FCC acting on AM applications (attn: Mike O)

[purpledevil]

In proving my point further, that Mr. Johnson speaks untruthfully on this subject, I invite anyone within ear shot of KULF or KLTR to please listen at the top of each hour for the legal station ID. During normal hours of operation KNUZ-Bellville is mentioned each and every time. The complete ID for Lite FM is KULF-Brenham, KNUZ-Bellville, and KLTR-Caldwell. If I am wrong someone please record the station at any given TOH and post the aircheck here. I will gladly eat crow if I am wrong. Even when KEZB, now KTWL, was a part of the simulcast, KEZB/KTWL- Hempstead was included in the TOH ID. If your going to make statements like this, please make ones that aren't so easily proven inaccurate.

 

[kendro]

Re: FCC acting on AM applications

Wow!
Sounds like someone really wants to protect their little collection of transmitters.
I collect things too.
For grins and giggles, what was the asking price?
Also, were any nice little "terms of sale" included?

 

[kenhawk1160]

Uh...Bay City, Texas...not Bay City, Michigan.

Yeah...you're right. Got a little confused. My bad!

 

[purpledevil]

Re: FCC acting on AM applications

Wow!
Sounds like someone really wants to protect their little collection of transmitters.
I collect things too.
For grins and giggles, what was the asking price?
Also, were any nice little "terms of sale" included?

Another petitioner for "the cause". Seems like you got your petition in late. Missed the deadline. Thank goodness for faxes, right? You should know what the asking price for the station was, considering it is stated by Tom on YOUR message board. Maybe a little recognisance is in order. To answer your other statement, Mr. Kendro, anybody that spent their hard earned money on anything of value is going to be protective of it. Protecting investments of any kind is essential to running a business. How would you feel about it if someone were to hijack your rock board? I bet you and your members would "really want to protect their little collection" of posts and threads as well. The fact still remains the same, from February 2003 until January 27, 2004 KNUZ was off of the air due to transmitter problems. The FCC was fully made aware of this, so no infractions occurred. The facts presented are baseless, considering that these guys are looking at a "studio" located at the base of the tower that has been abandoned. The studios are in Brenham, which coincidentally is not a crime either. I'm sure if Cat-AM is looking into purchasing the building, Roy would probably sell it to you, if you're interested. Same goes with KNUZ. If you want the station to broadcast your 70's rock, please, I beg of you buy it like any self respecting broadcaster would. Don't try to take away something that you never earned. It's bad business.

 

[Ultanium]

Lets take this one at a time, lots of misinformation in here...

purpledevil wrote:
"from February 2003 until January 27, 2004 KNUZ was off of the air due to transmitter problems" = True about the time it was off, just like I stated, almost a year to the day. Your lying about why it was off though, and you know it...

purpledevil spewed:
"The facts presented are baseless, considering that these guys are looking at a "studio" located at the base of the tower that has been abandoned." = See above, they are not baseless. Also, please post the city of licensure and address of KNUZ before the FCC snatched the call letters from you. I guess you abandoned the citizens of Bellville the same time you abandoned the studio, huh? Care to post to the forum how your STL is setup with that little FM radio feeding the transmitter with an off-air signal?

another purpledevil mistruth:
"The studios are in Brenham, which coincidentally is not a crime either." = Your totally right, as long as your within the contour. Funny thing is that when I took my Potomac to your Brenham studio, your not in the contour even at your excessive power level... Imagine that. Where did you take your reading, Kenney?

purpledevil again:
"In proving my point further, that Mr. Johnson speaks untruthfully on this subject, I invite anyone within ear shot of KULF or KLTR to please listen at the top of each hour for the legal station ID. During normal hours of operation KNUZ-Bellville is mentioned each and every time. The complete ID for Lite FM is KULF-Brenham, KNUZ-Bellville, and KLTR-Caldwell." = Ironic how that just started, trying to get legal at this point is rather useless imo, you should have been doing that all along. By the way, how did that surprise visit from the Houston field office go? Just an fyi, I think the implied consent for broadcasting with an expired license only lasts a year. You will be considered an illegal station and subject to the full penalty of law, although that never has stopped you before... Better try to get another STA rolling!

more pd nonsense:
"Had the chance to check out your website, www.cat-am.com. Looks like it may have some "cobwebs" and a broken console as well. When was the last time it was actually updated? Still broadcasting on 580? Or is it 640? Or 1640? Please, clean your own closet before you pass judgement on someone else's." = Well first of all, I usually post the link to CAT-AM in my sig, so the url is no secret, but I appreciate the promotional effort just the same. CAT-AM is on 580, the reason for the move off of 640 is common knowlegde, KTEX 1280 in Brenham (you can do math right?), but that is irrelevant to this converstaion isn't it? You are accusing an unlicensed, flea powered carrier current station of changing frequencies and having low cost equipment... OUCH! The music server is my former PC, running 2k pro and DirEttore, and I have a Behringer mixer running an md-421 and an old RE-3. Hey, here is another tidbit you can hurl on your next post to redirect attention off your Daddy, I hand-built a part-15 legal 3 meter EH antenna too! It's a huge sucker, irrigation PVC that is 10" in diameter with expensive copper sheet cylinders... Cannot use this with the LPB or RSI transmitters, that would make me just as guilty as who????

and pd again:
"You have stated that KNUZ is basically worthless and has "no upgradablility". So why do you really want the station so badly? Do you think your rock station aimed at replacing a defunct Houston station can really serve the people of Bellville?" = I have already told you why, the station belongs here to serve this community. What does it matter to you *why* I want it? If 1090 moves (lol, not a snowballs chance in Hell), you know as well as I that there are no hope of a "replacement allocation" here, give me a break. 1090 stays, Daddy goes, and yes I will play a classic rock format on it.

pd yet again:
"So there is a new ss unit transmitter and the station is running at 300watts. Pretty impressive reading that you have conjurred considering the station has been "off the air except for a few days short of a year" = I never said there was a new ss transmitter at the shack, I said if the transmitter issues were so bad it took nearly a year to fix (like you posted), I would have bought a new ss transmitter. Hell, I can build one from scratch in about a week, and even a little LPB can be had for about $300 on eBay. Wouldn't that have served the Bellville community better than turning off the station for a year? I would have loaned you mine if I knew the transmitter issue was genuine, but you and I know the truth don't we...

I see a pattern here...:
"You have indicated that the amount of money asked for the station by Roy was preposterously excessive. I couldn't imagine that you would be able to buy the same 250watt set up, such as KIKK from CBS,for twice the amount that the station was offered to you. I won't go into details on the price due to respect for both parties and the confidentiality of the discussion between the two of you, but it was a fair price for the amount of power the station is and the amount of people that can be, and are being served with the signal." = KNUZ is not KIKK, one months billing at KIKK could probably buy twenty KNUZ stations, so this comment is idiotic. KIKK has a staff, a real transmitter, a tower, clients, a proven track record, massive population density and a respectable engineer Ever wonder why the other parties you tried to get to buy it weren't interested??? Dick didn't want it, the Doctor didn't want it, and the one person who does, who can restore the station and actually serve the local community, you try to rape with an outrageous price? Meanwhile you leave the station off to save money until it sells, and lie to the FCC about it... Yep, sounds like the same license hoarding I remember that started back in the 70's, and you can keep right on attacking me all you want. I'll back off when the commision reassigns the license, or Henderson sells.

One last time:
"I have no personal issue with you Mr. Johnson. I sympathize with your situation, considering the time and effort you have put into your radio station. I simply feel that your time and energy could be better utilized in going through the proper procedures in gaining your own license to broadcast, instead of dragging another man's name through the mud in order to manipulate other entities into believing that he is somehow depriving everyone in this county of their right to a format readily available to them on the FM dial." = Well thank you pd, but I do not consider this to be a waste of time and energy if the station is given back to the people of Austin County! I have not drug anyone's name through the mud, the statements I have posted are all factual. I do however tend to get a little heated about this subject because this station means something to me, so for the name calling in my previous post which the mods caught (and any I have hurled at Mr Henderson), I do apologize and ask forgiveness.

I offered Roy $75,000 for the station and my offer stands. I am not going to pay 1/4 Million dollars for it, you don't even own the tower and are stuck in a lease, have no studio, no staff, possible legal issues with the FCC, and no clients! All you have to sell is the license, with no room to grow, and those call letters mean nothing to me... Of course this is *only* if the FCC blesses the sale, I don't think you have anything to sell anymore, but I defer that to someone who knows more about the status than I...

Tom Johnson
CAT-AM 580

 

[purpledevil]

No one has ever denied that the building beneath the tower is abandoned. There is a calendar dated 2001 in there as well. It is long abandoned as it would be logical for the studios to each of these stations to be in one centrally located building. In this case, that would be in Brenham. Are you actually saying that KNUZ is fed by a boombox playing the KULF broadcast? Is that a joke? Does anyone actually simulcast in that manner? I'd be very surprised if that were an accurate account. I'm not lying as you accuse me of doing. You stated yourself that the station has been off the air except for a period of 2 weeks within a year. This sounds to the average reader that the station is still only broadcasting on a sporadic basis. This is not true, as you have now verified. The station was off the air for whatever reason you would like to believe. I believe there were serious issues with the station as far as its outdated transmission equipment, and that would be a just cause for the station to cease broadcast. That was over 2 years ago. The station is operating as the FCC mandates currently, and will do so in the near future, I'm sure, for the population of Katy. You have repeated this claim of running overpowered. I'd sure like to see that meter of yours and give it whack or two. It may have the same problems as your website. In desperate need of an update. Again you state that KNUZ "recently" was added to the TOH ID. I have airchecks pulled from KEZB-Hempstead before the flip to Bob-FM where KNUZ Bellville was clearly included with the ID's from Caldwell, Brenham, and Hempstead. This was nearly a year ago. Would it make you happier if the simulcast were called "Lite FM 94.1, 107.3, and AM 1090"? The product would still be the same, whether 1090 is mentioned or not. Speaking of Bob-FM, although the station is marketed for The Woodlands, every hour on the hour the ID remains the same. KTWL-Hempstead. No mention of The Woodlands, Navasota, or any point in between. Illegal? Hardly. You mentioned KTEX in Brenham. Would that be KWHI that you are actually speaking of? That would be the only station I know of on 1280 up here. How is it that you are the authority on whether or not KNUZ's calls are mentioned every hour, but don't even know the calls for a station that you don't have a problem with? The only KTEX that I am familiar with is a country station down in Brownsville. Brown, Bell, what's the difference? They all end in ville right? Sorry, Tom. That whole paragraph lost me. Yes, I know why you couldn't use 640 or 1640. Not sure how 1280 played into that at all, but maybe you would know more about your business than myself. By the way, I won't charge for the free advertising. It needed some traffic. Glad to oblige. I think it's amazing that you believe I am Roy Henderson's daughter. Why do you insist that I am related to Roy Henderson in any way. I am simply on the other side of the fence on your situation. Doesn't necessarily mean that I am mad about New Ulm Broadcasting and the fact that 3 good Brazos Valley signals all run the same exact feed. Creating Bob-FM for 105.3 was a step in the right direction as far as blowing up the simulcast. Once the work is complete on KULF's upgrade, I for one would hope that a new format is placed on KLTR as KULF will easily reach well into the Bryan/College Station market and there would be no need for both frequencies to remain in simulcast. What I don't want to see happen is for you to set a precedent for any Joe Schmoe to write a letter to the FCC trumping up charges on a broadcaster that has had issues with his station, a station in need of some serious technical and engineering work when it was purchased, I might add, and accusing him of lying to the Federal Government and forging documents. Those are pretty serious accusations, and could find you in hot water if proven false. In closing, I can't imagine many sellers entertaining your offer of $75k for a legitimately licensed Class D AM. C'mon, and he's trying to sell the calls? He doesn't even own the call letters. Those are assigned to the station by the FCC. Oh, but you don't need those for Part 15's do you? Who in the world actually cares about the KNUZ calls these days? The original "Country Fresh K-NUZ" in Houston is long gone, replaced by another heritage station in KQUE. You might want to talk to the people that let KQUE get moved to the AM dial, thus pushing the KNUZ calls off of the dial at 1230 and essentially out of the market. That also, didn't have anything to do with Roy Henderson. I guess your next accusation is going to be that he was the genius behind "The Planet", just to get the KNUZ calls in this wacky domino effect. I don't see anyone blasting the doors down at Liberman now that KQUE is a Regional Mexican station as opposed to it original Standards format, either. If you think you can get 250k from a set of call letters that haven't been a major part of a top 10 market in the last 20 years, I have some seaside property I'd like for you to look at out in Death Valley, CA. Price any station of comparible strength and size to KNUZ. I'll give you another, better example. Another Class D, from Bellaire named KILE. Reported here in the boards that it was sold a couple of months ago in, IIRC, the range of 15 mil! 250k doesn't sound all that much compared to that, now does it? Grant you it is an 800 watt daytime operator as opposed to 250 or even 300 as you claim. 75K, indeed. Maybe in a place like Marfa, but not this close to Houston. Good luck to you in your quest for 1090's license to be turned over to you. I guess we'll just have to continue to stand under the power lines in Cat Spring for The Cat.
Oh, and thanks for the apology. No offense was taken. If twit is the worst thing I'm ever called in my life, I will pass on happily.

 

[kendro]

Re: FCC acting on AM applications

Again, WOW!

I'll ignore the comments regarding the other board.
I don't own it. Feel free to log on and post away though.

I don't see where the price (i assume about $750k INCLUSIVE) is unreasonable.
It would depend on any incumbrences found during due diligence.
Not on conversation.
.

 

[purpledevil]

The price that Tom has now stated correctly at 250k is not unreasonable. We agree on this. The only reason I mentioned the rock board was because of the statements by Tom were originally located there when he was selling the board on the idea of petitioning the FCC for denial of license renewal. Otherwise, I wouldn't have mentioned it at all. I don't care to post on the board either, thank you. You all have bashing what you "helped build" down to a science, and I don't think you need me to interject anything there. I am astonished that you all went through all of that trouble to bring another rock station back to Houston to compete with Clear Channel's KKRW, and then ripped it up one side and down the other when you weren't completely satisfied with the direction the station took. Now it's my turn to say "Wow". No wonder the station can't even capture 1% of the market. With support like this, its miraculous that the station still exists. It looks as if KIOL has tweaked the format to "All Classic Rock, All the time", as well. That should give you all several more months of moaning and complaining over how this is not living up to the "legend" of KLOL. The board and KIOL do have one thing still in common after all of this time. The plug needs to be pulled on both. How long are you guys going to stick around patting yourselves on the back for being a means to make money for Cumulus? Wasn't your initial cause to replace KLOL? Hasn't that happened, well over a year ago? My goodness, ever heard about the one about the dead horse and beating it? Even more amazing is that you still want this same fate for KNUZ. If your members aren't satisfied with a 95kw signal broadcasting the music that you all petitioned for, I shudder to imagine what would be said about The Cat if it were to somehow acquire the license of KNUZ.

 

[kendro]

Wow! Yet again!
So I won't be polite anymore. Just blunt and honest.
I saw it, it's worth the property value and about 16k scrap in my book.
That's just what i'd consider paying for it in a 3 minute flyover.
I do wish him all the best when and if he decides to sell it.

Guess I should now address the remainder of your wonderful 'clip and discredit' essay.
You haven't posted there before? Really?
Yes, we wanted to replace KLOL. In energy, involvement, stature and music dynamics.
No, we didn't want a tight playlist of 20+ year old standards.
No, KIOL isn't what we expected by a long shot.
Yes, the membership dropped when they found the true nature of the business.
That includes being used as a marketing ploy for someone we thought was worthy of respect.
Yes, we still hope something better is in store.
You indicate that we should just give up.
That may work fine for you but not for others.

Yes, broadcast station in question was operating outside of the accepted industry standard interpretation of mandated requirements.
Yes, we felt Tom could (would) better serve the community through activity than what was being done at the time. Most normal people would agree that the output of doing anything is greater than doing nothing.
The simple fact that he actually wants to do it in the current context was the winning factor.

I will withhold commenting on anymore of your posts.
Hopefully, someone will as politely as I.

 

[Jdub50k]

This was the best thread ever. I have looked at the playlist for "the-cat" and it is surely something I would enjoy but i doubt it would be sucessful on the am dial. Are companies in Bellvelle going to buy airtime? Also $75k sounds a little cheap to me.

 

[purpledevil]

Doubtful. There aren't enough advertisers here to keep a stand alone 1090 afloat for more than a month. The playlist for The Cat is indeed impressive. However, you can hear 90% of the same songs on more powerful FM's such as KKRW in Houston and KXCS in College Station. KNUZ would never be able to compete on a level playing field against these two stations, under this format.

 

[krm]

No one has ever denied that the building beneath the tower is abandoned. There is a calendar dated 2001 in there as well. It is long abandoned as it would be logical for the studios to each of these stations to be in one centrally located building.

I agree that the transmitter building issue is one of several red herrings that have distracted the cat-amers from making a focused argument. As an unbiased observer in the KNUZ listening area I agree that this signal could have a better use, but those arguing for this need to stick to the relevant facts. Most important is not serving the community of license, which brings me to...

That was over 2 years ago. The station is operating as the FCC mandates currently, and will do so in the near future, I'm sure, for the population of Katy.

KNUZ has been off the air for about 2 weeks now. For several months before that it had an unusual schedule, airing from early morning (about 7) to about 4 p.m. or so. Not quite a daytimer schedule. And it was common over the last year or two for them to "accidentally" leave the broadcast going into the nighttime, but in the last year or so they improved, and I only heard a night broadcast from them once.

The bottom line is that it is easy to point out technical mistakes and issues like this when complaining to the FCC. If I wanted things to change with KNUZ and thought a petition or similar means would make a difference, I would start with this.

 

[Mediafrog+]

This thread has turned into a complete hissing match.

A future upgrade of 1090 into a fulltime station for Katy is probably not going to make any general impact. KREH and KCHN are both licensed to that metro-west area and are both running brokered ethnic. Any revamped 1090 is probably headed the same direction. :-\

I suppose they could get some listenership running the football games from the high schools in Katy--teams which have a history of success and community support. Does this mean the Katy Copperheads NIFL team will get a broadcast radio outlet? Yikes.

 

[jd]

I've got my own thoughts on this, but do you really think KNUZ's application to move to Katy could get back on track? Although I haven't seen a transcript I can tell you that Roy Henderson responded to the flurry of protests over both that application and his application for license renewal for KNUZ. As to what FCC insiders concluded after hearing his rebuttal, I couldn't say. But regardless of what you think of Roy Henderson I'd imagine that his comments were not only straight to the point but considerably more eloquent that those of the contrived group of "local" protesters.

Secondly, if KNUZ did move to Katy do you really think they could get approval for full-time operation? Their current application cites a reduction of the grandfathered daytime overlap with Dallas' KRLD 1080, but nighttime operation would present similar concerns. Co-channel stations from Tijuana to Texas, Arkansas and Florida would come into play as well.

My predictions: the move gets approved. And then KNUZ eventually goes full time. Is that outlandish? Not the way I see it. The application itself is not basically flawed; it's a matter of squelching the contrived public outcry. As for the idea of full time operation, it probably could be done. One only has to look at what has happened with KREH, KILE and what will probably happen with KCHN. One should never underestimate what Roy Henderson can do it he stays the course with KNUZ.

 

[Mike O]

This thread has turned into a complete hissing match.

A future upgrade of 1090 into a fulltime station for Katy is probably not going to make any general impact. KREH and KCHN are both licensed to that metro-west area and are both running brokered ethnic. Any revamped 1090 is probably headed the same direction. :-\

I suppose they could get some listenership running the football games from the high schools in Katy--teams which have a history of success and community support. Does this mean the Katy Copperheads NIFL team will get a broadcast radio outlet? Yikes.

Now that this thread has simmered down, for now, was an interesting thread on what has become a dull board. At the rate the FCC has been getting things done, radio may be irrelevant before any applications get processed for the Houston area.

First some good news for the people at RAFTT, the FCC finally approved their application for the modification of the day pattern which could not be brought into the specs of the construction permit. That means RAFTT now has their day 50kW and night 1kW construction permits. KILE 1560 seems to be runing at 800 watts this morning, but yesterday I'm pretty sure they were running the 50kW as I could not get a null on the station and it was bleeding over onto 1550 and 1570 slightly. This means the sale should go through as the two biggests obstacles have been met. It would be a treat if the new owner runs programming other than some foreign language, like all Texas music or Americana or some other niche ENGLISH format. If you scan the AM dial there are as many Asian stations as English stations broadcasting now. You would wonder what country you are in when you scan the AM dial in Houston. Unless the night signal turns out better than what is on paper the station is not a suitable candidate for a format like News or Business as it will not cover much of Houston at night. Likey KILE will remain Multinational when the new owner takes over though.

If KNUZ does ever get permission to move to Katy and that is doubtful at this time since the license still has not been renewed. If KNUZ has been off the air for two weeks now, R H has not filed a STA with the FCC for having a silent station yet. The last STA filed by KNUZ was back in 10/03. KNUZ will have little to no impact on Houston as the transmitter is only moving to/near Brookshire and the 5mV/m City grade signal only goes 3km past Katy. KNTH 1070 and KTEK 1110 have the station stuck out that far with their daytime 5mV/m signals. Unless KNUZ has a signal like KCHN 1050, that is the strongest 410 watt station I have ever heard. I really think KCHN is running more like 4100 watts. I have heard the station take calls from the Golden Triangle and a 410 watt station in far west metro Houston is not going to make The GT with 410 watts, even with a directional pattern in that direction.

Back to KNUZ, IF R H does get the CP to Katy it would be nice to see the station run as a full service station fultime for the west side with HS sports. Make it a local station down to things like Tradio and a local talk show for the area. Do morning News with all the local dirt that people thrive on, oh and the obits. Let the different local high schools rotate through the late afternoon with Rock music and use the students as announcers. It would be a sure fire way to get interest in the station from the younger crowd and their parents. You have Sealy, Pattison, San Felipe, Simonton, Fulshear, Brookshire, and Katy at least in your 5mV/m signal.

KNUZ should be able to get a night license as it is outside of the protected area of KAAY Little Rock and after 8pm play Adult Standards or Classic Country and all night try the old Beautiful Music format. Just don't simulcast KLTR from College Station as that will get you 0 listeners. Don't try to copy the city stations, make KNUZ local local local. If it sounds hokey, so what. You will need to get the communities in the City Grade siganl involved with the station to make it a success. Once you have people in the communities involved, you will get the advertisers. Listen to KULP 1390 El Campo or KSHN 99.9 Liberty, they don't sound big time, but they cater to the communities around them and have very loyal listeners. I can't pick up KVST 99.7 so I don't know how they program the station.

Now some other applications. The FCC has KHCB 1400 and the move from Galveston to League City "ON HOLD", meaning they don't know what to do with the application. Technically it is sound, but it opens a can of worms if you let a Graveyard station go directional at night and send more power over a city. If they approve the appliction you will have 500 applications that will want to go directional on the Graveyards to better cover their COL at night. No telling how long the FCC will just sit on this app.

The KWHI 1280 Brenham aplication for 10kW over Houston daytime is also "ON HOLD". Another app that will sit in the wings for God knows how long. It has been over three years already for both the KWHI and KHCB applications and still no decision.

Beaumont's KIKR 1450 is #20 on the list of Unblocked Applications for building a new tower next to their existing tower. That means that maybe in three or four months there may be a decision. The station will have a slightly smaller contour, maybe two or three kilometers. Nothing else from SE Texas on the list.

KCHN is no longer on the Blocked List, it just doesn't exist anymore for their 650 watt nighttime signal to cover less than 5 kilometers. It may be dead, but it still shows up in the FCC database. It might as well be dead, one of the dumbest applications I have seen in years from a Houston area station.

KGOL doesn't show up anywhere either for their modified application of 3kW at night to slightly increase their pattern. Mexico objected to the 4700 watt nighttime application so the spineless FCC dismissed that one. Last I knew 1180 was a US Class A clear channel and KGOL should be able to send 50kW into Mexico if they wanted to and cover the city of Houston. If the FCC would approve 1180 for 50kW and complete coverage of Houston you would have a station that would have some value and maybe run more than just brokered Vietnamese. It will never happen though. KGOL is left to be a daytiimer with limited night coverage at best.

1270 Bay City may be a dead application. There is nothing on file but the short form 301. There has never been any follow up on the initial application. I can see why, a county of less than 40,000 people and seven FM stations on the air, one cp and seven more stations that ring Matagorda County, plus all the MO City stations are like locals. It would be a tough market for any station and AM would really be in a bad way. 92.5 has been for sale for how many years now?

KRCM 1380 moving from Beaumont to Shanandoah is a no show also. It may take the FCC two more years to get to the KRCM application. They picked a stupid place for the transmitter when it comes to nights. The flea power won't cover but a few miles at best and won't get into Conroe or The Woodlands. The 480 watts daytime isn't going to catch anyone attention either. The question is what do they program? The station will likely be sold off to a Pay for Prayer station once it gets built, if the FCC OK's the move. This station will likely be another waste of spectrum.

KYND should be coming on the air with their night signal sometime soon. Will they stay with the Asian programming and is there the population in the FM 1960 area to support that format? The 1520 siganl is pretty much toast in the Galleria area as it is in most of the city. The highly dierectional pattern to the east does not favor Houston. Guess KYND has a good signal in the Louisianna fields serving ?

KGBC 1540 Galveston has their CP for 2500 watts daytime, but they have modified the pattern about four times and may have a worse signal in Houston after the upgrade than they do with the 1kW non-directional.

That's it for me. I don't listen to AM/FM radio much anymore. It almost all internet radio. CD's in the SUV. So much better and enjoyable. If Houston had some personalities on the air I might listen, but outside of Wendy Miller on KIOL I don't waste my time. There are some excellent people out there, but they are stuck to reading f'ing cards...what a waste of real talent. It must be frustrating as hell to have the talent and ability to speak without a liner in front of you and stuck saying the same few phrases over and over. Is there anyone on live in Houston after midnight anymore?

Is KIOL headed for a format change? Now they are "All Classic Hits All The Time", great just what Houston radio needed. The VP of Programming was in Houston last Thursday, which makes me think new formats for 97.5 and 103.7. Probably some brillant ideas of how to total KRBE before Christmas also.

Mike

- radiodial and others Thanks for the support about my post being removed. It is truely appreciated!