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Fresno / Central Valley KGAR-LP Lemoore HS

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Does 93.3 still exist.? I know they got hit for a NALF for a late license renewal last time.

Everytime I drive to Lemoore 93.3 is not operating. I don't see any antenna on either a building or stadium ljghtpole. Inquiring minds want to know. Perhaps the school district gave up the project.
 
Well their website is gone, I'm thinking Tiger Radio is gone, when driving on 41 pass Lemoore all I hear is KZOZ S.L.O., which is usually on the weekend, unless they only operate during school hours.
 
Tiger Cox said:
Well their website is gone, I'm thinking Tiger Radio is gone, when driving on 41 pass Lemoore all I hear is KZOZ S.L.O., which is usually on the weekend, unless they only operate during school hours.
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I used to work in Lemoore and would check it out every now and then, they were operating 24 hours a day but just playing the same few songs over and over. They never did much with it past that. I do remember they aired a football game when they first got it running in 2002, but I think they only did that once. They started the process in 97 or 98, the world changed fast by the time they were ready to broadcast.
 
Yes. KZOZ lands a good signal into Lemoore-Hanford...but noKGAR-LP detected so far. I will drive there on a school day and ask the administrators. Perhaps they'll re-light the signal.
 
Google Street View dated Oct 2022 shows two FM bays mounted on cellphone tower located on the northeast side of the school property. I was last in that area November 2021 and it was on.

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FM_GUY said:
Google Street View dated Oct 2022 shows two FM bays mounted on cellphone tower located on the northeast side of the school property. I was last in that area November 2021 and it was on.

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That has to be prohibitively expensive to have antennas on cell towers.
 
Greg Goodfellow said:
Scott, what would a rough average estimate be per month?
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Entirely depends on the size of the antenna and transmission line, the height, how much space is needed in the building, and the market size and demand. I've seen LPFMs and translators paying as little as a few hundred a month, and other situations where landlords ask for and get well into four figures.
 
fybush said:
Entirely depends on the size of the antenna and transmission line, the height, how much space is needed in the building, and the market size and demand. I've seen LPFMs and translators paying as little as a few hundred a month, and other situations where landlords ask for and get well into four figures.
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If the tower is on school property, that means the cell or tower company is leasing the space from the school and probably gave it a discount or free space on the tower as part of the lease.
 
xkxrx said:
If the tower is on school property, that means the cell or tower company is leasing the space from the school and probably gave it a discount or free space on the tower as part of the lease.
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I worked for a cluster of stations who couldnt get an STL shot from the roof of the building.. so we had a hop from our building to a cell tower 500 feet behind us.... and then a hop from that tower to one of our towers 1/2 mile away south of us and another about 15 miles W/NW of us

Guess who owned the land the cell tower was on? the station

they wrote us a check for the land lease every month, we wrote them a check for the lease on the cell tower..... and the checks were for the same exact amount.

Thats the story I recall being told 13 years ago
 
An earlier quote: they were operating 24 hours a day but just playing the same few songs over and over.

That makes me curious. Did the run any PSAs or promos? Do you have a guess at how many songs they were playing?

There was one station I know of that was computer driven early on and their computer could only hold about 50-60 songs. Believe it or not, the station was in a town of about 1,000 and operated that way for several years.
 
bturner1 said:
An earlier quote: they were operating 24 hours a day but just playing the same few songs over and over.

That makes me curious. Did the run any PSAs or promos? Do you have a guess at how many songs they were playing?

There was one station I know of that was computer driven early on and their computer could only hold about 50-60 songs. Believe it or not, the station was in a town of about 1,000 and operated that way for several years.
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Yeah maybe about that, and you could nearly set your watch by it. Nothing much at all except for a legal ID that didn't seem to run on a regular basis. It obviously because an after thought after a few years. I was a student there when they applied for the license, they had just started a broadcast journalism program and had high hopes, also at the same time they received funding for a television news studio, I'm assuming that became the venue of choice. Let's not forget this all happened at the same time of mp3's gaining popularity so programming a music radio station probably wasn't on anyone's wish list. They had closed circuit radio during breaks and lunch for almost 30 years with student DJ's but that's gone too. Excellent newspaper for a high school as well. All gone.
 
That sounds like a top 40 when I was in high school. I knew the first three songs after the 8am weekday news because they playing in the same order for 2 weeks straight on a st6ation I liked.

If you had to guess how many songs they had in rotation, what do you think.

It is a shame it was music and legal ID sometimes with virtually nothing else.
 
That is what happened to our local HS station. They totally abandoned any locally-produced programming. They went from an established variety format to all country piped in from somewhere. Their OTA signal has been off the air since November 1st. They eventually got the stream back up. It’s not a money factor-hundreds of thousands has been pumped into both the radio and closed-circuit TV operations. IMHO, it is a mere shell of its former self-no personality-no soul.
 
The posted photo of the KGAR-LP tower reflects the current state as seen at LHS today. The buiding underneath is a maintenance facility so that might be a school district or county controlled tower anyway, KZOZ , not KGAR-LP coukd be heard on 93.3 .It would not surprise me if KGAR-LP goes away.
 
Several years ago (I think back in 2015-2017 sometime) there was a station local to Ukiah, CA (KWNE 94.5) that aired the same songs, at the same time of day, in the same order, every day for like MONTHS. Even the ads and IDs were the same every time.

I thought it might have been a recording someone made, as that seemed like the only way that I could accept this outlandish and unlikely happening (this was in the gym at the local Community College, so it was a plausible assumption), but no! I actually confirmed that it was indeed live, as I heard the same thing on a different radio playing in a PT's office in Lakeport.

It was, to put it mildly, quite annoying.

When someone finally turned it off during a slow day (midterms), I think I actually cheered.

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