took over everything, I can say with certainty there is a big difference between radio in San Diego and Lubbock.
David, you are exactly right!
You hit the nail on the head and just said what I've been thinking for a while now. Here in Lubbock, the big operators like CC (and Capstar before them), completely gutted the staffs, and automated everything. We all hoped that CC would make things sound better, but with all the big markets they had to spend money on, Lubbock (and markets our size) were the odd ones out. Instead, CC used the bigger regional markets (like Dallas, San Antonio) to voice track to the smaller markets like us. After all, why waste money on maket 189, when you high stakes in markets 1-20? So what we got in the end was just more voice tracking and empty studios, with minimal staff, unless you count the sales. Plus, to compete, other non-CC owned stations in the market had to make cuts too. I mean its a big domino effect. And I am not saying this to bash CC or anyone, it is just the economics of it. While it's probably true that CC can take advantage of imaging and networking from other stations in the chain, I think I'd rather have local programming and quality.
Than again, I was not in Lubbock before deregulation, but people tell me things sounded a lot better, and I have some airchecks to prove it. After spending some time in Boston and San Diego since CC took over everything, I can say with certainty there is a big difference between radio in San Diego and Lubbock.
Actually, Clear Channel is doing a backdoor divest while trying to keep it's stock price up.. It's clear that the George Soros Congress is taking over and one item on the agenda is to re-institute the censorship doctrine. The past year or so, CC has been propping up loser Clear Channel Err Amerika operations to stop the move to start affirmative action/welfare Radio laws.. (Welfare Radio: also called the Fairness Doctrine. Where "targeted" radio stations are forced under threat of jail/fines to air stupid untalented people under the guise of fairness)
CC is hemmoraghing $$$ propping up KLSD.. Cliff Albert, in a desperate attempt to save his job, is diverting $$ from successful CC San Diego operations and propping up KLSD. CC is slowly divesting itself
And for you Err Amerika clowns out there: In the bankruptcy petition, AA owes Los Angeles KTLK $600,000
What amount do you think AA is burning CC for on the KLSD operation?
CC is hemmoraghing $$$ propping up KLSD.. Cliff Albert, in a desperate attempt to save his job, is diverting $$ from successful CC San Diego operations and propping up KLSD. CC is slowly divesting itself
And for you Err Amerika clowns out there: In the bankruptcy petition, AA owes Los Angeles KTLK $600,000
What amount do you think AA is burning CC for on the KLSD operation?
I saw this coming some time ago when Clear Channel started gobbling everyone up.
Time and time again the market's invisible hand does its job when a corporate entity just gets too big. Look at Home Depot...they overexpanded and sacrificed quality of customer service...which led Lowe's to be their nemisis....not to say that Lowe's has learned from HD's mistakes.
Time and time again the market's invisible hand does its job when a corporate entity just gets too big. Look at Home Depot...they overexpanded and sacrificed quality of customer service...which led Lowe's to be their nemisis....not to say that Lowe's has learned from HD's mistakes.
It is essential that Air America go off the air immediately. We must all hear only one political viewpoint, in constant praise of the Glorious Leader. The government should never be criticized, especially when it is engaged in the serious business of starting wars, bankrupting the treasury, and repealing the former Bill of Rights. In a free country there is never room for more than one viewpoint. Right, thanks for clearing that up.
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doublecashkgb
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Mr. Arbitron is full of crap. How costly do you think KLSD is to CC? Your take is purely
political, why not visit a political blog?. WHy the hard-on for Cliff ALbert? What did he
he do to you?. Clear Channel's alliance with Air America had little to do with Cliff, he
simply had to implement it. I would be suprised quite frankly if you could read an
Arbitron breakout and make any sense of it.
political, why not visit a political blog?. WHy the hard-on for Cliff ALbert? What did he
he do to you?. Clear Channel's alliance with Air America had little to do with Cliff, he
simply had to implement it. I would be suprised quite frankly if you could read an
Arbitron breakout and make any sense of it.
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machinehead
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Lopaka, you always do an excellent job of putting things succinctly and in plain English. I also agree.
All praise our glorious leader. Investing all faith in Him surely trumps morality, Christianity, and the Constitution. Disagree? You must be a terrorist or an obstructionist.
All praise our glorious leader. Investing all faith in Him surely trumps morality, Christianity, and the Constitution. Disagree? You must be a terrorist or an obstructionist.
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