I heard him as a guest on a Ben Maller podcast and he sounded very excited.
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When will this happen in L.A.?
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I don't think anything has changed since I asked the question a year and a half ago:
BTW the reason I asked that question is because when I lived in Phoenix, sports were on FM and the sound quality in my car was just infinitely better than the AM's that I was familiar with in the LA Market (KSPN, KLAA, KLAC etc)
No, his show was called "Ferrell on the Bench". RadioFan is cleverly correct.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Must have gotten mixed up in my mind with the standard phrase "on the beach" that R&R used to use when reporting on recently released air talent.
So I guess Ferrall has a bench on the beach?
Meanwhile, KABC announces it is the new radio home for UCLA sports:
radioink.com
KABC was previously the home of USC, and UCLA was with iHeart. I expect we'll see that iHeart is the new home of USC.
It's hard to establish an FM sports station when all the AMs are tripping over themselves to sign up teams.
New Radio Flagship Brewing For UCLA Football and Basketball - Radio Ink
Cumulus Media’s Talk Radio 790 KABC is now the official radio broadcast home of UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball.
radioink.com
KABC was previously the home of USC, and UCLA was with iHeart. I expect we'll see that iHeart is the new home of USC.
It's hard to establish an FM sports station when all the AMs are tripping over themselves to sign up teams.
I will say the same thing about UCLA's move to KABC that I said when USC went there: Clearly they don't want the games to be heard.Meanwhile, KABC announces it is the new radio home for UCLA sports:
New Radio Flagship Brewing For UCLA Football and Basketball - Radio Ink
Cumulus Media’s Talk Radio 790 KABC is now the official radio broadcast home of UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball.
KABC was previously the home of USC, and UCLA was with iHeart. I expect we'll see that iHeart is the new home of USC.
It's hard to establish an FM sports station when all the AMs are tripping over themselves to sign up teams.
OMG LOL line from the article refers to "KABC's Powerhouse signal and UCLA's legacy teams".Meanwhile, KABC announces it is the new radio home for UCLA sports:
New Radio Flagship Brewing For UCLA Football and Basketball - Radio Ink
Cumulus Media’s Talk Radio 790 KABC is now the official radio broadcast home of UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball.
KABC was previously the home of USC, and UCLA was with iHeart. I expect we'll see that iHeart is the new home of USC.
It's hard to establish an FM sports station when all the AMs are tripping over themselves to sign up teams.
I don't think I have ever seen that much gaslighting in one sentence. Hilarious though!
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Here is what that "powerhouse signal" looks like, courtesy @Michi's fccdata.org:
Are there a lot of Bruins fans in the Pacific Ocean?
They’re back on espn laMeanwhile, KABC announces it is the new radio home for UCLA sports:
New Radio Flagship Brewing For UCLA Football and Basketball - Radio Ink
Cumulus Media’s Talk Radio 790 KABC is now the official radio broadcast home of UCLA Bruins football and men’s basketball.
KABC was previously the home of USC, and UCLA was with iHeart. I expect we'll see that iHeart is the new home of USC.
It's hard to establish an FM sports station when all the AMs are tripping over themselves to sign up teams.
USC sports returned to KSPN as of June 2024. KSPN previously carried USC sports from 2006-2019.
From 2020 to early 2024 USC sports were carried by KABC.
ESPN LA 710 AM Named the New Radio Home of USC Athletics - USC Athletics
Beginning this fall, listeners will be able to catch every moment of Trojan football, men's basketball, and women's basketball on 710 AM, the ESPN LA Trojans...
This post sure aged well.
I'm laughing so hard, reading all these posts saying FM Sports in L.A. would never, never, ever be done -- then a separate thread announces KNX-FM 97.1 is going all-sports 🤣
What’s next, the Clippers winning a championship?!
The clippers making it to the play in after starting 6-21 is good enough!
That post was made about 7 months ago. At the time, it was true and accurate.
I think a lot has changed in the field of all-news content and attitudes of recent, I don’t have the financials for KNX, but I suspect that even more clients are shunning both all news and talk formats as image protection. So, what seemed smart in mid-2025 is not as valid now.
I'd argue the opening post to this thread wasn't nearly as unreasonable or as ungrounded in reality as K.M. was suggesting.
This reminds me of certain experts who dismissed those who correctly predicted (or at least put forward the suggestion) that Audacy would merge its two all-news stations into one in New York.
This reminds me of certain experts who dismissed those who correctly predicted (or at least put forward the suggestion) that Audacy would merge its two all-news stations into one in New York.
You failed to provide even one example of all of these "changes". I can't think of anything that has changed in the last seven months.
You're a good guy and the running cover for a fellow pro is quite admirable, just not believable.
Pros, at anything, sometimes get it wrong. Even Scottie Scheffler hits his ball into the water once in a while. I think a lot of radio pros did not see this coming to 97.1 FM.
The other thing is: Just because they did it doesn't mean it will be a success. That's a whole nother thread.
I was talking about when the decision to simulcast news on the FM was made, not when K.M.'s post was made. The FM simulcast was done in 2021. 7 months ago, they had still not made a change... 6 months into the new presidential administration. Things have not gotten better for AM talk revenuyes since then.
No cover, just the fact that things have changed a lot since the first year of COVID and the changes in political polarization and, at some point, it was necessary to reevaluate the 2021 decision. My suspicion is that revenue for all news had not met expectations, while the company was doing very well with its sports operations.