You're really stretching things here. He will have no involvement in what people hear in San Antonio. His name is not on the license.
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LMN Takes over 1350
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You're really stretching things here. He will have no involvement in what people hear in San Antonio. His name is not on the license.
On the contrary, you're being a bit pedantic. You know what I meant.
Of course it's not.
When you have a mortgage on your house, the bank's name isn't on the title. But the bank does hold an interest in your home. An investing firm that receives funding from George Soros has interest in LMN and their assets (which includes KXTN at the moment).
There's actually another step in between. He doesn't give any money directly to the investing firm. He isn't a bank.
You said he's a part owner of a Tejano station in San Antonio. I said he isn't.
bigA, you don't seem to appreciate the evil of that guy.
What I appreciate is that someone other than a religious owner is buying radio stations. Particularly AM radio stations.
These are young Hispanic women who are starting a for-profit company built around mostly AM stations. How often do you see that?
These days it's next to impossible to get bank funding for radio because values are decreasing. You can't get an SBA loan for radio.
Only in cases where the parties have zero radio experience and zero business experience
And they know so little about radio that they overpaid for a batch of AMs that are just dreadful technical facilities in markets where essentially 0% of Hispanic radio listening is to AM.
Which is why in market after market you're seeing commercial radio stations being sold to religious ideologues.
The ONLY people buying radio stations are people who don't know or care about all the negatives.
The knowledgeable, experienced radio people are getting their asses kicked.
The point being there is no money to buy radio stations from conventional places any more.
San Antonio's 1350 is not a "dreadful facility" It has a beautiful, non-distorted high bandwidth sound that covers more area than most of the FM stations. 1270 in Dallas is AM stereo and very powerful. As for the rest, well you may be right.
I hope they bring back the Radio WADO branding with all this talk about "legacy".InsideRadio is reporting LMN has taken over operation of KXTN 1350 and seems to imply that it will be returning to the KCOR calls.
LMN Commences Operational Control Of Its 18 Radio Stations.
Latino Media Network has begun to take over the operations of the 18 radio stations it acquired from TelevisaUnivision. Since the $60 million deal closed in January 2023, the newlywww.insideradio.com
Neither covers its entire respective market 24/7. KFLC 1270 misses the bulk of Denton and Collin Counties after dark while KXTN's nighttime pattern excludes almost all of Comal and Kendall Counties.
Hispanics also use AM less than the general population. Some of the signals LMN is acquiring are better than others, but Univision wanted to get out of the AM business for a reason, multiple reasons really.
The "general population" also doesn't use AM radio. Just a very specific demographic.
The KXTN-AM TOH ID now includes KBTQ-HD2 down in McAllen. Interesting move that makes sense on paper. On a different note, Univision has kept their own version of Tejano music running on KVBH-HD2. It's still the same liners as when they owned KXTN, except they're now calling it "Tejano Nation". Their TOH also includes KLTN in Houston and KDXX on Lewisville, TX.
Given the market's rejection of HD Radio, it feels like these two companies are curating Lenin's Mausoleum.
Given the market's rejection of HD Radio, it feels like these two companies are curating Lenin's Mausoleum.
KXTN is most likely going to revert to Spanish language News/Talk as KCOR, so it's reasonable to replace KXTN programming with another Tejano station.
I thought the same thing. But if this were the case, then why add it to KBTQ-HD2?
KBTQ is also owned by Latino Media Network, so maybe they want to simulcast KXTN for when they revert to KCOR.
Not true. It has a daytime 10 mV/m (bare minimum urban area signal) that covers less than half of the Metro Survey Area population. At night it is considerably less.
Daytime 10 mV/m is just under 50% of the market. Nights it is about 30% at best.
Since I programmed all of the HBC AMs at one point, I am very familiar with the lack of coverage of them all, from KTNQ to WADO to WAQI to KLAT.
And as we've discussed, the stations are merely part of the multi-platform strategy that'll likely be similar to what Good Karma is doing with its various AM properties around the country. Anyone who bases their entire strategy around AM radio is crazy.
1270 does not broadcast in stereo. It does broadcast in HD while it's broadcasting at 50kW, however. At night, it's a standard analog 5,000 watt AM on a pretty tough dial position.
If that's the case, then why not simulcast KGBT-AM instead? 1530 will probably end up with the same political propaganda as KXTN does in 2024. It makes no sense to promote the KXTN brand across markets if they're just going to yank it off in 2024. Nevermind that the format already has rimshot stations in both SA and McAllen from two competitors.
Not to beat a dead horse, but it really feels like the LMN leadership doesn't know what they're doing.
