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K217GB 91.3 no longer NGEN?

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While in the Midtown and Montrose areas this evening I found La Nueva on 91.3 with the same signal characteristics as what I have heard in the past from K217GB, which is located at the intersection of Main and Holcombe with a directional signal aimed WSW. Programming was the same as 91.5, 95.3 and 96.1. No sign of the usual NGEN programming on 91.3.

So has KSBJ Foundation leased the translator out to La Nueva? The NGEN TOH ID still includes K217GB, but NGEN was also still announcing K258BZ 99.5 long after that translator had flipped to Radio Dabang...so they might be slow in creating updated ID sweepers. The NGEN website also still lists 91.3.

Nothing on the La Nueva website about this, and their Facebook page only mentions 91.5, 95.3, 96.1 and 107.3.

If anyone happens to be in the Med Center/Bellaire/Braeswood area, you might make a quick check of 91.3.
 
Might had been because of the weather? I can’t listen to this station in The Heights, 91.3 KPVU (I think those are the callsigns) reachers this neighborhood.
 
Guess what...K217GB is back to running NGEN as heard during a Wednesday evening check. Perhaps there had been some sort of feed mixup that wasn’t caught for several days?
 
Mrtejano said:
Testing it to see if they want to lease it? Or might be in talks to try to purchase it?
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I've wondered before if KSBJ Foundation might eventually sell K217GB. It was basically a throw in with the 91.7 purchase. The translator made some more sense in the KUHA days as it covered the upscale Med Center, West U and Bellaire areas with the Classical format.

Not sure if the transmitter could be moved very far as there are first adjacent issues as well as keeping a distance from KPVU.
 
I am in the corner of 45 N. and West Road and I am listening to a talk show on 91.3 FM battling with the station from cy fair
 
It could also have been someone's neighborhood transmitter. I was in a neighborhood near my area recently and heard explicit rap music on 98.1 FM, no ID message. The signal didn't fade out until I left the area about 3/4 miles away from where it was strongest. You can buy a 0.5 watt FM unit on Amazon for around $50 now...
 
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