I doubt they have a format picked out. You might say by winning the auction, they have determined only the general area where they will construct the facility. Only when they know what they have and get the facility built will they determine the best format for the station's coverage.
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104.1FM Sanger-Dallas allotment
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If they went into the auction without knowing exactly where the facility would be and what it would be covering once built, they weren't doing the kind of due diligence any broadcaster dropping $3 million in an auction should be doing.
(I had detailed due diligence for my clients and they were only in at the ~$50,000 level!)
I would greatly assume it would just sign back on from where it signed off. I'm sure the transmitter is long gone, the coax is probably shot from neglect but the antennas might still be up there. Getting the thing back on will be a minor drop in the bucket compared to what it was purchased for. As is, 104.1 can't really move anywhere and certainly can't upgrade. The winning bidder owns 50% of KHSE 700 so I would greatly assume it will be a similar format if not the same format heard there.
FWIW, Radio Caravan is not on 94.5 anymore in fact all the HD subchannels were missing yesterday and this morning. I assume it will all be going to 104.1, though I don't think HD would work all that great on that stick.
FWIW, Radio Caravan is not on 94.5 anymore in fact all the HD subchannels were missing yesterday and this morning. I assume it will all be going to 104.1, though I don't think HD would work all that great on that stick.
Also KHSE already has a translator on 104.1, so I would expect the relaunched Sanger 104.1 to simulcast KHSE and that translator. For other examples of fringe full-power stations and co-channel in-town translators simulcasting, see Atlanta (Streetz 94.5) and Miami (Revolution 93.5)
KBPI is on 107.9 in Boulder and the springs... full powers.. theyre also on an in town Denver translator fed by an HD sub
The paperwork for Radio Brands' new 104.1 C3-class station for Sanger has been posted. No surprise, the CP is a mirror copy of the old KTDK , same tower, same 6.15kw ERP. Radio Brands paid over $2 million in Auction 109 - the second highest in the auction and clearly the highest price per 1K pop.
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Wonder if they just copied the data from the old application.
In Sacramento, the CP application appears to be identical to the former KDND facility.
Filing CPs for what was there is a good way to start. There's a bit less work and likely to be approved quickly. From that point they can determine if a follow-up CP might offer extended coverage. A station I worked for simply did an easy to get approved filing and then a study and CP following that upped the power and coverage substantially. They filed the upgrade days after the original CP was issued. With that said, it's a pretty good bet what was there was maximized for coverage already in it's prior life.
That's right.
Each of the permits offered in the auction have reference coordinates that are in an "area to locate" so that the station could be built out and fully spaced to all the neighboring stations on co or adjacent channels. Some of those ATLs are really quite small.
Some of the applications filed will be built out exactly to what was just filed and some will be amended. Some may never be built out at all. This happens every auction.
As far as the Sanger allocation goes, the old KTDK was owned and built by Susquehanna and they were not shy about investing and upgrading their facilities. If there was an obvious upgrade path to a C, C0, or C1 from the Wise/Montague or Cook county towers used by the other rimshots (such as 96.7/98.3/103.3/105.7/etc), I think you would have seen KTDK there and not as Class C3 from Valley View.
The construction permit for Radio Brands' 104.1 was issued today (11/3/2021) by the FCC along with 17 other Auction 109 stations. Perhaps a few more will crop up in the system.
"Due to the NCE Filing Window, the FCC has temporarily stopped providing daily updates of LMS raw data" per the REC Networks' website. The NCE Filing Windows closes at midnight on 11/9.
"Due to the NCE Filing Window, the FCC has temporarily stopped providing daily updates of LMS raw data" per the REC Networks' website. The NCE Filing Windows closes at midnight on 11/9.
Seven months have elapsed since the FCC granted Radio Brands a CP for 104.1 in Sanger. Unlike IHeart Media in Sacramento, it's been crickets with this project. I wonder if the old tower still proved viable?
Radio Brands paid $2.31 million (net) for this Denton rimshotter so hopefully they'll have a viable format.
Radio Brands paid $2.31 million (net) for this Denton rimshotter so hopefully they'll have a viable format.
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Maybe they'll sell it.
Considering how little of the market this C3 allotment can actually cover, that seems like a high price. While it's 1/4 the price that VCY recently paid for 103.3 KESN, I'd be surprised if it covers 1/6 of the population that KESN has within its 1 mv contour.
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