I am not sure I ever heard Vin Scully, either. Really!
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Meruleo Media Sells Los Angeles TV Station To Church of Scientology
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Well, had.
He was kind of an English-language Jaime Jarrin, David.
Now that I get. Jaime and I joke that he came to the USA almost at the same time as I went to his Native Ecuador and both of us did very well from our moves!
Michael, ever hear Jon Miller mimic Vinny in JAPANESE!
it's uncanny!
Even less now. NewsNet and its sports headlines companion subnet (carried by KFLA on 8-1 and 8-2) both fired their staffs and went dark yesterday without warning.
Their first mistake was the tagline, “News…as it used to be”
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I had a suspicion this was going to happen when they went on that LPTV buying spree. Expanding that quickly drained their bank account.
Oh well ... at least my friend Roy Mayhugh (KFLA's former owner, who originally put it on the air in the late 1990s) and my other friend Gary Cocola (who is best known for building a multi-state network of LPTVs) got their money.
Take out the “as” and you have their new slogan.🫢
I just checked, they indeed are not OTA,, but seem to be alive and well on line at their website: newsnetmedia.com. Plus their App is still in operation, also with apparently live video.
and if youd read elsewhere, the stream appears to be "Zombie" automation running old content
Got it! Wonder how long that will last?
Gene Scott was a crack-up...if you had absolutely nothing important to do...to sit back and watch him rant for a little while was fun!
I ran Brother Stair on an AM i managed a few years ago.. he was a hoot. Most of his stuff that aired on stations was recorded but stations would air it via satellite or picking up his webstream... however, when he knew he was on multiple stations at one time .. hed go live......... give out the phone nubmer to call in for "radio checks" ... asking listeners to call in with details on what signal they were listening to and where.
I heard him one day have a legitimate 2nd grade tempertantrum because he wasnt getting any calls. THAT was mildly entertaining.
Eh, Television’s hit much harder then radio by the advent of technology. Many people will move to streaming services (especially Spotify and YouTube) over Radio, sure. But radio is still the easiest way to get music in your car, and there is some merit to the ease of hitting one button and not having to plug in anything. As cars advance technologically and consumers adopt those new technologies with wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, it’ll grow more seamless and be more of an issue. But even in my 2022 Mazda, it doesn’t have wireless.
But television has to grapple with cheaper adoption costs (smart TV) and the migration of production companies to subscription platforms that are vertically owned (company distributes and produces) where as music will always be distributed across multiple mediums.
Cable is expensive, more so then simply getting YouTube TV in any long term unless you gamify the system for new customer deals. Those companies like Charter (Spectrum) or Comcast (Xfinity) now offer streaming boxes free on some services too, and ATT doesn’t even carry TV via their new wide deployment fiber. It’s IPTV.
This is all not even mentioning that Radio has surpassed TV in key demographics last year.
So yeah, to me — a radio station with a fantastic signal on the middle of the dial in the largest market holds more merit then television in a market that tends to be one of the most technologically savvy in the nation.
I watched him deliver his final tirade against the FCC that had ordered him to shut down his TV station (KHOF Ch 30). He told his engineers to shut it down, they did and the channel went to snow.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I think you'll all get a hoot out of the article I wrote about KHOF-TV:
uhfhistory.com
History of UHF Television
Unless ego comes into play, in some ways it probably worked out well for Rev. Scott, as it's a lot cheaper to merely lease or buy time on some else's station than to own, operate and manage your own TV station.I think you'll all get a hoot out of the article I wrote about KHOF-TV:
History of UHF Television
Great article BTW...
Scientology does not have services in the sense of the way many churches do. They have loads of seminars and lectures and presentations, though.
They have plenty of material, for both Scientologists and those interested in their particular flavor of belief. Add in the fact that they actively recruit and glorify people in the entertainment business, there are plenty of very active Scientologists with recognizable names who all like to promote the "church".
Sometime after losing KHOF-TV (