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michael hagerty said:
That’s something to take up with her parents, isn’t it? Her mom was Priscilla Breed.
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Yeah, probably. Not worth the effort, though.

I'm just glad she's out. I like Daniel Lurie much better, especially his modesty and, as @Weiserguy noted, his willingness to own up to his mistakes, which most politicians never do (including a certain one who we know about all too well, so no need to elaborate further on that).

He's only been i office for, what, a year or so? And in that year, he's already made great strides in turning around the City's image.

There's still lots of work yet to do, but he's made good progress so far.

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From a strictly engineering viewpoint, assuming the problem is the rent needed for the existing 560 site there are a couple of relatively low cost moves that could be made to preserve 560. The first would be to diplex it on the 400 ft. 1260 tower about 5 miles to the south. 1450 is/was actually on a second short tower at that site, not diplexed into the main tower. Easy and painless to implement. The ground conductivity on top of that hill is less than being in the bay swamps but it's not all that bad.

The other is to triplex onto the 450 ft. 1400/610 tower on the Berkeley marina. Yes, 560 and 610 are close in frequency but the two diplexed more or less successfully from the KSFO site when 610 moved away from their Van Ness Ave hammock antenna 60 years ago.

Power from either non-directional tower would be the existing 5 Kw daytime or maybe slightly more to compensate for the less efficient 1260 tower. Nighttime would be 1 Kw Non-DA, which fits within the existing nighttime DA contours and is what the Yuma and Denver DAs were designed to protect. Perfectly useable on a quiet channel.

Why no one has proposed doing either of these is a statement about the ongoing viability of the AM band and/or Cumulus wanting more than the station is worth in the current market. Maybe they'll accept a low ball offer as the final cutoff date approaches and the facility evaporates. Or maybe someone will just ignore Cumulous and apply for a new facility.
 
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Lou Schneider said:
Why no one has proposed doing either of these is a statement about the ongoing viability of the AM band and/or Cumulus wanting more than the station is worth in the current market. Maybe they'll accept a low ball offer as the final cutoff date approaches and the facility evaporates. Or maybe someone will just ignore Cumulous and apply for a new facility.
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I agree completely about the probable motives for Cumulus to keep 560 silent. Absent a last-minute pie-in-the-sky offer, there is no reason for them to even care anymore.

And, as has been discussed several times around here -- most recently in the thread about 1110 in Charlotte -- your last sentence is not possible anymore. No new station applications are accepted by the FCC outside of the occasional auction window, and they no longer include vacated AM allocations in those auctions. Discussion in that thread begins here, if you want the details of why that is the case.
 
This thread has more lives than a cat playing in the road on 19th Avenue. But, just to repeat post #1,162, Cumulus' next deadline is coming up next Wednesday, March 25 - either to file an extension of its current silent STA or to turn in the license. Even if nothing happens by March 25, that might not be definitive, since, for this license, Cumulus has essentially said "oops...I forgot" a couple of times already.

Mark your calendars: 560
 
TheBigA said:
They have the pending cancelation of the tower lease. They might ask for 30 days awaiting the judge's decision.
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That's dependent upon the bankruptcy court. The March 25 deadline for an STA renewal is something they've known about...or should have known about...for six months.
 
And for all we know, they will file for a STA extension on Monday or Tuesday.

I can't believe this thread has gone 63 pages.
 
Cumulus filed a request dated yesterday to extend the silent STA to August 12.

Draft Copy « Licensing and Management System « FCC

Licensing and Management System
enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov

Here's the explanatory exhibit in its entirety:

"Radio License Holdings LLC (“RLH”), licensee of Station KZAC(AM), San Francisco, California, respectfully requests an extension of its authorization to remain silent. RLH is in the midst of negotiations to sell this Station."
 
Mark Roberts said:
Cumulus filed a request dated yesterday to extend the silent STA to August 12.

Draft Copy « Licensing and Management System « FCC

Licensing and Management System
enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov

Here's the explanatory exhibit in its entirety:

"Radio License Holdings LLC (“RLH”), licensee of Station KZAC(AM), San Francisco, California, respectfully requests an extension of its authorization to remain silent. RLH is in the midst of negotiations to sell this Station."
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REALLY! 560 just may get a stay of execution.

Now we can start guessing who the potential buyer might be...
 
Compare to the last sentence in the previous narrative exhibit from September:

"Now that RLH is negotiating a purchase contract, it hopes to clear up its operation status and resume service in the near future."

Whether it should take six months or more to negotiate the sale of a station that's silent is an interesting question.

And, yeah, there's the thing about trying to break the transmitter site lease.

Cue the Hammond organ; the soap opera isn't over yet.
 
With the Nexstar-Tegna approval the other day (quietly slipped over the transom by Chairman Voldemort), the other shoe seems about to drop. Once the ownership caps are raised or eliminated, the one-and-only radio group that it would affect might be in the market to bulk up a little more.

The question remains though, would iHeart (or hypothetically, anyone else) want to acquire another AM, even if they could? The *only* possible reason that might make sense to moi is if they decide that 960 is so much of an albatross, in spite of the wonderfulness of the stuff they're programming it with, that they'd like to take a chance moving it to a stronger signal on a lower frequency. Similar to how Cumulus moved the KSFO programming up to 810. (Which is how we got here in the first place.) Same assumption, opposite direction, equally futile likely result (IMHO, of course).
 
Mark Roberts said:
Compare to the last sentence in the previous narrative exhibit from September:

"Now that RLH is negotiating a purchase contract, it hopes to clear up its operation status and resume service in the near future."

Whether it should take six months or more to negotiate the sale of a station that's silent is an interesting question.

And, yeah, there's the thing about trying to break the transmitter site lease.
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This might the holdup in the negotiations. The potential buyer may be waiting for the bankruptcy court to allow the breaking of the tower lease, before moving forward.

This could point to a buyer with an existing tower site to diplex, or someone willing to find a replacement site.
 


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