Clippers Sign On With KFWB, Format Changes
KFWB has entered into an exclusive multi-year radio broadcast rights agreement with The Los Angeles Clippers. The broadcast agreement will cover all preseason, regular season and postseason games. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Play-by-play duties will be handled by broadcaster Brian Sieman, who enters his third season as the radio voice for the Clippers.  

"We are very proud to be partnering with a first class organization like the Clippers, and we look forward to adding the team to KFWB’s new and improved lineup of programming," said Ed Krampf, senior vice president/market manager of CBS Radio/LA. "KFWB is committed to serving the interests of Southern Californians, and the addition of Clippers games will help us further reach that goal."

KFWB will be switching formats to News/Talk, built around headliner Dr Laura, who moves from KFI and broadens her program time slot.

Beginning September 8, the KFWB line-up will be:
6 a.m. - 9 a.m. - Local news presented by Phil Hulett and Penny Griego
9 a.m. - noon - Laura Ingraham
Noon - 3 p.m. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
3 p.m. - 6 p.m. – Roger Hedgecock
6 p.m. - 9 p.m. - Michael Smerconish
 
Local news updates will also be broadcast at the top of every hour 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

GLR Soccer Rights Expand
Grupo Latino de Radio (GLR) has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights for Copa Santander Libertadores and Copa Nissan Sudamericana for Spanish language radio in the United States. The soccer games will be distributed exclusively by GLR Networks to its affiliated radio stations.
 
Copa Santander Libertadores is the oldest and most prestigious soccer tournament in the Americas. From January through June, more than thirty teams from ten countries play over 120 mid-week matches. Five Mexican teams – Chivas de Guadalajara and San Luis among them - participate in this tournament and the winner advances to FIFA Club World Cup.
 
Highlights of the games will also be provided to GLR’s affiliated stations in the syndicated Sports program “Minuto Deportivo” – A quick and energetic overview of the day’s sporting events that bring listeners results, highlights, information about upcoming matches, and the latest news on Sports.

Mitchell Media Transfer Complete
Mitchell Media has sold Station KMRJ Rancho Mirage to RM Broadcasting; the transfer was final on September 15th. The format will remain the same Bob & Tom mornings, Alice Cooper nights, Classic Rock all Day.

Roy Laughlin’s latest LA deal.
Under the agreement announced last week, Liberman is assigning its right to buy KDES-FM to a new company called LC Media, LLC, operated by veteran Los Angeles station manager Roy Laughlin in partnership with Gold Coast. That will give Gold Coast control of both 104.7 signals – leading to an interference-reduction agreement that will allow KDES-FM to migrate west into San Bernardino/Riverside as a class A signal without further objection. Once it’s done, the KDES-FM calls and oldies format will replace beautiful music on KWXY-FM, Cathedral City, CA (98.5), which R&R is buying from Glen Barnett, while KWXY’s soft sounds will return to their ancestral home on 1340 AM, replacing talker KPTR.


Everything Old is New Again
Mike Sakellarides, former midday host for 25 years at KOST, will anchor the launch of a new music format at KGIL. Called “RETRO 1260,” the new format will present hits ranging from the Oldies/Doo-Wop to American Standards eras, straight through to the recent decades. The station will focus on pop-vocal classics, filling a local void by featuring “timeless music for all ages. Following Sakellarides will be local radio veterans Nick Tyler and Jeff Serr.

KGIL’s  540AM frequency will be a brokered Spanish language religious programming.

Magic is Twice as Strong
The L.A. region’s two 93.5 signals are simulcasting again – as “KDAY.” KDAY is now simulcasting with sister Ontario signal that was KWIE, which was known as “Flo.” Now Magic Broadcasting steers KWIE back into a simulcast with urban KDAY, Redondo Beach. They’re both Class As and at various times in the past they’ve simulcast to the Los Angeles area (Redondo Beach) and Riverside-San Bernardino (the Ontario signal in the “Inland Empire”). KDAY has itself gone through major changes lately. It used to be almost completely syndicated, and now it’s back to local programming, with a new PD. New management has come in as well.