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Royce International saga, update

Whomever wins this auction automatically gets a lawsuit. You can bet on it!

104.3 KFRH is currently on the air from it's AUX site with the "Hustle" format. Studio at that reception/wedding hall by the airport.

790 KBET is a pile of parts at this point. What a shame!
 
Crazy Ed must be doin' the Monster Mash this week, as all the ghouls and goblins are at his front door.

A court rules in favor of former Trustee Larry Patrick and orders CE to cough up $2.1mil. The current Trustee claims CE pocketed up to $360k from station coffers prior to filing BK; and this Thursday (10/26) is the court ordered auction for his stations. Siding With Larry Patrick, Judge Orders Ed Stolz To Pay $2.1 Million Receiver Fee.

This one has more moves than the Transylvania Twist. But who knows? Maybe Crazy Ed will channel Bobby Boris Pickett to help him out. šŸŽƒ
 
$3.75M is a nice chunk of change for KREV's 60 dBu signal, which largely misses San Rafael, Hayward, San Mateo, Pacifica, Walnut Creek, etc. Yes, they get SF, Oakland, Berkeley and the close-in suburbs, but will listener support be enough to fund the operation and pay down the purchase cost, when many of the money demo suburbs will never know it exists based on their radio dial. And when the demos that their programming is aimed at are deep into their Spotify/Apple/Amazon/Google/SXM apps? Seems like quite the risk.

Is KEXP still funded with money from Paul Allen's charitable trust (or whatever it's called)? Or are they standing on their own feet at this point?
 
Weiserguy said:
Is KEXP still funded with money from Paul Allen's charitable trust (or whatever it's called)? Or are they standing on their own feet at this point?
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Good question. Their annual report is an unusual one:


I don't think I've ever quite seen it presented this way, and the largest portion of their $15-million revenue comes from where that trust would be (about $9.1 million). But really - 30,704 individual donors? For a radio station? No matter how you look at it, that's impressive.

Dave B.
 
That's an interesting winner for KREV, in that KEXP is a non-commercial AAA station in Seattle. From time to time, they show up in the Top 5 in Seattle. They will give KITS some competition:

www.insideradio.com

Three Bidders Emerge Victorious In Bankruptcy Auction Of Royce International Stations.

A half dozen bidders showed up for the bankruptcy court auction Thursday to sell the Royce International Broadcasting stations, and when the proverbial gavel came down the bids for the
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It will be interesting to see if they run it as a non-com with local staffing, or as a satellite of KEXP
 
When KEXP had a programming agreement with New York City's 91.5 WNYE, they had a separately programmed morning mix, leading into John Richards' morning show simulcast from Seattle, along with several WNYE specific shows.

gothamist.com

KEXP Joins Forces With Radio New York

Back in 2004 we talked to KEXP deejay John Richards, who was
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If a fully local staff isn't in the plan, immediately or in the future, I could see them doing something similar in SF. Perhaps starting with Bay Area focused local music or mix specialty shows.
 
Ever since KFOG envovled into Alternative in 2017 and completely switch to simulcast of 680 KNBR. San Francisco doesn't have a full time AAA analog radio station (I'm not including HWY 1 Radio which can be herd on KOIT-HD2 and KUFX-HD2).

There are some AAA music on the noncommercial radio station, but not full time (KALW, KPFA, KALX, KXSF-LP).
 
Andy Travis said:
If a fully local staff isn't in the plan, immediately or in the future, I could see them doing something similar in SF. Perhaps starting with Bay Area focused local music or mix specialty shows.
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That was at the core of the old KFOG. At one time, they actually broadcast the BAMmies (Bay Area Music Awards). That association I think is going to be very important. If anyone can do it, it's the folks at KEXP. They are an outgrowth of the Experience Music Project, funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who sought to preserve the heritage of Jimi Hendrix.
 
DaveBayArea said:
Good question. Their annual report is an unusual one:


I don't think I've ever quite seen it presented this way, and the largest portion of their $15-million revenue comes from where that trust would be (about $9.1 million). But really - 30,704 individual donors? For a radio station? No matter how you look at it, that's impressive.

Dave B.
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As a former Seattleite and native Cascadian, KEXP Stickers out number KUOW on Seattle Urban Core car owners, also on helmets, businesses etc.

I also frequently see them on cars in Portland.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
No, no its not.. you watch.... its not over till the fat lady sings... Ed is a pox on broadcast and the fat lady hasnt sung yet
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It's very likely he will challenge the sales of every station. He still challenges every change Audacy wants to make based on the Sacramento story.
 
Andy Travis said:
When KEXP had a programming agreement with New York City's 91.5 WNYE, they had a separately programmed morning mix, leading into John Richards' morning show simulcast from Seattle, along with several WNYE specific shows.

gothamist.com

KEXP Joins Forces With Radio New York

Back in 2004 we talked to KEXP deejay John Richards, who was
gothamist.com gothamist.com

If a fully local staff isn't in the plan, immediately or in the future, I could see them doing something similar in SF. Perhaps starting with Bay Area focused local music or mix specialty shows.
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WNYE was a sleeping giant in the NYC market for many years. The "NYE" stood for New York City Board of Education, which owned 91.5 for decades - broadcasting educational programs to the city's public schools - until Mayor Giuliani (yup, that one) decided to sell off WNYC, and then Mayor Bloomberg (yup, that one) decided to absorb the quasi-independent Board of Ed into the NYC government. Once that happened, WNYE became the city's station that they never really wanted to operate. But given the right transmitter location, it is a full-market signal. (Though under the Board of Ed, the transmitter location was a tower on the top of Brooklyn Tech High School, tall enough to reach the five boroughs, but not truly "full market".) And when they cut that deal with KEXP, it made sense to program the station for the NYC market, even if part of that came out of Seattle.

IMO, if KEXP had been able to acquire a full market signal in the SFBA, then yes, live and local would be a strong possibility. But with the lame duck that is 92.7, nah, it's never going to pay to do anything but simulcast KEXP in all but drive time hours, if that much.
 
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