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K Love brought in new year with two new streams

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The replacement for K Love Classics appears to be K Love 2000s and K Love 1990s. On my local K Love 106.7 it is now the 2000s channel on HD 3. I assume all the old K Love Classics signals at least on HD 3 will carry the 2000s channel like Atlanta.
 
Here in Detroit we have the K-Love 2000’s on WDKL 102.7 HD3 in addition to the same programming on KDTI 90.3 from Rochester Hills a Detroit suburb.
 
Too bad Dallas isn't part of the K-Love bandwagon because of Entercom-owned KLUV and the powerhouse that is Salem-owned KLTY.
 
E-Cam said:
Too bad Dallas isn't part of the K-Love bandwagon because of Entercom-owned KLUV and the powerhouse that is Salem-owned KLTY.
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Are you serious? no K-Love outlet in Dallas? I thought EMF purchased stations everywhere for their K-Love programming.
 
Kevin said:
Are you serious? no K-Love outlet in Dallas? I thought EMF purchased stations everywhere for their K-Love programming.
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There’s also no K-Love outlet in Houston, though I’ve long assumed that is out of deference to similarly formatted KSBJ, which has been around for 40 years. Houston has an Air1 station, as does DFW.

There has been much speculation on the Houston board about EMF eventually purchasing Radio One basket case KROI and placing K-Love there.
 
The lack of K Love in Houston might of had something to do with KSBJ back when they was not really trying to go into markets that had a strong Christian AC but it does not stop them now. I thought the biggest reason was another K Love existed on 106.5 but it has not used that name in while so I guess EMF just wants a better signal than 103.7 to buy and put it on.
 
Kevin said:
Are you serious? no K-Love outlet in Dallas? I thought EMF purchased stations everywhere for their K-Love programming.
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Dallas and Houston have Air 1 but no K-Love of the Christian variety. EMF's trademark on the K-Love branding excludes the areas around DFW and Houston because stations were previously using that brand. I understand the one in Houston no longer refers to itself as K-Love, but all of us know Dallas still does.
 
Kent said:
Dallas and Houston have Air 1 but no K-Love of the Christian variety. EMF's trademark on the K-Love branding excludes the areas around DFW and Houston because stations were previously using that brand. I understand the one in Houston no longer refers to itself as K-Love, but all of us know Dallas still does.
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In Houston, the prior usage is held by Univision. It's their choice to license EMF to use it as they did in LA.
 
Kevin said:
Are you serious? no K-Love outlet in Dallas? I thought EMF purchased stations everywhere for their K-Love programming.
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They can buy a station in Dallas, but they can't use the name K-Love as the station there that uses the name has a prior usage right to it. Unless they pay lots of money to them, they can't use K-Love in Dallas.
 
DavidEduardo said:
They can buy a station in Dallas, but they can't use the name K-Love as the station there that uses the name has a prior usage right to it. Unless they pay lots of money to them, they can't use K-Love in Dallas.
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Wasn’t there a situation like that in Los Angeles with the K-Love @107.5 vs. 100.3.
 
Kevin said:
Wasn’t there a situation like that in Los Angeles with the K-Love @107.5 vs. 100.3.
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EMF worked something out with Univision for LA. It might be able to do the same in Houston. That’s highly unlikely, however, to happen in Dallas with Entercom having the rights to the name and the station airing English-language programming.
 
Kent said:
EMF worked something out with Univision for LA. It might be able to do the same in Houston. That’s highly unlikely, however, to happen in Dallas with Entercom having the rights to the name and the station airing English-language programming.
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I get that, but here’s my thinking, the Dallas station is KLUV (98.7) not KLOV wouldn’t that be some sort of loophole? On the same subject it’s also possible that EMF might be planning to have 4 different formatted full power stations in their major markets in the future with these 2 new formats. So now EMF has the main K-Love, K-Love 90’s, K-Love 2000’s and of course Air-1. Let’s face it EMF has the money to purchase more full power signals in their existing markets.
 
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Kevin said:
I get that, but here’s my thinking, the Dallas station is KLUV (98.7) not KLOV wouldn’t that be some sort of loophole?
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In a word, no. I'm not an attorney, but a difference that doesn't sound different won't fly in radio. If you have a radio station called "The Fox" and I launch one called "The Fawks," I'd lose that lawsuit 100% of the time. You might be able to get away with it in print, but it won't work for audio.

Kevin said:
On the same subject it’s also possible that EMF might be planning to have 4 different formatted full power stations in their major markets in the future with these 2 new formats. So now EMF has the main K-Love, K-Love 90’s, K-Love 2000’s and of course Air-1. Let’s face it EMF has the money to purchase more full power signals in their existing markets.
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Whether or not that happens will depend on how many major market stations go up for sale. I don't see very many major market FM's going on the block anytime soon, but I didn't see Cumulus parting with WPLJ, WRQX, and WYAY either.
 
Kent said:
In a word, no. I'm not an attorney, but a difference that doesn't sound different won't fly in radio. If you have a radio station called "The Fox" and I launch one called "The Fawks," I'd lose that lawsuit 100% of the time. You might be able to get away with it in print, but it won't work for audio.



Whether or not that happens will depend on how many major market stations go up for sale. I don't see very many major market FM's going on the block anytime soon, but I didn't see Cumulus parting with WPLJ, WRQX, and WYAY either.
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Yes, The WPLJ sale was a shock along with WLUP 97.9 in Chicago and “The Sound 100.3“ in Los Angeles all heritage rock stations in large markets.
 
Just curious is there an internet stream for each of the new channels?
 
Kevin said:
Just curious is there an internet stream for each of the new channels?
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Yes, the 90’s and 2000’s K-Love streams are available on the K-Love web player and on iHeartRadio (near the bottom if you go to the ”Genres” tab and select “Christian“). Those streams aren’t yet up on the TuneIn app.
 
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