Just recently filed is an application to change city of license from Conroe to Friendswood, build separate day and night sites, with 5kw day, and 1kw night.
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880 KJOZ Conroe
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Daytime site about 10 miles SE of Alvin, night site between Crosby and Dayton.
Day pattern, predictably, has the major lobe going NNW over central Houston, with a null to the east (1st adjacent WWL) and some holes towards unpopulated areas to the SW.
Night pattern goes SSW towards Houston, very little to the north and east.
Application also has 5kw for critical hours, but I don't see any difference in the day and CH parameters; FCC data incomplete?
Four towers day, three at night.
Getting the recent CP for the KRCM 1380 upgrade must have been a major encouragement for DAIJ Media.
Day pattern, predictably, has the major lobe going NNW over central Houston, with a null to the east (1st adjacent WWL) and some holes towards unpopulated areas to the SW.
Night pattern goes SSW towards Houston, very little to the north and east.
Application also has 5kw for critical hours, but I don't see any difference in the day and CH parameters; FCC data incomplete?
Four towers day, three at night.
Getting the recent CP for the KRCM 1380 upgrade must have been a major encouragement for DAIJ Media.
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purpledevil
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and another piece of radio history thrown to the curbside. Goodbye to Conroe, hello greener pastures of Friendswood. What a shame.
I guess it doesn't matter since 880 hasn't actually served Conroe in a long time, but all the history of KIKR, at first 900 then the upgrade to 10kW and simultaneous move to 880, will soon be forgotten...if it hasn't been already.
I guess it doesn't matter since 880 hasn't actually served Conroe in a long time, but all the history of KIKR, at first 900 then the upgrade to 10kW and simultaneous move to 880, will soon be forgotten...if it hasn't been already.
schmave said:
Pretty much, yes. It's actually more like 14 miles, south of FM 2004, but still in the vicinity of the KGLK tower (other side of 2004 toward Alvin).
Not exactly like Anahuac [slogan: "More Gators Than People"], but not a real hospitable place either. If the application is approved, here's hoping the people who build the facility have plenty of mosquito repellant and firearms.
Would anyone be able to advise on how this move would affect both daytime and nighttime reception of WWL-870 in the central and western parts of the metro?
It's radio history ended when the Owens family moved it to 880AM. For many years it was KMCO 900. They bought and in 1974 it became KIKR. After the move, it didn't stay KIKR for very long and it was sold. Instead of putting money into 106.9 KNRO, they sold it and spent money on moving the AM. Not a lucrative idea.
KMCO meant Montgomery County and KNRO, of coruse was Conroe. I was there in 1974.
KMCO meant Montgomery County and KNRO, of coruse was Conroe. I was there in 1974.
purpledevil said:
Not much history to preserve here, as 880 has been nothing more than a simulcaster or brokered time operation since the demise of KIKR many years ago.
If you want a station that superserves Conroe/Montgomery County, there's always KVST.
Face it, AM radio is a dog, with basket-case stations best suited for niche formats and/or brokered time programming. If you had an AM targeting Conroe, what on earth would you put on it that would draw listeners away from FM? Conroe is part of the Houston metro sprawl, not some small town out in the middle of nowhere.
The proposed move will put a better signal over most of the overall market. The current site is pretty worthless as a metro signal, which is why Liberman got rid of it. DAIJ will continue to lease it out to religious broadcasters, who don't care if the audience is microscopic.
When I got to Houston, KJOJ was doing Southern Gospel and paid religion as a simulcast with the FM 103.3. As far as the 5 or 6 commercial Christian stations at the time in the Houston Market, they were doing quite well. As a stand alone AM, they might have done fine as KTEK was doing pretty well at that time as well. I was at one of those 5 or 6 trying to sell time to national ministries that couldn't get a good airtime on either of these two stations.
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