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KFOX To HD

Shoot, oh, well.

Is that east Texas station religious?

...looks it up....

Yup, it is very much religious.

Just for fun, I also looked up WGOD, and it, too is religious.

These are two calls that are preordained to be religious, i think.

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Moxxie is Awesome said:
What will 94.5's call sign be after it's sold to K-Love?
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One thing I have learned from watching all of K-Love's acquisitions over the years is that their call letters often seem to be chosen at random. That is, when they have to change them, which is not always the case:

In Los Angeles, the calls changed to KKLQ from KSWD. In New York, they kept the WPLJ calls.

Here's a list (via @Michi's fccdata.org) of the stations which still show Educational Media Foundation as the licensee. The third column is the call letters. If you can find any kind of pattern that allows for guessing what 94.5 will be, I wish you would share it with the rest of us!

 
K.M. Richards said:
One thing I have learned from watching all of K-Love's acquisitions over the years is that their call letters often seem to be chosen at random. That is, when they have to change them, which is not always the case:

In Los Angeles, the calls changed to KKLQ from KSWD. In New York, they kept the WPLJ calls.

Here's a list (via @Michi's fccdata.org) of the stations which still show Educational Media Foundation as the licensee. The third column is the call letters. If you can find any kind of pattern that allows for guessing what 94.5 will be, I wish you would share it with the rest of us!

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In my experience, most of the K-Love station callsigns have either an l or a v somewhere in that callsign. Of course, there are some callsigns it can't have because they are owned by others (KLVE in Los Angeles and KLUV in Dallas being two examples), and I'm pretty certain that available callsigns with a v or a w in them will run out in the not-too-distant future at which point (if it isn't already happening now) all of the callsigns for the K-Love stations will be randomly selected from the available callsigns that the FCC has.
 
K.M. Richards said:
One thing I have learned from watching all of K-Love's acquisitions over the years is that their call letters often seem to be chosen at random. That is, when they have to change them, which is not always the case:
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In the case of the former KRTY (95.3) in 2022, K-Love and the seller reached an agreement to park the KRTY calls elsewhere, to preserve the KRTY brand for online use. (I managed to hear 95.3 with the KRTY calls at the top of an hour after the switch to K-Love, which documents that the call-letter exchange wasn't immediate. It did happen later that day.) So there was a swap between KRTY and KLRK Great Bend, Kansas. The next year, K-Love moved the KJLV calls from the old KFFG (97.7) to 95.3, giving 97.7 the KWAI call letters. I suppose you could say that those call letters reflect the Air1 programming on that station. The KLRK calls ended up on K-Love's station in Yankton, South Dakota.

Clearly somebody at K-Love cares about call letters. Sometimes, it's pretty clear...for example, the "D" in KLDV obviously refers to Denver, possibly the "Q" in KQLV refers to Albuquerque or KLVS to San Francisco...but sometimes they don't change at all (KMFC Centralia, Mo. is an example, as is WPLJ which has already been mentioned). In the case of what soon won't be KBAY at 94.5, K-Love will have to pick a call other than KBAY. But that's basically inside baseball. They can either come up with something new or swap around call letters in their existing inventory of stations, as long as those calls aren't KRTY. The important thing for an outlet like K-Love is the brand.
 
Mark Roberts said:
But KMVQ has good coverage in the Bay Area core while KUFX is riddled with multipath in many of those locations, such as parts of Oakland.
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Agreed. From a purely signal strength point of view, I was surprised they sold KBAY instead of KUFX. Yes, both are full-power Class B's. Yes, KUFX's site 1,893 ft above sea level is about 400 feet higher than KBAY's. But unlike KBAY's site, KUFX is somewhat shadowed towards the big cities of Oakland and San Francisco. Plus, in parts of San Francisco proper and Marin County, the signal fights with Sacramento's 98.5. I will never understand how two Class B's that close together ever got approved for the same frequency.
 
Oops...I misread Signal Geek's post badly and posted something entirely irrelevant. I'll request deletion of this post; if that's not possible, then please ignore. Thank you.
 
Both 98.5 and 106.5 have full class b signals in Sacramento and San Jose that are grandfathered it. There’s even more short spacing between NYC and Philadelphia with 100.3 and 101.1. Those two cities are closer together and don’t have the terrain blocking that Sac and SJ have.
 
K.M. Richards said:
In Los Angeles, the calls changed to KKLQ from KSWD. In New York, they kept the WPLJ calls.
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Mark Roberts said:
...but sometimes they don't change at all (KMFC Centralia, Mo. is an example, as is WPLJ which has already been mentioned).
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WPLJ has been imputed to stand for "We Praise Lord Jesus" by K-Love. That's supposedly why they didn't consider flipping the calls when PLJ was acquired from Cumulus.
 
Weiserguy said:
WPLJ has been imputed to stand for "We Praise Lord Jesus" by K-Love. That's supposedly why they didn't consider flipping the calls when PLJ was acquired from Cumulus.
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K-Love has other reasoning for keeping the WPLJ call letters. Lance has stated that if a popular or well known Hot AC or AC is being flipped to K-Love, they believe a number of those listeners will stick around and listen to the CCM music, in that it has a similar sound and music style and keeping the WPLJ calls just adds to that. If that former Hot AC listener sticks around long enough, they may gain a new member of the flock, hence more donation money.
 


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