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Diablo Valley Airchecks from the 1980's KWUN 1480 now defunct and 990 KKIS

Is Immaculate heart the same people that bought 1260 am from Entercom in the 2006-2007 season when Entercom was blamed for the death of a Sacramento Woman. in a contest and Entercom Sacramento had to pay for wrongful death.
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Yeah, let's go with that. A woman died in a contest gone wrong in Sacramento, so Entercom sold 1260 in San Francisco in 2007 so they could pay for the wrongful death settlement in 2009.

Great story, except Entercom didn't own 1260 -- Bonneville did. Somebody should invent the Interweb so you can look up stuff like this.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Is Immaculate heart the same people that bought 1260 am from Entercom in the 2006-2007 season when Entercom was blamed for the death of a Sacramento Woman. in a contest and Entercom Sacramento had to pay for wrongful death.
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Yeah, let's go with that. A woman died in a contest gone wrong in Sacramento, so Entercom sold 1260 in San Francisco in 2007 so they could pay for the wrongful death settlement in 2009.

Great story, except Entercom didn't own 1260 -- Bonneville did. Somebody should invent the Interweb so you can look up stuff like this.
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Sorry I was trying to remember it but thanks for the correction.
 
Back on topic, one 1960's memory I have of KKIS is Ollie Freeman's Sunday night R & B show. This station put a strong signal into Sacramento, so it was like hearing KDIA for a while. It got kind of fady after sunset though. I think his midnight sign off song was Jimmy Smith's "Midnight Special"
 
I used to love Ollie Freeman's Sunday night R & B show on KKIS. His theme was actually "Midnight Sun" by Lionel Hampton and he would use it as his theme every hour.
It was a 1960's recording on "Glad-Hamp" label which I bought and still have. Great theme.
 
recto101 said:
Currently 990 am is Spanish talk radio and the studios moved to San Francisco but the XTMR is still in eastern Solano county.
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They moved the transmitter a couple of years ago to a site Southeast of Sacramento. The City of License is still Pittsburg, and apparently the signal is still strong enough to put city-grade coverage there despite the fact that the transmitter is probably at least 40 miles away. Gotta love that delta ground conductivity.

It was a pretty good move, allowing 1010 to increase their power as 990 moved East to cover Sacramento.

Dave B.
 
DaveBayArea said:
hey moved the transmitter a couple of years ago to a site Southeast of Sacramento. The City of License is still Pittsburg, and apparently the signal is still strong enough to put city-grade coverage there despite the fact that the transmitter is probably at least 40 miles away. Gotta love that delta ground conductivity.

It was a pretty good move, allowing 1010 to increase their power as 990 moved East to cover Sacramento.

Dave B.
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I think it was a stroke of brilliance given that the Bay Area already has a boatload of radio stations, and a rimshot in Pittsburg is not going to be able to compete much. But Sacramento is a smaller market and probably a bit under-served stationwise. Also, the protection to 1010 no longer is an issue, either.

That probably should have been done 40 years ago or more.
 
The biggest thing moving the 990 transmitter to Sacramento accomplished was getting rid of beaming their power to the east during the day and westward at night. Kind of hard to do much of anything when there's only about 30% coverage overlap between the two patterns. Going from 5 Kw to 50 Kw doesn't hurt, either. Yes, it should have been done years ago but it wouldn't have worked back when the FCC required 25 mv/m over the city of license.

BTW - IHR had a dedication ceremony at the 1260 transmitter the day they took over. KOIT's chief engineer was there to complete the handoff, and he had to do some fast talking to persuade the presiding Bishop that it wasn't a good idea to anoint the operating transmitter with Holy Water.
 
990 had a Ham & Edison study to move towards Sac 20 years ago, and raise power to 25Kw. They would have had to go from 3 towers to 6 at the new location and it was estimated to be a million dollar move. Ownership at the time elected not to do it. They always showed up in the Sacramento ARB, by the way, even with the 3 towers in Collinsville.
 
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