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KFNN 1510 Gone Silent?
- Thread starter Mikey-Mike
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also missed KPHX as well.
You mean South mountain, Lookout mountain is in Golden Colorado.
lol yeah me too as I live in a Denver suburb as well.
I just noticed KIKO is live streaming again now that it a talk station now.KIKO dropped Classic Country for Talk, around the same time that KBSZ became Urban AC.
Home | 1340AM Kiko
www.bull1340am.com
That would be KAZG. The only reason they hang on to 1440 is for overflow sports.
I meant the mountain in North Phoenix lol. I live basically right next to it and I'm also nestled perfectly behind both North Mountain and Camelback mountain, so my reception of any TV or radio stations from behind there is absolutely shot unless I have a top of the line receiver.
I'm roughly just south of you (7th St. and Glendale Ave. being the major cross streets) and you're right! Once you pass North Mountain Park on 7th St., there is a great deal of terrain blocking of all of the FM transmitters on South Mountain.
Only if their "full power" is about equal to KAZG/1440's 52 watts at night. They are very weak, almost inaudible, in much of Mesa, and 99.3 doesn't come in here at all. The old 95.9 KQFN translator in Fountain Hills is still off the air.
It's gotta be closer to their licensed power of 245 watts. I can pick KQFN up here in North Phoenix halfway decent while KAZG hardly comes in at all.
Assignment paperwork for KFNN to KFNN LLC (a subsidiary of Heartland Signal) hit the FCC. K287BX is included. It set Heartland Signal back $420,000.
Heartland Signal To Acquire KFNN Phoenix
Non-profit Future Now Action's Heartland Signal is acquiring silent 1510 KFNN/105.3 K287BX Mesa AZ from CRC Broadcasting Company through the liquidating agent MCA Financial Group.
radioinsight.com
This is a very questionable buy given who owns the KFNN towers and the translator’s signal is in the wrong direction of the target audience.
I doubt the purchaser had too many other available choices at the time.
You're not wrong there, but who said they had to broadcast a liberal talk format? My thought is that the owners of Heartland formed KFNN LLC to distance themselves from that format (in Phoenix at least). That's my working theory for now.
Heartland Signal is a liberal Political Action Committee based in Washington DC that only runs liberal talk formats.
It would be baffling if they ran something different in Phoenix.
Many business separate assets and any potential financial fallout and liability into individual LLC's. In other words, it's a way for tne company's other businesses to remain legally and financially insulated. This new venture is obviously risky, so in case KFNN tanks, Heartland Signal won't be affected by it.
I didn't know that about Heartland Signal. Still, I don't know if they have the best game plan since they're broadcasting primarily to one of the most conservative parts of the Phoenix Metro area. I should know. I live here.
That's just my unprofessional opinion, but honestly I would love to be wrong. Conservative talk radio needs to know they're not in charge of things...
tax, liability and ownership stake reasons
so if someone sues heartland signal LLC, they can’t go after the assets of KFNN LLC because they are technically and legally a different company
Plus, the ownership stake might be slightly different… The guy I work for bought three stations in Wyoming from someone in New Hampshire and because they were built and signed on at different times they’re slightly different ownership structures for each one of them and when he bought the stations. He legally dealt with three different companies, but it was the same person from beginning to end that was doing the selling.
You're right about the station's broadcast reach. 1510's physical plant is pretty old (and the sticks are owned by a group completely in opposition to their ideology), and the 105.3 translator does indeed reach a Republican stronghold and misses where Democratic listeners are. It's like they didn't exactly do their homework before signing the papers.