KBET sold (and Beasley overpaid)

[ajhenderson]

http://www.radioink.com/headlineentry.asp?hid=136254&pt=inkheadlines

$2.5 mil?!

Wanna bet this is the fifth sports station they were planning for KDWN?

 

[Jay F]

Beasley bought it from Morgan Skinner, that's a name I haven't heard of in a LONG time! I remember when he was the GM of 1230 KLAV when they were a CHR in the early 80s.

 

[doublecashkgb]

Alvin Korngold owned KLAV. We actually had for a time very impressive numbers
against KLUC, which was so lily-white and pop. Having Doug Banks didn't hurt
either. Problem was Korngold was a criminal piece of garbage, who didn't pay
his bills. He was nearly killed by the mob at one point.

 

[Jay F]

Did you know that Alvin Korngold passed away recently? I met him a couple of times. He once told me that the KLAV call letters stand for "Voice (of) Alvin L Korngold" backwards.

Whatever happened to Shawn St, John? He was my favorite KLAV personality during that era. The last I heard he was at KWIN/Stockton and then in a rehab program but that was a looong time ago.

Getting back to KBET, any word on their format? Will it be a bunch of time brokered shows? With those call letters they could run a bunch of sports touts selling their picks, like we don't have enough of those already.

 

[hehaw69]

Word is that KBET will join Beasley's stable of time brokered stations. They have some reason to think they can get a daytime upgrade to 5,000 watts.

 

[ajhenderson]

More bad news for 1400, which can't sell itself out of a bag, although I suppose they make enough money with their "shoppers", no?

 

[haysseed]

Youch! Here in the southeast you can pick those up for taxes! Let's hope there's some sort of plan here ???