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The A's & KTRB

50kguy said:
The A's are off the air this weekend. The new season starts Friday. What's up with KTRB and the team?
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I wish I knew, but I don't right now! Maybe KNEW and KYLD should pick up the Oakland A's broadcasts. I also heard that the A's may try to buy KTRB. PLEASE let me know what's going on with this.
 
Well, KTRB is still listed as the flagship:

http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/schedule/affiliates.jsp

As has been discussed here before, operation of KTRB at night is very expensive, thanks to the transmitter site without commercial electricity. Most of the weekend pre-season games have been broadcast, so this could be a unique situation because it's a night game and the projected revenue from ads is nowhere near the cost of the broadcast.

I suspect whoever winds up owning KTRB will not look the gift horse in the mouth, and we'll get baseball on the radio this summer. I sure hope so. Having KTRB was nice last year, with decent coverage even into the Sierras.

Dave B.
 
Talk about irony. KTRB signs off and with no station on 860 I can listen to KOA - 850 in Denver. They're broadcasting the A's game (playing the Colorado Rockies).

Dave B.
 
DaveBayArea said:
Talk about irony. KTRB signs off and with no station on 860 I can listen to KOA - 850 in Denver. They're broadcasting the A's game (playing the Colorado Rockies).

Dave B.
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If the A's fail to buy KTRB, maybe an FM station should air the A's games this year! If not, how about KFRC, KDOW, or even KKGN?
 
All three of those are pretty subpar signals, KKGN is so weak here in Concord that I pick up CFAC Calgary here at night, so I can listen on 960 when the A's play the Blue Jay's
 
The KTRB receiver has turned down the A's and another offer for KTRB. They are just not in the real world re what the stick is worth right now, with the market still recovering and their nighttime issues. Kind of like banks that are holding on to real estate that's dropped like a rock...waiting for it to go back up. With KTRB's challenges, it will never be worth what Pappas thought it was and apparently convinced the bankers it was worth.
 
travisl5678 said:
All three of those are pretty subpar signals, KKGN is so weak here in Concord that I pick up CFAC Calgary here at night, so I can listen on 960 when the A's play the Blue Jay's
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Heck, what about KYLD broadcasting the A's games?
 
travisl5678 said:
Isn't he the same guy that said Gene Burns was leaving KGO?
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Yes, but that doesn't mean Liberman is always wrong. It appears that the A's attempts to buy KTRB have "hit a snag." the "snag" seems to be that the bankruptcy receiver wants the A's to pay more money for the station than they think it is worth.

Until the problems are ironed out, it makes sense for them to make temporary arrangements to air the games on another radio station, and 1550 seems like as logical a choice as any. Remember that the A's broadcast on CBS stations in the Bay Area for at least a decade - probably longer. Here's another source for that claim

http://www.ibabuzz.com/athletics/20...n-kfrc-1550-am-drama-with-ktrb-860-continues/
 
Just a statement, but why do the Oakland teams (A's and Raiders) have crappy radio deals. If you have Oakland in your name you get a lousy weak Radio Station. If you avoid the Oakland name like the Warriors do you get KNBR.
 
Oblivious team ownership has something to do with it as does the fact that in baseball and football you have two major teams in one radio market.
 
How did it happen that in the early days of FM on 88.1 thru 107.9, it appears that NO reasonably powerful channel was allocated to Oakland? Sacramento got 92.5, then from 93.3 on up, with a nod to Berkely and another Sacramento outlet, San Fran got all the channels for the Bay area. Who was on the FCC in those days...Gertrude Stein?
 
Until the table of allocations was put into place in 1964, no FM channels were allotted to anywhere...stations just applied for a channel that would fit. I vaguely recall at least one of the three Oakland-licesed AMs having an FM sister early on, but many of those early FMs were handed back to the FCC. By the time the table was created, the Bay Area FM dial was already filled up, so there was no class B channel available for Oakland.
 
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