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Denver K300CP sale consummated

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

The consummation notice was accepted for filing today. iHeart is purchasing the translator from Hope Media Group (Way FM). iHeart had been leasing the translator from Hope. K300CP rebroadcasts KDHT-HD2 which in turn rebroadcasts active-rock KBPI Fort Collins. Both KBPI and K300CP are on 107.9. The sale price was half a million dollars. Considering the translator's central Denver location and effective extension of the coverage area for KBPI's programming into Denver proper on the same channel as KBPI, this is probably a reasonable price.

One does wonder how many varieties of rock iHeart can sustain in this market.
 
Mark Roberts said:
The consummation notice was accepted for filing today. iHeart is purchasing the translator from Hope Media Group (Way FM). iHeart had been leasing the translator from Hope. K300CP rebroadcasts KDHT-HD2 which in turn rebroadcasts active-rock KBPI Fort Collins. Both KBPI and K300CP are on 107.9. The sale price was half a million dollars. Considering the translator's central Denver location and effective extension of the coverage area for KBPI's programming into Denver proper on the same channel as KBPI, this is probably a reasonable price.

One does wonder how many varieties of rock iHeart can sustain in this market.
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The format is also on 107.9 KBPL Colorado Springs.. they hgave pretty continuous coverage on 107.9

This has lots of value to Iheart, obviously.
 
lanceventa said:
KBPI/K300CP and KBPL have separate programming, jocks, music etc, while sharing the "107.9 KBPI" branding.
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for some reason i thought they shared everything except ads, at some point.
 
I always smile when I see KILO hand KBPL its you-know-what in the Colorado Springs ratings. :)

KILO is a vastly better station. The fact KILO does not have Willie B. on its airwaves already gives KILO a big advantage.
 
The KILO coverage is pretty amazing, too. Both KILO and KBPL are near Cheyenne Mountain but KBPL has half the ERP. KILO puts a usable signal in the southern Denver suburbs and I can even get a weak but steady signal in east Denver. Of course, KBPL is limited by KBPI and K300CP secondarily. The vicinity of 94.3 in Denver is a tangle of translators and an LPFM.

I don't know if Colorado Springs and Pueblo are a combined market as they are in TV, but, even though KBPL is licensed to Pueblo, I suspect KILO puts in a better signal over Pueblo, too.
 
As you likely know, KBPL has a pretty big null toward Denver whereas KILO does not.

In Pueblo, I suspect KILO and KBPL have nearly equal field strength. KILO probably has a slight advantage given its greater ERP.
 
The history indicates that KBPL was an 80-90 drop-in; KBPI (originally KCOL-FM) dates to 1975, so no doubt the DA was needed for KBPL to protect KBPI (KBPL is down 14 dB from an omnidirectional pattern in the due north direction). In Denver proper, it would be blocked by K300CP anyway, which is why the feed comes off KDHT-HD2 (note: information on fccdata.org is incorrect; KRFX-HD2 is rebroadcasting KHOW(AM), not KBPI).
 
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