The Raiders legacy in Los Angeles is minor. Al Davis used LA for leverage in Oakland. The Rams left for St. Louis and the Raiders went back to Oakland leaving LA without an NFL team for many years. People in LA likely missed neither team as there are plenty of other things to do in Southern California. Now, the Rams and Chargers share the same stadium. The Rams were the only NFL team in LA during the 60s and 70s...
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Lakers/Rams conflict
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And the Chargers, second fiddle to the Rams during their long-ago first LA incarnation, barely have a fan base now in Los Angeles, where all but the elderly only know them as a San Diego team. Of course, San Diego wants nothing to do with the Chargers now either, perhaps making them the least-supported team in the NFL.
The Chargers had excellent support in San Diego. The voters just decided to say no to extortion on the stadium proposal. Good for them. It's unfortunate that the team chose to leave, but people there have no regrets. Great weather and high quality of life makes it easy to tell the NFL to "screw off"...
It's a one-team town for big league sports now -- just MLB's Padres. And college sports don't move the meter there either, unlike Los Angeles. USD has had some good basketball teams, but it's a stretch to call San Diego a basketball town, especially since it hasn't had a pro team in that sport for decades.
Yes, it's the most popular club in the LA area, as Jalisco is the "home" state of a huge percentage of area Hispanics.
I think they did have an associate MLS team, but since at least first generation Hispanics in CA don't pay much attention to the MLS, I really don't remember.
That is correct. Chivas USA lasted 10 seasons, from 2005 to 2014.
The Lakers have priority on 710. On the very rare occasion the two play at the same time, Rams move to 1110 on the AM side. This is a moot point, since most of the Rams radio audience tunes to 93.1
That I believe is still a memory holdover from the days of the "Fairness Doctrine."
"In 1987, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine,[2] prompting some to urge its reintroduction through either Commission policy or congressional legislation.[3] However, later the FCC removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011"
FCC fairness doctrine - Wikipedia
This is a quote from the 4th paragraph of the article you linked:
So equal time rules still exist, but have nothing to do with this discussion.
Good Karma has had a close relationship with ESPN dating back to when they only had a high-band daytimer AM in Milwaukee and needed to lease time on another station in the evening hours. For nearly a decade they’ve been handling ad sales for ESPN’s digital properties.
The situation with 1110 is inertia. Disney can’t really sell the station and Good Karma isn’t in a hurry to buy it (it’s not like a third party is going to wave cash at Disney and force GK’s hand), so running a perpetual simulcast of 710 as filler is a win-win for both parties.
For ratings purposes with simulcasted stations using single line reporting (such as KSPN 710 + KRDC 1110; WFAN 660 + 101.9):
As long as the stations are completely simulcast for 95% of the survey period, single-line reporting can continue.
Thus, simulcasts can be broken for 33.6 hours in a typical 4-week survey period - 8.4 hours per week on average.
In the past, the Rams have been heard on 710 while the Lakers were shuffled off to 1110 when conflicts occurred.
I'm assuming it has become more flexible given the team records and position in their respective seasons.
(For 2022, the defending Super Bowl Champion Rams will not reach the postseason while the Lakers season is about 1/3 completed.)
WFAN has broken the simulcast for NY Yankees/Brooklyn Nets/NY Giants/NFL on Westwood One conflicts.
As long as the stations are completely simulcast for 95% of the survey period, single-line reporting can continue.
Thus, simulcasts can be broken for 33.6 hours in a typical 4-week survey period - 8.4 hours per week on average.
In the past, the Rams have been heard on 710 while the Lakers were shuffled off to 1110 when conflicts occurred.
I'm assuming it has become more flexible given the team records and position in their respective seasons.
(For 2022, the defending Super Bowl Champion Rams will not reach the postseason while the Lakers season is about 1/3 completed.)
WFAN has broken the simulcast for NY Yankees/Brooklyn Nets/NY Giants/NFL on Westwood One conflicts.
I feel like the 95% rule would be easy to follow if the simulcast is only broken on the rare occasion that a Rams and Lakers game would be played at the same time. Even if that happened every week, for the pre and post game coverage, you are probably looking at 8 hours of coverage a week so that would fit right in with the 95% rule. Where it wouldn’t work is if you had a baseball team and a basketball or hockey team. Their overlap in March, April and May would most likely cause that 95% threshold to not be met. Not an issue in LA since the Dodgers are on 570 KLAC and the Angels are on, well who knows where now with the team possibly being sold, but you get the point. The simulcast rules don’t seem to be an issue for the rare time there is a Rams and Lakers conflict.
101.9 is not a translator, it’s a full power station so it is not required to simulcast 660 all the time.
Fully aware of that. We are talking *only* about being eligible for single line reporting in Nielsen Audio Ratings Reports.
The WFAN simulcast is listed as "WFAN-FM" in Nielsen Audio ratings reports.
If the simulcast was broken for more than 33.6 hours in a 4-week survey period,
the stations would be listed separately in ratings reports as "WFAN-AM" and "WFAN-FM".
Before the 95% rule went in to effect for the February 2019 PPM survey period,
one example had affected Chicago-area simulcast stations WBBM 780 and WCFS 105.9 for the 2015 Chicago Cubs baseball season.
While the Cubs games were broadcast on WBBM, WCFS continued with the all-news format.
Typically WBBM-AM would show with ~4 to ~5 shares and WCFS-FM would show with ~2 shares during the 2015 season.
(Cubs broadcasts shifted to WSCR 670 when White Sox broadcasts went from The Score to WLS 890 for the 2016 season.)
InsideRadio.com article: Nielsen Audio New Total Line Policy - Feb. 2019
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Don't give the members of this board any ideas...🤣
It's not among the worst ideas I have seen on this board!
Wait a minute… doesn’t Christmas fall in-between ratings periods?
Speaking of ratings, Good Karma doesn’t subscribe to them in multiple markets, including Cleveland. Craig Karmazin is not a fan of Nielsen.
No. Christmas and New Years Day are in the "Holiday" book in PM markets, which have measurement 52 weeks a year.
Diary markets skip about the second week of December to the first one in January, or 48 weeks a year.
That is in part because much of sports programming is not sold on ratings or strictly on ratings.
Why can’t disney sell 1110?
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