The San Francisco Business Times reports that the Oakland A’s are thinking about buying their flagship radio station, 50,000-watt KTRB AM 860, which is currently in receivership and operated by Comerica Bank. The station flipped from conservative talk to sports in May 2009 when it landed the A’s English-language radio rights.

Ken Pries, who oversees broadcast deals for the team, says the A’s are “just at the beginning stages” of a possibly deal. Buying the station would give the A’s control over their baseball broadcasts which have been on three stations in the past five years.