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What happens to KLAA when the Angels are sold?

If I remember, radio coverage played a role in the founding of the Angels. When the Dodgers first moved to Los Angeles, they contracted with 710 KMPC for their games (as Mr. Autry was a huge sports fan).

The Dodgers owner had a place out in Big Bear and one evening turned on his radio to hear the Dodger game on 710; he couldn’t receive the signal. He figured if he couldn’t hear, a lot of other people couldn’t. As a result, the Dodgers games moved to KFI.

When the Angels came into the league (and owned by Mr. Autry); they were on 710 and for many many years.
 
dlf1 said:
If I remember, radio coverage played a role in the founding of the Angels. When the Dodgers first moved to Los Angeles, they contracted with 710 KMPC for their games (as Mr. Autry was a huge sports fan).

The Dodgers owner had a place out in Big Bear and one evening turned on his radio to hear the Dodger game on 710; he couldn’t receive the signal. He figured if he couldn’t hear, a lot of other people couldn’t. As a result, the Dodgers games moved to KFI.

When the Angels came into the league (and owned by Mr. Autry); they were on 710 and for many many years.
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There is even more to the story than that. When KMPC lost the Dodger rights, Gene Autry went to the winter baseball owner's meetings to try to secure broadcast rights to league games that he could put on the station to fill the gap. But he impressed the other owners so much, they offered him his own franchise instead. That is how the Angels came into being.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
But at the same time, the American League had already intended to expand to Los Angeles.
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The threat of a proposed third major league for baseball had the most to do with that. The Continental League, without ever playing a single game, shook the existing Major League owners out of their 1920s/1930s era stupor and got both existing leagues moving forward into the future with additional teams and new markets.

 
Mediafrog+ said:
So how do the KLAA day and night signals compare to KRDC or the future downgraded KSPN? Would 830 be preferable over the new 710 coverage? Of that of 1110? Haven’t thoroughly compared those when in SoCal.

I would think that KLAC beats any of those three for market coverage, even with 5kw…?
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It does...Many Dodger fans who relocated to San Diego were thrilled because they could at long last hear the games in SD once again...When KFI 640 carried the games back in the 60s and early 70s the signal was local, when they moved to 790 the signal was weak but listenable if you could put up with a lot of interference...when they moved to 980, and 1150 it was impossible. 570 KLAC's day time signal is fair and interference free. Night time is a different story, although the signal's ERP is stronger when they are directional at night, there is significant co-channel interference.
 
DarrenVision said:
Maybe Audacy or Meurelo Media Group can buy it. Audacy doesnt have a sports station in LA
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Theres no upside to doing that in a market where sports just isn’t that big of a deal to fans, and 830’s signal is awful in L.A. It’s sad I remember when they first signed on many years ago. I thought they had a strong enough lineup to be a player. but I just don’t think arte moreno cares about radio to want to invest in the station. RIP 830
 
Loverofradio said:
Theres no upside to doing that in a market where sports just isn’t that big of a deal to fans, and 830’s signal is awful in L.A. It’s sad I remember when they first signed on many years ago. I thought they had a strong enough lineup to be a player. but I just don’t think arte moreno cares about radio to want to invest in the station. RIP 830
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Audacy can simulcast on HD2 on one of its FMs.
 
If the new owners are not interested in KLAA as part of the package, The City Of Anaheim could take ownership since it is on their property. That's not a remote studio within 2000 Gene Autry Way, that IS the radio station.
 
CaliRadioFan said:
If the new owners are not interested in KLAA as part of the package, The City Of Anaheim could take ownership since it is on their property. That's not a remote studio within 2000 Gene Autry Way, that IS the radio station.
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And now the City of Anaheim would have a radio station. What would they do with it?
 
CaliRadioFan said:
If the new owners are not interested in KLAA as part of the package, The City Of Anaheim could take ownership since it is on their property. That's not a remote studio within 2000 Gene Autry Way, that IS the radio station.
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That is just a leased studio. It can go anywhere, easily. The transmitter is off in Riverside Country way to the east, beaming over the narrow service area of the station.
 
Did KLAA tower site have more antennas then what's on Google? It looks like on the far backside of the property there are disassembled tower section piled up along with some other stuff. Or maybe it's just a junkyard for discarded crap they or other stations no longer needed. Or maybe at some point the towers were replaced and they just tossed the old parts back there.
 
KLAA's daytime signal is 50 kW non-directional, but apparently the ground conductivity towards the LA Basin is very poor from their site in Norco which is essentially behind the Santa Ana Mountains. Their 20 kW nighttime signal is directional with the lobe aimed at OC with not much going to the LA Basin.
 
TomásEstefan said:
KLAA's daytime signal is 50 kW non-directional, but apparently the ground conductivity towards the LA Basin is very poor from their site in Norco which is essentially behind the Santa Ana Mountains. Their 20 kW nighttime signal is directional with the lobe aimed at OC with not much going to the LA Basin.
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An issue that has often been discussed by engineers is the fact that the KLAA site is on the other side of the San Andreas fault line. There is thought that the fault attenuates the signal. This was, I am told, one of the considerations for not moving 670 from the Simi Valley to a site just SE of Lancaster... also on the other side of the fault.
 
DavidEduardo said:
An issue that has often been discussed by engineers is the fact that the KLAA site is on the other side of the San Andreas fault line. There is thought that the fault attenuates the signal. This was, I am told, one of the considerations for not moving 670 from the Simi Valley to a site just SE of Lancaster... also on the other side of the fault.
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I've heard this before, it's fascinating...along the same lines it's interesting that if you listen to KABC 790 while driving on the way to the Antelope Valley they sound pretty decent as you travel up HWY 14 and it still sounds good as you go over the pass through the San Gabriel Mountains but at about the point that you cross over the San Andreas fault the signal takes a dump and stays that way even after you enter the flat lands!

Back to KLAA, if I'm not mistaken their original site was on Oak Flat (now used by KBRT 740) which is just West of the crest of the Santa Ana Mountains.
 
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