Price is 1.4 million. This is a decent AM facility. I would have to imagine BIN will be the programming.
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iHeart Has Acquired 1320 KXYZ
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Source? Not seeing this reported anywhere. Doesn't surprise me though...Multicultural just sold KBLA in Los Angeles so perhaps they are in a selling mood.
Decent AM, but not great; seems the signal has deteriorated recently despite the daytime power increase a few years back. Wonder if market sibling KCHN might also be on the block?
Sale price gives us an idea of what similar AM's might go for. Wonder if Salem is still shopping KNTH?
Decent AM, but not great; seems the signal has deteriorated recently despite the daytime power increase a few years back. Wonder if market sibling KCHN might also be on the block?
Sale price gives us an idea of what similar AM's might go for. Wonder if Salem is still shopping KNTH?
The Radio Insight article (which was not there when I previously posted) states that the KXYZ transmitter will be moved to the KPRC 950 site. But KPRC is moving to the KBME towers. So is KXYZ moving to the old or new 950 site?
Triplexed AM systems are not uncommon around the world. It involves tuning your signal to match the tower(s) used, and putting in a rejection network to keep the other stations out of yours. Think of it as a bunch of doorways, each station with its own, and which the other stations don't have a key to.
Right now, the most famous mainland one may well be 930-1230 and 1580 in LA. A 5 kw, a 1 kw and a 50 kw station in a 4-tower array.
The majority of Honolulu stations (maybe all of them... calling for the world's transmitter site guru, Scott Fybush) diplex or triplex due to the shortage of land there.
Here is a picture of a diplexed station, one at 570 the other at 805 kHz. That is all it takes... just coils and condensers and a lot of math and measurement.
David,
KABC 790, KWKW 1330 and KFOX 1650 in LA are also triplexed together (heard them all from WY)
I forgot about 1650 being on that array.
Interestingly, in 2000 Chagal Communications paid $30,000,000 for that X-Band station! Beneficiary: Sol Levine!
My head hurts just thinking about that.. theyd get $5 mil if they were lucky now, and closer to about $4 mil based on what KBLA and others have sold for.
It's possible that when the dust settles, 790, 950 and 1320 could end up sharing one site without triplexing.
Say what?
There are 8 towers there for 790. 950 will use only one of them by day, four at night.
I haven't studied all the protections 1320 will need to give when it moves from Pasadena up north, but it's only a 2 tower array at its current site, so it shouldn't need more than 3 or 4 at the 790 site.
Each of the 8 towers will need filtering or detuning on all three frequencies, but it's possible there won't be any towers fed by all three transmitters at once.
Say what?
There are 8 towers there for 790. 950 will use only one of them by day, four at night.
I haven't studied all the protections 1320 will need to give when it moves from Pasadena up north, but it's only a 2 tower array at its current site, so it shouldn't need more than 3 or 4 at the 790 site.
Each of the 8 towers will need filtering or detuning on all three frequencies, but it's possible there won't be any towers fed by all three transmitters at once.
1320 currently has a lobe to the NNW iirc but its pulled in across the north side of the pattern, not sure who they protect that direction.....moving to the 790 site will probably have its signal mostly going south like most other Houston AMs...2 towers will do that with the right phasing.... And goodbye to any coverage toward Conroe, etc at night. The pattern is gonna be tough....
The KBME site is 22 miles northwest of the current KXYZ transmitter, so yes, the signal to the north would have to be further suppressed from the new site in order not to increase coverage in Montgomery County. Probably doable, though, as it will be yet another signal on the north side dumping RF over the core of the market and into the Gulf.
With the BIN format iHeart is probably not so concerned with Montgomery County.
The original RadioInsight article on December 4 stated that "An LMA will take effect within ten days bringing the “Black Information Network” to the market." It's been ten days, but at several checks today (12/14) KXYZ is still running its usual programming.
Curious how much notice the current time buyers would have before getting the boot...probably spelled out in the various program contracts.
Curious how much notice the current time buyers would have before getting the boot...probably spelled out in the various program contracts.
Looks like BIN will launch on 1320 at noon tomorrow (Friday 12/18.) The station is currently running speeches and soundbites from prominent African-Americans (which was done on other stations about to launch BIN) and promises an "important announcement" at that time.
Nightime signal of KXYZ into NW Harris County has sure deteriorated recently. The presumed move to the KBME site should greatly help coverage in most of the market.
Nightime signal of KXYZ into NW Harris County has sure deteriorated recently. The presumed move to the KBME site should greatly help coverage in most of the market.
KXYZ is now BIN. Listened to it for a while this evening while running an errand. Included a local news insert at the top of the hour. "BIN 1320 Houston" branding.
KXYZ night signal is lousy in NW Harris County; was almost swamped by skywave from a couple of other stations a few times.
KXYZ night signal is lousy in NW Harris County; was almost swamped by skywave from a couple of other stations a few times.
After listening to KXYZ Friday night I checked the three iHeart FMs to see if KXYZ had been added as an additional HD subchannel. Nothing new, just the existing KTRH/KPRC/KBME simulcasts along with Pride Radio. Will keep an ear out for any new HD stream.
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