Angels on TV

Arte Moreno considers buying the local Fox Sports channels for the Angels. It’s a move he made with radio:

In 2006, Moreno bought a Spanish-language radio station, eventually converting it to an English-language sports station. He renamed the station KLAA, after he renamed the team the Los Angeles Angels, and anchored its programming with broadcasts of Angels games.

Moreno said he had long considered buying a television channel and making the Angels its anchor.

“I feel, much like our radio, we can pick and choose how we surround ourselves and how we market, and make sure that we can make it affordable for people to continue to communicate with us,” he said, “whether it’s on air, or through cable, or streaming, etc.”

LATimes.com

There are a number of obstacles to the deal, including Fox wanting to sell all their stations as a package. Besides the branding, buying the two stations that are on most cable systems can keep the Dodgers station off the air. Another buyer probably would not be interested in keep both channels, and one disappearing would open a slot on the cable systems for the Dodgers.

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