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"Alpha Media and Educational Media Foundation are swapping licenses in the Portland and San Antonio markets."
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KHHL will be a satellite of K-Love most likely. Hopefully EMF can take better care of it than Alpha has LOL.
I don’t know what you mean by “went through,” but it was just filed with the FCC at the end of last week. With a few exceptions (like receivers and trustees in bankrupcties or estates), a transfer generally takes a minimum of 60 days.
If you’re talking an LMA, Alpha could have already handed control over day-to-day programming to EMF. You'll notice that soon if that's the case. EMF doesn’t goof off when taking over a station and installing its programming.
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KHHL is most likely having issues with audio to transmitter link, like they have lots of times in the past.
I drove by the site late last week. A crew was on the tower. Looked like they were painting.
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They want it to look shiny for EMF LOL
Getting the facilities tidied up was probably part of the deal. EMF doesn't play around when it comes to acquiring stations.
That looks to be a Vertical Bridge tower. So likely just routine maintenance and unrelated. Alpha and even Border in the later years did their best but that station was never going to be a San Antonio station. Plus being that far out and in the middle of nowhere was probably a constant struggle to keep on the air. Too far out for a reasonable STL shot without costly multiple hops, no good telco circuits and no high speed internet, I’m sure it’s been a headache. Couple that with low population and no local ad base makes it an almost impossible challenge. EMF is about the only operator that might find it useful.
At this point, you have to admire EMF.
It's as if they won't stop buying stations until every single square mile of the US is covered with K-Love.
It's as if they won't stop buying stations until every single square mile of the US is covered with K-Love.
I hear people in Bethel, Alaska and American Samoa are salivating for a K-Love station.
I can only imagine....
Sadly, people in Guam and the US Virgin Islands aren't receiving the electrifying words of K-Love!
But Puerto Rico is... even though they don't really speak English there and CCM in English isn't really that popular.
WCAD honestly would have had better use as a stronger signal for the very popular Spanish CCM station in San Juan, WNVM Nueva Vida.
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