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moradio
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Posted: Sat Dec 1st, 2007 09:49 pm |
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Union has announced the sale of 97.3 KCXM Lee's Summit to EMF/K-Love. According to the KC Board, the K-Love satellite feed took over from ESPN at midnight.
KC didn't have a full powered Contemporary Christian station before the move, but I still hate to see EMF gobble up yet another signal for non-local satellite fed programming.
Who funds these people? It seems like their pocketbooks are awfully deep...
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Posted: Sun Dec 2nd, 2007 09:15 pm |
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While satellite-fed GodRock isn't good for a 100kw downtown stick in a top 30 market, that's still probably the best thing to happen to 97.3 since it moved to Kansas City. Union just refused to do anything that could possibly work on that signal. As small as the GodRock audience is, it'll still probably get more ears than fraying the audience of all the rock stations in town or carving further into the audience of their co-owned sports stations.
Smart move to sell, IMO. Even if I don't dig the outcome, it's still probably in better hands. And that's not an endorsement of Educational Media Foundation (K-Love folk) either.
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Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2007 04:02 am |
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I've heard a lot of people say they thought contemporary Christian would work well in Kansas City. I heard that when I lived there, and I've been gone more than five years now. Maybe we'll find out soon, though pledge drives will determine success more than the Radio Research Consortium.
I have to agree with you, Will, on Union selling 97.3 being a good thing. They really didn't do much to make that signal work. Although I have some problems with the way EMF operates its stations, it will at least have a major market sound and won't have teachers and preachers with the music solely as filler. I also have to wonder what EMF will do with KWJC and KLRQ. I suspect they'll have Air1 on them before long, but I guess we'll have to wait and see. As of yesterday morning at 8, KLRQ was still airing K-Love.
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artmorris
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Posted: Wed Dec 5th, 2007 02:23 pm |
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Apparently, Union needs the money.
I've been told that religious folks, like EMF, pay $3.50 per pop-count when they buy such a station. So, how many people are in the 60dbu contour of KXCM? 1 million? 2million? That puts the sale price somewhere between 3.6 and 7million dollars.
Nice payday, especially if you need the money...!!!!
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Posted: Wed Dec 5th, 2007 03:18 pm |
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I think this is the best thing to happen to Kansas City in a long time. I love sports and I love listening to ESPN radio. But I this area has been in a great need for a strong signaled Christian radio station. I do not have problem with the station being a satellite fed station. They put on great music and share the wonderful stories about what God is doing all of the country and the world. As far as the comment on "Who funds these people? It seems like their pocketbooks are awfully deep..." Well I have the answer to that.
Philippians 4:19
And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Now that is some deep pockets. Thank you KLOVE for coming to Kansas City may God continue to use this station to let people hear the good news of Jesus Christ.
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Posted: Thu Dec 6th, 2007 03:00 am |
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All due respect, as I can see you're a person of faith, but God does not provide money. Money comes from people. The answer as to who really funds EMF and their ilk is;
A) The evangelical christians who don't understand the fact religious radio rarely does anything but preach to the choir, and;
B) The elderly. It's statistically proven.
GodRock is definitely a hole in the market...I just question why it needs to be on a 100kw downtown stick in the commercial portion of the band when it's a non-comm running it.
(NOTE: I understand the legal precedent allowing non-comm's north of 92....but I still object and I know I'm not alone on that.)
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Posted: Fri Dec 7th, 2007 10:44 pm |
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hey,
I live in kc and am a christian as well. I am super bummed about espn being switched to k love, espn is most of what i listened to. Local sports radio in kansas city is sub par at best and a little commical. It's almost like watching univision when you don't know spanish. But, as i digress, christian radio has got to be the most borring radio, even for a believer, let alone one who doesn't. mostly because the lyrics are predictable, the writing is juvenile, and most of the songs are dated. The christian music industry isn't strong enough in content and talent to support a major radio station alone. The hosts use ultra christian cliche's some call it "christianeese." Not that it shouldn't exist, it jsut needs to be better. better music from the artist, better hosts, and better programming. But mostly kansas city just doesn't have a good sports radio station that carries national sports news. I was sad to see it go. It would help and did the sports franchises in kansas city tremendously.
by espn, by colin cowherd, by mike turico, and by "PTI"
you will be sadly missed.
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Posted: Sat Dec 8th, 2007 10:50 am |
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When I first became employed in KC radio in 1978 (or was it '79) it was at 100,000 watt KWKI "the top of the rock" 93.3. While there that station was purchased by The Reverend Jimmy Swaggart and switched to a Christian music format calling itself "Son Life 93". The station played contemporary Christian music and some southern gospel stuff...everything from Swaggart to Andrus Blackwood, Dallas Holm, Amy Grant, The Imperials, Andrae Crouch, Bebe and Cece Winans, ect.
I worked there for about 6-months, really enjoyed the music - cracked up once when the G.M. gave me a 5" reel of tape and asked me to put the commercial on cart. I got a 70 second cart ready to record and started to transfer the audio. The commercial turned out to be 7 minutes long. It was Jimmy Swaggart hawking a trip to join him in Hawaii.
The station started out as a mostly music format then evolved into more and more paid religious programming. It got sad when G.M. Andy Willoughby went on the air crying one day begging for listeners to send in donations. It became too much for me when I went to work with a cold and the entire staff came into the studio to "lay hands" on me and pray for the demons of ill health to leave.
For awhile I worked at both KWKI and country stations KCKN Am & FM. I had a blooper once when I said "kickin' country" KWKI instead of "kickin' country KCKN", oops. I never even caught the misque until a listener called. I have had some classic bloopers through the years...even won the "golden booby" award at KTTS prior to the KWKI gig.
The Son Life 93 format lasted for a couple of years before Swaggart sold it and station became KLSI (I later worked there in the late 80's) it is now KMXV Mix 93.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15th, 2007 02:55 am |
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Been thinking about how to chime in here. Like XGM, Rabbit and others on this board, I'm old school, and I'm Christian. Christian radio is growing like crazy, both non-comm and commercial. This is happening on two fronts; stations like K-Love, contemporary Christian, and in other markets, Black Gospel.
Yes, most often these stations "preach to the choir," but in so doing, are helping the choir to grow spiritually; in God-speak -- edification. A secondary audience are secular families that are simply tired of having to explain off color remarks and innuendo to their kids, turn off songs glorifying drugs, sex and general stupidity and such. Because of this, Christian stations often adopt the title "family friendly."
Black Gospel is growing rapidly in larger markets, and is a thriving minority market. It ain't what you'd expect from the name, and is really a ton of FUN to hear.
Finally, God does, through his people, provide funding to stations, and, yes, chains, that truly do His work in the field. I am NOT speaking of the "give to get" crowd of preachers driving around in BMW's while taking the last $20 from granny down the street. BUT, God's people more than provide to stations to which they and their families they can listen without the above mentioned fears. Solid programming and real ministry programming do reach new converts, but the chior needs stations, too.
In fact, when we select music on the radio, it's Christian radio everytime.
BTW, one of my favorite programs is Z-Jam on Saurday nights. It may have rap and hard rock, but the production is srictly old school.
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Posted: Fri Dec 28th, 2007 02:11 am |
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I have to refer to an earlier comment about KLRQ, what do you think will happen to it because it exploded into the KC Metro area, maybe not like 97.3, but still KLRQ had a decent signal, I don't know about up north, but just before KC and to the Kansas side it was pretty clear. I know KLOV tried buying a few stations before landing KLRQ from what I'm told the prices you quoted are about on the money from the offers I've heard.
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 02:15 pm |
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Since KLRQ was purchased by EMF to reach into KC, it seems logical that they
would switch over at AIR1 (the other EMF format). Just noticed that the Liberty
EMF station is now Air 1. Wasn't that KLOVE prior to the 97,3 switch?
If they have switched Liberty to Air1 and not Clinton, it makes you think they have other plans for KLRQ. Or is it a possibility that KLRQ gets a lot of revenue from the smaller towns that 97.3 wouldn't cover?
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Posted: Sat Dec 29th, 2007 05:20 pm |
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| When I was listening about a week or two the 96.1 signal was saying listen to 97.3, so my guess would be that they're advising you that whatever program was on 96.1 would also be there, which would then in turn say to me that 96.1 would be due for some form of a change. I wasn't aware there were other formats, but it doesn't surprise me considering their deep pockets they probably have a lot to go around.
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Posted: Wed Jan 2nd, 2008 08:29 am |
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artmorris wrote: Apparently, Union needs the money.
I've been told that religious folks, like EMF, pay $3.50 per pop-count when they buy such a station. So, how many people are in the 60dbu contour of KXCM? 1 million? 2million? That puts the sale price somewhere between 3.6 and 7million dollars.
Nice payday, especially if you need the money...!!!!
Art
According to documentation obtained from the FCC KCXM was sold for $16 million on November 30th, 2007. Which is a lot more than what they paid for KLRQ, a mere $1.9 million.
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=601364
EMF also changed the callsign to KLRX.
Personally I prefer the Air1 format over the K-LOVE format, we already have KLRQ and KWJC for K-LOVE, plus Calvary 88.5.
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