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[MarkW]

Re: 103.7 KVIL...

Non-shocking, but yes, they should be a candidate for a flip. Good call. Urban AC would be the best English-language option for that station, IMO. An FM simulcast of KRLD 1080 cannot be completely ruled out, either. A smarter move may be a format oriented to a Hispanic audience.

104.3 The Flounder - errr, The Shark - in Miami also needs to be monitored. Again, non-shocking. That station should've been thrown to the scrap heap many months ago. Power 96? That one definitely would qualify as shocking, in my book. (The use of the term "shocking" in the rumor might also be a pun / reference to the "Power" brand name.)

 

[TheBigA]

Non-shocking, but yes, they should be a candidate for a flip. Good call. Urban AC would be the best English-language option for that station, IMO.

I'm sticking with the view that any format change would be connected to their FanDuel deal. That deal is predicated on major market sports stations.

 

[frankberry]

I have removed a number of political posts in this thread. There is a proper place for such posts and this isn't it.

 

[ChannelFlipper]

It's not relevant. Hunter isn't running for president. The Wall Street Journal, hardly a liberal outlet, isn't covering the story either.

Actually the WSJ is covering the story. Take a look at the great work of Kimberly Strassel of the WSJ editorial board here:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...y_not_investigating_him_in_the_primaries.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-family-legacy-11603409528 (this one is behind the Journal's Paywall, but if you do a search it can be found in whole).

 

[MarkW]

Re:

I'm sticking with the view that any format change would be connected to their FanDuel deal. That deal is predicated on major market sports stations.

I think that makes the most sense, too.

When Entercom briefly owned 100.3, there were rumors that their long-term plan was to flip *that* station to Sports. Of course, 100.3 had to be divested as part of the whole CBS Radio - Entercom marriage.

97.1 to Sports makes sense, IMO. I talked about it earlier in this thread and I also raised that possibility earlier this year on a different thread found in this forum. Why keep a CHR/Pop station around that is doomed? Dumping Amp and flipping it to Sports makes a whole lotta sense. Entercom has FM sports stations in San Francisco and San Diego, why not have such a station in L.A., too?

 

[Mediafrog+]

Other candidates for the rumored "shocking" flip:
- KILT in Houston

Extremely doubtful. While Entercom would probably love to get its Houston AM SportsTalker (KILT 610) onto an FM, I don't they are going to blow up a still viable Country outlet (KILT-FM 100.3) to do so. I've been beating the drum on the Houston board for several years that Entercom should buy ratings failure KROI 92.1 from Urban One and put the Sports format there (Entercom has only four FMs in Houston.)

 

[ChannelFlipper]

That's not at all what I said; re-read what I wrote earlier. I described KROQ as a guitar-friendly alt rock station.

Here are the heritage rock / classic rock tandems over the years of which I am aware:
- KLSX and KLOS
- KLOS and KCBS
- KLOS and KSWD

For a short time in 1986-87 there were THREE (what we would now call) classic rock stations:

- KLSX, KLOS, and KMET

Also, for a time in the 70's KROQ was more AOR then the alternative it morphed into, so it was indeed competing against KMET and KLOS. Another consideration is that KNX-FM was also competing directly against KMET and KLOS in the late 70's and 80s, when singer/songwriters and the "SoCal" soft rock scene was at its height. Their format was not the same as the other two, but they shared many songs and listeners.

 

[Sixeye]

Billings

Actually, it is far and away the #1 radio market in the US in billings, and will stay that way.

Whenever I am within receiving distance of L.A. radio stations (usually on my trips north from San Diego), it boggles my mind how long and often the commercial breaks are. It makes it really difficult to listen to the stations. It's generally a pretty short sampling for me and then back to SiriusXM or my stored music on my iPhone.