I have a question regarding IHM ownership in LA. The FCC states that a company many own up to 8 stations in a market, yet IHM owns 9 technically. They own 102.7 KIIS FM and its simulcast KVVS FM on 105.5, KYSR FM 98.7 and its simulcast KSRY FM on 103.1 , KRLL FM on 92.3, KBIG FM on 104.3, KLAC AM on 570, KOST FM on 103.5, KEIB AM on 1150, and KFI AM on 640. Is it because 105.5 and 103.1 are simulcasts that don't broadcast to LA proper? I am not from LA, I am curious. Thanks for your help!
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KVVS is licensed to Rosamond and KSRY to Tehachapi. 85 and 116 miles from Los Angeles respectively. This is as far from L.A. as Santa Barbara and Bakersfield, and almost as far as San Diego. Neither of these two stations puts a signal of any importance into L.A.
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KVVS snf KSRY are licensed to Kern County, which is not part of the Nielsen Los Angeles Metro Survey Area, the definition the FCC uses for markets.
Both are rimshots into Lancaster-Palmdale, which is part of the LA market. But the FCC does not count rimshots under the interpretation of the rules that use Arbitron/ Nielsen data..
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Technically, yes. But, not coverage wise.
Technically, as they are licensed to Kern County.
Can you license to a county? I thought we still had city of license requirements (in this case Rosamond and Tehachapi).
The media markets are defined by counties, the stations are licensed to cities or towns. Cities are generally, but not always, within a single county.
KVVS in Rosamond is 90 miles from Bakersfield. KSRY in Tehachapi is only 45 miles, but does not show in the Bakersfield book (likely not subscribing).
I think David means to say that both Tehachapi, and Rosamond are in Kern County.
You can license a station to alot of things if you can use your best fortitude and prove it exists and no one contests it.
Look up KEAJ-LP(FM)
We did once have a station licensed to theme park (WGTO Cypress Gardens FL) with studios on the property (I guess having a post office made it technically a town. Now a station would have to be licensed to Legoland,
Our KCSN 88.5 is licensed to Northridge. It is not a city...Northridge is simply a district with its own Zip-Code(s) with in the City of Los Angeles. Its direct signal does not even reach Los Angeles proper because its blocked by the Santa Monica Mountains. To remedy that an on-channel booster with a directional antenna operates from West Los Angeles (another "district") so the station is heard from roughly Santa Monica through Hollywood and the Central City to about Downtown.
The FCC uses the phrase “community of license” as well as “city of license”. Necessary for stations in unincorporated areas.
Good example—Paradise and Winchester, Nevada, where the Strip is located. They are not in the City of Las Vegas, but are communities without their own governments within Clark County.
Interesting...
But Nielsen only looks at counties to define markets, so I referred to the county both COLs are located in.
That is why the FCC refers to “Community of License” to include unincorporated communities or regions in a bigger city.
I could go back in the rules and see, but I believe that at one point the FCC changed from City to Community..
IIRC, at one point at least 50 years ago someone applied for a station in a place outside Roswell, NM, that was neither incorporated or populated. They insisted that the FCC consider it to be a community. And they got a license.
Our Grand Leader, Frank, was the engineer for that one at one time. He can tell us, but I believe Cypress Gardens had a permanent population that was not just water skiers.
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