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Salem sells KFSH 95.9 as part of it's sale of all CCM stations to EMF creating an L.A. duopoly with 100.3 KKLQ

It’s also interesting to point out that that there is a pretty potent, albeit directional translator on 92.7 broadcasting from a tower in downtown LA and aimed to the southwest. It’s a fill in, broadcasting Air1 from KKLQ HD2. It comes in pretty well where I live in Hawthorne.

To me the flip would be a toss up. But I’m leaning toward 95.9 becoming Air1 because of the 92.7 overlap with KMRO in Camarillo which is La Nueva Vida’s flagship.
 
fybush said:
With EMF, the most obvious answer is almost always the right one. KLove will stay on 100.3, 95.9 will get Air 1, and the Orange County 92.7 will probably become Nueva Vida.
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The OC signal beautifully covers the highest density Hispanic areas, Santa Ana and the surrounding cities. Makes good sense to use 92.7 for that population segment.
 
Ryan Williams said:
I would point out though that KFSH covers a lot more of the Hispanic population than KYLA. For example, KFSH has very decent coverage of the deeply Hispanic areas of densly populated SE Los Angeles County such as Downey, Whittier, etc. Where as KYLA has really no useful coverage outside of Orange County. KYLA does have substantial coverage in Southern Orange County where KFSH does not, but that is not very Hispanic at all.
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Good analysis, and many don't realize that the southern LA County area in the Whittier / Downey / Bellflower and it is good that you pointed that out.
 
Oooh. Here’s a thought. Pacifica’s translator at 90.3 has a recently approved upgrade that is directional over the central part of LA. Pacifica has no benefit for this and probably doesn’t have the money to spend. My guess is EMF will make a deal and use it to broadcast KKLC HD3 (KMRO). This paired with KFSH, while not ideal would give La Nueva Vida much better coverage in LA.

Note the CP grant date of this Temple City translator

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I would make the case again that 95.9 will be the flip.

Plus, KYLA probably covers the Lilly white areas in Southern Orange County better than KFSH.
 
The KPFK translator owned by Common Communications Southern California. They also own KTCN-FM 88.3 Acton. It is part of the KHUG-LP 97.5 Castaic, KLQS-LP 97.5 San Fernando group.
 
Also worth noting - even non-Evangelical Latinos like CCM. There isn't the Catholic backlash against CCM that killed 106.7 the Fish in Chicago. It is not nearly seen as lame and insular as CCM is seen in the Anglosphere, especially with how traditional some Latinos can be.

A major CCM station in Puerto Rico advertises itself as "the station for Evangelicals, Catholics, and people that do not attend church."
 
For the final day of 95.9 The Fish, schedule's changed up a bit, right now, instead of Kevin & Taylor, Big Wave Dave is on until 2 when Nolan comes on for his regular afternoon drive time show, & then Dave returns from 7-midnight for Penny to close out the station as KFSH goes all-local. Listening to the end of the morning show with Scott & Sam & Sam solo in the midday, clearly they're voice tracking the shows not hearing a farewell of any kind from them nor live interaction in contrast to the other Salem CCMs that are signing off tonight.
 
RadioRonnie285 said:
95.9 and 92.7 will probably not co exist as air 1so 92.7 will probably be radio nueva vida
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I caught the over-the-air ID for 95.9 earlier today:

"KAIA La Mirada/Anaheim, and in the San Fernando Valley on 91.9."

With no mention of 92.7, I'd believe the same. (for KYLA at least)
 
I know there are limits to the amount of stations that one entity can own in one city but it almost seems to me that at some point other corporations could finally throw in the towel and EMF could end up owning, say, all the FMs they could possibly own in one city [say, like 8]. Forget the AMs, they probably want no part of them. Could it [or would it] happen? Or would the FCC finally step in and say "No way, Jose"? I think it'd be horrendous to basically be pumping out one of the three formats they have and would probably be the end of FM.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
I know there are limits to the amount of stations that one entity can own in one city but it almost seems to me that at some point other corporations could finally throw in the towel and EMF could end up owning, say, all the FMs they could possibly own in one city [say, like 8]. Forget the AMs, they probably want no part of them. Could it [or would it] happen? Or would the FCC finally step in and say "No way, Jose"? I think it'd be horrendous to basically be pumping out one of the three formats they have and would probably be the end of FM.
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None of this is true. Non-commercial stations do not have limits on the stations they can own. EMF/K-Love Inc. is not interested in owning every radio station in a market, nor would all other station owners throw in the towel and sell all their stations to them. EMF/K-Love is not interested in even buying eight stations in one market. One or two stations are all they want in most markets. In some markets, they have sold an Air1 station, leaving only a K-Love station and/or an Air1 translator. I guess they may want to expand their new Spanish network in some markets with a large Spanish-speaking population, but those may be mostly translators and HD subchannels.
 
RadioRonnie285 said:
I dont see 95.9 KAIA and 92.7 KYLA both staying with Air 1. I expect KYLA to be Radio Nueva Vida joining the 91,1 translator
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The thing is that KYLA is on the same channel as KYZA and KYRA, and that keeps the signals from bleeding over each other. KYRA's signal also overlaps with KMRO's.
 
mofocat2 said:
You included LA's KNX, would you not include KFI?
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RadioRonnie285 said:
I guess when you include the 92.7 translator for LA also that I just wonder if all those 92.7s will stay Air 1 along with 95.9 KAIA
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Which is why in my view, the logical move would be to launch La Nueva Vida on 95.9. IMHO, conventional logic doesn’t seem to apply to EMF.

They are often willing to overlap signals since their goals are to reach as many as possible and get the support.
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
Which is why in my view, the logical move would be to launch La Nueva Vida on 95.9. IMHO, conventional logic doesn’t seem to apply to EMF.

They are often willing to overlap signals since their goals are to reach as many as possible and get the support.
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I agree about 95.9, which I previously discussed because of its strong signal in southern LA County and other heavily-hispanic areas. Maybe it will eventually go to Nueva Vida once the ownership transfer of the network is completed.

But as far as conventional logic not applying to EMF/K-LOVE, I strongly disagree. They are rational actors and very adept. For the past decade they have pretty much out-maneuvered everyone else in the industry, commercial or non-com and the on-air product is very, very good. There is nothing amateur-hour about K-Love/Air1 nor do I believe there is any strategy in place to put the station on many channels in the same area.

There are some areas where they have some overlapping signals, but there really aren't that many. My guess is their data shows more non-auto listening than the industry as a whole and they want a certain signal threshold to make sure those listeners/donors can hear the signals clearly inside of homes/businesses.

There really are not many cases of multiple 60 or 65 dbu signals having significant overlap out of their many hundreds of stations.
 
Ryan Williams said:
I agree about 95.9, which I previously discussed because of its strong signal in southern LA County and other heavily-hispanic areas. Maybe it will eventually go to Nueva Vida once the ownership transfer of the network is completed.

But as far as conventional logic not applying to EMF/K-LOVE, I strongly disagree. They are rational actors and very adept. For the past decade they have pretty much out-maneuvered everyone else in the industry, commercial or non-com and the on-air product is very, very good. There is nothing amateur-hour about K-Love/Air1 nor do I believe there is any strategy in place to put the station on many channels in the same area.

There are some areas where they have some overlapping signals, but there really aren't that many. My guess is their data shows more non-auto listening than the industry as a whole and they want a certain signal threshold to make sure those listeners/donors can hear the signals clearly inside of homes/businesses.

There really are not many cases of multiple 60 or 65 dbu signals having significant overlap out of their many hundreds of stations.
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But the KAIA calls scream Air1 though.
 
Identnut said:
But the KAIA calls scream Air1 though.
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Of course since they are making it Air1. We were just making the argument that they shouldn’t based on conventional logic.

And speaking of overlaps, they had a major overlap in Sacramento for about a decade between KLVB 99.5 (Now KKFS) and KLRS 89.7 and now temporarily have three with KLVB 103.9. If they take 99.5 and make it Air1, they will actually reduce overlap amongst the other two.
 
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