89.5 licensed

[BBfromCA]

89.5 FM in Stockton has been licensed to the Stockton Peace and Justice Network:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100409/A_NEWS0803/4090314/-1/A_NEWS

 

[Madmansam]

89.5 FM in Stockton has been licensed to the Stockton Peace and Justice Network:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100409/A_NEWS0803/4090314/-1/A_NEWS

Yay and the best news of all is that EMF didn't get the license! Nothing worse than more K-Love!

 

[Madmansam]

Sounds like they will be alot like the old KUOP. Except maybe more Local Indie Music (probably Rap & Alternative) but local news and talk! That's a plus!

 

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

Sounds like they will be alot like the old KUOP. Except maybe more Local Indie Music (probably Rap & Alternative) but local news and talk! That's a plus!

It's great news for an area that has lost so much in radio...

KOSO downgrade.

KXRP soon to move north

KSTN-FM---Becoming a clone of K-Love 90.7

KSTN-AM Dark

KWG.......The second oldest license in the west as a repeater for IMH radio.

KWSX 1280... a severely neglected afterthought of the Clear Channel Cluster based in Modesto.

KMRQ that in the 90's put a signal over part of Stockton, moved south in in 2000 ans has now moved further south to better serve Modesto. In fairness, it's better to serve Modesto with a city grade completely than halfway serve two markets.

Stockton is well served only by KEAR-FM (Sacramento), KHTK (Sacramento), KYCC. KUOP, KJOY, KQOD, KWIN, KMIX and Modesto's KATM and KHKK. The rest of radio listening is to rimshot semi-local signals and stations from outside of the market. Stockton is and was a failure of fair FM allotment distribution in my opinion.

Although this new station coverage looks nearly useless to Stockton on the surface...( I need to run an L-R coverage map for it)...I feel it's good news for local voices in San Joaquin County.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

From the article:

To go back further, there was a time when Stockton station owners such as Ort Lofthus of KJOY were community leaders. They editorialized strongly on local issues. They got deeply involved.

That day passed when media giants such as Citadel and Clear Channel gobbled up local stations. Ushering out locals, they substituted consultant-driven formats devised in remote headquarters and beamed from afar by satellite.

Nicely put. Michael Fitzgerald makes several other cogent points in his article, about the Peace & Justice Network and the state of radio, which make it an interesting read.

 

[djj]

So, for the first time in years, 89.5 may return to Stockton, being that Delta
College Radio KSJC's 18.5 watts once occupied that spot...

I would think the new Tracy 89.5's signal would hafta be tight in Stockton,
since KVMR, Nevada City, does have a far-reaching signal on the same freq...
--jay

 

[Madmansam]

Here's a thought? Maybe the Peace & Justice Network could purchase (or LMA) KSTN-1420? Then they can simulcast 89.5 and expand their reach in San Joaquin County?

 

[Madmansam]

So, for the first time in years, 89.5 may return to Stockton, being that Delta
College Radio KSJC's 18.5 watts once occupied that spot...

I would think the new Tracy 89.5's signal would hafta be tight in Stockton,
since KVMR, Nevada City, does have a far-reaching signal on the same freq...
--jay

Even when KSJC was on the air, I could still pick up KVMR. In fact, often I could never pick up KSJC. At the time, I always wished that they could increase their signal.

 

[djj]

Even when KSJC was on the air, I could still pick up KVMR. In fact, often I could never pick up KSJC. At the time, I always wished that they could increase their signal.

In 1982, according to KSJC G.M. Dave Steele, KSJC was planning to get FCC papers and attempt
to move to 89.3 at 3,000 watts, with the transmitter near the Delta College Farm property on
Hwy 99....that all fell through when then-new SJDC President Lawrence DeRicco nixed that idea,
presumably for budgetary reasons...
--jay

 

[DaveBayArea]

I would think the new Tracy 89.5's signal would hafta be tight in Stockton,
since KVMR, Nevada City, does have a far-reaching signal on the same freq...
--jay

KVMR is no more in Stockton, thanks to KARQ (another EMF Air-1 signal) from Sonora. They came on the air a couple of years ago and made my drive between the Bay Area & the Sierras much less pleasant. KARQ has a CP to move to 89.3 and change the COL to San Andreas. So that should provide some relief, but for the present time, 89.5 is a fight between those 2 signals.

I'm pretty skeptical of the coverage they're going to have. It's 50 watts, and it appears to be from the same tower as 104.1 The Hawk. So you can pretty much figure that the signal will be 30 db down from KHKK. Nice elevation, but not a lot of field strength that far away.

Dave B.