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Post by CAwasinNJ on May 25, 2012 1:28:56 GMT -6
According to All Access, Cumulus is going to simulcast Yahoo Sports Radio from 1230 on 1320 after the switchover. That makes sense short term, but is there anyone who can hear 1230 that can't hear 1320? I don't see how. So I guess the next question in this chess game is what happens to 1kw peashooter 1230.
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Post by radioman101 on May 27, 2012 1:27:51 GMT -6
I'm still not convinced that Cumulus will be able to sustain a sports station without any major national or local sports teams. I think this move is to just buy them time until they figure out what they're really going to do. Here's a statement from the GM on All Access... www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/106358/cumulus-will-stick-with-sports-at-kfnz-salt-lake-cI get a kick out of the statement "Everyone wants to be a part of this station! I've been overwhelmed by the magnitude of interest in KFAN from on-air personalities to listeners and sports organizations from every level." Uh yeah... personalities that don't have jobs and sports teams that nobody cares about. |
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Post by dspete on May 27, 2012 18:34:34 GMT -6
Well maybe he's looking into the future?
Our future NFL and NHL and MLB teams may be needing a great sports station to to do play by play from ;D
What about the Salt City Derby Girls that there has no radio home 1320 could be the new home for the Bomber Babes?
N.U.D.G.A could be huge on 1320 with the call of Northern Utah's Disc Golf Association. (Standing by the chain link cup . Mike McDillinger shoots his Wham-o blue flyer from 50 yards away...Oh no a breeze off off the Jordan River bottoms catches his disc and sends it to the Sandy Chuck-a Rama what a tragedy....) hehehe
Basically I think Yahoo sports is CHEAP! Low expense, no wages paid to local talent waste! Simulcast 98.7 on it put some music back on the AM dial?
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Post by seattlefollower on May 29, 2012 22:37:21 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on May 30, 2012 3:33:32 GMT -6
It *could* be expensive, but I think that depends a lot on whether you're creating your own infrastructure or expanding on something already in place. Example: remember how 97.5 FM Talk used 2News talent for their TOH newscasts? Channel 2 already had the news department and they just took that information and repackaged it. A bunch of stations have arrangements with TV news departments to sponsor the weather. KSL is definitely in the lead though.
If you really want cheap though, you could just grab HLN audio like KIQN did for a year or two while it was being shopped around.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 11, 2012 6:10:21 GMT -6
I hear that NBC Sports Network is going to be launching a radio version in September. NBC is of course primarily owned by Comcast which is the 800 pound gorilla cable operator here. Could this end up on 1230 or 1320 you think?
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 21, 2012 19:58:37 GMT -6
I think this news item makes it clear what is coming to 1320 K-Fan. This from All Access: ------CBS, Cumulus Partner To Launch New Sports Network------ CBS CORPORATION is launching a 24-hour, seven-day a week sports radio network, CBS SPORTS RADIO, to be aired on several of its Sports format stations and in syndication through CUMULUS MEDIA NETWORKS, with 67 CUMULUS-owned stations adding the programming as well.<snipped per copyright violation complaint. Full text at www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/107398/cbs-cumulus-partner-to-launch-new-sports-network > |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 21, 2012 21:48:27 GMT -6
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 22, 2012 10:39:38 GMT -6
Didn't mean to get you in 'hot water' with the copyright police, the Portland, Ore. radio board posts these kinds of things in full display all the time. Maybe it doesn't get as easily crawled by automated searches.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 22, 2012 21:59:54 GMT -6
Don't worry about it SF. It's all fine. I'm looking more at what KFNZ might do and I'm still confused. I see what I think is their Facebook page. (Can anyone confirm that www.facebook.com/1320KfanTheSportsLeader is their real page?) According to that they hired a new/old program director (Kevin Graham) on the 11th and have been soliciting feedback on rebuilding the station. If they were just going to turn a lot of the station over to the new network in a few months would they be bothering? That leans a little toward putting CBS Sports Radio on 1230 which makes sense. With the new big muscle players coming into the sports radio field (CBS and NBC, adding to established ESPN and Fox) is there much of a chance of Yahoo Sports surviving? Are any of the hosts on Yahoo big names among sports fans? I've never heard of any of them. So here's how things would play out if I was given control of 1320 & 1230. I put CBS Sports Radio fulltime on the crappy 1230 signal to give the network clearance. I then cherry pick anything really good (especially live events) and clear that on 1320. The formula has worked before and I don't see any reason it wouldn't work now. The only question is, why was nothing listed in the press release? It could be that the Yahoos are under contract and that has to expire first, but I don't know. |
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 22, 2012 23:38:11 GMT -6
YSR has a surprisingly high number of affiliates. There are none up here in the NW (Lebanon, OR doesn't count) so I have no idea what their content is like. My coworker who loves sports radio doesn't care much for Fox Sports Radio. Apparently the "flagship" for YSR is in Dallas, TX and the owner is acquiring the market's ESPN radio affiliate as well. It is a company I've never heard of, GOW Broadcasting. Doing a little more digging, YSR is the old "Sporting News Radio!" which of course was even "One on one sports" back before ESPN suddenly started dominating sports talk nationwide. www.yahoosportsradio.com/affiliates/ |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jun 24, 2012 1:10:11 GMT -6
At least some of that list is out of date, and some of the affiliates are fractional ones. They might only take one of two shows. It counts but it's not the same.
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Post by dxstuboy on Jun 24, 2012 11:49:06 GMT -6
If that KFNZ fan page is real, the comments indicate not a lot of people like FSR. Does 97.5 still carry sports, or is it different now?
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Post by seattlefollower on Jun 25, 2012 8:11:10 GMT -6
DXStu, 97.5 carries FSR and 1280 does part of the time also. During "prime time" the AM is mostly local programming and the FM is not. I think there's one local show on the FM now.
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