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dfwrunner

Grousing on Houston board about Houston being left out of the clear channel allotment. How did Fort Wayne get one but not Indy? Spacing? Luck of the draw?
 
dfwrunner said:
Grousing on Houston board about Houston being left out of the clear channel allotment. How did Fort Wayne get one but not Indy? Spacing? Luck of the draw?
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Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting.
 
I thought it was THE LITTLE RED BARN? ;D
 
Along those lines, Indiana essentially missed out on low dial position allocation. 560 was at one time Gary and 640 in Terre Haute was another but the Hoosier AM band is pretty much above 1000.
 
February 8, 2013

Politics in the 1930's and 1940's sold the Hoosier State short. Indiana has been a Republican state and still is.

As for 640 Khz. in Terre Haute, Indiana, Birach Broadcasting is trying to take it to a suburb of Chicago, IL where Indiana can wave it good bye forever. Needless to say we are trying to stop this move. Today's broadcasters think a clear channel is a company and not a type of frequency except Birach Broadcasting. I wish some front office people would ask for a lesson in radio.
 
Rosebud3 said:
February 8, 2013

Politics in the 1930's and 1940's sold the Hoosier State short. Indiana has been a Republican state and still is.

As for 640 Khz. in Terre Haute, Indiana, Birach Broadcasting is trying to take it to a suburb of Chicago, IL where Indiana can wave it good bye forever. Needless to say we are trying to stop this move. Today's broadcasters think a clear channel is a company and not a type of frequency except Birach Broadcasting. I wish some front office people would ask for a lesson in radio.
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but the 640 frequency up here is only meant for 5,000 watts not 50,000 like KFI LA
 
February 10, 2013

The 640 Khz. frequency in Terre Haute is only meant for 250 watts but even then another tower was built to protect KFI in Los Angeles. This came from the former engineer at WBOW.

Birach Broadcasting proposes a four tower array in Peotone, Illinois, which is 36 miles from Chicago. Birach also proposed to increase the power to 4800 watts daytime and a little over 1,000 watts at night. On top of this Birach will surrender his Zeeland, Michigan 640 Khz. license to the FCC so that two towns will be effected negatively, Zeeland, Michigan and Terre Haute, Indiana. The Chicago area will have another signal to their already hundred plus stations.
 
Sounds like he is doing what Kovas did with 1590/1600 in Chicago. "Moved" two stations to Michigan and western Illinois, only to surrender the stations to the FCC before they were even built, so he could have a brokered station with higher wattage.
 
Rosebud3 said:
February 10, 2013

The 640 Khz. frequency in Terre Haute is only meant for 250 watts but even then another tower was built to protect KFI in Los Angeles. This came from the former engineer at WBOW.

Birach Broadcasting proposes a four tower array in Peotone, Illinois, which is 36 miles from Chicago. Birach also proposed to increase the power to 4800 watts daytime and a little over 1,000 watts at night. On top of this Birach will surrender his Zeeland, Michigan 640 Khz. license to the FCC so that two towns will be effected negatively, Zeeland, Michigan and Terre Haute, Indiana. The Chicago area will have another signal to their already hundred plus stations.
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3 markets that dont need anymore stations is New York, Chicago & Los Angeles. since those markets LA combined with Anahiem, NYC with northern New Jersey & CHicago on its own has enough stations to cover 2 or 3 markets on its own. If a station Owner buys a station just to move it to those 3 markets from another market should be stripped of all stations they already own. and those stations be put up but a non big corperate owner can buy them. But thats my Opinion on that

if 640 gets moved in to the chicago market. that be a 2nd AM station in the past 20 years to move to chicago from Southern Indiana/Illinois after 1690's move to chicago from southern Illinois about a decade ago. and since 1690 is attached to 810 in southern Illinois and by now its been a long time for that either 1690 or 810 has to be turned back to the FCC. and the problem is 1690 & 810 are no longer co owned by the same company which complicates the deal
 
1690's move to chicago from southern Illinois about a decade ago. and since 1690 is attached to 810 in southern Illinois and by now its been a long time for that either 1690 or 810 has to be turned back to the FCC. and the problem is 1690 & 810 are no longer co owned by the same company which complicates the deal
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The licenses for 810 was turned in a couple of months ago. 1690 lives. http://fccinfo.com/CMDProFacLookup.php?calls=DWDDD&tabSearchType=Historic+Call+Search
 
Hoosierky said:
1690's move to chicago from southern Illinois about a decade ago. and since 1690 is attached to 810 in southern Illinois and by now its been a long time for that either 1690 or 810 has to be turned back to the FCC. and the problem is 1690 & 810 are no longer co owned by the same company which complicates the deal
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The licenses for 810 was turned in a couple of months ago. 1690 lives. http://fccinfo.com/CMDProFacLookup.php?calls=DWDDD&tabSearchType=Historic+Call+Search
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So Southern Illinois ended up losing a station so Chicago could get one. thats just not fair to that market IMO
 
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