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San Antonio is getting a new station while Austin station is moving

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AnyHuman

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From RadioInsight:
"The three station move reallotment of three Texas stations was granted by the FCC. The move sees Educational Media Foundation relocate 103.7 KXAI Refugio to the San Antonio suburb of Balcones Heights while downgrading from a C1 to Class A with 4.3kW/98m. To make that move possible Sinclair Communications’ Variety Hits “103.5 Bob-FM” KBPA San Marcos will move to Austin from the tower of co-owned 93.7 KLBJ-FM with 46kW/326.2m. EMF will also move 98.3 KMJR Odem/Corpus Christi to 103.7’s soon-to-be unused 75kW/290.3m facilities. In granting the changes, the FCC has rejected San Antonio Radio Works’ Informal Objection for misinterpreting the FCC’s Rural Radio and urbanized area policies and that potential substantial loss of FM translator service from SARW’s 103.7 K279AB San Antonio should be considered a priority public interest concern."
 
AnyHuman said:
From RadioInsight:
"The three station move reallotment of three Texas stations was granted by the FCC. The move sees Educational Media Foundation relocate 103.7 KXAI Refugio to the San Antonio suburb of Balcones Heights while downgrading from a C1 to Class A with 4.3kW/98m. To make that move possible Sinclair Communications’ Variety Hits “103.5 Bob-FM” KBPA San Marcos will move to Austin from the tower of co-owned 93.7 KLBJ-FM with 46kW/326.2m. EMF will also move 98.3 KMJR Odem/Corpus Christi to 103.7’s soon-to-be unused 75kW/290.3m facilities. In granting the changes, the FCC has rejected San Antonio Radio Works’ Informal Objection for misinterpreting the FCC’s Rural Radio and urbanized area policies and that potential substantial loss of FM translator service from SARW’s 103.7 K279AB San Antonio should be considered a priority public interest concern."
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Curious if EMF will sell the signal to someone else or keep it.
 
My guess they will keep it at Air one so they will have a city grade coverage.
 
Goodbye KAHL, at least in the downtown area.
Curious what KAHL's owners will do when their 103.7 gets knocked off the air by EMF's new move-in.
 
There’s not much KAHL call do with 103.7. San Antonio tended to have fewer FM stations than other similarly sized markets. Part of the reason for that is FCC spacing rules prohibited most stations from being adjacent to Austin signals. Some had to be even more clicks away. That meant translators, which didn’t have to adhere to the same spacing rules, were able to invade. Pretty much every open frequency in the market is now covered, and 103.7 doesn’t have any options. As KAHL has another lower powered translator, it might be able to share a frequency with it or move the weaker translator out, but it’s probably going to have one less signal.

The irony is 103.7 was one of the first translators to sign on in San Antonio, and it did so by moving to a frequency where nobody else could go, due to the former KEYI (now KBPA). In 1990, even a Walkman radio could get KEYI pretty much anywhere north of downtown. I remember staying near the former Windsor Park Mall and accidentally stopping on 103.5 on my way down to KTFM. It was so clear I didn’t realize it was an Austin station until I heard its jingle between songs. 103.7 was perfect for a translator, especially one that was strongest downtown and south.
 
Radio-locator lists two additional translators for KAHL on 100.7 and 105.9. Are these actually on the air? The 100.7 translator also has a CP to move to 107.9.

100.7 coverage: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=K264CJ&service=FX

105.9 coverage: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=K290BO&service=FX

107.9 (CP) coverage: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=K264CJ&service=FX&s=C

Of course the usual grains of salt when referring to these.

Wonder if KROX in Austin is ever going to build its CP to move to the (soon to be former) KBPA tower?
 
100.7 has been on the air; they create havoc for KASE until north of Stone Oak. I have heard 105.9 out of Hindi, but I’m not certain regarding an inside 410 105.9 or 107.9.

Kent is absolutely right regarding 103.5 back in the day; they had the best signal penetration of all the Austin FM’s. Pre-translator days, most Austin FM’s made it to the 410/35 interchange: the signals dropped off significantly after that.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Radio-locator lists two additional translators for KAHL on 100.7 and 105.9. Are these actually on the air? The 100.7 translator also has a CP to move to 107.9.
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They’re both definitely on the air. The 105.9 translator puts in a steady signal at my locale in NW San Antonio. The 100.7 is weaker here and gets taken over by KASE when there’s tropospheric enhancement.

If the 100.7 translator is moved to 107.9, it will be fighting (on this side of town) with a pirate playing classic hits that’s strongest around the IH10 & Huebner to Wurzbach area.
 
LOL is that pirate on 24/7 now? I remember hearing it on and off during the 1st part of 2019. No identifications but they did have good sound. It was very strong around St. Matthew Catholic Church. https://stmatts.org/
 
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