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Salem sells KLTY, six other CCM stations to EMF

Kent said:
If the deal would happen to fall apart, Salem would take back over operation of the station.
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Has this ever happened in a large or major market, where a station flipped and then the deal fell apart, so the station’s operations fell back to the original owner? Of course, I’ve seen deals fall apart before takeover of the station, but I can’t think of any instances off the top of my head where the deal fell apart after a flip.

And with my comment about debuting the format 80%, I was referring to the visual aspect of 94.9. There’s been 2 entire days since the flip, where the RDS and HD PAD, have shown KLTY branding. As I type this, the HD station logo is still the KLTY logo.

Anyways, I hope K-Love, Inc. is approved sooner than later as the new licensee, so engineering can get to work and get this bump on the dial out of the way…
 
chriscervantez said:
Has this ever happened in a large or major market, where a station flipped and then the deal fell apart, so the station’s operations fell back to the original owner? Of course, I’ve seen deals fall apart before takeover of the station, but I can’t think of any instances off the top of my head where the deal fell apart after a flip.

And with my comment about debuting the format 80%, I was referring to the visual aspect of 94.9. There’s been 2 entire days since the flip, where the RDS and HD PAD, have shown KLTY branding. As I type this, the HD station logo is still the KLTY logo.

Anyways, I hope K-Love, Inc. is approved sooner than later as the new licensee, so engineering can get to work and get this bump on the dial out of the way…
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Could be a receiver issue decoding the PAD because it’s loaded. However, a new issue has sprung up with the server omitting the TOTH ID.
 

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chriscervantez said:
Has this ever happened in a large or major market, where a station flipped and then the deal fell apart, so the station’s operations fell back to the original owner? Of course, I’ve seen deals fall apart before takeover of the station, but I can’t think of any instances off the top of my head where the deal fell apart after a flip.
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I'm not aware of it happening in a large or major market other than the aforementioned Stolz case. However, I remember it happening in Peoria, IL, probably around 20 years ago. WWCT 105.7 was supposed to be sold to Kelly Communications, which took over the operation of the station in an LMA. Some time later, the deal failed to close, and the previous owner took it back over. I remember seeing pictures of the station van with "NOT" hastily written in front of "A Kelly Communications Station!"
 
TheBigA said:
Sort of extenuating circumstances. The stations were in a forced sale that was stopped by a bankruptcy.

www.insideradio.com

Bankruptcy Court Puts Ed Stolz’s Three FMs Back Under Trustee Control.

A federal bankruptcy judge in Las Vegas has ordered that the trio of FMs owned by Royce -International Broadcasting be put into the hands of a trustee, 15 months after
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com
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As far as KREV was concerned, VCY operated the station for a few weeks and then had to cease as the bankruptcy case took a turn.
 
Kent said:
I'm not aware of it happening in a large or major market other than the aforementioned Stolz case. However, I remember it happening in Peoria, IL, probably around 20 years ago. WWCT 105.7 was supposed to be sold to Kelly Communications, which took over the operation of the station in an LMA. Some time later, the deal failed to close, and the previous owner took it back over. I remember seeing pictures of the station van with "NOT" hastily written in front of "A Kelly Communications Station!"
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I do remember this happening, as 105.7 WWCT (now WIXO) reached my hometown. I know one of the engineers that was involved in the “pirate” takeover of the station. Local businesses dropped off food and other donations at the transmitter site.

That also reminds me when maybe 6 or so stations (including 105.7) in the Peoria market changed ownership and formats shifted all at the same time. RDS was updated the moment of the flip and everything was flawless. That’s what I was hoping for when 94.9 here flipped to K-Love, but I guess you can’t have everything! I almost feel that the smaller stations have less issues nowadays than stations in large and major markets.
 
Interesting discovery from the past couple of days: The K-Love feed currently airing on KLTY is not the national feed, but what appears to be a local version for the KLTY switchover. Both yesterday and today, I noticed that music and liners do not line up with KYDA-HD2 (which is airing the national feed, matching the now playing tab on their website). In the middle of the K-Love content, I also heard the KLTY "farewell" message over the air today which was playing prior to the switchover, but with the end edited to something along the lines of "this is K-Love, we invite you to stick around".
 
hijakeroo123 said:
Interesting discovery from the past couple of days: The K-Love feed currently airing on KLTY is not the national feed, but what appears to be a local version for the KLTY switchover. Both yesterday and today, I noticed that music and liners do not line up with KYDA-HD2 (which is airing the national feed, matching the now playing tab on their website). In the middle of the K-Love content, I also heard the KLTY "farewell" message over the air today which was playing prior to the switchover, but with the end edited to something along the lines of "this is K-Love, we invite you to stick around".
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I noticed that either 101.7 HD2 or 94.9 was ahead of the other frequency the other day by 10-15 seconds or so, but it appears that they’re pretty much in sync right now. I did hear the modified KLTY farewell message earlier tonight around 6:30 p.m.
 
txskywtchr said:
Could be a receiver issue decoding the PAD because it’s loaded. However, a new issue has sprung up with the server omitting the TOTH ID.
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Sorry, I just saw this! Right now my car radio is showing the Majic 94.5 logo. The receiver in my 2020 Hyundai Elantra doesn’t show long station names and gets confused when pulling up archived logos. If stations with short station names don’t have an archived logo, it’ll throw logos from 94.5, 97.9 and 98.7 on one of those stations. For some reason 92.5 also has a long station name, but it doesn’t throw that logo all over. I’ll have to sit on 94.9 for a while to see if the K-Love logo loads.

Also, when you say the server was omitting the TOTH ID, did you mean the actual ID or the text? On 101.7 HD2, the text was blank when the ID played. However, I noticed tonight that 101.7 HD2 is playing a loop redirecting listeners to 94.9 and saying that Air1’s Música de Adoracíon is coming soon.

Additionally, you seem pretty knowledgeable about what’s going on and seem like you may be involved or know someone from K-Love. If so, I don’t think album art is showing anymore on 101.7 HD1, HD2 or HD3. If you could pass this along to the powers that be, that would be great!
 
I’m about 7 miles from the Cedar Hill tower farm. Just sat on 94.9 for 30 minutes and the K-Love logo didn’t load. For some reason, even before the change, the 94.9 logo has a hard time loading on my radio. All other HD stations’ logos in DFW load within 5 minutes or so, if they aren’t archived. Oh well, I tried! 😆

Edit: Star 102.1’s logo was flushed from my radio. I timed how long it took for the logo to load and it was 1 minute 10 seconds.
 
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chriscervantez said:
I noticed tonight that 101.7 HD2 is playing a loop redirecting listeners to 94.9 and saying that Air1’s Música de Adoracíon is coming soon.
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That’s interesting, as Musica de Adoracion has been online only, hasn’t it?

I’ve been thinking that Radio Nueva Vida, which was recently acquired by K-Love Inc., will be rebranded and folded into the Adoracion format as part of an OTA expansion of the network. Perhaps headed to 93.3 or 107.5?
 
chriscervantez said:
I noticed tonight that 101.7 HD2 is playing a loop redirecting listeners to 94.9 and saying that Air1’s Música de Adoracíon is coming soon.
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That’s interesting, as Musica de Adoracion has been online only, hasn’t it?

I’ve been thinking that Radio Nueva Vida, which was recently acquired by K-Love Inc., will be rebranded and folded into the Adoracion format as part of an OTA expansion of the network. Perhaps headed to 93.3 or 107.5?
 
Thanks for the comments. The issue with 94.9 is that everything is still housed at Salem. If you walked into the station off of Beltline in Irving, you would still see everything as it was before because they're operating under the LMA. Until the license exchange has been approved, nothing will be changed, and K-Love's engineers can't begin the build out at the Cedar Hill site. This is why there's an additional 10 second delay in the feed because it's not a direct feed. There's also an issue with the equipment at Salem that causes the feed to drop intermittently.

As far as RDS tags, pads, etc... vehicles are finicky. A PD, APD, etc. can change them out daily and they will still display the one you uploaded six months ago. Most (not all) listeners will even notice or care because their Apple CarPlay or Android Auto navigation apps will take up the entire infotainment screen. It's just when people like us bring it to their attention that they take notice.

Side Note: K-Love Inc. filed the amendment form to convert 94.9 to NCE on 2/26. That's the next step in all this mess. Hopefully the FCC approves the license transfer soon.

The TOTH ID sweeper that I was referring to was on 94.9.
 
TheBigA said:
I hope he has deep pockets.
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Marcus is a great media entrepreneur who has been very successful in radio and tv including launching the original KLTY on 94.1. He obviously sees an opportunity created in the wake of KLTY's shutdown.

That said, I find myself to being generally skeptical about local focused online-only radio stations, specifically here when they are competing with entrenched full-market signals that have a perceived "no commercials" advantage.
 
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