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Gregg. said:
Folks, there's no reason for Audacy to change KJKK or KLUV. Both are good earners for Audacy. It doesn't matter if they have a lot similarities in their playlists. Each one has its own brand and most listeners may not even realize they are co-owned.
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KLUV bills over twice what KJJK does. KLUV is the 3rd highest biller. KJJK is the 21st. I see a deal for KJJK and the KLUV name.
Gregg. said:
If Audacy wanted to sell the "K-Love" branding to EMF in the Dallas market, it probably wouldn't be difficult. iHeart recently changed the call letters of its successful Classic Hits station in Seattle, 95.7 KJR-FM. It's now KJEB and it's currently #1. (The KJR-FM call sign is now on 93.3 MHz as a Sports station.)
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Giving a new name to the current KLUV is easy. New calls, new name, "improved music for today..."
 
DavidEduardo said:
KLUV bills over twice what KJJK does. KLUV is the 3rd highest biller. KJJK is the 21st. I see a deal for KJJK and the KLUV name.

Giving a new name to the current KLUV is easy. New calls, new name, "improved music for today..."
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Getting Dallasites to accept or associate the brand name with anything other than what is being broadcast at 98.7 megahertz will prove more difficult than you suggest. You may not realize, or simply underestimate, the stubbornness of the average Texan. I am 90 miles east of Dallas, where the local rock outlet has been "Classic Rock 96.1" for a decade now, but talk to the average Joe strolling down the red bricks on the square, and it remains more well known as "96X", a long utilized brand, that had survived several tweaks of its presentation over the years, reminiscent of the path K-LUV has taken through the years.

That's a ton of name recognition and past goodwill to just toss aside, especially for the benefit of what would essentially be an in market competitor for the same ears.
 
Audacy is holding out for EMF to want the K-Love brand in Dallas. For the right price, they’ll give EMF the right to use K-Love in Dallas, and the KLUV call letters.
 
In Los Angeles, longtime Spanish outlet KLVE has used the name K-Love since 1974. When EMF bought 100.3, and changed the call letters to KKLQ they had to get special permission from Univision to use the K-Love branding. Even then, they could only use it when it was mentioned on the network feed ONLY. They have to advertise it locally and brand their IDs without the K-Love branding (to my understanding) which seems kind of strange to me because listeners will still think of it as K-Love. It's like a weird branding technicality issue.
 
powers said:
In Los Angeles, longtime Spanish outlet KLVE has used the name K-Love since 1974. When EMF bought 100.3, and changed the call letters to KKLQ they had to get special permission from Univision to use the K-Love branding. Even then, they could only use it when it was mentioned on the network feed ONLY. They have to advertise it locally and brand their IDs without the K-Love branding (to my understanding) which seems kind of strange to me because listeners will still think of it as K-Love. It's like a weird branding technicality issue.
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Univision got a lot of money, and they are still using K-Love on KLVE 107.5. EMS can not use the name for any off air promotion, such as TV ads, billboards or other local media.

Since there is no local programming on the EMF signal, this really makes no difference.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I have been wondering if Radio One might buy KRNB and KKDA should Service Broadcasting want to cash in, then spin off one of the four DFW stations RO would then own, which would be a target for one of the religious outfits.
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I have heard that when Hyman Childs dies that Service may be sold. It seems Hyman's children do not want to run the radio stations. I wonder what KKDA-FM and KRNB are worth today?
 
salemjedi54 said:
I have heard that when Hyman Childs dies that Service may be sold. It seems Hyman's children do not want to run the radio stations. I wonder what KKDA-FM and KRNB are worth today?
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The children are likely annoyed that their Dad didn’t sell the stations years ago when valuations were much higher, and I say that only half jokingly.😫😖
 
I can remember when KVIL's sale set a record price for a single FM station. CBS/Infinity paid something like $85 million. This was the era when its Personality AC format kept it at or near the top of the ratings and Ron Chapman's morning show was in the double digits in the ratings.

Now I doubt KKDA-FM and KRNB combined would sell for half that figure.
 
Gregg. said:
I can remember when KVIL's sale set a record price for a single FM station. CBS/Infinity paid something like $85 million. This was the era when its Personality AC format kept it at or near the top of the ratings and Ron Chapman's morning show was in the double digits in the ratings.
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That was in the late 1980s. The station value likely would have been much higher 10-15 years later; it might have fetched around $120M at the market peak.

I recall around 20 years ago when the City of Dallas was first considering selling WRR, a value of a little over $100M was tossed around, and that was only for the stick.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
That was in the late 1980s. The station value likely would have been much higher 10-15 years later; it might have fetched around $120M at the market peak.
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If LA stations have gone for under $50 million, that one should get around $22 to $28 million, tops.
 
I really wish we could get this in the SF market.

There's a conspicuous hole here, in that many other markets, I've noticed, have at least one oldies or oldie-adjacent station (the closest thing to "oldies" SF has (that I know of) is iHeartRadio's 80s+, which technically counts, but I guess I share more in common with the 55+ demo than 25-45, so...).

KYNO and KVIN out of Fresno and Modesto, respectively, are good, but as I believe I've mentioned elsewhere, it seems like one has to be really good at DXing to enjoy them (although at 50kW, KYNO comes in pretty well most nights, and can sound fairly decent with a good radio).

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neosolbrudda said:
So what do you think Service could get for 104.5 and 105.7?
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For the stations (not including buildings, land, towers, etc) I'd say a starting point is around $45 million. The market is so volatile that it is hard to guess. Based on 2.5 time gross billing, that figure is "right on".
 
cc333 said:
KYNO and KVIN out of Fresno and Modesto, respectively, are good.
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I thought I'd read somewhere a couple of months ago that KVIN is on borrowed time, pending a sale to another operator who plans to change the format dramatically (like to Religious or Spanish or something like that).
 
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