ESPN loses a...well, a terrible one.

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It's possible that they buy another station - there's been talk for some time that the LA market is over saturated with Spanish-language stations and that at least one might be going to English language at some point. I would still suspect that JACK would stay around just because it's so cheap to produce that it's almost pure profit (even if the numbers aren't as great as some other local stations).

But the LA market also is saturated with sports talk. I live in the IE, and get KLAC (Rome and FSR), KSPN (local/ESPN), KLAA (****ty local/ESPN); XPRS 1090 (San Diego local/ESPN); 1360 San Diego (don't know call letters or programming outside of Rome and some local) and 1600 SD (another ESPN).

Is there a need for another?

Word on the street is that KFWB AM980 is the new CBS Sports Radio station in LA.

No more giving them 22 minutes and they'll give you the world?

KFWB went to a "news/talk" format a while back. Their ratings went into the dumper.