You’re getting ahead of things, but to explain:
The land for the KAAM transmitter site has been sold. The current transmitter facility will be dismantled, and the land will be redeveloped for other purposes (we don’t know what that might be yet, but the site is in the middle of residential urban sprawl.)
Townhomes built so close together that you can pass a roll of paper to your neighbors just by opening the window. You've got a lot of the same construction going on down there, of course.
Assuming the station will continue operations at some point in the future, a temporary transmitter site will have to be filed for, approved and built. This facility would likely operate at greatly reduced power.
Like KILT, KBME, and KXYZ there in the Bayou City, KAAM will most likely be diplexed to one of the towers on another AM. For example, 1190 KFXR. They have 16 different sticks to choose from.
A permanent transmitter site would need to be acquired, with a new facility being designed and constructed. That could take a while.
See above. There will be no new construction. Case in point, 1540. Never gonna happen. It's akin ro finding a suitable piece of unimproved and available land in Houston to construct a tower site. If you found one, by chance, it'd be somewhere outside the core resulting in a bad situation for K double-A M becoming even worse.
It is also possible that a future KAAM transmitter could be diplexed with an existing AM facility. That would have to be designed by engineers, filed for, approved and built, which would also take a while.
It'd, of course, be a lot quicker than new construction.
If the station remains under the same ownership it would probably retain the current format.
This I doubt. Standards was done for the love of it all, but religion has been on 770 in recent years, strictly to keep the station afloat. That's why it left Standards and Big Band music in the first place. Don Jr. was losing money and couldn't (and wouldn't) afford to lose anymore. He said then that it was either broker the signal with paid religion or shut it down altogether. Sounds like he's now back standing at a similar crossroads.
The station’s license could always be sold, which means any future owner would have to deal with construction of a new transmitter site. We don’t know if the station will be put up for sale.
He'd certainly sell it over just outright losing the license, that's for certain.
Anyone’s guess as to what format a new owner would go with.
Oh c'mon, 🐸. Given who's going to line up for this thing, if it does go on the market, I think we all know full-well that it will be changing languages and offering prayers and redemption for a nominal donation.
If no new owner can be found, and the current management doesn’t want to continue, the license could be turned in and cancelled, which means the station is done.
Not the worst thing to have happen, honestly, but I'd suspect if we ever got to that point someone like MARC would step in and try to make something happen to acquire 24/7 KAAM and ditch their KGGR daytimer.
All we can do is wait and see, unless current KAAM management wants to fill us in on their plans.
Ha! No sir, we can sit around here and fantasy book the future of KAAM 'til the lights come back on, or a D is formally introduced to the front of the call letters.
