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AM Station Trivia Question

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

I know the answer.. and I suspect a few of the more "techie minded" folks here do too.

Name the only Non Directional 50kw Class A Clear Channel that goes directional during "critical hours" even though it doesn't have to?
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Going with KICY 850 in Nome, Alaska.
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Yup.. and its not critical hours, but KICY is due protection so it had to be noted on the license somehow.

Cuse lemme tell ya.... critical hours isnt 11pm to 4am in winter and it isnt for much of the summer.

many people dont realize we have class a clears up here and some are even less than 50kw.... its hard to fathom the distance between us and even northern washington let alone the rest of the lower 48.
 
Does KICY run programs in Native or Russian language during those hours ?
The 'Critical Hours' westward directional pattern would boost their signal for
listeners on the Russian side of the Bering Strait.
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FB8614 said:
Does KICY run programs in Native or Russian language during those hours ?
The 'Critical Hours' westward directional pattern would boost their signal for
listeners on the Russian side of the Bering Strait.
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thats exactly what they run... 5 hours of russian programming into siberia and apparently it does fairly well for them
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
its hard to fathom the distance between us and even northern washington let alone the rest of the lower 48.
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Yep - look at the nighttime coverage for 850 - you see KICY and KOA about the same size. KOA covers how many states, and KICY barely covers half of Alaska!

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Huff said:
Yep - look at the nighttime coverage for 850 - you see KICY and KOA about the same size. KOA covers how many states, and KICY barely covers half of Alaska!

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in reality, when KICY is non directional... coverage is alot better than that id bet.

Look at the coverage for 250 watter KLAM 1450 and look how far it is from me. i hear it fine most nights
 
KICY has been run by the Covenant church as long as I can remember (at one point, the Soviets had a jamming station aimed at KICY. But it was impossible for the Soviets to maintain it and gave up by the 1980s.)
 
billmich said:
Fairly well meaning they can sell advertising or other financial support because of this coverage?
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The later. Its been on the air for quite a few years now.
 
billmich said:
didn't know the Rooski's were sending financial support to US stations

that's awesome
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IT may not be them, i dont know, but its obviously kept on air somehow
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
IT may not be them, i dont know, but its obviously kept on air somehow
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The Covenant Church pays for KICY's operations. I saw a couple church monthlies that mentioned them with donation links for the stateside congregation. But I'm sure the bulk of it is paid by the church. It's their biggest outreach program and it's been there since forever. So I imagine it's funded well (or at least better than everybody else in Alaska.)

And with money in Russia being what it is since Vlad invaded Ukraine and how little value it now has in the West, I wouldn't expect much from across the Bering Strait anyway even if they did donate. Besides, the person at Covenant I spoke with said the station has always been a missionary program to Russia. And last I checked, churches can't make the unwashed savages pay for that anymore (violates everything.)
 
billmich said:
so mentioning the Russian coverage area as some sort of "massive benefit" for this station just might be an overreach....
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The russian coverage is the point .. hey could be 50kw non directional, but they added two towers and go directional into russia for the sole purpose of reaching the people there, so its a benefit to them.. they program russian language stuff during those 5 hours
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
The russian coverage is the point .. hey could be 50kw non directional, but they added two towers and go directional into russia for the sole purpose of reaching the people there, so its a benefit to them.. they program russian language stuff during those 5 hours
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but that Russian coverage is not providing any financial benefit to them...........so far as I can tell from the posts and responses so far.

Your post talking about "5 hours of Russian programming into Siberia and apparently it does fairly well for them

I ask: In what way does it do "fairly well?..... the potential listeners aren't sending them money. - (or are they?)
Is that Russian language programming being specifically underwritten by a benefactor that if that coverage was not there would be missing?

I want to understand why having this coverage area is benefiting the station from a business standpoint.
 
billmich said:
I ask: In what way does it do "fairly well?..... the potential listeners aren't sending them money. - (or are they?)
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No, but I'm sure the church's own members and supporters in the U.S. are. A radio broadcast is much cheaper and safer missionary work than sending people to Siberia to try to convert the natives to their preferred form of Christianity.
 


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