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KSKD-FM license canceled

I am not surprised by the number silent stations in the "Puro Radio Amigo" (PRA) family. The following Hispanic Target Media stations appear to be silent based on my dial scanning while traveling the area..

* KPQS Waterford 106.7 (lightning damage apparently)
* KQQH Wasco 92.7 (loss of facility/re-location?)
* KZQT Kettleman City 107.7 (tower placement issues?)
* KEGT San Miguel 106.5 (One can see some ridgetop sites but not exactly at the filed coordinates.)

The good news is I did hear Kettleman City's other station, KZKC 89.9 , with a listenable signal even in Hanford. They're playing continuous oldies with TOH IDs.
 
La Favorita Network Inc. decided to selloff their currently LMA'd KNTO-Chowchilla and KCFA-Arnold to the program provider Centro Christiano Amistad Church of Modesto. (Yes, that's the spelling - Spanglish.).

The Modesto-based buyers have an unspecified interest in CCA License Holdings, LLC (KBLO-FM Corcoran and full interest in 19-watt K279AM in Turlock. After the sale Favorita will remain with KBYN 95.9 in City of Angels and KLOC 1390 in Turlock. (La Favorita also is in the process of unloading KAFY ). The allocated sales price was $1 million for KCFA (a class B1) and a $800K for KNTO (a class A). The paperwork was submitted on 5/20.
 
The irony remains ... The ToH IDs for "La Favorita" now include two phantom stations - the defunct KSKD and the long-since LMA'd (and soon-to-be-transferred) KCFA.
 
The current KBYN still broadcasts from the KCFA antenna site but will move "down the hill" to a new site covering a larger population. It noticed this STA filing for 2/23/2021 that keeps KBYN at the current location for a few more months, albeit operating with issues:

"THIS STA REQUESTS PERMISSION TO OPERATE AT AN ERP OF 553 WATTS. THE KBYN TRANSMITTER IS RUNNING AT A POWER LOWER THAN THE ACCEPTED PARAMETERS OF THE LICENSE (860 watts - ed) . THIS IS BECAUSE BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER 2019 THE KBYN TRANSMITTER BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE HIGH REFLECTIVE POWER. OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, THE STATION HAS LOWERED THE TRANSMITTER POWER TO A LEVEL WHERE THE REFLECTED POWER IS BEING MAINTAINED WITHIN PROPER PARAMETERS. IT WAS THE LICENSEE'S INTENTION TO DETERMINE WHAT WAS CAUSING THE ANOMALY AS SOON AS THE WEATHER PERMITS ACCESS TO THE STATION'S TRANSMITTER SITE, BUT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PREVENTED DETERMINING A SOLUTION."

"IN ANY EVENT, THE LICENSEE INTENDS WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS TO MOVE TO A NEW SITE APPROVED IN LMS FILE NO. 0000095975."
 
Well, Nelson Gomez acted fast....

A replacement for the FCC-deleted KSKD has been found in Gomez's upcoming purchase of KQLB FM 106.9 Los Baños from VLB Broadcasting. Proposed sales price is $325,000 (albeit just $100K is upfront cash.). Not included in the sale is KLBS , the all Portuguese station. KQLB is all-Spanish and will fit nicely into LaFavorita's regional focus.

I bet the recent sale of the two Gomez FMs to a Valley religious broadcaster generated some cash for this buy. The legal entity buying KQLB is not La Favorita Networks Inc but Golden Pegasus LLC.

Now maybe Nelson can get around to updating his ToH ID package that still includes defunct KSKD Dos Palos.

Details at :

Draft Copy « License Modernization « FCC

Licensing and Management System
enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov
 
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A quick follow-up to the KQLB sale. A Longley-Rice calculation (more liberal than the FCC's propagation curves) shows KQLB can reach:

* 70 dBu 40K (Los Banos area basically)
* 60 dBu 244K
* 54 dBu 432K

Although KQLB markets itself as a Los Banos-Merced station the northeast side of Merced falls below the 60dBu L-R threshold so the signal may be sketchy there.

It's too bad about the sale - KQLB offers many segments with live announcers and Los Banos-focused coverage. The station likely will become more Merced-centric with the sale.
 
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RF101 said:
I am not surprised by the number silent stations in the "Puro Radio Amigo" (PRA) family. The following Hispanic Target Media stations appear to be silent based on my dial scanning while traveling the area..

* KPQS Waterford 106.7 (lightning damage apparently)
* KQQH Wasco 92.7 (loss of facility/re-location?)
* KZQT Kettleman City 107.7 (tower placement issues?)
* KEGT San Miguel 106.5 (One can see some ridgetop sites but not exactly at the filed coordinates.)
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KEGT would reach some beautiful wine country if it were on air... While looking at their paperwork (via FCCDATA.ORG) I noticed they claimed 6kw ERP coming from a two-bay OMB circular-polarized fed by a 3.1 kw transmitter.. I am missing something here? Typically it takes 4 bays near-full-wave-separation to get that 3dB gain. It may be Hispanic Target Media meant two sections of two-bay but as is stated this one comes up short.
 
A follow-on. I did some research on Hispanic Target Media's FCC auction bidding track record and subsequent performance. I thought readers in this regional-interest section might enjoy the findings.

It's in the forum "Radio Formats ---> Hispanic Programming" under the title "HIspanic Target Media - ¿Qué pasa?"


Not trying to throw rocks , just want to hear from the readers on this one.
 
The KQLB sale has gone through. As expected, tbe Los Baños station has been subsumed by La Favorita's network programming. I will miss KQLB as it really offered a local focus for concerts, retail, etc.

The good news is that defunct KSKD lives on! Instead of cutting a new set of ToH official ID packages the folks at LaFavorita just appended "KQLB" to the end of their previous recording. So we now get two real IDs, along with one for a soldoff property and one for a license that was turned into the Feds.

Nelson Gomez also just won the Coalinga 97.3 B1 allocation at Auction 109 so I imagine that signal will be added to the mix at some point.
 
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