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99.7 KHYZ Mountain Pass
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The class B/C distinction is based on where the transmitter site is located. Southern California (indeed, all of California except the extreme north) is in the FCC's "Zone I-A," where class A, B and B1 stations are allowed. Nevada is in "Zone II," where class A, C3, C2, C1, C0 and C stations are allowed.
KHYZ has never applied for a Nevada transmitter site (except for the Las Vegas booster CP), so it's always been in B territory. However, it did request - and receive - a waiver allowing it to exceed normal class B power limits to allow for better coverage of "white areas" along the I-15 corridor where there's no other local radio reception. Its present licensed facility (8.4-kw/551 m) is a super-power B; its construction permit is for a standard 50-kw/150 m B at a location closer to Las Vegas, where it would trade some of its I-15 coverage (less important now that everyone's listening to their iPods or satellite radio or whatever along that long drive) for a signal that can be boostered into Vegas.
KHYZ has never applied for a Nevada transmitter site (except for the Las Vegas booster CP), so it's always been in B territory. However, it did request - and receive - a waiver allowing it to exceed normal class B power limits to allow for better coverage of "white areas" along the I-15 corridor where there's no other local radio reception. Its present licensed facility (8.4-kw/551 m) is a super-power B; its construction permit is for a standard 50-kw/150 m B at a location closer to Las Vegas, where it would trade some of its I-15 coverage (less important now that everyone's listening to their iPods or satellite radio or whatever along that long drive) for a signal that can be boostered into Vegas.
Mountain Pass.... I can see something on a hill when I drive past it on the I-15. That must be the transmitter.
Funny, I notice very few billboards now for The Highway Stations. Either they don't need to advertise so much anymore or ipod/mp3s have killed radio listening on the highway. I'm very curious to know what kind of numbers the stations get from people travelling to Vegas.
Funny, I notice very few billboards now for The Highway Stations. Either they don't need to advertise so much anymore or ipod/mp3s have killed radio listening on the highway. I'm very curious to know what kind of numbers the stations get from people travelling to Vegas.
Neel Mehta said:
They get some small shares in the Victor Valley market (which includes Barstow) but the intended listeners are residents, and thus participants in the ratings there, of other parts of California or eleswhere in the US. The amount of listeners from any area would be so small that they would not show up in the ratings elsewhere... it's largely an audience by assumption.
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