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LA AM for sale

BLA said:
KNX (AM)

Has anyone else noticed that during the KNX 1070 Saturday 6a-10a infomercial block, there were the sounds of what I would call "War Drums" beating after the last spot/program, continuously from about :30 (sec.) prior to the T.O.H. CBS News? A stunting before other format? A sale? The $$ value of this station is not increasing. Thoughts?
I have decided to use this thread instead of starting another one. Hope that's O.K.
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Sounds like a tech glitch, nothing more.

Don’t read anything more into this.
 
Did CBS have to spin off kfwb in order to satisfy the CBS/Entercom deal? If CBS would’ve waited another year, Audacy couldve had 980 the beast
 
BLA said:
O.K. Perhaps just a glitch. Interesting enough a repeated glitch each hour.
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Could easily be the lack of an end of message signal on the program that just ended... it was only overridden when the next timed event happened.
 
michael hagerty said:
We sure that wasn't a traffic bed that the traffic reporter just never showed up in?
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Or the traffic reporter called in sick.

Or the station scheduled traffic on Saturdays when there was not supposed to be a report then.

Or... the grinch stole the traffic audio.
 
Loverofradio said:
Did CBS have to spin off kfwb in order to satisfy the CBS/Entercom deal? If CBS would’ve waited another year, Audacy couldve had 980 the beast
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KFWB was put into a trust when CBS bought KCAL-TV (Channel 9) in 2002. CBS was lobbying for a rules change that would have changed the ownership cap and allowed them to pull KFWB back out of the trust.

The FCC has not changed the cap, but ruled in 2011 that the station could stay in a trust indefinitely provided it did not change format.

CBS sold the station for $8 million in 2016 to Universal Media Access, which flipped it to "The Beast". Lotus bought it from UMA later that same year for $11.2 million and took it Spanish.

The Entercom deal was announced in February of 2017. Had CBS not sold to UMA or anyone else, once radio and TV were separated, Entercom (now Audacy) could have operated KFWB and been under the cap.
 
Loverofradio said:
To further prove my point L.A. isn’t a sports town, the Chargers first playoff game since 2018 got bumped from 98.7 to kfi
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Bumped to a higher rated, more listened to station isn't the end of the world.

Tonight is iHeart's national "Alter-Ego" Alternative concert in LA. Bad timing for the Chargers game to be on at the exact same time.
 
Loverofradio said:
But iHeart has 3 other FM signals they could’ve used for 3-4 hours on a Saturday
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Four. All of which probably draw more listeners than KFI does on Saturday night. Which would you blow up for those hours ? KOST? KBIG? KIIS? KRRL?

KFI's blowing up either a psychology or a money show for one night.
 
michael hagerty said:
Four. All of which probably draw more listeners than KFI does on Saturday night. Which would you blow up for those hours ? KOST? KBIG? KIIS? KRRL?

KFI's blowing up either a psychology or a money show for one night.
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If I’m in charge? 92.3. IHeart paid millions for nfl media rights, only to have the most important game of the year on am only?
 
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