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What happens to KLAA when the Angels are sold?
- Thread starter ercjncpr
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None of the articles I saw mentioned the station at all. Perhaps Moreno could keep it. Or sell it with the team.
www.foxla.com
He will experience a huge windfall in selling the team. He paid $180 million, and it's worth over $1 billion.
Realistically there's a glut of AM stations available in LA right now. Not much demand for AM stations.
LA Angels owner Arte Moreno considering options to sell team
Angels owner Arte Moreno says he is exploring a possible sale of the team he has owned since 2003.
He will experience a huge windfall in selling the team. He paid $180 million, and it's worth over $1 billion.
Realistically there's a glut of AM stations available in LA right now. Not much demand for AM stations.
The LLC is owned by Arte Moreno, who also owns the Angels. He paid $42 million for it. He will likely take a loss if he sells.
Moreno will decide what assets he'll include in the sale of the team. The station would likely be part of a package.
Moreno and the other partners in the LLC could keep KLAA, but the new owners of the Angels may choose to take the radio rights elsewhere—another stop else on the dial or to (gulp!) streaming.
i don't envision any potential new team owner wanting to take on a money-losing AM station, even if it serves as the team's official mouthpiece. But one thing is very clear: Losing the Angels would put KLAA in dead-station-walking territory.
i don't envision any potential new team owner wanting to take on a money-losing AM station, even if it serves as the team's official mouthpiece. But one thing is very clear: Losing the Angels would put KLAA in dead-station-walking territory.
I would tend to agree with that but I wanted other people’s opinion
KLAA as the radio mouthpiece, is a part of the success even if it is a tiny part. My guess is it would be part of the package. And even if it stayed with the owner, it would not make sense to change things because that is obviously working. When your team is worth $820 million more than you paid for it, that albatross $42 million AM radio station is a part of that formula that got the value to where it is.
What do you mean by that? This is an open forum, after all.
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…?
I would think that KLAC beats any of those three for market coverage, even with 5kw…?
Well hey, at least KLAA is one multimillion-dollar albatross that Arte Moreno purchased that is still working, right?
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1) Asian-lang.
2) Tower of Babel, er 'Babble' Religion.
3) Same ol' Sports Babble
I believe KLAA is the only radio station presently co-owned with the pro sports franchise with whom they have a rights agreement. That would suggest whoever buys the LA Angels would not wish to acquire KLAA.
As far as what happens after that, who knows? Probably not anything with mass market appeal, but stranger things have happened.
As far as what happens after that, who knows? Probably not anything with mass market appeal, but stranger things have happened.
830 is pretty much an OC signal, with daytime reaching just up to downtown LA, and nights even more limited.
710 is more of an LA signal, and nights don't seem to cover any of the OC. 710 is sort of a C- signal daytime and an "F" at night. 1110 is the best for LA and norther OC coverage, but not for deep OC. For the Angels, 830 is actually a very good signal.
It's on 570. 5 kw on 570 is as good as 250 kw or a bit more on 1500.
KLAC is co-owned by the team and iHeart.
The parent company of KKSE 92.5 altitude sports radio owns the avlanche (NHL) and nuggets (nba) and they are the flagship stations
It works because its coverage almost perfectly matches the locations of its fan base. On AM, only KFI and KLAC are better matches for reaching Angels fans.
The Dodgers have an ownership stake in KLAC.
As you’ve pointed out many times!😆
That reminded me of another thread where discussion of low power AM stations in The Netherlands came up…these run between 1 and 100 watts. My thought was that “David Eduardo will point out that 1 watt on 550 is the same as 50 watts on 1500.”
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Unfortunately, this has to be pointed out constantly, as there are vastly too many posts that seem to think that 5 kw on 1600 is about the same as 5 kw on 550.As you’ve pointed out many times!😆
That reminded me of another thread where discussion of low power AM stations in The Netherlands came up…these run between 1 and 100 watts. My thought was that “David Eduardo will point out that 1 watt on 550 is the same as 50 watts on 1500.”