KTLK in Minneapolis was flipped with a AM talk station. I assume you mean KTLK AM in la.
The FM one is now a sports talk station and the FM news talk (Rush, Hanity, Lewis) got dumped on the low power AM station.
The person whom I quoted above had said “KTLK AM 1150 in Los Angeles” and they still are prog talk. As for Minn., I do remember the flip of sports to FM and cons talk (Rush etc) to AM, but the call letters they now use are KTCN.
(Wiki.: “KTCN (1130 AM)—branded News/Talk 1130—is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, broadcasting a conservative news/talk format. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications, and serves the Twin Cities market”)
I think as a news talker (forget the freq.) they were KTLK, yes.
Someone on the radio insight board, re: WDTW AM, said:
>>
Very suspicious move. Bain Capital is attempting to silence Liberal talk in a huge martket.
Writer Lance Venta replied:
>>NO. NO. NO. There is NO political conspiracy here. The station had a 0.3 rating. NOBODY was listening. If there was such a conspiracy against Liberal Talk, (then why) did Clear Channel drop Conservative Talk from similarly struggling stations in Boston and Atlanta in the past couple months? It’s business, nothing else.
Lance also says:
>>Bain owns Clear Channel, Bain DOES NOT operate Clear Channel. BIG DIFFERENCE. There is NO right-wing conspiracy afoot. AT ALL. Clear Channel is DONATING the station that began this discussion to a minority non-profit. So they will not be the ones who drop the programming, which invalidates your argument. And as mentioned, Conservative Talk is slowly dying as well. Clear Channel itself dropped the format in two markets of similar size to Detroit and has taken it off FM in San Diego. As we reported this week, Boston could soon go from the three conservative talkers it had in August to possibly one.* The problem is the content on both ends attracting listeners and more importantly advertisers.
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/79963/clear-channel-donates-wdtw-detroit-to-mmtc/
*—(me): At the start of this year, WRKO 680, WXKS AM 1200,
WTKK 96.9—also WBZ has a conserv talk host at night.
WXKS flipped to comedy and rumors are rampant of a format change of 96.9 to a music format. The hosts are a morning team—liberal and moderate—and a conservative in the afternoon. Late morning host Doug Meehan left today to
take a job in TV