OCradiodude said:
I can't find any record of them even filing for 50 kw. When did they do that? They would have had additional issues with 1270 in Tijuana and the several 1250s including Santa Barbara and 29 Palms.
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I can't find any record of them even filing for 50 kw. When did they do that? They would have had additional issues with 1270 in Tijuana and the several 1250s including Santa Barbara and 29 Palms.
DavidEduardo said:
I don't think they ever did.
Funny...Saul could do 50 kw in the day if they find the right spot of land...(GOOD LUCK) and narrowly aim it towards the Pacific in the right direction. Buy why bother...little benefit for high cost on a dying band.
Here in West Hollywood and even neighboring Bevery Hills, KGIL us subject to so much man made noise...it's awful. I haven't really listened since they dropped standards and only do now when I want to see how high my blood pressure can go in 30 seconds.
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DavidEduardo said:
This goes back to when 1260 had just switched to a jazz format. I remember around the start of the jazz format, Saul was interviewed by Gary Lycan and mentioned in the article that 1260AM would soon be 50,000 watts.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago. I found myself on the FCC website looking at information 1260. I happened to find a declined application (a CP, iirc) for a 50,000 watt 1260. According to a map in the document, 1280 was too close to 1260 (and possibly other signals from Mexico).
The strange thing is that I just checked the FCC site and the declined application is no longer listed. How odd. ??? I remember it because the name of the engineer had a unique Jewish name.
The closest I could find was this document. However, this isn't the one I described above.
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws...xt=25&appn=100605107&formid=301&fac_num=43937
OCradiodude said:
This was, I believe, a part of the modification where they added a fourth tower and replaced the middle element of the original three tower array. Originally there were a three tower system with the middle element being a wire suspended from a horizontal wire suspended from the two outer towers. There is a picture on Scott Fybush's site showing the "phantom" tower. I used to live near there in Mission Hills and later San Fernando and thre was a fourth tower on the northwest corner of the property which was the original location of KGIL-FM before they moved up on the hill to near The Oddyssey Restaurant. I haven't been over that way for years and from the Google maps I can't tell if the old FM tower is still there and/or being used as an element of the AM array.
I don't think that they would ever tried for 50KW and even if they had their coverage of Los Angeles would not have been improved because they would have had to send all of the extra power out over the Pacific Ocean. A boost for the DWP but not the station. Since they changed the COL from San Fernando to Beverly Hills I would assume that the report of poor reception in that are may be an anomaly of the writer's particular situation. In any even I knew the sales manager back in the old (Buckley) days and most of their advertising accounts came from Santa Clarita, before they got a local station there. When I worked for Valley Cable I had KGIL as audio for a time on one of the text information channels after Steve Ricketts dropped his leased line from Thousand Oaks.
What is he thinking?? Sounds like he's gonna be like Mighty Mouse "coming to save the day"! JZ is a real piece of work and his time at this station probably will be limited. He was fired from WHAS in Louisville prior to coming to the left coast. Need a reason? Pick one of the following:4UH8SIMBKAGN said:
"Ziegler, as you may recall, was fired by WHAS one year ago reportedly for one or more of the following reasons: questionable comments made about Divita; violation of WHAS station standards; a contract dispute; violation of community standards; threats by WHAS advertisers; a growing rift with WHAS station personnel; and complaints by the Catholic Church, The Courier-Journal and former Gov. Paul Patton."
Personally I think he was fired for his locker-room like comments about Ms. Divita.
He went on to discuss Divita's private life, her personal grooming habits, and claimed she was a pathological liar.
He has a colorful past for the short time he was here in Louisville.
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040908/LEO01/40907034
http://www.wave3.com/global/story.asp?s=3349821&ClientType=Printable
First off, I don't find most agenda hosts to be worth listening to. They're predictable and weak. I say "weak" because they seem to need to be affiliated with a team to generate their confidence, they're sense of belonging. How else do you reconcile them all having the same basic stances on just about everything?
This goes beyond a simple set of liberal or conservative priciples and crosses over to the self-imposed roboticizing of the format. It sure isn't because they thought all of their issues through and coincidentally came up with the exact same opion right down the line! If you think this isn't the case, you're naive and are likely loyal follower---I mean, listeners to political agenda radio.
All of that being said....
JZ is coo-coo---and not in an entertaining talk host way. More in a self-destructive and annoying way.
Plus, I can't stand that rasp of his. I always want him to clear the phlem out of his throat.
This goes beyond a simple set of liberal or conservative priciples and crosses over to the self-imposed roboticizing of the format. It sure isn't because they thought all of their issues through and coincidentally came up with the exact same opion right down the line! If you think this isn't the case, you're naive and are likely loyal follower---I mean, listeners to political agenda radio.
All of that being said....
JZ is coo-coo---and not in an entertaining talk host way. More in a self-destructive and annoying way.
Plus, I can't stand that rasp of his. I always want him to clear the phlem out of his throat.
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