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Sports Return To KABC

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CaliRadioFan

The LA Kings have signed a five-year deal with Talk Radio 790 starting this fall. The games with be both on-air, and online. Shorter shows for both Larry Elder and Peter Tilden. Mark Lavine gets pre-empted a lot. Or......by October, Jim Rome & Co. move in.
 
CaliRadioFan said:
The LA Kings have signed a five-year deal with Talk Radio 790 starting this fall. The games with be both on-air, and online. Shorter shows for both Larry Elder and Peter Tilden. Mark Lavine gets pre-empted a lot. Or......by October, Jim Rome & Co. move in.
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As I have mentioned before, the Kings radio broadcast is enjoyed by virtually dozens of people. With the KABC night pattern, that number is sure to drop. I am sure the signal comes in well on La Cienega.
 
The good news is they're the world champs. The bad news is it's a cold weather sport in a warm weather town. I hear they're bringing pro soccer to Buffalo.

But it fills a lot of empty space on a station they don't know what to do with. They should try to get the Islanders for WABC.
 
Dodgers baseball was heard on KABC from 1974 through 1997 and from 2008 through 2011. (One of the announcers back then was a guy named Vin Scully.) KABC would like to regain broadcast rights in 2015 but I doubt that the Dodgers would leave KLAC. For several months there have been rumors about KABC eyeing a sports format but, as ChannelFlipper points out, hockey is not a big draw on radio. Hockey, like golf and NASCAR and many other sports, has to be seen, not just heard. Even if KABC was able to carry Dodgers baseball and build a sports format around the team, wouldn't their ratings sink even lower? Many of the cable customers and satellite customers who can no longer watch the Dodgers---thank you, Time Warner!---would listen to the games on the radio...but when the games aren't on, how would KABC fill the schedule in order to attract listeners? It isn't as though KLAA, KLAC and KSPN have millions of listeners to siphon off!
 
If there is another sports station in LA, it will likely be on FM. Many major markets have at least one sports station on FM.
 
Many major markets also have an FM news station. David Eduardo can explain why Los Angeles does not have an FM news station and/or an FM sports station. In the mid-1990s, KMAX-107.1 had a short-lived "Sports to the Max" format and I can't think of any other examples. If the Los Angeles market can support three classic-hits stations and 20 Spanish-language stations, then why not FM news and sports?
 
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