Disney's last radio station for now is KRDC Los Angeles and it's translator on 99.1 FM. It will be interesting who the candidates are to get KRDC. VCY is one of them as a rumored candidate for now.
Fox Sports airs overnights on KTCK AM/FM. Now if iHeart wants to flip KEGL to sports then yea they could take the affiliation back for 97.1. As far as The Ticket's signal issues....they seem to be doing quite well.while 103.3's flip to non-profit Christian/right wing talk is imminent, so is the reality that either a DFW station flips to sports talk or DFW will for the first time in a while will have only 2 sports talkers in town.
and for the remaining ESPN radio listeners of this market, you might want to start listening to ESPN Radio on the internet or Sirius XM cause i don't see ESPN Radio coming back to this market unless they make a sweetheart deal with iHeart or Cumulus to take the ESPN Radio afflation, i don't see Audacy wanting it since they have CBS Sports Radio and IHeart does have Fox Sports, i think i could be a perfect ideal for it to be on a HD Radio subchannel in the market, i think everyone at KEGL 97.1 The Eagle (except Ben & Skin and Mavs Basketball) should panic if ratings continue to dip, cause i could see iHeart blowing it up for a new 3rd sports talker and could give The Fan a run for it's money as The Ticket has signal issues with both 1310 AM and 96.7 FM.
I think they have one show on the weekend but it's only an hour or two. Plays Southern Gospel.I didn’t realize Bott aired music at all.
VCY is very conservative. I would say it is somewhat like American Family Radio. I recall hearing VCY programs claiming rock was satanic and other such claims that only very conservative groups espouse. At one point they offered a network news service and it was actually pretty good (not similar to their own programming). In my opinion they need to reach a sizable population to get enough listeners to their brand of Christianity.
Honestly, i think it is very unlikely iHeart makes a move to full time sports on any of their FMs. I could see them gradually adding more and more guy/hot talk. Think more WTKS and less KFAN.Fox Sports airs overnights on KTCK AM/FM. Now if iHeart wants to flip KEGL to sports then yea they could take the affiliation back for 97.1. As far as The Ticket's signal issues....they seem to be doing quite well.
Some of those programs also air on KAAM. There is generally not market exclusivity for ministry block programs. The ministries will continue to be on multiple stations as long as there is adequate listener response and it makes financial sense or there is some strategic reason for continuing. In the case of VCY and KWRD, considering all the programming that is very very little overlap.At least a couple of the national shows on VCY also air on KWRD-FM. Charles Stanley and Grace to You are on both, though they’re apparently on at different times.
I’m guessing it’s not a problem for either. My understanding is that those programs buy time on both networks.
They could probably make a lot more with ESPN+. It's subscription-based and doesn't rely on terrestrial radio signals to carry programming.One would think, as it's such a great sports town. A few years ago, ESPN built a bunch of local web sites that focused on particular sports cities, and Dallas was one. They were going to integrate the site and the local station:
Sports in Dallas - Scores and News covering all Dallas teams
Get the full coverage of all Dallas sports teams on ESPN, including the Texas Rangers, the Cowboys, the Stars, the Mavericks and FC Dallas.www.espn.com
That idea may have fallen by the wayside. More money to be made with ESPN+
prolly no where. The only way ESPN Radio comes back is if iHeart pulls Fox Sports from KTCK AM/FM and then KTCK picks up the affilation. But who knows.I'm just hearing about this. Wow. Wonder where ESPN radio will land?
prolly no where. The only way ESPN Radio comes back is if iHeart pulls Fox Sports from KTCK AM/FM and then KTCK picks up the affilation. But who knows.
No thats CBS Sports Radio. If i recall, Cumulus and CBS had some deal that CBS would program the network and Cumulus handled some sales and marketing and carried some programming on their sports stations. I don't know if that partnership carried over to Entercom/Audacy. At one point, KTCK and KRLD-FM both carried some CBS Sports Radio programming overnights and weekends. The Ticket picked up Fox Sports some time in 2020.Hmmm, don't you mean Cumulus? They don't have the vested interest in Fox that iHeart has.
No thats CBS Sports Radio. If i recall, Cumulus and CBS had some deal
Well right now both KESN and KTCK are running the ESPN College football broadcasts. Maybe Cumulus will pick up the play by play (NBA/MLB/NCAA Basketball) from ESPN Radio. Cumulus could put it on KTCK and if there is a Stars conflict then it would air on KLIF/570...if there is no TCU Horned Frogs basketball conflict.I misread your post. I thought you said iHeart owns KTCK. But yes, CBS Sports Radio was originally done between CBS and Cumulus. But it wasn't included in the sale to Audacy. Neither was CBS News Radio. I think it benefits KTCK to carry ESPN play by play when they can. If that comes with a catch to carry some long form programming, I'd guess they'd jump on it if there's an out in the Fox Sports affiliation. I'm not aware of any PBP with Fox Sports.
Does any one know when this sale is going to close and the new programming is starting?