KGOW 1560 is back to its 50kw day site as of yesterday..
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1560s 50kw day site returns to service
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KGOW is the new home of LSU Football in 2018.
ThatVoice22
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So, David Gow is happy with SportsMap on FM 94.1 at 99 watts, while his AM 1560 gets returned to 46,000 watts daytime, broadcasting Vietnamese. Apparently, he is confident that a pip-squeek signal for sports on FM is much more valuable than its former mega-signal on AM.
Of course he is 94.1 FM covers most of Houston and sounds way better than 1560 AM
"Houston" is an 11-county MSA, with over 7,000,000 persons. 94.1 barely covers a piece of Harris County, and about 900,000 in its 60 dbu signal and just 550,000 in the 65 dbu. It hardly "covers most of Houston" when, in fact, based on the 65 dbu, it covers less than 7% of the market.
There is no such thing as a mega-signal on those very high frequencies; KILT's 5 kw at 610 vastly out-covers 1560 just because it is on the "good" part of the dial.
It's talk radio. Sound quality doesn't really matter.
To you, to me it does.
Then go listen to 97.5 or use your phone like most normal people do. Problem solved
"barely covers a piece of Harris County"... ha! I was listening to it in Magnolia TX on Wednesday, near the intersection of FM 1488 and FM 1774... loud and clear, with stereo pilot.
I think some of the posters are insinuating that this translator may run a little "hotter" than its authorized power.
Just a little bit hotter...
Along with the rest of the Centro Cristiano translators.The return of the day site is actually a negative for the current format. The Vietnamese speaking population is concentrated in the southwest part of the market, but that is where KGOW’s notorious “Navasota null” is aimed, resulting in Reception complaints in the past. The night site pattern was aimed right at SW Houston and its Asian demographics.
The day site does put out a potent signal, but with a narrow beam. The station has been heard in the Great Lakes region around sunset.
The day site does put out a potent signal, but with a narrow beam. The station has been heard in the Great Lakes region around sunset.
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