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I see they have a construction permit that will expire in July. What keeps them from reconstruction? Is it money?
 
The CP is an upgrade from their current operation....There is also an application (filed after the CP was issued) which is different than their current CP....(they would drop night power from 50 to 43 watts and go omni at night)...either way, they throw most of their signal toward the NE away from Houston metro.....kind of a waste (it had higher nite power when it was in Beaumont though it was omni and only 1KW day...It could have upgraded there but considering the market, it wasnt worth it and McBride wanted to sell it to a Houston operator anyway to get more cash...
 
KRCM has been off the air for around two months. Last time I heard them they were transmitting from the new Waller County site, but far below the authorized 22kw. Seems they are having major issues with the transmitter, and for some reason aren't using the previous Shenandoah site...equipment removed?

The omni 43 watts at night might put a listenable signal into Prairie View, Waller, and Hempstead...and nothing else. As a comparison, KWHI in Brenham gets out about ten miles with its 72 watt night signal before being buried in the co-channel pileup.

I notice that the "Radio Esmirna" website given in Radio-Locator for KRCM is now dead. Perhaps DAIJ doesn't have any replacement programming lined up yet, and is keeping the station silent until they find a new client?
 
ContinuousWave said:
With Daji now having both 1590 and 880 in their stables, 1380 is somewhat a lost cause...
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I doubt they'd go through the trouble of building the Waller County facility just to give up on it. Perhaps the KMIC acquisition has been a distraction from fixing the problems with KRCM. The 1380 night signal will be virtually worthless (maybe they should just let KPVU program it) but the day signal should be quite solid for northern Harris County and southern Montgomery County.

Whatever happened to the rumored sale of KXYZ? DAIJ was thought to be in play for that.
 
If my count is correct, Daij owns 5 AMs (KQUE, KJOZ, KRCM, KBRZ, KMIC), 1 FM (KFTG), and a couple of translators (Port Bolivar and Freeport).

Edit to add: In the Houston market. Of course they also own Victoria's KBRZ-FM, KTYR in Trinity, and KABA down in Louise, none of which count for the purposes of this discussion.
 
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Why?? They are a "religious" organization..I dont think they have any of the AMs as non comm...but the FM is....the AMs have to pay taxes (for now) and are LMA'ed to other groups...if any of them have been changed to non-comm, then they will make more tax free money from "sponsors", but would it be worth it?? Would have to look at the balance sheets :rolleyes:
 
Building out a station from scratch is a very time consuming process. Sometimes the electric company has to run lines to the site. Then the phasor has to be custom built, the tower company that services a wide swath of the USA has to fit you in their schedule and the list goes on. Don't expect the well laid plans to work out flawlessly.. There is sometimes a difference between paper and reality. Many things you need must be made. Think for a second of all the transmitter companies versus all the radio stations that need, say a 10,000 watt AM transmitter. You don't get orders everyday so it's not like hitting Walmart and grabbing it. An upgrade to a new tower site can take a few years and that's if the government doesn't delay you with driveway permits and approving a tower site, appeasing neighbors that object for some reason and such. Then there's the chance all the parties involved will disagree on the build out. If you can keep your sanity through it all, a couple of years or more and maybe you'll be transmitter from your new site. And you will have arranged for the cash to do it before you even file for the construction permit with plenty of padding for things going over the projected cost. Giving up is usually never a thought because you have set everything up to finish the project. I personally spent about a year trying to get a city to approve a tower site only to finally get turned down. Luckily I had a plan B. That's more the norm than not. Then there was the site that was sold after we had the first option. A local guy figured we'd build there and wanted the cash so before we got approved we had the first option to buy but with no FCC approval, we declined. Then it was off to find another site and modifying the application that finally got approved.
 
KRCM was back on the air Tuesday afternoon, February 24. Still on reduced power from the Waller County site. Running music apparently as a transmitter test, but audio level was very low compared to the overall signal level. Not a simulcast of any of the other DAIJ stations.

With newly acquired KMIC now back up and running, perhaps DAIJ is returning its attention to getting the new KRCM site functional at full power.
 
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