KSPA-AM 1510 Ontario (Punjabi American Media LLC) has filed to share the transmitter site of KKDD-AM 1290 (Relevant Radio) located at 2255 E. Bessant Street, San Bernardino. They are asking to change the city of license to Colton and use 5Kw daytime and 2KW nighttime.
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KSPA-AM 1510 files to change transmitter sites
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This might make it a lot easier to for a Los Angeles area facility to actually fit on 1500, and be technically viable. This, of course, is dependent on whether or not there is a broadcaster willing to make the investment. Maybe a certain someone with the initials SL who might simply diplex it off a certain facility already operating on 1260...
The 1500 CP for KWIF-AM now DKWIF-AM was canceled by the FCC on January 5, 2022. Their appeal was denied.
So now someone else can apply. KWIF Culver City would have been a waste of the frequency. 150 watts or so with a directional antenna covering only its COL and barely that. At least the original KROQ (am) from Burbank back in the day covered the SFV and about half of the LA Basin. Even though this was not great coverage, it was certainly better than what KWIF planned. The original 1500 daytime coverage was very similar to today's 1260 daytime coverage. I'm not a professional engineer but it looks to me that diplexing from the 1260 site could be a feasible option.
Probably should be an exception for this frequency as it's been vacant for decades. Licenses were lost through technical mis-management among other issues. Certainly there are any number of potential operators who could run a first class radio station.
Sure. Who's in line to spend a couple of million dollars to build out a "first-class" facility all the way at the top of the dial, a station that might be worth half a million dollars or less on the day you sign it on?
Anyone sitting on that kind of money could do much better just buying KABC or KTNQ or even making Audacy an offer for 1070.
I was wondering what was their plan when they bought it.............
Probably not 1070. 1070 is now essentially operating as a translator for 97.1 FM, filling in the nooks and crannies that the FM can't reach. But then again you might have something there, I don't know anybody that still listens to 1070. Maybe El Chingon should make them an offer and simulcast the Wolfman on 1070 right along side 1090 and really reach LA...that would be fun!!
I thought I'd heard the FCC was going to start limiting AM-FM simulcast time, reducing duplication to 50%. Is this true? How does this affect the many stations in major markets which simulcast on both frequencies?
If "Howard Stern all morning, classic rock all day" used to work for 97.1, why not "KNX all day, Wolfman Jack all night" on 1070? There's your 50%, and as TomásEstefan alluded, that massive KNX signal blasting Wolfman all over the southwestern United States might actually have enough retro appeal to pick up some listeners.
I seriously doubt that will ever happen again. There was some "duplication" rules last century but with the economic condition of the industry: IMHO: a bunch of AM licences would be turned into the FCC.
In some markets the AMs can "stand alone" but not many. Here in Atlanta the market's only class A non-directional 50 kw AM WSB gets most of it daytime listeners from the FM WSBB 95.5. They do occasionally split them for long interviews, impeachment hearings,etc.
Then there are the AM stations with translators. They are legally bound to simulcast 100%. There are a few operators who would like to ditch their AM and keep the FM translator but that's another thread
The old tower bases for 1500 are still there, for whatever that's worth 😆
Only some of them and those monopoles are in bad shape (Sat photos). Hell, they were in bad shape wben I was up there in the 1970s!
can’t imagine Audacy doing a Wolfman format, sports yes, oldies on AM in LA in 2025?? REALLY doubt that!
With the same directional pattern day and night. KGA Spokane made the nighttime signal possible by reducing their nighttime wattage.
No. That is not true. What you had heard was that the FCC was going to start limiting FM-FM simulcast time. AM-FM simulcasts were not affected. I don't believe AM-AM simulcasts were either.
I suspect the new FCC will repeal that order, and the handful of FM-FM simulcasts that exist will be allowed to continue.
For sales, totally inconsistent. No agency will buy 70's radio shows reconstructed. They will buy "all news" based on client requests and enough 25-54 listening to justify it.
And, of course, the disadvantage of music on AM. But that was already mentioned.
I was actually only kidding...obviously (in my opinion) any change on 1070 would have to be all or nothing...
From México to the N. Pole, and now at night just a 15mile radius around Spokane...what a pity.
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