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94.5 Kansas City now playing 41 Action News

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AnyHuman

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That's what I'm hearing on 94.5 FM and 1510 AM in Kansas City now. The two were previously ESPN.
www.kshb.com

The volume is a bit quiet but sounds decent. Is this permanent?
 
I'm pretty sure 1510/94.5 has aired the 5:00 and 6:00 news for awhile now. It runs sports the rest of the day.

At one time, its news partner was KMBC, and it even aired talk shows hosted by KMBC personalities. Not sure when it switched to KSHB. When I lived in KC, KSHB's partners were KFKF and Q104, but that’s been about 20 years.
 
I found out that it is a daily thing, from 5-7 PM, as you mentioned. Cool.
 
94.5 has been dead air all afternoon, and last week during the 3:00 PM hour it's been dead air as well. Seems COVID19 has closed this station, or at least put a dent in their operations?
 
AnyHuman said:
94.5 has been dead air all afternoon, and last week during the 3:00 PM hour it's been dead air as well. Seems COVID19 has closed this station, or at least put a dent in their operations?
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Going silent in the middle of the day seems an extreme, and unlikely, measure for a station to take, pandemic or no pandemic.
 
I know. Not sure why this station is doing so but it's still dead air right now.

If I were them I'd play soul/funk music, or old school hip-hop.
Kansas City has a lot of blacks and the only soul stations are an HD (103.3 HD2) and an LPFM (98.5). Oldschool hip-hop is not in the area.
 
With the exception of the KSHB simulcast, I'm thinking all of the programming on 1510/94.5 is satellite-fed. Satellite equipment fails or otherwise needs human intervention more than one would expect. Granted, one would hope they would have somebody monitoring the signal to know when it either went off-air or had dead air and would have backup programming for when it completely lost the satellite signal, but not everyone does that. I worked at a talk station that had several backups in case the satellite had issues. We had thumbwheels that had one channel for each of our main programs, a manual override of the satellite switch, and emergency CD's for our most common programs. That, however, can even fail sometimes. If the satellite tuner wasn’t working or was otherwise tuned to the wrong provider, the thumbwheels wouldn’t give you the right programming, for example. There was also the time I went to the break room to start my lunch and walked back in and found the computer hadn’t rejoined the satellite programming after a local break. The station was off-air until I walked back in from the breakroom and saw we weren’t on-air. It was probably only a minute or two, but, if one of the owners had been listening, 5 seconds of dead air would’ve been enough to trigger him.

I may have mentioned it before, but 1510 aired an alternative format off of a couple loop tapes around 2000 before the 96.5 The Buzz signed on. It was just filler programming until they found another provider, but it sounded great other than not having more than two hours of programming.
 
94.5 came on today with their sports talk.
Aren't there two ESPN sports stations in Kansas City?
 
As far as I know, the only English-language ESPN affiliates in KC are WHB 810 and KCTE 1510/94.5. WHB doesn't air the daytime lineup for ESPN, and 1510 isn't on after dark. So, aside from weekends and some summer nights when KCTE can stay on until around 9:00 PM, the two don't simulcast. 94.5, of course, can stay on all night, but it essentially provides an FM companion for WHB after KCTE signs off.

There are other ESPN affiliates within WHB's daytime signal contour, but, like I said, WHB doesn't carry ESPN's daytime lineup. Plus, ESPN doesn't provide protection based on signal contours. WHB's nighttime signal doesn't do as well as it looks like it would on paper. In 1997, KCMO was on 810, and WHB was 710. Entercom, which had recently acquired KCMO (and its FM as well as KMBZ/KLTH) from Bonneville, approached Kanza about swapping signals because, despite 710 having a nighttime null that excludes Lawrence and cuts right through the present day Legends and The Woodlands and another one east of the tower site that cuts off some of the eastern exurbs, 810 had reception problems in the fast-growing Johnson County suburbs where 710 was stronger. 710's nighttime signal, while not nearly as good on paper, didn't get interference from the west while 810 could get stopped on by WBAP 820 and XEROK 800. I lived at 75th and Quivira at the time, and, while I never had problems getting KCMO/WHB 810, WBAP sounded more like a local after dark, and XEROK was quite strong, too. WHB found the deal enticing because it was running farm programming from KMZU and wanted to capitalize on 810's superior daytime signal. It didn't really care much that 810 had problems in Johnson County since it was trying to cover the vast rural area north and east of Kansas City. It was more worried about Johnson County, Missouri than Johnson County, Kansas!

To the best of my knowledge, though, there are no ESPN affiliates in the Kansas City area that are in areas where WHB's nighttime signal is weak. I believe Topeka has an ESPN affiliate, and I'm thinking there's one in Bethany along the Missouri/Iowa border, but, unless KSIS or KDRO in Sedalia has recently added ESPN programming, I don't think you'll find another one before Columbia heading east. St. Joseph had an ESPN affiliate in KESJ 1550, but it flipped to classic hits about six months ago.
 
Kent said:
As far as I know, the only English-language ESPN affiliates in KC are WHB 810 and KCTE 1510/94.5. WHB doesn't air the daytime lineup for ESPN, and 1510 isn't on after dark. So, aside from weekends and some summer nights when KCTE can stay on until around 9:00 PM, the two don't simulcast. 94.5, of course, can stay on all night, but it essentially provides an FM companion for WHB after KCTE signs off.

There are other ESPN affiliates within WHB's daytime signal contour, but, like I said, WHB doesn't carry ESPN's daytime lineup. Plus, ESPN doesn't provide protection based on signal contours. WHB's nighttime signal doesn't do as well as it looks like it would on paper. In 1997, KCMO was on 810, and WHB was 710. Entercom, which had recently acquired KCMO (and its FM as well as KMBZ/KLTH) from Bonneville, approached Kanza about swapping signals because, despite 710 having a nighttime null that excludes Lawrence and cuts right through the present day Legends and The Woodlands and another one east of the tower site that cuts off some of the eastern exurbs, 810 had reception problems in the fast-growing Johnson County suburbs where 710 was stronger. 710's nighttime signal, while not nearly as good on paper, didn't get interference from the west while 810 could get stopped on by WBAP 820 and XEROK 800. I lived at 75th and Quivira at the time, and, while I never had problems getting KCMO/WHB 810, WBAP sounded more like a local after dark, and XEROK was quite strong, too. WHB found the deal enticing because it was running farm programming from KMZU and wanted to capitalize on 810's superior daytime signal. It didn't really care much that 810 had problems in Johnson County since it was trying to cover the vast rural area north and east of Kansas City. It was more worried about Johnson County, Missouri than Johnson County, Kansas!

To the best of my knowledge, though, there are no ESPN affiliates in the Kansas City area that are in areas where WHB's nighttime signal is weak. I believe Topeka has an ESPN affiliate, and I'm thinking there's one in Bethany along the Missouri/Iowa border, but, unless KSIS or KDRO in Sedalia has recently added ESPN programming, I don't think you'll find another one before Columbia heading east. St. Joseph had an ESPN affiliate in KESJ 1550, but it flipped to classic hits about six months ago.
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WHB covers quite wel lat night when something malfunctions and they dont switch power and pattern at night, they blast into Laramie, WY 600 miles away
 
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