Is KAHM signaling a change?

[DrAkbar]

KAHM 102~One is now streaming with an app called CalmArizona.com. Not your typical stream of the OTA programming, but elevator music with limited commercials and features. Same voices do the liners on the stream as on KAHM.

So What In The Wide Wide World of Sports is a goin' on here? KAHM and sister station KYCA are owned by the Cesar Chavez Foundation, licensees of KNAI and its translator in Phoenix. The Prescott stations are on their second LMA agreement, but is Chavez thinking of deep sixing the elevator music on 102~One and simulcasting with KNAI (8~Sixty) and their translator at 101~Nine?

KAHM could continue on 102~One HD2 and still be heard in Prescott on one of their translators. CalmArizona streaming would cover what is missed by the translator's signal and provide a larger footprint for the brand.

Nurse Jeff and I have probably over thought this whole thing. So we'll defer to other more knowledgeable people like Andrew The Homebuyer or the Old Gringo.

 

[JeffGAz]

For those that remember, their stream was locked behind a Pay Wall.

 

[johndavis]

KAHM 102~One is now streaming with an app called CalmArizona.com. Not your typical stream of the OTA programming, but elevator music with limited commercials and features. Same voices do the liners on the stream as on KAHM.

So What In The Wide Wide World of Sports is a goin' on here? KAHM and sister station KYCA are owned by the Cesar Chavez Foundation, licensees of KNAI and its translator in Phoenix. The Prescott stations are on their second LMA agreement, but is Chavez thinking of deep sixing the elevator music on 102~One and simulcasting with KNAI (8~Sixty) and their translator at 101~Nine?

KAHM could continue on 102~One HD2 and still be heard in Prescott on one of their translators. CalmArizona streaming would cover what is missed by the translator's signal and provide a larger footprint for the brand.

Nurse Jeff and I have probably over thought this whole thing. So we'll defer to other more knowledgeable people like Andrew The Homebuyer or the Old Gringo.

From a NTR point of view, this kind of makes sense - there's a small but loyal audience for B/EZ, but they're not all within driving distance of Cliff Castle Casino.
On the other hand, nothing about KAHM has made sense for a long time, so anything goes!

 

[ironbear]

KAHM 102~One is now streaming with an app called CalmArizona.com. Not your typical stream of the OTA programming, but elevator music with limited commercials and features. Same voices do the liners on the stream as on KAHM.

So What In The Wide Wide World of Sports is a goin' on here? KAHM and sister station KYCA are owned by the Cesar Chavez Foundation, licensees of KNAI and its translator in Phoenix. The Prescott stations are on their second LMA agreement, but is Chavez thinking of deep sixing the elevator music on 102~One and simulcasting with KNAI (8~Sixty) and their translator at 101~Nine?

KAHM could continue on 102~One HD2 and still be heard in Prescott on one of their translators. CalmArizona streaming would cover what is missed by the translator's signal and provide a larger footprint for the brand.

Nurse Jeff and I have probably over thought this whole thing. So we'll defer to other more knowledgeable people like Andrew The Homebuyer or the Old Gringo.

KYCA, its FM translator, and the AM studio and transmitter site were sold to Prescott Broadcasting, LLC (Janice Derks and GM Jason Zinzilietta) at the end of the first LMA period. The Chavez commercial entity holding the FM license is Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, LLC. May the spirit of Acquanetta the KYCA cat be with you!

 

[passtheword]

KAHM 102~One is now streaming with an app called CalmArizona.com. Not your typical stream of the OTA programming, but elevator music with limited commercials and features. Same voices do the liners on the stream as on KAHM.

So What In The Wide Wide World of Sports is a goin' on here? KAHM and sister station KYCA are owned by the Cesar Chavez Foundation, licensees of KNAI and its translator in Phoenix. The Prescott stations are on their second LMA agreement, but is Chavez thinking of deep sixing the elevator music on 102~One and simulcasting with KNAI (8~Sixty) and their translator at 101~Nine?

KAHM could continue on 102~One HD2 and still be heard in Prescott on one of their translators. CalmArizona streaming would cover what is missed by the translator's signal and provide a larger footprint for the brand.

Nurse Jeff and I have probably over thought this whole thing. So we'll defer to other more knowledgeable people like Andrew The Homebuyer or the Old Gringo.

From what others have told me here on RD and from what I researched online at fccdata.org, KAHM is not currently set up for digital broadcasting (unless that has changed in tbe past few months) so there is no KAHM HD2.

 

[johndavis]

KYCA, its FM translator, and the AM studio and transmitter site were sold to Prescott Broadcasting, LLC (Janice Derks and GM Jason Zinzilietta) at the end of the first LMA period. The Chavez commercial entity holding the FM license is Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, LLC. May the spirit of Acquanetta the KYCA cat be with you!

Of note: Purchase price of KYCA, tower/studio real estate, and its translator is just north of a million bucks.
It's a 5 year note, with a balloon payment due at the end of 5 years - roughly a year and a half from now.

 

[Kelly A]

Of note: Purchase price of KYCA, tower/studio real estate, and its translator is just north of a million bucks.
It's a 5 year note, with a balloon payment due at the end of 5 years - roughly a year and a half from now.

Wow, wonder what the final balloon number is? Unless you can find a housing developer interested in the TX site land, a year and a half goes by quickly.
BTW; Coo-Coo-Ka-Choo.

 

[DrAkbar]

KYCA, its FM translator, and the AM studio and transmitter site were sold to Prescott Broadcasting, LLC (Janice Derks and GM Jason Zinzilietta) at the end of the first LMA period. The Chavez commercial entity holding the FM license is Phoenix Radio Broadcasting, LLC. May the spirit of Acquanetta the KYCA cat be with you!

Does the spirit include a Lincoln from Jack Ross Lincoln-Mercury? And lest we forget, the Spirit was the Gremlin version of the four wheel drive AMC Eagle. We're sure the Old Gringo had one just like this (except his had tires on for a fast getaway).

 

[davideduardo]

Does the spirit include a Lincoln from Jack Ross Lincoln-Mercury? And lest we forget, the Spirit was the Gremlin version of the four wheel drive AMC Eagle. We're sure the Old Gringo had one just like this (except his had tires on for a fast getaway).


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Real tires for sure, and a "police bumper" to rid the roadway of slow drivers.

 

[ironbear]

Wow, wonder what the final balloon number is? Unless you can find a housing developer interested in the TX site land, a year and a half goes by quickly.
BTW; Coo-Coo-Ka-Choo.

Well, there's a second outfit with the same principals called Prescott Broadcasting Land Company, LLC. But there's nothing of special interest going on in the light industrial zoned area except the nearby Radio Design Labs, which makes epoxy-encapsulated problem solving gadgets for frazzled broadcast engineers.

 

[Kelly A]

Well, there's a second outfit with the same principals called Prescott Broadcasting Land Company, LLC. But there's nothing of special interest going on in the light industrial zoned area except the nearby Radio Design Labs, which makes epoxy-encapsulated problem solving gadgets for frazzled broadcast engineers.

Or as I used to call RDL products; 'little booby traps'. A previous engineer or tech who hid one of these things without documentation under a console, or inside an unrelated device to solve a problem, only to have its wall wort die and stop the flow of electrons.