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FM Station Voluntarily Goes Silent...

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Laurence Glavin

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As you may have noticed from rading radio-info.com's front page, an FM station very close to Los Angeles has voluntarily shut down its transmitter, and switched to internet-only streaming. The outlet's call-letters were KDLD...I wonder if they'll change them to KPEE since they're exlusively streaming now. Anyway, it's a very radical thing to do. It would be understandable if KDLD were an AM on one of the upper frequencies (a station in Mississippi in that situation has also just shut down). Of course, it's a Class-A operation squeezed in between fairly powerful stations on Mt. Wilson (KOST 103.5 and KIIS 100.3). Still its signal should have been receivable by several million people; their goodbye message on the website claimed that they just couldn't compete with the big guys. Which of course raises the question: how about Boston? Rim-shotters with full power like 99.5, 92.5, 99.1 or closer but less powerful outlets like 104.9...could they find it difficult to pay the bills?
 
From what I understand that's not the situation at all... Indie 103.1 is moving to the internet to make way for a new Regional Mexican format, "103.1 El Gato," on the terrestrial signals. It was an alternative radio station owned by a company that specializes in Spanish-language formats (Entravision), and although the KDLD/KDLE sticks cover areas that would be ideal for an English language station, they just couldn't make it work.
 
encarta95 said:
From what I understand that's not the situation at all... Indie 103.1 is moving to the internet to make way for a new Regional Mexican format, "103.1 El Gato," on the terrestrial signals. It was an alternative radio station owned by a company that specializes in Spanish-language formats (Entravision), and although the KDLD/KDLE sticks cover areas that would be ideal for an English language station, they just couldn't make it work.
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Not such a dumb move. The audience that would listen to altrock grew up with the internet and is probably more likely to discover an on-line stream than an over-the air one.
 
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