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KNX onto … 97.1??

DavidEduardo said:
They were one of quite a few AM stations that Clear Channel affiliated with Air America, ranging from 50 kw WINZ in Miami, KGW in Portland to some limited signals like KLSD.
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I assume that you said "KGW" just to identify the signal but those call letters were dropped about 30 years ago and since, have only applied to the TV station. I'll never forget it. I went on vacation and when I returned, they were simulcasting KINK! This is a station that six years earlier, was still attracting half a million people to an event!
 
semoochie said:
The rules state that you can only have the frequency between the call letters and location. This prevents you from saying for instance, "KYW, The Sound of Philadelphia" or my favorite from childhood, "This is KISN, serving the great Oregon Territory from Vancouver(WA).". You can also list the company but I've never heard it used. Over 50 years ago, it was decided that you couldn't use "AM" in the calls, as in "AM & FM", probably because "AM" is never part of AM calls.
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I'm sure that the horse is already dead and reincarnated as something else, but I just tripped over KNX's legal from 2013:



"KNX 1070 AM and HD. KAMP HD-2, Los Angeles."
 
Ryan Williams said:
My question was actually why you haven't listened to WTIC in "over a year"? Did you previously listen frequently?
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The only show I listened to on WTIC was the syndicated Clark Howard Show. When he retired from his daily show I stopped listening to WTIC because I'm not interested in political talk radio. They also carry Red Sox baseball and I think New England Patriots Football. Those aren't my teams, so I have no reason to listen to WTIC any more.
 
MarcB said:
The only show I listened to on WTIC was the syndicated Clark Howard Show. When he retired from his daily show I stopped listening to WTIC because I'm not interested in political talk radio. They also carry Red Sox baseball and I think New England Patriots Football. Those aren't my teams, so I have no reason to listen to WTIC any more.
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Same here with political talk radio but I would listen to WTIC if I was in Connecticut because of those Red Sox and Patriots telecasts plus any local newscasts it airs too.
 
michael hagerty said:
That call letter change was ... driven by the existence of KABC and KNBC TV in Los Angeles. CBS felt the need for the network name on the call letters of the West Coast flagship, mirroring New York (WABC, WNBC, WCBS).
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Does anyone remember how or if CBS promoted the call change of its LA O&O? Or if there was any outcry in SoCal over KNXT becoming KCBS-TV? Does anyone yearn for the KNXT days even today? I'm 60 yo, born and bred in the Philadelphia market, and I still wish "WCAU" and "WCAU-FM" were on 1210 and 98.1 respectively. Kinda like some Baltimoreans *still* believe a Baltimorean has a God-given right to have a Baltimore NFL team wearing blue and white and called the *Colts*. :)
 
ixnay said:
Does anyone remember how or if CBS promoted the call change of its LA O&O? Or if there was any outcry in SoCal over KNXT becoming KCBS-TV? Does anyone yearn for the KNXT days even today? I'm 60 yo, born and bred in the Philadelphia market, and I still wish "WCAU" and "WCAU-FM" were on 1210 and 98.1 respectively. Kinda like some Baltimoreans *still* believe a Baltimorean has a God-given right to have a Baltimore NFL team wearing blue and white and called the *Colts*.
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They did promote the change—-including a 90-minute special on their own air:


I don’t recall outcry, but LA was pretty used to just saying channel numbers for TV—-“Channel 2, Channel 4, Channel 7”. Kinda like it wasn’t the San Diego Freeway, it was “The 405”.

That’s not to say L.A. can’t be provincial—it can. The backlash when SavOn Drugs became Osco was so strong, Osco changed the stores’ name back to SavOn. Eventually, they sold to CVS, which changed them again and didn’t back down, but a lot of Angelenos still call it SavOn, and Rite Aid is still Thrifty to them.

And when ConocoPhillips bought the 76 gas stations, and changed the ball from orange to red, you’d have thought the world was ending. They changed it back.
 
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Signal Geek said:
At 110kw, KQED has one of San Francisco's best FM signals. It's competitive with the 50kw KCBS-AM. KPCC, on the other hand, is less than a kilowatt. KNX has far greater signal coverage.
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Also, San Francisco has always been a better town for news radio than L.A. I remember in the 80s and 90s when KGO (in the days when it did news in morning drive), KQED and KCBS would be the top three stations in town.

In L.A., after 1980 or so, KNX and KFWB would float between a 2.5 and a 3.5 each. A 4 share was a big deal and neither was ever dominant.
 
michael hagerty said:
In L.A., after 1980 or so, KNX and KFWB would float between a 2.5 and a 3.5 each. A 4 share was a big deal and neither was ever dominant.
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And today, KNX averages a 3.0-3-2 share in 6+ and around a 2 to 2.2 in 25-54.
 
Ryan Williams said:
Seems unlikely 1070 will be anything other than a simulcast for years to come. After that, maybe value is extracted from the transmitter site?

As for WABC, I would not call $12.5 million "a mere pittance". It certainly is way way down from what it would have fetched 15 years ago, but it isn't nothing.
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The KNX 10.70 transmitter is in Columbia Park in Torrance (right near where I live in Redondo Beach , so the site is actually a city park)
 
This item is a bit of speculation on Audacy's plans for 1070 could be given that FM seems to be the go-to spot for listening. Most notably to knock down KFI (640). Other ideas are that Audacy could sell off the 1070 frequency to "brokered" programming. What Audacy's plans are for real is anybody's guess.
 
Ccook55 said:
Other ideas are that Audacy could sell off the 1070 frequency to "brokered" programming. What Audacy's plans are for real is anybody's guess.
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Audacy hasn't sold any of the AMs that are being simulcast. There's not much money to be gained by selling. Cumulus is stuck with several former ABC AMs that nobody wants, including KABC. So I expect they will simulcast for the foreseeable future.
 
Ccook55 said:
This item is a bit of speculation on Audacy's plans for 1070 could be given that FM seems to be the go-to spot for listening. Most notably to knock down KFI (640). Other ideas are that Audacy could sell off the 1070 frequency to "brokered" programming. What Audacy's plans are for real is anybody's guess.
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I don't think Audacy cares much for what KFI is doing. And vice versa.

To these giant radio broadcasters, the AM band is virtually dead. The goal is now preserving ad dollars that are being piped into these stations, while looking for new opportunities for growth.

KFI is a no growth format in my eyes. The audience is old and conservative. There's tons of "no buy" calls on talk radio from advertisers. The station has four local talk shows, which I am assuming are not cheap to produce. I don't think KFI would go to FM if iHeart had an open frequency. I'm sure if they had the open stick, they would push KLAC on FM.
 
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