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1190's OLD night pattern

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Steve Eberhart

Bob Nelson: The old 1190 KLIF night pattern was 1000 watts with towers SE of downtown Dallas. In some respects they had better coverage with that than they did with the 12 towers from Rockwall. I do know their coverage to the north was better with 1000 watts at night because I used to listen to it in my home at night 70 miles north of Dallas. When they went to the Rockwall site, the pattern did not have much coverage to the north and when they'd power down the 50 KW it was like they simply disappeared where I was. The 5KW night pattern did give them what they wanted, which was heavy concentration into Tarrant County. In fact, I've heard from people who could get it at night in Abilene but not Denton! I may be wrong, but I believe it is now the last 12 tower setup in the country. There was another but I've heard they reduced power and towers for economic reasons. Another note on the 1190 night site. For the longest time it was a troublesome site but a few years ago, during one of the many ownership flips of it, engineers finally fixed all the problems according to those who maintain it today. Nevertheless, it is still one of the more interesting tower sites to see if that stuff interests you. I remember years ago that KVIL had investigated using the old 1190 night tower site for an upgrade for 1150 AM. As you may recall 1150 had no pattern for years at night and this was designed to put a night signal on 1150 back in the 70's/80's. My understanding was they never did it mainly because it didn't make financial sense (no one cared about the AM).
 
Like all listeners in Midland, I was overjoyed when I heard they were going to have a power increase at night. 1 kW was barely listenable out there at night. The 5 kW pattern was a huge disappointment. It was not nearly as strong as the old pattern in Midland.
 
I grew up listening to the Mighty 1190 in San Angelo. I got my first decent longrange radio when I was in junior high (that would have been 1971) and I can remember listening to KLIF, especially when they broadcast from Main Street during Texas-OU weekend. I also could pick up WBAP (duh) and KOMA in OKC. I also heard my first hockey game from the Minnesota North Stars home on 1510. During the daytime, I could pick up 570, 660 and 820 fairly clear in San Angelo. Oh, and lets not forget X-Rock from across the border from El Paso.
 
The Minnesota North Stars were on 1500-KSTP... 1510 would be WLAC in Nashville, a fabulous Top 40 station in the 70's, 15-LAC.
 
Regarding Steve's original post about the OLD 1190 pattern, it's true that KVIL proposed using the former 1190 site on Scyene Road back in the mid-70's for a nighttime array. But the application ran into many obstables, not the least of which was an objection by Swanson Broadcasting, who at the time owned Z97 (KFJZ-FM). At one point in their pleading they called the addition of nighttime coverage for KVIL 1150 "a waste of spectrum space." Why Swanson actually cared whether 1150 was granted nighttime authorization is beyond me, but the word is that KVIL finally tired of the fight, opting later to operate with the paltry 6 watts they were granted when the FCC gave many of the country's daytime AM's some "relief."
 
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