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Gow to buy 97.5
- Thread starter thegreatonecartini
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Odd situation with the owner of one SportsTalk network running a station carrying its biggest rival, but not totally unheard of.
Gow finally smelled the coffee and realized that the 1560 signal (and AM radio) is a dog. Wonder if he'll move the local talent on 1560 over to 97.5 and make KGOW fulltime network?
I supposed a call change to KGOW-FM is in order for 97.5.
Would this prompt CBS to place SportsTalk on FM?
And will this move damage 790? Probably not much, if at all, at least for now.
Interesting times.
Gow finally smelled the coffee and realized that the 1560 signal (and AM radio) is a dog. Wonder if he'll move the local talent on 1560 over to 97.5 and make KGOW fulltime network?
I supposed a call change to KGOW-FM is in order for 97.5.
Would this prompt CBS to place SportsTalk on FM?
And will this move damage 790? Probably not much, if at all, at least for now.
Interesting times.
and Air 1......EMF Educational Media Foundation....They buy up every station in the country thats for sale..Including the one I use to work at...Since KSBJ is on 89.3 I suspect it will be Air 1.Mediafrog+ said:
The all new SportsRadio 96.5! KSRR-FM (one can use call letters for FM in one town and have the same for AM in another town)
willdav713 said:
KSRR 1400 in Utah is not owned by CBS. That station has 1st rights to the call letters. In other words, if they bought an FM, they have the ability to add the FM suffix to their existing AM call letters. OR, CBS can pay them for use of the letters. But why go through all the trouble? Call letters are increasingly irrelevant. Leave the calls and call it "The SportsMix 96.5."
I think the KHJK signal is better over the metro than KFNC. It's surprising David Gow didn't buy KHJK and KFNC. Flip the intellectual property (ESPN) from 97.5 to 103.7 then resell 97.5 to EMF. That transaction may have cost him a hundred grand extra but yielded a modestly stronger signal for his KGOW-FM flagship.
If Gow is airing ESPN on his O&O FM, doesn't that create a serious affiliation problem? How do you pitch affiliation to Yahoo Sports when the network OWNER runs ESPN on his O&O FM and relagates the Yahoo product to an far inferior AM with a consistent 0.2 share? It's understandable to control the competition, but at what cost to the reputation of your owned network?
If Gow is airing ESPN on his O&O FM, doesn't that create a serious affiliation problem? How do you pitch affiliation to Yahoo Sports when the network OWNER runs ESPN on his O&O FM and relagates the Yahoo product to an far inferior AM with a consistent 0.2 share? It's understandable to control the competition, but at what cost to the reputation of your owned network?
fredcantu said:
They can... EMF just typically does not enter markets that have a full power 'local' well established Christian AC station... But hey money talks and I am guessing EMF got a great deal that they could not pass up..
One could say the REAL "Powerful Change" for KSBJ is KLove likely coming in their back yard <G>
Are the Rockets still (radio) homeless?
thegreatonecartini said:
Perhaps he can/will drop ESPN from the FM and do a simulcast with 1560 AM. I hate simulcasting, especially the way many stations are doing it now (the FCC even made that illegal at one time I think) but this kind of a simulcast I would agree with.
Old Chicago
Would ESPN want such an arrangement with Yahoo and have their programming in a market the size of Houston controlled by a competing sports radio network?
Depending on how the affiliation agreement is worded, seems like an ownership change would give ESPN cause to terminate the agreement if they wished, and if they do get kicked off FM, it would seem like they would want to shop around for a new Houston affiliate.
Depending on how the affiliation agreement is worded, seems like an ownership change would give ESPN cause to terminate the agreement if they wished, and if they do get kicked off FM, it would seem like they would want to shop around for a new Houston affiliate.
OldChicago said:
Supposedly simulcasting was the expectation that within a few years, radio broadcasting would shift from AM to exclusively FM. The FCC made the point that this was not going to happen by publishing the anti-simulcast regulations in the late '60s.
I think GOW would sell the AM or take it silent. 1560 has a horrible signal in Katy during the day until it switches to its night site north of Katy.
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purpledevil
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KTN Corp said:
97.5's signal certainly won't be any better for the folks in Katy. I figured this would be the end of 1560 as a sports station and likely would return to being a brokered format of some sort. Seems rather odd to me if Gow retains two sports stations to compete against each other. Taking 1560 dark would be absolutely incredulous given the money spent to upgrade it to 50kw days/19kw nights.
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Taking 1560 dark would be absolutely incredulous given the money spent to upgrade it to 50kw days/19kw nights.
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What would be the chances of them going something like 30kw OMNI (daytime) from its west side xmtr site?
Old Chicago
Taking 1560 dark would be absolutely incredulous given the money spent to upgrade it to 50kw days/19kw nights.
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What would be the chances of them going something like 30kw OMNI (daytime) from its west side xmtr site?
Old Chicago
KTN Corp said:
I see no evidence that FM was supposed to replace AM.
Once the band was moved to the current frequency range post-W.W. II, there was huge activity building FMs. By 1940, there were 1000, and many were independent and others were co-owned with an AM with all or some different programming.
By 1960, we were down to 700 FMs, and most of the independents were gone and most separate programming was gone, too. FM stereo was supposed to revitalize FM, but in the first two years only about 100 stations went stereo. While there was a rush to pick up FM licenses in the early 60's, most FMs continued to be sisters of AM's; the owners simulcast to keep the license just in case FM became worth something.
Simulcasting was a device used to retain a license and to keep it from competitors. AM stations that got FMs feared that they would become successful, as that would drain listeners from the profitable AM operation.
Nearly 30 years after the first FMs went on the air on the old FM band, the FCC mandated an end to most simulcasting (daytimers and some others were excepted) in January, 1967. It took ten years more for FM to achieve parity with AM... up to the early 70's, big companies like Storer were selling FMs as they had given up.
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