I hear that Bustos has bought the station and they let go most of the personal to prepare for the sale. Bustos over paid for it at the price mentioned to me ($3M).

Finally Spanish on FM....bout time

This will greatly effect the ratings of KWIP in Dallas and KWBY in Woodburn and will help KBZY if this is all true...

Yes...and I hear Bustos made Rose City an offer so they can turn all of the 95 frequencies in the valley Spanish...you all are suckers who will believe anything..

ALL Spanish all the time on every frequency! WOW!
How many Spanish stations do we need in the Portland Metro area??? 2-3 on the FM side? 4-5 on the AM side??? Just how many do we really need???

I heard Churchill of Eugene tried to offer the
owner of KSND $3.4 million but the radio broker for KSND would not respond to the offer. So how
can sell it to Bustos for $400,000 less?

Bustos would probably pay more than $3,000,000 for a Spanish FM in a market like Salem. 95.1 really should've been Spanish from day one.

didn't know KSND was for sale....

Is Ernie tired of trying to make this bird fly?

I actually liked the guy, but then I never worked for him... came close though......

figure how many units are running and at what rate and it will give you an idea of the asking price...... Won't be a secret when it sells.....

As for how many spanish? Depending on what you want for coverage Really 2 max in a market.... otherwise you start stealing from each other.....

How many CHR do you want? Classic Hits? Country?

Same idea, except that you would probably have more hispanic listen to Other than Spanish Than Non Hispanics listening to Spanish broadcasts!

How many Spanish stations are there in the Metro area.....???

all i know is that almost all of the hispanic advertisers are DEADBEATS

and the one that actually do pay all go 90-120 days


ROGERTOO-there is a future at this station in COLLECTIONS..........

I talked to the morning DJ. He said KSND has not been sold.

When do owners ever consult DJs on station sales?

exactly.
it has always been on the air for one reason and one reason only.......to sell.
So que tu nombre senors and senoras.

The Hispanic population of the Portland metro is 9.5%.

Even with a sales power ratio of about 60
that would mean 5% of the radio ad revenues in the metro would be targeted at an hispanic audience. Not quite enough critical mass to support 2 Hispanic stations (one skewing younger, one skewing older).

But since the Hispanic population skews significantly younger than the overall population, a single young skewing Hispanic FM station could be very successful in both revenue and ratings.

"...they let go most of the personal to prepare for the sale."

That's not true. The personal are still there. I called KSND's request line and talked with the DJ. That would be difficult to do if he was no longer working at the station.

Personal could also be anyone other than DJs

KSND doesn't need DJs to run the station. Logically they would be the first to go.

Why do we "NEED" spanish on FM?
Don't most of US speak ENGLISH??

Look a the Numbers for KXOR La X. Through the roof.

If KSND were really sold, then there should be some FCC paperwork of the sale.

End of Discussion.

They may have let go all of the personal messages and personal items at the station but it appears that all the personnel are still there, according to Digital Dextor

DJs? We don't need no stinkin DJs!

From yesterday's Denver Rocky Mountain News:

"The major story in Denver radio continues to be the audience ratings rise of the Spanish-language channel KXPK-FM (96.5).
In the spring Arbitron diary audience survey (March 30-June 21), the Entracom-owned outlet registered a 4.8 audience share, good enough for fourth place in the report."

maybe it has something to do with anglos leaving radio for other tech while radio is still a primary source of information and entertainment in the hispanic community?

If KSND is sold, it should be no surprise to anybody. That is what Ernie does. I don't think he ever claimed to be some kind of hot operator. He buys and sells radio stations. And usually makes a huge profit.

Congratulations KXOR, 3.1

I'm glad Salem is not losing its only FM to a Hispanic format.

Maybe Bustos could buy KFIS (94.1). It's a class C2 station, so it shouldn't cost that much to buy.

Just cause its a C2 doesn't mean it won't cost that much. In real estate its called location, location, location

What do you think the market value of a C2 and C3 (KTRO) in Portland is?

La X Fan said>>>>
Look a the Numbers for KXOR La X. Through the roof.

Huh?

It cost Salem a fortune to get a second FM back. I don't think they'll make that mistake again!

If Bustos bought KSND, they would have a press release on thier website, a quick check of thier website showed nothing.

They're a little slow on their press releases, there. (just wanted to see if I could use the same word with 3 different spellings in a single sentence)

Why did Salem sell 107.5, only to spend a fortune to put 104.1 on the air in Portland?

Seem to remember at the time Salem needed the money to buy stations in other markets they were not in.

Salem's old "M.O." was to buy Contemporary Christian Music stations only to flip them to paid preaching, or just to flip to other owners after a few years, as they did with "Spirit-FM."

It has only been in recent years that CCM has been a viable money maker, and unlike a lot of mom & pop operators who struggled for years to provide "music ministry," Salem only jumped into CCM when the money was there.

Radio921, you started this thread. What do you say now? Where did you get your information?

Doh!

I wonder if Salem's CCM strategy (here and in other markets) will pay off...stock price dropped almost 6% and hit a 52-week low today.

Many, if not most of their CCM stations pull fairly decent ratings, and their brokered religion stations (KPDQ-FM) rake in the dough, but ratings are dismal for most of their secular right-wing talk stations, which normally get only leftover crumbs from the bigger N/T stations in their respective markets. In a city that already has KEX, KXL, KPAM, and Salem's own KPDQ-AM, a station like KTRO has a steep uphill battle.

I have heard that too (that the brokered religious stations make good money). But someone within Salem has to be more than slightly concerned that their stock price has taken a nearly 40% plunge in the past 12 months.

If KTRO has a bright spot, I think it has to be Dennis Prager. I first became aware of him when he was a frequent guest on Tom Snyder's late night CBS TV show. I wished at the time that KABC would syndicate him, and it wasn't too long before he showed up locally on 1150.

Unlike so many conservative talk show hosts, he doesn't seem to make a point of alienating people who disagree with him.

"Unlike so many conservative talk show hosts, he doesn't seem to make a point of alienating people who disagree with him."

That also includes Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Jerry Doyle, Mike Gallagher.

By the way, they're also on KTRO.

Maybe, KTRO should go after KEX listeners who don't like the buzz on the frequency. It's centainly a clean enough signal!

So anyway, is KSND sold or not, bringing this thread back to topic.

KTRO is kind of a Radio Mensa forum.

Bill Bennett has a PhD.
Laura Ingraham has a JD, as does Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt.

I don't know about the others, but I always learn something when I listen to them, particularly Medved and Prager.

Herb

The profile of poster "Radio921" says that individual logged in today, but he/she is apparently unwilling to explain this rumor. Radio921's credibility is in decline.

I am not at liberty to say and besides people who say their station isn't for sale all have a price.....Everything has a price....

Then why not just start a thread on every station in the Portland market, saying it is for sale?

And if you aren't "at liberty to say," why did you feel at liberty to start this thread at all?

*Plonk*

I would like to see a Spanish version of the current "Ernie" format on KSND.
Oh wait, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Never mind.

They have been pricing it...

Dodger says: "I would like to see a Spanish version of the current "Ernie" format on KSND.
Oh wait, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Never mind".

What color is the sky in your world anyway?

Nice to see you keep up with "Garfield"

Oh my sky be beddy beddy blue.
thank you

Nice to see you keep up with "Garfield"


Actually, I think I saw that on Cheers when Norm said that to Clif Claven after one of his weird pronouncements.

Look At Today's (8-10) Garfield comic
http://www.garfield.com/comics/comics_todays.html

Radio921>> I am not at liberty to say...

So you started this thread merely to tell the world, "I know something you don't, neh, neh, neh, neh, neh, neh."?

Well, maybe not since it's been ten days and apparently "most of the personal" still don't know they were let go.

Anyone else know something that everyone else doesn't know?

KXL/KXJM has been sold to Cumulonimbus Broadcasting and both will soon change format.

KXL will go All Lars All the Time, alternating between his local and syndicated shows. The entire news staff is being sacked. The KXL staff will be Lars, Shawn Taylor, a call screener and three board ops.

KXJM will soon go all polka, except for the morning show "The Playhouse" which will shift to all-nights to better compete with the Art Bell flying saucer show. The rest of the day will be handled by voice trackers from the Cumulonimbus Oshkosh, Wisconsin cluster.

This will all happen very soon but I'm not at liberty to say more.

My sisters neighbors husbands cousin knows a guy whose ex- sister in law once worked with a woman who was married to a guy whose brother had a friend that was a part time board op for a broadcasting company that starts with a C----

He said that one of their stations would be flipping formats and some of the people who worked there might be let go.....

This is almost a sure thing, but for the sake of liberty, truth and justice I can't divulge any more details, and I don't want to burn any options in case my bridges are opened so you didn't hear this from me... Don't believe the user name in this post either, as I am not me.

This important info is from someone else.

Geno's hosting the morning show all this week. If you call him, maybe he'll speak some spanish to ya! ;)

No Habla &*^&%^$^%>":; or somthing, Tim, The family is watchin..... and get to work!

geno ya sound great. nice job.
how is it working with the legendary newsman?

I listen to KSND more when Tim Ryan is on. Ernie (the owner) should have him on weekdays.

eh?

are you serious?

Thanx for the compliment- but I'm a hack!

KSND should get rid of that voice-tracked lady, and put Tim into regular rotation.

once again ( boyz, or girls) , you forgot , that I'm a hack!

Tim, you need to see a throat specialist for that hacking problem. Must be too much phlem. Lay off of milk.

ha, ha.. nahhh, you know what I mean!

Oh, and I don't drink milk. Soy Milk, all the way baby~!

Tim does put in personality and enthusiasm into his KSND DJ job.

Some DJs just say the name and artist and then go to a commercial break.

I tried to buy that station once... I'll try it again...

Hey Ernie, I got some money! you want it?

Tommy Boye

Tommyboye, Are you a millionaire?

millionaire? well no... guess you got me there... I just thought that most of this topic was one ridiculous post after another, so I jumped in!

Tommy Boye

I caught Tim Ryan spicing up KSND, this past Sunday. A couple hours later, he was on 98-7 KUPL! Very impressive!

The short time I worked with Tim at KXPC, I saw a dedicated,inventive young broadcaster...not many of thoes in radio anymore.

"The short time I worked with Tim at KXPC, I saw a dedicated,inventive young broadcaster..."

....who in his own words calls himself a hack.

Might I add to this thread that when I was starting out up here in Portland, Tim was kind enough to review one of my tapes for me and send me some comments. He was very respectful, and I appreciated him for it.

Now I work with him. What a cool guy... I'm happy to know him. =) Plus, he goes by his actual name on this board...