The five remaining towers of the 1580 site were felled in late February. As mentioned elsewhere, that signal is now duplexed from the 1280 site at 38 Av & Clarendon. Sometime earlier, the two 1310 towers further south on Center St also came down. KIHR is now duplexed off the center 1060 tower in Guadalupe. The honored dead at Mesa City Cemetery are no longer spending eternity absorbing groundwaves! As of last week, the transmitter shacks were still standing.
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Mesa's radio skyline changes
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The 1580 site would make a good light industrial/warehouse/corporate center-type space. 1310's interesting — the only real use for that land is to expand the cemetery.
Matt Gerson will be doing a film review of that.
All Ancient Modulation stations licensed to Mesa have left the 'burb for greener, diplexed pastures.
Mesa may just be the largest city in the country without an AM transmitter in city limits now.
Would the upcoming nighttime defanging of Mesa's 1580 (C.O.L.=Tempe) be one of the most drastic we've seen to date? CP is going from 50 kW night into 6 towers down to 700 watts night ND. As long as they maintain the 50 kW ND for daytime it must be good enough apparently.
Also, have there been any new 50 kW nighttime authorizations in the US since 1580 was OK'd for the 6 tower 50 kW DA in 1986? Seems like ABC thought it was still a good idea to have a fulltime 50 kW flamethrower for Phoenix in the 80s.
Also, have there been any new 50 kW nighttime authorizations in the US since 1580 was OK'd for the 6 tower 50 kW DA in 1986? Seems like ABC thought it was still a good idea to have a fulltime 50 kW flamethrower for Phoenix in the 80s.
They're approved for 95 watts as a Class D (daytime signal hits COL, but nighttime doesn't). The application for 700 watts is good enough to cover the COL at night, so they'll go back to being a Class B.
Flamethrower & 15~Eighty can't be used together. However, on paper, Buck & Disney thought it was flame worthy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but currently the only station broadcasting out of Mesa is KFXY-LPFM from Usery Mountain Park. Not even the EVIT station broadcasts from Mesa (despite the school being located in Mesa). For a while there, some stations were trying to cater to Mesa and the East Valley, but that has pretty much gone away. I remember there was the short-lived East Valley Talk that was tried on 1310 KXAM. Even 1440 KAZG was getting in on the East Valley action back when Culinary Confessions and other talk shows were supplementing the Oldies for revenue. Now, besides Coyote Country KFXY 99.1, I can't think of one station that targets Mesa's listeners directly (which is pretty unimpressive considering Mesa is the 38th largest city in the US ahead of Atlanta at #39 and Miami at #44). Part of the problem when you have always played second fiddle to your big brother Phoenix 18 miles west of you!
Usery Mountain is not within the Mesa city limits. IIRC, it's a county park.
Neither is their proposed new location near 104th St. & Brown Rd. That's a part of one of the many "county islands" that are surrounded by the city, mostly retirement areas that wouldn't be able to age-restrict if they were within the Mesa city limits. The properties along that part of Brown Rd. aren't retirement areas, but they do allow horses and other animals, which aren't permitted inside Mesa with only a few grandfathered exceptions.
Where exactly was the 1580 transmitter site when owned by Disney? How many acres did they own? What can the land be used for?
Too late now, but diminished facilities don't help the radio business. KABC and WMAL will both have less nighttime coverage because of land sales to raise money.
Yeh, I know, the "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity" will say "who listens to AM" and "nobody listens at night". But, we are all part of an industry that desperately needs to innovate and improve (internet word here...) engagement with listeners.
In visiting a number of markets in the last couple of years, I am finding voice-tracking has reached a new low. In the past I would hear stations that voice-tracked daily with a goal of sounding "live" and "relevant". Recently, I've been hearing "generic" voice tracking that simply provides generic D-J patter that provides no content, only the illusion of an actual "personality"--and I used that term loosely.
It doesn't much matter where the innovation comes from, and if it comes from entrepreneurs and AM stations, all the better.
But to be effective, entrepreneurs need signals that cover enough of the market to be viable.
Too late now, but diminished facilities don't help the radio business. KABC and WMAL will both have less nighttime coverage because of land sales to raise money.
Yeh, I know, the "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity" will say "who listens to AM" and "nobody listens at night". But, we are all part of an industry that desperately needs to innovate and improve (internet word here...) engagement with listeners.
In visiting a number of markets in the last couple of years, I am finding voice-tracking has reached a new low. In the past I would hear stations that voice-tracked daily with a goal of sounding "live" and "relevant". Recently, I've been hearing "generic" voice tracking that simply provides generic D-J patter that provides no content, only the illusion of an actual "personality"--and I used that term loosely.
It doesn't much matter where the innovation comes from, and if it comes from entrepreneurs and AM stations, all the better.
But to be effective, entrepreneurs need signals that cover enough of the market to be viable.
About 80 acres south of the 202 on Center Av in Mesa. At present, farming is going on around the site...but as ASU spreads further east, that land becomes even more valuable. KMIK didn't sell for $1.4m because of its coverage, the value was in the land
The massive amount of debt on Cumulus' books far outweighed their concerns about nighttime coverage. Because both markets grew outside the listenable areas of their signals, it really didn't matter.
All that's left to say is Spiro Agnew. YIKES!
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