It’s not exactly the same thing, but similarly sports talk radio in The City also started FM simulcasting a few years ago when KNBR started broadcasting also over the old Rock frequency (KFOG) 104.5.
On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 at 2:43 PM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Not as unusual as you think. Now all but three of the all-news stations > once owned by CBS and now owned by what is now known as Audacy have AM-FM > simulcasts. The first was KCBS in San Francisco when CBS owned the > station, because AM reception is notoriously spotty in that town. About 10 > years ago, WBBM in Chicago started simulcasting to combat an attempt at an > FM all-news station by another company. CBS won. After Audacy took over > the bulk of the CBS stations, they started simulcasting KYW in Philadelphia > and in Washington, Hubbard's WTOP has been on FM solely for years, with the > AM where the format started devoted to governmental activities in the > nation's capital called Federal News Network (WFED). In Seattle, Lotus' > KOMO simulcasts. The only Audacy all-news stations that don't simulcast are > WWJ in Detroit, WCBS in New York and the original bigtimes all-news > station, 1010 WINS in New York. And that's pretty much it for all-news > stations because it's an expensive format and there's no satellite format > for the genre. Some talk stations run news blocks in morning and/or > afternoon drive but devote the rest of their time to rightwing talk. And > in the last 20 years NPR stations, which are almost all on FM, have become > major factors on news and talk in most markets. > > Mark Jeffries > [email protected] > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 3:23 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> KNX 1070 am in Los Angeles has been around for decades, and its signal is >> so strong that it can be heard in the Seattle-Tacoma area. On Monday, KNX >> began simulcasting concurrently on 97.1 fm. Reporters have always signed >> off “KNX NewsRadio,” but as of Monday they removed the word Radio from the >> tag. They are now officially “97.1 KNX News”, only speaking aloud the 1070 >> am frequency on legal station IDs. >> >> 97.1 was once the home of Howard Stern. It has undergone several format >> changes over the last couple decades… this is its third format change this >> year. >> >> I applaud news and talk on FM, but we didn’t need a carbon copy of an AM >> station. Anyway, it’s an odd choice, so thought I’d mention it. >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4ACm_Kp1NncYSh4szrGF7TdzVP542TQRPyCLM6tu35c6A%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4ACm_Kp1NncYSh4szrGF7TdzVP542TQRPyCLM6tu35c6A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9Fw-%3DCc2wWXcje4Ospqbz7z2a5bmA5fn74sVa-a2_jRg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9Fw-%3DCc2wWXcje4Ospqbz7z2a5bmA5fn74sVa-a2_jRg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJWR4aS%2B-3VNOsTGU2UV0XdY_9M%2B_-PFPibC%2BXEmU%2BeJA%40mail.gmail.com.
