{"id":8525,"date":"2017-05-10T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2017-05-10T02:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T09:16:33","slug":"las-power-106-changes-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/las-power-106-changes-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"LA&#8217;s Power 106 Changes Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8526\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/variety.com_.png\" alt=\"Photo: variety.com\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/variety.com_.png 640w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/variety.com_-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/variety.com_-530x294.png 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: variety.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Are\u00a0you a Power 106 listener? The popular radio station that made its name on spinning hip-hop has been sold. After 32 years under the guidance or Emmis Communications, Power 106 (KPWR) has been sold to the Meruelo Group for a cool $82.75M.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is whether the new owners will change the formatting. Power 106 does pretty well against its competition. It&#8217;s closest rival is iHeartRadio&#8217;s Real 92.3 (KRRL). Both focus on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/dash-radio-wants-to-get-back-to-radios-roots-with-new-dj-curated-music-service-via-venture-beat\/\">Top 40\/Urban<\/a> sound. Both claim a huge percentage of the listening audience. My guess is that Power 106 was sold because Emmis Communications couldn&#8217;t see itself pushing the station further along. Sometimes you just have to let something go in order to see it succeed. We&#8217;ll see what the Meruelo Group does with it from here on in.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the sale <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/music\/news\/emmis-power-106-meruelo-group-1202421230\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Are\u00a0you a Power 106 listener? The popular radio station that made its name on spinning hip-hop has been sold. After 32 years under the guidance or Emmis Communications, Power 106&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3418,2152,400,547,7,2887,3219,2886,4001,2203,2885],"tags":[4907,3535,60,4655],"views":1108,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}