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LPFM Licensees beware. This is what the FCC says about LPFM and full power FM's airing the same programming.

It would be interesting to know who opts for the Whale Sounds. I looked up the time share:

KTPC operates 5am to 9pm
KZUT operates 9pm to 1am
KFEP operates 1am to 3am on weekdays and 1am to 5am Sunday
KLDB operates 3 to 5am on weekdays and 1 to 5am Saturday

By the way, in the first Low Power FM window, there was a station in Sitka that ran real time whale sounds several years before finally turning in the license. They had a way to mike the waters and it was a popular spot for whales.
 
I hear it up to about 11 PM sometimes. Never been up 4 AM to listen in. I have not heard a call sign in many years on these stations
 
Frequency1 said:
I wonder if any of the timeshares in Los Angeles on 99.1 have separate EAS units? KZUT/KFEP/KLDB-LP? Strangest station!. Most of the time they play "whale" sounds.
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Time shared stations sharing a common transmitter site are permitted to share a single EAS. LPFM Tech Order, Report and Order, 35 FCC 4115, 4133 (FCC 20-53) (2020) at para. 46.
 
The coverage area is so small. They must have a problem with their antenna. it is on the roof of a house in the Hollywood Hills. Their actual coverage area is only the NW part of this map. I cannot believe anyone listens to it. The also do not use any call sign.
 

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I question many of the LPFM stations actually being on the air. One web site shows how many of reportedly silent and most are in California.. So many do a really good job of programming such as KQBH-LP, KWSV-LP & KBUU-LP. One on Orange County has been off for many years as has one on the Central California coast.
 
Frequency1 said:
I question many of the LPFM stations actually being on the air. One web site shows how many of reportedly silent and most are in California.. So many do a really good job of programming such as KQBH-LP, KWSV-LP & KBUU-LP. One on Orange County has been off for many years as has one on the Central California coast.
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KWSV and KBUU have major broadcast expierience and pros behind them. KWSV is directly connected to what was KVOH Shortwave.. and KBUU is run by a good, smart programming and engineer type with major market expierience.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
KWSV and KBUU have major broadcast expierience and pros behind them. KWSV is directly connected to what was KVOH Shortwave.. and KBUU is run by a good, smart programming and engineer type with major market expierience.
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I wholeheartedly agree about KBUU. The "chief cook and bottlewasher" Hans Laetz and I have been acquainted for many years and he was a participant on the boards back in the Radio-Info days.

Last I knew, the studios were at Hans' residence (a converted bedroom) and the transmitter is up on a mountain overlooking Malibu which Hans has said was the only place to put the tower that both satisfied the Coastal Commission's height limit and put a signal over most of that coastal community. Malibu is terrain shielded from nearly all FMs so Hans has made the station hyper-local, with local news and traffic reports, local hosts of music shows in the evenings and weekends, and a mix of musical genres off the automation computer the rest of the time that would never work on a commercial station but which fit Malibu's lifestyle just fine.

Hans is one guy who definitely got the LPFM "mission" right.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
KWSV and KBUU have major broadcast expierience and pros behind them. KWSV is directly connected to what was KVOH Shortwave.. and KBUU is run by a good, smart programming and engineer type with major market expierience.
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KWSV was the test case that justified LPFM stations having FM boosters. KBUU already has one booster with another one on the way as soon as city politics are dealt with.
 
Interesting follow up the Radiovision Salinas 93.9 inquiry:

"Salinas radio station damaged by structure fire late Sunday night"
By Austin Castro Published October 21, 2024 10:42 AM KION-TV News

kion546.com

Salinas radio station damaged by structure fire late Sunday night

SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV) - Local Spanish radio station, Radio Vision, was damaged late Sunday night during a structure fire on East Alisal Street. The station's office was charred as a result of the fire. Firefighters said they were able to keep the fire from spreading to other businesses in...
kion546.com kion546.com

"SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV) - Local Spanish radio station, Radio Vision, was damaged late Sunday night during a structure fire on East Alisal Street.

The station's office was charred as a result of the fire. Firefighters said they were able to keep the fire from spreading to other businesses in the multi-use building. ..... (more)"

The station stills seems to be streaming and broadcasting, actually right now in Mixteco or some other regional language.
 
b-turner said:
It would be interesting to know who opts for the Whale Sounds. I looked up the time share:

KTPC operates 5am to 9pm
KZUT operates 9pm to 1am
KFEP operates 1am to 3am on weekdays and 1am to 5am Sunday
KLDB operates 3 to 5am on weekdays and 1 to 5am Saturday

By the way, in the first Low Power FM window, there was a station in Sitka that ran real time whale sounds several years before finally turning in the license. They had a way to mike the waters and it was a popular spot for whales.
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Most likely KTPC-LP
 
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