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Playlist 92.7 has been sold/acquired

Too bad. I like Playlist 92.7 (when I can actually hear it). Unlike KOST which is so formatted and predictable, its actually a fun AC that has an broad playlist. Of course I knew all along that would be its downfall.
 
Who bought Playlist 92.7? I love the station but, I think it would be better with personality meaning on air personality...
 
The latest I have heard is that Joe Amaturo is coming out to SoCal for a meeting on Thursday. Probably in Lake Forest.
Also thru the grapevine a Christian broadcaster may be involved. I'm not sure how much sense that makes given 95.9 The Fish's presence at least in Orange County.
 
Are we talking about only the 92.7 frequency in Orange County and not the one in Thousand Oaks? On the Orange County Craigslist site, a "help wanted" ad appeared on November 6. Here is a portion of the ad:

Playlist 92.7 FM HIRING! Advertising, Business Development, Marketing (Orange County)
Full and Part Time positions are available.
We have amazing opportunities at Playlist 92.7 and are looking for talent!

Hmmm.....
 
I hope these rumors aren't true, PL 92.7 is the only station I can tolerate for quite a while. Not that long ago it was Jill-FM and had pretty much the same mix but was more female-oriented. Where I live in Rancho Cucamonga, the 280w erp signal from the Adelanto stick (KLSN) barely makes it over the mountain, but it's worth putting up with the occasional fade on my clock radio. I am bored out of my mind with KOLA and their tiny playlist, which used to be my favorite station going back 20 - 30 years or so but has no appeal anymore.

AFIAK, all three are simulcast from Thousand Oaks (w/a Malibu translator), Fountain Valley, and Adelanto, would it be possible only one of them was sold off while the others continued PL? What would be the point?

"We Play EVERYTHING" is their slogan, and while not quite true :) they do play a wider variety of music than any other station in the LA area, so it'll be sad to see them go. Keep us updated.
 
LARadioRewind said:
Are we talking about only the 92.7 frequency in Orange County and not the one in Thousand Oaks? On the Orange County Craigslist site, a "help wanted" ad appeared on November 6. Here is a portion of the ad:

Playlist 92.7 FM HIRING! Advertising, Business Development, Marketing (Orange County)
Full and Part Time positions are available.
We have amazing opportunities at Playlist 92.7 and are looking for talent!

Hmmm.....
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Nope
I personnaly know the person who placed that ad.
Sometimes station sales are secret until they happen.
My guess is all 3 sticks are involved in the transaction.
 
KLST, the "Playlist" station in Fountain Valley, began in 1993 as KRCI, "Radio Catalina Island." It broadcast from Cata........oh, you know. The station carried the syndicated "Stardust" format, a mix of MOR and adult standards. For a while, they also reran Bill Ballance's old KFMB Feminine Forum programs, with references to dates and cities edited out. KRCI later became KLIT, one of about fifty different Los Angeles stations that used the name "K-Lite" or "Lite FM" over the years. (It seems like fifty anyway.)
 
(1.) If it happens to be EMF, Air 1 would almost certainly be the format that it would use--although it does already operate in Riverside/San Bernardino and the Victor Valley. Even if it wanted to compete with the Fish, it almost certainly couldn't use the K-Love name (due to KLVE).
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In the world of PPM, I don't think it would make a difference if they used K-Love. No diaries to mistake stations, though agreed they would not do it. EMF always looks to expand Air 1. Remember Amaturo and EMF got in an FCC spat about EMF dropping a translator in Fontana at 92.7 FM. EMF prevailed (as they usually do, good lawyers). So if they got the three Amaturo sticks and the Fontana translator, Air 1 has better coverage in than just using KLRD which has Orange County coverage issues. EMF could always put something else on KLRD or cut a deal with Nueve Vida/Association for Community Education for an LMA. I don't believe EMF filed an objection to Association for Community Education putting on their translator K211DK Santa Ana at 90.1 FM. Perhaps they will cooperate with each other again. Wild speculation is fun.
 
kogi19 said:
In the world of PPM, I don't think it would make a difference if they used K-Love. No diaries to mistake stations, though agreed they would not do it.
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It would be a major confusion factor for advertising, marketing and promotion.
 
I'm hearing rumors---which, by definition, no one should put much stock in---that one (or possibly two) of the 92.7 stations will switch to a contemporary Christian format. This was reported to me by a newsaper columnist who didn't tell me to "keep it quiet" but I'd rather not mention his name. Thank you and good night.
 
i think air 1 has a translator in victorville, so it does not make sense for them to add 92.7, unless they drop the other signal, or LMA it out to another non profit.
 
36james said:
i think air 1 has a translator in victorville, so it does not make sense for them to add 92.7, unless they drop the other signal, or LMA it out to another non profit.
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Perhaps they put K-Love on the Adelanto signal.
 
I hope KAJL keeps a AC or Hot AC format. A lot of people listens to KAJL Adelanto because they can't stand how Hot AC station across town KZXY have a morning host that is all into her self plus they keep playing the same music over and over and over.
 
kn3ick said:
I hope KAJL keeps a AC or Hot AC format. A lot of people listens to KAJL Adelanto because they can't stand how Hot AC station across town KZXY have a morning host that is all into her self plus they keep playing the same music over and over and over.
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I think you mean KLSN, it hasn't been KAJL since it was Jill-FM some time ago. The calls were changed when it became Playlist 92.7. Anyway, I understand your point. The high desert deserves at least one decent station. Not a lot of LA/SB stations make it up the pass, or if they do, the signal is weak. I'm surprised I can get KLSN where I am, in Rancho Cucamonga, but I'm high up in the north part of the city. By the time you get down the hill, the signal is gone. I can only get it at my house, not in the car as I drive down to the main part of the city.
 
Sorry, I meant to say KLSN instead of KAJL. Depending on where you are in Rancho you may not be hearing KLSN which is not in Adelanto it's actually in Victorville on Quartzite Mtn in the same building that our amateur radio repeater is in. The Fountain Valley KLST transmitter gets into Rancho, Upland, Ontario, Pomona and San Dimas. I can hear everything from Quartzite Mtn in Victorville at my house in Rialto but, KLSN is hard to hear because 92.9 KFXG is strong in Rialto and U92.7 in Palm Springs is also pretty loud.
 
So I don't get it? 95.9 The Fish has the same format which they've done quite well with in recent years. Why compete for that small slice of pie??? And on top of that except for the 92.7 signals in Thousand Oaks and Adelanto, the Orange County signal basically covers the same area as the 95.9 signal does. IOW in the Walnut-Diamond Bar area and San Gabriel Valley you can't receive either signal clearly. 92.7 missed a chance to do something a lot more different.
 
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