710 still has a decent signal in San Diego. Not as good as KFI, but pretty listenable in most areas of the County.
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Is KRDC 1110 am los angeles shutting down on the 22nd?
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Not for long. When they move to the 1110 site, they will be severely downgraded and will not even cover half of the LA market well.
They already don't cover half the LA market well. The signal has been a joke for years.
When is this shakeup supposed to happen?
Right now the GM of KSPN Los Angeles is leaving but there are talks about Good Karma taking over the station.
I forgot to ask...speaking of The Planets...what do you think of Isao Tomita's rendering?
It's a little to creative for my tastes. I find he takes unusual excursions into contrasting strings with the rest of the orchestra: I may need to listen again to see if this is an acquired taste.
I don't mind creative arrangements and modifications of traditional orchestrations and adapting of tempo, such as some of the Gustavo Dudamel performances are... but on The Planets I like the usual contrasts of highly percussive elements the best.
I forgot to mention that I even used bits of The Planets to introduce segments... as well as for sign-on... on the classical station I owned long ago... so I am rather bonded with the versions I heard back then.
In one of the more bizarre transactions, Disney offloaded KEPN to Good Karma Brands as part of a larger deal that sees GKB buying all but KRDC and KESN/Dallas in Disney’s portfolio.
Shouldn’t it have been the other way around? Why would you keep the station that isn’t being massively downgraded?
Shouldn’t it have been the other way around? Why would you keep the station that isn’t being massively downgraded?
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Perhaps there is another imminent deal to be announced for KRDC and that site.
This also has to be the clearest indication yet that KESN is on the block in Dallas.
More Details On Good Karma’s ESPN New York, Los Angeles & Chicago Purchase - RadioInsight
Craig Karmazin's Good Karma Brands will acquire ESPN's local radio properties in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Update 12/20: The deal has been filed with the FCC showing that Good Karma Brands will pay $15 million for 1050 WEPN New York, 710 KSPN Los Angeles, and 1000 WMVP Chicago. Good...
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Good Karma takes over the ESPN Radio affiliates managed by Disney.
For now KRDC is held by Disney.
KGGI is not in the LA Metro Survey Area. It is a Riverside/San Bernardino station, and does not cover with a 60 dbu signal any populated part of LA or Orange counties.
KGGI is not "for LA" as it is in a separate market.
It may get some coverage of the San Gabriel Valley in cars out on freeways, but in most places it is not truly listenable. In the rest of LA, it is way below a usable signal and it does not show in the LA Nielsen at all.
So Disney is going to keep KRDC AM 1110 after all. Makes me wonder why they dumped the Radio Disney programming earlier this year just to simulcast the programming of 710 AM KSPN? Will KRDC bring back Radio Disney or just keep the ESPN programming?More Details On Good Karma’s ESPN New York, Los Angeles & Chicago Purchase - RadioInsight
Craig Karmazin's Good Karma Brands will acquire ESPN's local radio properties in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Update 12/20: The deal has been filed with the FCC showing that Good Karma Brands will pay $15 million for 1050 WEPN New York, 710 KSPN Los Angeles, and 1000 WMVP Chicago. Good...
Good Karma takes over the ESPN Radio affiliates managed by Disney.
For now KRDC is held by Disney.
Third option: They might sell KRDC to another buyer. I think the Radio Disney train has left the station.
Maybe! I just don’t see why they would simulcast the same programming as KSPN once they sell it to Good Karma. I do agree that, once KSPN is downgraded, KRDC will have the better signal throughout the Southland.
Good Karma just bought three more stations from Disney. It was on all access yesterday.
yep we know, see post #46 in this thread.
I was thinking that there were five "Super B(s) out that way, with enormous antenna height and power, that just popped into LA and that was one of them.
There are no Riverside-San Bernardino "super B's" that truly make it into LA. For decades, the best of that market's signals, KLYY, has tried to be a competitive LA market signal. While it gets decent Orange County coverage, it does not get most of LA County. None of the other FMs there gets more than the eastern edge of LA County and the unpopulated mountains of eastern OC.
There are only a couple of B's in the market. Froggy is a standard 50 kw at 500 feet, and just KOLA and KLYY are grandfathered higher power operations.
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They got a low price because two of the three are very limited or marginal signals. They don't seem to be buying "good" signals or they simply don't understand AM coverage in today's environment.
My recollection is from the late '70s. It seemed like I was in the middle of the LA freeway system heading east. It was perfect reception and I must have assumed it was the same anywhere within line of sight of the tower. Thank you for clearing this up for me.
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