KTRB SALE--GETTING CLOSE

[lenhockey]

Looks like it's down to three bidders--Oakland A's, a Spanish broadcaster and Principle Broadcasting. Principle's brokered time biz must be really good to go after another Bay Area station. They say the bidding is below the CoAmerica's starting price.

 

[davideduardo]

Looks like it's down to three bidders--Oakland A's, a Spanish broadcaster and Principle Broadcasting. Principle's brokered time biz must be really good to go after another Bay Area station. They say the bidding is below the CoAmerica's starting price.

Why would any Spanish language broadcaster want that facility?

 

[SFStatic]

There may be a 4th dark horse.

 

[lenhockey]

I'm hoping Oakland A's can get it...I realize they are in the baseball biz but maybe a good management group could run it for them. St. Louis Cards bought a radio station but the signal was bad, so they moved game broadcasts back to midwest monster KMOX.

 

[RadioStarOne]

Could it be that Principal is just collecting signal's to sell at a later date when the enconomy improves and station prices start going through the roof again. mmmm?

 

[LKellerIII]

Could it be that Principal is just collecting signal's to sell at a later date when the enconomy improves and station prices start going through the roof again. mmmm?

Maybe their FM signals, but I would think that AM signals will be losing value going forward regardless of the economy.

In fact, I would think that the future of even brokered programming is on the FM band - hence their purchase of KSJO - if for no other reason, just because it's the band people are increasingly used to listening to.

 

[1069_KIFR]

Maybe they want a simulcast on AM and FM?! A resurrecting of KSFO/KYA type of station? KFRC AM and FM?

 

[KimmiKat]

Maybe they want to move the stick back to Modesto.

 

[RadioStarOne]

If a company like CBS managed to buy KTRB (i'm just asking) could it be diplexed with KCBS 740 night and day? Or do they own enough land at the KCBS sight to install a separate antenna system? You know if they were to get rid of the 1550 signal perhaps and btw the clout to permit such an installation. Again I'm Just Asking if it can be done.

 

[DanStrassberg]

Could it be that Principal is just collecting signal's to sell at a later date when the enconomy improves and station prices start going through the roof again. mmmm?

Principal must have very well-heeled backers. Shortly before station values tanked, they paid $14 million for WLIE Islip NY on the south shore of Long Island in Nassau County east of New York City. WLIE is on 540, and has a phenomenal daytime signal (2.5 kW-D with just barely enough night power to be a Class B, with a CP that they apparently still plan to build out to increase the D power to 10-kW). The day signal is amazing in some places but doesn't do well within the five boroughs. I thought the precipitous decline in station values after that purchase would cool Principal's enthusiasm for AM properties. Obviously not so. The management came out of MRBI and all the programming is leased ethnic. A lot of that is leased ethnic religion.

 

[DanStrassberg]

If a company like CBS managed to buy KTRB (i'm just asking) could it be diplexed with KCBS 740 night and day? Or do they own enough land at the KCBS sight to install a separate antenna system? You know if they were to get rid of the 1550 signal perhaps and btw the clout to permit such an installation. Again I'm Just Asking if it can be done.

You're not the first to ask. At first blush, the KCBS site seems to be a natural for KTRB. Remember that the two former Class IAs on 740 and 860 in Toronto (CFZM--ex-CBL and CJBC) are a diplex, although both of those stations are ND-U. Unfortunately, many of the rest of the stations on 860 in the US and Mexico are not located close to the stations on 740, meaning that the KCBS towers are not well positioned for nighttime operation on 860. I doubt that there is enough real estate at the site for a separate 860 array. Could some of the existing towers plus some new ones be combined into an array that would work at 860? Quite possibly, but there are a lot of unanswered questions. For example, isn't there an 860 in Tijuana? If so, it would be tough--probably impossible--to adequately protect that station while simultaneously delivering an NIF signal to San Francisco or other densely populated parts of the Bay area from Novato. So far, at least, it doesn't look as if CBS has any interest in such a project. This seems to be one of those "if this was such a good idea, somebody would have done it already" projects.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

WLIE Islip NY on the south shore of Long Island in Nassau County east of New York City.

A minor correction: having lived and worked there for several years, Islip is in Suffolk County, and (as one who made the trip numerous times) it is about as close to New York City as Livermore is to downtown San Francisco.

In miles, that is. Culturally, they are light years apart.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

Maybe they want to move the stick back to Modesto.

Yeah, that's it. Maybe they want to move the stick back to Modesto. Brilliant.

And maybe KGO is going to ask if they can have 103.7 FM back, please, because they've had time to reflect and decided that no, they want to keep the station, if it's all the same to everyone.

Jeez. Did I miss something?

 

[travisl5678]

What is the Spanish Broadcaster trying to buy, could it be Univision?

 

[Madmansam]

Looks like it's down to three bidders--Oakland A's, a Spanish broadcaster and Principle Broadcasting. Principle's brokered time biz must be really good to go after another Bay Area station. They say the bidding is below the CoAmerica's starting price.

Is the dark, KMPH-840 included?

 

[davideduardo]

What is the Spanish Broadcaster trying to buy, could it be Univision?

Univision just recently sold its Bay Area AM...

I really doubt that anyone would buy an AM to serve Hispanics in any market where there are several Spanish language FMs. This is all the more true in markets where there are mostly Mexican heritage Hispanics: in Mexico the government is in the process of letting as much as 80% of all AMs to move to FM under the premise that AM is no longer commercially viable.

 

[DavidKaye]

I really doubt that anyone would buy an AM to serve Hispanics in any market where there are several Spanish language FMs. This is all the more true in markets where there are mostly Mexican heritage Hispanics: in Mexico the government is in the process of letting as much as 80% of all AMs to move to FM under the premise that AM is no longer commercially viable.

I think some/many people here are confusing Spanish language broadcasting with block brokered broadcasting. Two very different animals, definitely.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

Is the dark, KMPH-840 included?

No.

 

[Mediaace]

Has Comerica Bank decided to pay the freight for propane to run KTRB at night again? It is currently Monday, December 13 at 6:11pm and they are coming in loud and clear here in Pleasanton 8 miles from their Sunol nighttime TX facility.

 

[travisl5678]

I heard them in Oakland the other night, shortly after sunset