AM 1450 KCTI off the air?

[Kent]

I meant along the lines of KTMR Edna, Kent.
Make that KTMR Converse. A 1kW can make a lot more money brokering out its time from the San Antonio airwaves, than it can from Gonzales County.

I don't see that happening with Texas Public Radio. I suspect its endgame is to get a translator to cover the Gonzales area since 89.1 starts to fade by there. It's possible TPR could sell KCTI four years after signing on a translator there, and the new buyer could try to move 1450. However, even then, it would be a complicated endeavor unless something happens to KCWM 1460 in the meantime.

I guess I'll take the wait and see approach, because airing "some Gonzales specific programming" sounds a bit like lip service from this vantage point. I don't know hardly anything about KSTX's overall operation, but I don't hold out much hope for Gonzales' representation on the new KCTI.

B. Turner describes the process pretty well. There's also likely to be a computer at the transmitter shack that can handle some local drop-ins. I can't imagine those being more than a couple of minutes in length, but it's still better than KCTI being turned back into the FCC and providing absolutely nothing.

 

[b-turner]

I don't know if putting KSTX in the same basket as KSBJ and KHCB is 100% accurate. When you get in to the NPR type stations, they tend to listen to the local communities a little harder as they are acutely aware that a substantial part of their revenue is from listeners and Underwriters. KSBJ and KHCB are ministry driven where the product they offer is the focus versus being partly local and while they too listen and are attentive, the star attraction is not local but the normal programming.

I doubt KSTX will do very much local and the financial realities might mean that nothing more than a minute or two here or there in morning drive is the reality. I think however, of the three, KSTX would stand a better chance of doing more or more substantial local programming.