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ANOTHER MOVE IN !

J

jonbruce

This one into the Coachella Valley. Hot on the heels of the app. to move 104.7 out of the market into Redlands, Copper mountain broadcasting has applied to move it's KQCM 92.1 Joshua Tree to Thermal. To do this, co-owned KXCM 96.3 29 Palms will change it's COL to Joshua Tree preventing a loss of service to J-Tree. The proposed site will be shared with the current site of 97.7 KRCK Mecca. KRCK has an app. pending to move to another transmitter site a few miles closer to Palm Springs. By the way 102.7 has been alloted (but not yet "windowed") to Mecca as it's 2nd service, and 103.5 to Coachella. So the end result is that the Coachella Valley market will end up being more crowded after all, even with the departure of 104.7.
 
What formats are the stations moving into the Coachella Valley? Is 97.7 hard to pick up in Palm Springs? It looks like it from radio-locar.com
 
The present format of the proposed "move-in" station, KQCM is top 40. However that most likely would change when the application is granted and the facility moves to Thermal. KRCK 97.7 comes in good up in the north end of Palm Springs. The 7-11 there has it on the speakers from time to time.
 
I see a 103.5 out of Banning. Would that just move their tower or would a brand new station emerge? Wouldn't 102.7 interfere with KIIS-FM?
 
No, the FCC mileage seperations are met between KIIS and the new allotment for 102.7 (We already have a 94.7 and a 99.5 in the market). The Banning 103.5 is an LPFM with no protection given by the FCC.
 
Yes, the KRCK transmitter move has been O.K'd as a CP. KPSI-FM "mix" 100.5 is A.C.( 3 live jocks and one voice tracked M-F) and KAJR 95.9 is well, typical "jack" (no jocks). KRCK sounded great with Dave Skyler and Dave "Jo-Jo' Acosta, but sadly both have departed the station. If you have a GE Super radio you can pick up some Riverside market stations out here and some from L.A. but mountainous terrain blocks out most and during the last couple of decades some local ones were put on L.A. frequencies or first adjacents. 20 years ago I could easily pull in KTWV 94.7 AND even KJLH 102.3.
 
Do you know when those move ins would take place? (92.1, 103.5, and 102.7) I got to listen to Mix 100.5 this last weekend and it sounded like the audio was much lower than all the other stations. Bad transmitter or Board Op mistake?
 
The 92.1 move in will take about a year to be o.k.'d by the FCC. 102.7 and 103.5 are fairly new allotments and it could be years before the FCC windows them in an auction. The KAJR "Jack" frequency was alloted a number of years before it was put into an auction window. Once granted to the highest bidder it was built and on the air rather quickly.
 
KPSI-fm "Mix" and the other stations owned by R-R broadcasting are modulated too low for me. The processing on 104.7 KDES is not to my taste either. Others have noticed the same.
 
Thanks for the good information. It just really surprises me that there aren't already more frequencies in the Coachella Valley since the mountains can almost guarantee they wouldn't bleed over into other markets. I think with the rapid growth of the area, more stations are going to become necessary, unless locals out there don't listen to the radio as much as they do in other places.

Needless to say I'm excited to be moving out there. Do you know why is KMRJ doing so poorly in the ratings?
 
I don't know what is going on over there. I have heard the station is for sale and the owner would like to go to "adult standards."
 
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