HIs Las Vegas signals were off the air for the past week we were in Las Vegas for NAB.
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Royce International saga, update
- Thread starter leethalweapon
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Hope someone filed a silent notification....
"Silent" and "Ed" can't be used in the same sentence.
No silent STAs for KBET and K276GX. They have been silent since at least February.
KFRH had a silent STA for last year. They were silent from February through April 2022. No resumption of operations filed even though they did resume broadcasting. KFRH went silent again in early April 2023.
It seems like Ed doesn’t care. If a station goes silent, it’s going to lose all its listeners. It’ll be tough to get them back.
KFRH had a silent STA for last year. They were silent from February through April 2022. No resumption of operations filed even though they did resume broadcasting. KFRH went silent again in early April 2023.
It seems like Ed doesn’t care. If a station goes silent, it’s going to lose all its listeners. It’ll be tough to get them back.
Or Ed knows deep down he is hosed, and he's trying to destroy his own assets, like a homeowner in foreclosure sometimes does.
If that is true, judge isn't going to like that (even though as I understand it, these stations are separate from the court case).
This is scorched earth policy. If I can't have it, no one can. Besides, when has Ed ever worried about what the FCC or a judge tells him to do anyway?
The Commission, rightfully, has been deferring to the courts in this case. It's likely that, once there's been some kind of disposition, the FCC will accommodate the result. Possibly it will try to fine Stolz for various compliance violations, in which case, good luck collecting. The Commission might also admonish the new owners, have short-term renewals, etc. but it would be reasonable to argue that new owners inherited the problems and, with some promises of better compliance or just simply not being a pain in the [donkey], that argument is likely to succeed.
What could the admonish new owners for who havent committed any sins?
Nothing. They cant really admonish a new owner for something the previous owner did
Prediction: Stolz will sue the new owners for some strange, random and protected reasons, because that's what he does.
Not necessarily true. If precedent is to be believed (the license revocation of WMJX/Miami in the 80’s), you buy the license…warts and all!
The only difference is this is not based on a station’s lack of compliance. So it’ll be hard to justify sanctions against an individual licensed station with new owners
Exactly right. Encumbrances are to the license. A new owner can make an argument to the Commission that this was a fault of the previous license, and they (the new licensee) will do better, etc. etc. Commission staff, ever mindful of the possibility of judicial review, is likely to take such extenuating circumstances into account. As a consequence, potential fines are reduced or even waived, with, at most, an admonishment (i.e. a stern warning not to do what the old licensee did) with no actual penalty.
Very weird thing at 92.7 this morning - mostly dead air except for one-to-two-second bursts of the dance feed, still from Albuquerque, I presume. Either there's equipment failure or there's more to the story.
Yup. Can confirm this!
It's been dead air altogether starting in the 2 pm hour - still on the air, just silent carrier. I'll have to listen to my recordings to determine when the last gasp of life occurred.
Ed Stolz will find some way to strike back even when he's dead. I can envision him having his ashes mailed to the bankruptcy court judge and the trustee overseeing the sale just to have them evacuate their offices. He could also put a 3-D printed replica of his head in a Jack-In-The-Box to be given to the new owners of "his" stations that would pop up and warn them not to get too comfortable.
Have there been any commercials on “Pirate Radio” heard yet? I’m curious if it’s actually making money or a placeholder format.
The last gasp was at 1:48 pm. And attached is what the recording looked like, starting at 1:25 pm.
I don't recall ever hearing any. I'll admit that I've listened to it lately only to see when the plug gets pulled. Morbid, I know. In any event, I think it's fair to say that it's a placeholder.
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