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Market with MOST News/Talk Stations?

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So which market has the most news, news/talk and talk or hot talk stations (not including non-commercial or spanish)?

In Los Angeles, we have two full-time news stations, KNX 1070 (some specialty talk shows on weekends) & 980 KFWB (Dodgers baseball) both owned by Infinity, Hot Talk 97.1 KLSX also owned by Infinity, Salem's (Conservative Talk) 870 KRLA, ABC's 790 KABC (Mainstream Talk) and Clear Channel's 2 talk stations (Conservative leaning Talk) KFI 640 and (Progressive) 1150 K-Talk.
 
Phoenix, A Strong Contender

> So which market has the most news, news/talk and talk or hot
> talk stations (not including non-commercial or spanish)?

At one point, Phoenix was certainly in the running, though it may have changed since this list:

KFYI/550 (News/talk, Clear Channel)
KTAR/620 (News/talk, owned by Bonneville now)
KKNT/960 (Talk, owned by Salem)
KXXT/1010 (Liberal talk/Air America)
KFNX/1100 (Talk, in reported financial difficulty and was up for auction recently...not sure how long that's gonna last)
KMYL/1190 (Was talk "NBC 1190", listed as "Silent" by at least one source)
KXAM/1310 (Talk)
KFNN/1510 (Business talk)

This is not counting THREE sports stations (KMVP/860, KGME/910, KDUS/1060), or an "all-comedy" station, KPNX/1480, or the Christian talk on Salem's KPXQ/1360!

KFYI has Rush, of course, and Hannity, but most of the other syndicated conservative talkers are spread out over the stations. KFNX carries Savage, for example, after KXXT dropped him for libtalk. Glenn Beck, G. Gordon Liddy and Tom Leykis, of all people, are on 1310. O'Reilly's on the biztalker at 1510.

Many of the "third-tier" talkers fill much of their time with locally brokered talk, along with hosts discarded by KFYI or KTAR.

-OA
 
Re: Phoenix, A Strong Contender

> > So which market has the most news, news/talk and talk or
> hot
> > talk stations (not including non-commercial or spanish)?
>

New York must be close You have:

WCBS-AM with All News/Yankess
WINS-AM with All News
WABC-AM with conservative talk
WLIB-AM with Liberal talk (AAR)
WOR-AM with a hodgepodge of talk shows
WFAN-AM with personality talk/sports (I only put this in because of Imus)
WBBR-AM with business news from Bloomberg
WMCA-AM with conservative/christian talk from Salem
WWRL-AM with Urban Talk
WWDJ-AM with Salem's christian talk
 
> So which market has the most news, news/talk and talk or hot
> talk stations (not including non-commercial or spanish)?

What about sports, business and religious talk?
 
> > So which market has the most news, news/talk and talk or
> hot
> > talk stations (not including non-commercial or spanish)?
>
> What about sports, business and religious talk?
>

The other posters have already chimed in on them in.

For Los Angeles, then add (Clear Channel) Sports/Sports Talk KLAC (XTRA 570 - Mancow in the morning and Phil Hendrie at night as it strays from all sports/talk), (ABC/Disney) Sports Talk ESPN 710, Sports Talk (KMPC) 1540 The Ticket and Christian teaching (Salem) KKLA 99.3 FM. No business station in Los Angeles anymore.
 
Re: Phoenix, A Strong Contender

> > So which market has the most news, news/talk and talk or hot
> > talk stations (not including non-commercial or spanish)?
>
> At one point, Phoenix was certainly in the running, though
> it may have changed since this list:
>
> KFYI/550 (News/talk, Clear Channel)
> KTAR/620 (News/talk, owned by Bonneville now)
> KKNT/960 (Talk, owned by Salem)
> KXXT/1010 (Liberal talk/Air America)
> KFNX/1100 (Talk, in reported financial difficulty and was up
> for auction recently...not sure how long that's gonna last)
> KMYL/1190 (Was talk "NBC 1190", listed as "Silent" by at
> least one source)
> KXAM/1310 (Talk)
> KFNN/1510 (Business talk)

KMYL is indeed silent, but may be flipping to Spanish-language news/talk once (if?) they return to the air. KFNX? Who cares! :-D

> This is not counting THREE sports stations (KMVP/860,
> KGME/910, KDUS/1060), or an "all-comedy" station, KPNX/1480,
> or the Christian talk on Salem's KPXQ/1360!

KGME (aka XTRA Sports 910) also carries CBS Marketwatch in the morning and Hendrie at night. KMVP is 90% ESPN, with a couple of local brokered sports shows. With the loss of the Arizona Cardinals to KMVP and no hockey, KDUS may be on its last legs. There is little reason for this station to exist anymore.

> KFYI has Rush, of course, and Hannity, but most of the other
> syndicated conservative talkers are spread out over the
> stations. KFNX carries Savage, for example, after KXXT
> dropped him for libtalk. Glenn Beck, G. Gordon Liddy and
> Tom Leykis, of all people, are on 1310. O'Reilly's on the
> biztalker at 1510.

Alan Colmes is also on KFNN, but with 100 watts at night on the far north side of Phoenix (they share a transmitter site with Salem's KKNT), his show is all-but-inaudible in most parts of the metro area.

> Many of the "third-tier" talkers fill much of their time
> with locally brokered talk, along with hosts discarded by
> KFYI or KTAR.
>
> -OA

You're being kind when you call them "Third tier." They're better-described as "Tenth tier." All the other news/talk stations' ratings combined don't add up to KFYI's numbers.
 
Re: Phoenix, A Strong Contender

> Alan Colmes is also on KFNN, but with 100 watts at night on
> the far north side of Phoenix (they share a transmitter site
> with Salem's KKNT), his show is all-but-inaudible in most
> parts of the metro area.

KFNN goes up to 22,000 watts directional daytime with two towers - 4 towers at night, just 100 watts, but they do stream - Lots of others to protect. Some 1510's in California go off the air at night - Citadel's 1510 KGA Spokane, Wa. is 50kW day and night and must be protected.

KFNN is the market's affiliate for Brinker - looks to me like the daytime signal covers PHX and vicinity and parts of southern Arizona - although I've never heard the station except over the web.
 
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