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KWIF: New CP holder or FCC screw up?

Nothing surprises us about this oddball frequency. CSN International is a Bible thumping outfit, and maybe the owner was able to sell the CP and get out before more money went down a bottomless hole. Or maybe Crazy Ed Stolz is trying to get 15~Hundred back? The AM Query site is questionable: 150 watts at night with four sticks? YIKES!!
 
DrAkbar said:
Nothing surprises us about this oddball frequency. CSN International is a Bible thumping outfit, and maybe the owner was able to sell the CP and get out before more money went down a bottomless hole. Or maybe Crazy Ed Stolz is trying to get 15~Hundred back? The AM Query site is questionable: 150 watts at night with four sticks? YIKES!!
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FCC shows no transfer applications for the station. Go figure...
 
The FCC dismissed the CP last year for failure to put the station on the air. The licensee is appealing that decision. Meanwhile, the residents of Culver City must be beside themselves for not having their own local AM station.


NOT.
 
DrAkbar said:
Nothing surprises us about this oddball frequency. CSN International is a Bible thumping outfit, and maybe the owner was able to sell the CP and get out before more money went down a bottomless hole. Or maybe Crazy Ed Stolz is trying to get 15~Hundred back? The AM Query site is questionable: 150 watts at night with four sticks? YIKES!!
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If someone is serious about putting an LA area station on 1500, diplexing off of Saul Levine's 1260 towers in the San Fernando Valley would be just about perfect. 10kW DA day, and 3 to 5 kW DA night would certainly work, as 1500's original Burbank pattern was very similar to 1260. Daytime coverage would extend West to beyond Thousand Oaks, South to Torrance, East to beyond Pasadena, and North to almost Palmdale. No signal in the OC to protect 1480 Santa Ana, and no signal in the East SGV to protect 1510 Ontario. And by the way the City of License should be changed to West Hollywood. This relatively new city is a significant cultural and artistic center which should have its own station. The SFV transmitter location would put a city grade in West Hollywood, just like 1260 puts city grade in its C-O-L Beverly Hills which is literally next door to West Hollywood!
 
TomasEstefan said:
If someone is serious about putting an LA area station on 1500, diplexing off of Saul Levine's 1260 towers in the San Fernando Valley would be just about perfect. 10kW DA day, and 3 to 5 kW DA night would certainly work, as 1500's original Burbank pattern was very similar to 1260. Daytime coverage would extend West to beyond Thousand Oaks, South to Torrance, East to beyond Pasadena, and North to almost Palmdale. No signal in the OC to protect 1480 Santa Ana, and no signal in the East SGV to protect 1510 Ontario. And by the way the City of License should be changed to West Hollywood. This relatively new city is a significant cultural and artistic center which should have its own station. The SFV transmitter location would put a city grade in West Hollywood, just like 1260 puts city grade in its C-O-L Beverly Hills which is literally next door to West Hollywood!
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The issue there is whether the 1260 site is permanent. Some of us believe that the land is more valuable than any station, and it is possible that the station be closed and the land sold. There are a number of much better AMs in the LA market that can't seem to find buyers, so why would anyone want a very limited, at best, signal at the top of the dial?
 
DavidEduardo said:
The issue there is whether the 1260 site is permanent. Some of us believe that the land is more valuable than any station, and it is possible that the station be closed and the land sold. There are a number of much better AMs in the LA market that can't seem to find buyers, so why would anyone want a very limited, at best, signal at the top of the dial?
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David, I think you're right. But just for fun, if somehow the license for 1500 fell into Saul's lap and he put a real signal on the air as I described, (rather than 150 watts/400 watts or whatever it is was being applied for) what do you or any of the readers think he would want to do with it? After all, Saul himself has said that his only real expense for 1260 is the electric bill. To me it sounds like he would just have another cool toy to play with.
 
TomasEstefan said:
David, I think you're right. But just for fun, if somehow the license for 1500 fell into Saul's lap and he put a real signal on the air as I described, (rather than 150 watts/400 watts or whatever it is was being applied for) what do you or any of the readers think he would want to do with it? After all, Saul himself has said that his only real expense for 1260 is the electric bill. To me it sounds like he would just have another cool toy to play with.
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Sounds to me like he'd have two electric bills he can't pay with advertising from the station generating the expense.
 
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