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will a huge wave, wash out the careers at 94.7 the wave before new years?

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36james

yes it could very well happen 94.7 the wave might become a CBS radio sports station or it might be KFWB. well we will have to wait to find out, wont we?
 
We would know by now if The Wave were going to flip to Sports on Dec. 26. A large staff of experienced Sports hosts has to be hired, as well as reporters to cover the LA teams, sportscasters to update the scores and trades every 20 minutes, and producers/call screeners.

CBS knows you can't do FM Sports on the cheap. And you can't introduce the format gradually. It has to sound good on Day One. That's how they've done it in all the markets where they're doing FM Sports, which is now about 10.

CBS absolutely WILL NOT put the new CBS Sports Network on a full-power FM station in Market #2 and gradually hire a Sports staff for local shows. In every other market, CBS is only putting the network on underperforming AM stations it owns. The FM Sports stations will stay live and local all day and evening, only using the network overnight and weekends.

Then there are the other problems we've discussed. LA doesn't seem to be a good Sports city. It lost its football team. The existing AM Sports stations are all poorly rated. And CBS doesn't hold the rights to any local major league team play-by-play.

So the staff at The Wave can enjoy the holidays. LA radio listeners will not hear The Fan 94.7 KNX-FM without advance warning, and not for a long time.
 
"Advance warning." A warning wouldn't be much good if it wasn't in advance. :D By the way, Mister EJ, we not only lost the Rams, right now we don't have the Kings...and we just barely have the Lakers. We do, however, have the first-place (!) Clippers, as well as the Dodgers---with their record-setting $225,000,000 payroll for 2013.

KTWV seems to be the most likely station to join the CBS Sports Radio network, but...in May, KCBS-FM hired two new sales managers, one of whom came from a sports station, KSPN...and...in August CBS registered several domain names: 980Sports.com, 980TheFan.com, AllSports980.com, AM980TheFan.com, LASports980.com, Sports980LA.com and TheFan980.com. So...I guess we need to find out if KTWV has registered any new domain names or has hired any news sales managers with a background in sports radio.
 
Could CBS at first run KTWV-94.7 as a 24/7 CBS Sports Radio outlet, but begin to replace much of the national content with local shows, reporters (over a period of the first two-three months of the format), and play-by-play (once deals with some of the pro teams or USC or UCLA) come up for bid??
 
Oh, my poor poor deluded Mister Gallant---radio stations, regardless of format, always start out with local hosts and gradually fire them all and replace them with syndicated programming. If KTWV launches a national sports format and gradually brings in local hosts, they'll be the first station to do so.

(And I'm hoping somebody can find some other examples...but right now I can't think of any.)
 
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