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1510 AM Canton

600kogo said:
I wonder if the new owner is making money yet with the new format?
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I don't know, but this afternoon I heard a commercial for helicopter rides this weekend at First Monday Tradedays in Canton, with the same spot airing three times during a 20-minute span. There was nothing else besides brief imaging between the oldies.
 
600kogo said:
I wonder if the new owner is making money yet with the new format?
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It usually take a year or more for a new station (or format) to take hold. Although nobody wants to go broke in the process, often small stations like this are more a labor of love than anything else. Generally speaking, they don't make a ton of money, but they can be a lot of fun to operate. Believe it or not, there are other rewards than just money. :)
 
clouseau said:
That rule was effectively overturned with the release of FCC 12-29 the fourth report and order and the third order of consideration on translators and the creation of a Low Power Radio Service(No I'm not maiking this up) dated March 19th 2012.
I beleive ALL translators are now legal for AM use (Or will be after publishing in the federal register. + 30 days yada yada yada) I would suspect an STA would be granted now just like when they started AM on FM a few years ago.
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They didn't go quite that far. (which surprises me)

FM translators which are already authorized, or whose applications were on file by May 1, 2009, may be used to relay AM stations.

Now, since they haven't accepted any translator applications since 2003, that does in effect mean any translators currently "in the hopper" will be able to relay AM. However, if they hold a future translator window, those translators won't have that opportunity.

Unless the FCC changes their mind again, which I think is quite likely.

http://www.fcc.gov/document/lpfm-fourth-report-and-order-and-third-order-reconsideration

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A couple of winters ago, KGA in Spokane was operating non-directional at night. In hopes of landing a rare state at my location near Nashville, I spent a LOT of time DXing 1510.

By far the major source of interference was this Canton station. It may be a daytimer but it sure wasn't acting that way.

(I did eventually log KGA anyway)
 
w9wi said:
FM translators which are already authorized, or whose applications were on file by May 1, 2009, may be used to relay AM stations.

Now, since they haven't accepted any translator applications since 2003, that does in effect mean any translators currently "in the hopper" will be able to relay AM. However, if they hold a future translator window, those translators won't have that opportunity.

Unless the FCC changes their mind again, which I think is quite likely.

http://www.fcc.gov/document/lpfm-fourth-report-and-order-and-third-order-reconsideration
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I brought that up awhile back on this thread, and clouseau posted that the FCC had gotten rid of the rule that required translators relaying AM's to be licensed on or before May 1, 2009. I can't seem to get to the link you put up, but I was directed to FCC 12-29, which states new translators in Auction 83 will be included among the translators that can rebroadcast AM signals. It doesn't technically extend to translators past that auction, but the FCC indicates it will revisit the translator rules further before any further auctions.
 
Kent said:
I brought that up awhile back on this thread, and clouseau posted that the FCC had gotten rid of the rule that required translators relaying AM's to be licensed on or before May 1, 2009. I can't seem to get to the link you put up, but I was directed to FCC 12-29, which states new translators in Auction 83 will be included among the translators that can rebroadcast AM signals. It doesn't technically extend to translators past that auction, but the FCC indicates it will revisit the translator rules further before any further auctions.
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Exactly, from my reading of 12-29 you've got it. Technically, translators applied for after the 2003 auction cannot be used to relay AM stations -- but there are no such translators yet, and the FCC is likely to change their rules again before they accept any more applications.

When they first authorized translators to relay AM signals, as Clouseau posted, the translators had to be *authorized* before 2009 -- anything still pending from the 2003 window was off limits. That's what they changed late last year.
 
w9wi said:
A couple of winters ago, KGA in Spokane was operating non-directional at night. In hopes of landing a rare state at my location near Nashville, I spent a LOT of time DXing 1510.

By far the major source of interference was this Canton station. It may be a daytimer but it sure wasn't acting that way.

(I did eventually log KGA anyway)
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I'm surprised it can get out that far. About two years ago I caught KRDH on the air around 8-9 pm playing country and drove by the studios.. nobody home. The FCC has been too lax on catching AM stations in East Texas running at night (KOFY, KWRD).
 
Is this the same station that was run by Eric Jontra at one time?
 
Looks like a change is coming. KRDH now redirects to a new website Texas-1510 KWJB "Radio Hotter Than A Texas Summer". I guess we shall see.
 
Adding some credence to that, here's a notation from the FCC's call reservation section: "A request for KWJB dated 05/02/2012 has been filed."
 
just so everyone knows, the station is now in the hands of new owner John Butler of Dallas.
I purchased it from Don Harris and sold it to Butler.
FCC approval was last week.
 
John Butler? Does this guy know radio? ;)


(yes, I'm kidding...last time I saw him was at KRLD and that was a long time ago.)
 
I do have to say, when I was in East Texas a few weeks ago 1510 was a great sounding station.

Wonder what KWJB is going to be.
 
Okay. I should have checked, since I see now that John Butler of KRLD/KAFM died in 1996.
 
Mr. Eberhart out of curiousity why did you buy it and own it for 5 minutes to re-sell it? And are you or Mr. Butler gearing up to buy anymore stations?
 
I've driven through Canton twice in the last week and can report that 1510 sounds vastly better. I understand that Tyler's Broadcast Works has been busy fixing and updating things, and it shows. Although the station mysteriously goes to syndicated talk around noon, it is otherwise a pretty good oldies station with a lot of local presence. It looks like another Phoenix rises from the ashes. :)
 
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