...and it makes sense for a University-owned radio station to carry their own team's broadcasts. But we're talking about a classical station with no university affiliation.
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WKCR is not a Classical music station, it's an eclectic variety of music genres programmed an hour or two at a time. Looking at their schedule, the largest amount of Classical played is on Friday, an afternoon 3 hour block.
As far as I know, there isn't a 24/7 all Classical music station that throws in Sports, even once a week, like KMZT is doing.
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Yes, I am sure that you all mean a commercial classical music station.
I am aware that WKCR plays jazz music and other music genres. That is why I wrote "a significant amount of classical music" instead of calling WKCR a classical music station.
Although Mount Wilson Broadcasters (through Global Jazz) manage KJAZ, owned by Long Beach State University.
Once again, because this sports broadcast comes from Learfield Communications, I suspect some compensation is involved. They may be running spots on KKGO to satisfy this deal. But I don't believe this is a charity thing.
Which would only indirectly make sense if 1260 carried Long Beach State football. But Long Beach state doesn't even have a football team.
UCLA's radio network has affiliates in Visalia and Fresno.
USC football is heard in Las Vegas and Honolulu
Cal-Berkeley is a major California university with a big-time football program. I'm not sure why you remain so puzzled that its games air in Los Angeles.
At one time, the games aired on KLAA. But they were subject to pre-emption by Angels Baseball. No such problem on KMZT.
Visalia and Fresno kind of straddle the line between Northern and Southern California. I could see teams from either region having affiliates there. Vegas doesn't surprise me since Angelenos kind of regard it (and Palm Springs) as virtual suburbs.UCLA's radio network has affiliates in Visalia and Fresno.
USC football is heard in Las Vegas and Honolulu
Cal-Berkeley is a major California university with a big-time football program. I'm not sure why you remain so puzzled that its games air in Los Angeles.
Stanford is a major California university with a big-time football program. It doesn't have an L.A. affiliate. Nor do the 49ers, the Giants (though they have TWO Hawaii affiliates) or the Golden State Warriors (though they have one in Hawaii and one in San Diego).
That makes Cal the only Bay Area sports team airing in L.A. And ZERO L.A. teams have Bay Area affiliates, CT, so is it really surprising that I'm surprised?
I think you're missing that sports fans in LA only care about Dodgers and Lakers.
No, I'm not, BigA. I'm a native Angeleno. My point is that since that the sports fans in LA only care about Dodgers and Lakers, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for any radio station---much less a classical on AM---to carry Cal games.
Except that it may be the only source of revenue for the station. One thing I notice about Saul is he doesn't need to make money, but he doesn't want to lose any either. So he breaks format 12 Saturdays a year, and that might be enough to pay the bills.
Exactly. It's essentially an infomercial, but at least it has demonstrable entertainment value to a potential audience, either of Cal fans or fans of their opponents -- like Stanford, which is a conference opponent with no network affiliate in Los Angeles. Whoever is listening to these games is most likely in a demo more attractive to advertisers than that 75 to dead crowd that normally listens to classical music stations.
Yikes! How old is that UCLA radio network info? They refer to KLAC as being owned by Clear Channel 😲UCLA's radio network has affiliates in Visalia and Fresno.
USC football is heard in Las Vegas and Honolulu
Cal-Berkeley is a major California university with a big-time football program. I'm not sure why you remain so puzzled that its games air in Los Angeles.
Yikes, indeed! I got played again by the internet. "2013" is in the expanded URL. Sorry again. No idea why these schools aren't updating these pages, or why Google isn't finding and indexing current versions.
You’re in the business. Who pays how much to clear an out-of-town college football game on 1260 AM in Los Angeles?
Not sure about out of town, but i know a college in the Dallas area is paying for airtime on an AM... and even kept going after the station went from english to spanish
It depends on how much it matters. As I said, they had previously used KLAA. So it's important to someone.
And keep in mind that about 45% of LA metro residents are Hispanic and for those born in Mexico, perhaps the third most popular team in the market is Chivas from Guadalajara. It's significant to remember that American football is not at all popular among most immigrants living in California or the LA area... and neither is baseball... or basketball for that matter.
And since nearly 70% of those under 50 in LA are either Hispanic or first generation immigrants or their children, there is a very real division in interests for sports and teams.
Or Chivas.
It should be noted that somewhere between one half and two thirds of the fans at Dodger games appear to be Hispanic.
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