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K-Love Adds Third South Bay Signal With KBAY Purchase

K108 Sacramento said:
Again another wasted commercial radio frequency. K-love needs to read the handwriting on the wall and see that it can have just as many listeners willing to donate to K-love from internet listeners. The hoarding of radio stations needs to stop commercial and non-profit. Its totally out of control.
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It takes a willing buyer and willing seller. Where are the other willing buyers? Outside of the Audacy St. Louis deal, where Hoffman gave Audacy an apparent offer they couldn't refuse, they do not exist.

Even after getting waivers to exceed the ownership cap as Connoisseur did in the Bay Area, they still do not see value in keeping everything.
 
Weiserguy said:
Country has failed on (the old) KNEW (910 AM). It's failed on KSAN. Likewise on KYCY (the former KYA 93.3) as "Young Country". And again on 95.7, whatever that was called. (The Bear? The Wolf? One of those predator names.)
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Off-topic, but I see you channeling Remington Steele there ...
 
K108 Sacramento said:
Again another wasted commercial radio frequency. K-love needs to read the handwriting on the wall and see that it can have just as many listeners willing to donate to K-love from internet listeners. The hoarding of radio stations needs to stop commercial and non-profit. Its totally out of control.
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There are a lot of station owners, both local and national, who see a station going to K-Love -- to any of the religious broadcasters, in fact -- as allowing the pie of advertising dollars in the market to have larger slices for the remaining commercial stations.

Your reaction is much closer to a disgruntled listener who lost their favorite station than that of the industry. For my part, the only unfairness I see is that stations in the commercial part of the FM band are allowed to convert them to non-commercial status and thus avoid the annual FCC fees. If they were forced to be on a more level playing field, those fees could be lowered for everyone.
 
K.M. Richards said:
There are a lot of station owners, both local and national, who see a station going to K-Love -- to any of the religious broadcasters, in fact -- as allowing the pie of advertising dollars in the market to have larger slices for the remaining commercial stations.
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My take is the loss one station isn't going fix the basic problem, which is that fewer people are listening to the radio. That's why advertisers aren't spending as much. People want to hear their favorite songs for free. That option is disappearing, and the music industry is fine with it. If anything, they want to charge broadcasters MORE for the use of their music. That would make the free music option even harder to accomplish.
 


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