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I am just curious about....

latinoradio said:
Surprises me how many people on this board have no idea how a radio station operates or have ever even been employeed by a radio or tv station.
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From the tone of your post, it appears that you are suggesting that a significant number of contributors to radiodiscussions don't have a clue about broadcasting, and have never been employed in the field. Care to name names? And if the only name you can come up with is Joe, he is just a stranger in a crowd, and hardly represents a majority.
 
robertsez said:
From the tone of your post, it appears that you are suggesting that a significant number of contributors to radiodiscussions don't have a clue about broadcasting, and have never been employed in the field. Care to name names? And if the only name you can come up with is Joe, he is just a stranger in a crowd, and hardly represents a majority.
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LOL, its been long known a ton of the folks on here aren't broadcasters.
 
I can name one...

Me.

I do have a clue, but have never worked in the field.

Latinoradio has been bent out of shape since Joe took on KIPS-LD and got its proposed move into Houston nixed. Too bad, so sad. I don't completely agree with Joe on a lot of things, but this is one instance in which I was fully in his corner. We've got enough issue with the brothers Villarreal and Hector Guevara loading up our dial with multiple facilities airing the same Spanish language "Christian" programming. We certainly don't need them coming out of the woodwork from Beaumont to boot.
 
purpledevil said:
I can name one...

Me.

I do have a clue, but have never worked in the field.

Latinoradio has been bent out of shape since Joe took on KIPS-LD and got its proposed move into Houston nixed. Too bad, so sad. I don't completely agree with Joe on a lot of things, but this is one instance in which I was fully in his corner. We've got enough issue with the brothers Villarreal and Hector Guevara loading up our dial with multiple facilities airing the same Spanish language "Christian" programming. We certainly don't need them coming out of the woodwork from Beaumont to boot.
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Just for the record, 87.7 in Beaumont has been strangely silent. This seems contrary to the licensee's assurance that they needed an analog television facility to serve an underserved segment of the community. Television, not radio. There are plenty of Hispanic radio stations in or near Beaumont.

So, where is it?
 
robertsez said:
Just for the record, 87.7 in Beaumont has been strangely silent. This seems contrary to the licensee's assurance that they needed an analog television facility to serve an underserved segment of the community. Television, not radio. There are plenty of Hispanic radio stations in or near Beaumont.

So, where is it?
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Interestingly enough, la gorda hasn't begun her tune as of yet. While KIPS-LD had its move to Houston kicked back, a new application now sits as "pending" after Daniel Melendez filed it yesterday. I'm having some issues getting the file to download, else I would post it up for everyone's viewing.

What I glanced over earlier, appeared to leave it operating over in Beaumont. Not D'ed up, nor "disposed". Apparently, there is a plan B.

Edit to add: an excerpt from the new application that I found a tad humorous.

Q: Has the Applicant or any party to this application had any
FCC station Authorization revoked or had any application for
an initial, modification or renewal of FCC station
Authorization denied by the Commission?

A: No.

Wanna place a bet on that?
 
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purpledevil said:
Interestingly enough, la gorda hasn't begun her tune as of yet. While KIPS-LD had its move to Houston kicked back, a new application now sits as "pending" after Daniel Melendez filed yesterday.
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My problem with El Chavo is that he assured the Commission that the reason justifying the analog STA was because of a lack of television stations in Beaumont serving the Hispanic community. Sounds like pretty hokey reasoning, but apparently Uncle Charlie accepted it.

So, if that's the case, why would they want to walk it over to Houston, where the Hispanic community is WELL REPRESENTED by Hispanic broadcasters? And...if their goal is to provide television programming to the allegedly-underrepresented Hispanic community, then why do they turn their video modulation down and program exclusively to their audio subcarrier? In my book, that's a radio station, and aren't their several Spanish-language radio stations in the Beaumont area? Which sort of negates the "need," doesn't it? Plus, they are now currently off-the-air, which means they aren't providing the television programming service they promised to provide, in exchange for the STA they were granted.
 
robertsez said:
My problem with El Chavo is that he assured the Commission that the reason justifying the analog STA was because of a lack of television stations in Beaumont serving the Hispanic community. Sounds like pretty hokey reasoning, but apparently Uncle Charlie accepted it.

So, if that's the case, why would they want to walk it over to Houston, where the Hispanic community is WELL REPRESENTED by Hispanic broadcasters? And...if their goal is to provide television programming to the allegedly-underrepresented Hispanic community, then why do they turn their video modulation down and program exclusively to their audio subcarrier? In my book, that's a radio station, and aren't their several Spanish-language radio stations in the Beaumont area? Which sort of negates the "need," doesn't it? Plus, they are now currently off-the-air, which means they aren't providing the television programming service they promised to provide, in exchange for the STA they were granted.
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Johnny O, tell him what he's won!
 
I certainly believe that to be the case. I'm a bit baffled, because of the "pending" 0000013791 minor app. Everything else is PRCAN and dated 8-23-2016, with that one exception. It shows a proposal of 3kW @ 1991 feet from Devers, still on the table.

C'mon, Joe. Shed some light here. What am I overlooking? It appears to me that it is in critical condition, but they've snuck past the guard on duty and plugged the life support machine into the wall.
 
robertsez said:
...and aren't their several Spanish-language radio stations in the Beaumont area? Which sort of negates the "need," doesn't
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Maybe I am missing something, but the only two Spanish language stations home to the market that I see are both religious AMs.

The others that are licensed within the market that are in Spanish program as Houston rimshots.
 
JoeFM said:
It appears that with all the cancellations the FCC mistakenly cancelled their license to cover as well. That error has since been corrected. The license is still valid, and their latest modification to move to Devers as a digital TV channel covering parts of Houston remains pending.
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What about the analog STA?
 
stan said:
93.3 - Port Arthur
98.5 - Port Arthur
107.9 - Beaumont
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None are programming to the Beaumont metro. While they are listenable, they are not selling to local accounts.
 
In population centers such as Houston and the Golden Triangle, city of license is pretty meaningless. The full coverage area prevails as the service area. If that is Pecan Grove, Pasadena, Winnie, Humble, La Porte, Cypress or whatever, the greater population center is the service area and target of programming. In most instances, it is not feasible financially to serve only the city of license and at best is a poor business decision when the greater potential is ignored. For the most part, the residents of the city of license consider themselves in common with the major city, likely working there.

If a Golden Triangle station can serve as a rimshot of the Houston market, it is more likely a financial decision that may do more good than it seems. The Golden Triangle's stations, if all served the communities, would likely find not enough ad revenue for all to survive. If some can capture even a small portion of a nearby market, it is more likely all can survive financially as the number of stations after the same ad dollars allows the advertising pie to be sliced in to fewer pieces.
 
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