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Fox Sports Radio in Iowa

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garn91

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I was flipping around the AM dial while in the car on Saturday and noticed an over abbundance of Iowa radio stations with FOX Sports Radio programming, including:

KFJB in Marshalltown (recently swithed to FSR from ESPN)
KASI in Ames
KXNO in Des Moines
KGLO out of Mason City
KCNC (I think those are the call letters, it's 1650 AM) out of Cedar Falls/Waterloo

Not to mention KXSP (590 AM out of Omaha wich covers a good chunk of Iowa) airs FSR programming.

Yet, I could only find one station with ESPN programming, the Boone radio station, the call letters escape me at this time.

Why the love affair with Fox? In the DSM metro, you have 3 radio stations within 40 miles of one another with FSR programming.

Is Fox Sports that much cheaper than ESPN or Sporting News Radio? Yes, I know CC owns KXNO, KASI, and KGLO as well as CC owning the syndication rights to FSR through Premiere. However, CC owned KFAN in the Twin Cities carries ESPN radio and KXNO has the radio rights to ESPN's MLB, BCS games, and the NBA. So you cann't say that CC puts a gun to it's stations saying you have to carry Fox Sports Radio over ESPN or Sporting News.

While speaking of Sporting News, when 98.3 first went to talk, other than Drudge on Sunday night, it was all Sporting News all weekend.

For what it's worth, I went to the websites of ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Radio searching for the affiliates each have in Iowa, only ESPN Radio has that listing and it can be found at the link below:

http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/affiliate?query=ia

For the record, you can go to the website for Sporting News Radio and request a listing of affiliate's close to your location and I couldn't find listing of affiliate's for Fox Sports Radio.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by garn91 on 06/06/05 03:31 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> I was flipping around the AM dial while in the car on
> Saturday and noticed an over abbundance of Iowa radio
> stations with FOX Sports Radio programming, including:
>
> KFJB in Marshalltown (recently swithed to FSR from ESPN)
> KASI in Ames
> KXNO in Des Moines
> KGLO out of Mason City
> KCNC (I think those are the call letters, it's 1650 AM) out
> of Cedar Falls/Waterloo
>
> Not to mention KXSP (590 AM out of Omaha wich covers a good
> chunk of Iowa) airs FSR programming.

FSR is also on 1470 in Sioux City and 1360 in Cedar Rapids. (Both owned by CC)

1620 in Omaha runs most of the ESPN lineup as does 1600 in Cedar Rapids.


>
> Yet, I could only find one station with ESPN programming,
> the Boone radio station, the call letters escape me at this
> time.
>
> Why the love affair with Fox? In the DSM metro, you have 3
> radio stations within 40 miles of one another with FSR
> programming.
>
> Is Fox Sports that much cheaper than ESPN or Sporting News
> Radio? Yes, I know CC owns KXNO, KASI, and KGLO as well as
> CC owning the syndication rights to FSR through Premiere.
> However, CC owned KFAN in the Twin Cities carries ESPN radio
> and KXNO has the radio rights to ESPN's MLB, BCS games, and
> the NBA. So you cann't say that CC puts a gun to it's
> stations saying you have to carry Fox Sports Radio over ESPN
> or Sporting News.

I think the CC ownership has a lot to do with it. KFAN was running ESPN before CC owned it, and CC has a second sports station in the Twin Cities on 690 running FSN.

It may have something to do with the amount of commercial inventory the station is required to run. We looked into ESPN quite a few years ago, and they wanted two minutes an hour every hour we didn't run ESPN, plus more than that during the actual ESPN programming. I know a PD at a station in Florida who looked into Sporting News (back when it was still One-on-One Sports) and they didn't even want to talk unless the station ran it virtually all the time. It probably all boils down to what the station is able to negotiate with the syndicator.
 
Add another FSR station...KXIC in Iowa City on the weekends. I knew about the ESPN stations in Omaha and CR, but left those off my list as you cann't tune those two in Central Iowa and I didn't know about FSR being in Sioux City and Cedar Rapids.

Even though FSR is a CC property, you would think the suits at FSR would want some sort of "region exclusviety" (sp?) to their product. As I mentioned earlier, you have 3 markets within 40 miles in Central Iowa with FSR programming and 3 within 50-60 miles in Eastern Iowa with FSR programming of some sort.

With regard to Sporting News, when the old KXTK (940 in Des Moines) was sports and carried Sporting News Radio, they had a ton of local programming (3 hours each in the morning and afternoon, Iowa Cubs baseball, Nebraska football, and weekly shows devoted to Iowa & Iowa State).
 
I think KICD in Spencer (1240) carries Fox Sports too. KVFD (1410?)in Fort Dodge has Sporting News on the weekends, or at least they did during football season. I like the Sporting News network the best, and miss them on KXTK.
 
Yes, KVFD still carries Sporting News Radio. I tend to agree with you about SNR, they tend to stick to all sports talk, without straying into "guy talk".

> I think KICD in Spencer (1240) carries Fox Sports too. KVFD
> (1410?)in Fort Dodge has Sporting News on the weekends, or
> at least they did during football season. I like the
> Sporting News network the best, and miss them on KXTK.
>
 
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