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Mike_O
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Univision Radio has filed an Application to upgrade KOVE-FM 106.5 to a full Class C with 100,000 watts at 598 meters HAAT, BPH-20060322AEQ from the current 100,000 watts at 403 meters and keep KOVE-FM from being downgraded to a Class C0 {Zero}.
Too many Class C stations have not filed to upgrade their facilities to a Class C status {100kW at 451 meters, minimum} and have been downgraded to a Class C0{Zero} for a new station in some town of 500 people. Hardly enough of a population to sustain a station and usually a Class A station that will serve under 5000 people.
I have read in several publications that a station needs to be located in a town of at least 10,000 population to be viable. KZRC 92.5 Markham, which has been for sale for years is a prime example of one of these stations and it covers Bay City with a population of nearly 20,000. I can not see how a town of a few thousand people can support a station and the allocation is in the public interest.
Univision upgrading KOVE-FM will stop the applications by Katherine Pyeatte to construct a Class C3 on 106.1 in Matagorda, TX (population 1752) and Charles Crawford to construct a Class A on 106.5 in Iowa, LA (population 2663). Both had requested the FCC to have Univision downgrade KOVE-FM to a C0 in a Show Cause Order. Hopefully the FCC will grant Univision's Application and stop two more unneeded stations on an already crowded FM band. Both the above people file numberous applications for stations in towns as small as a few hundred people in the name of serving the public interest. I personally find their applications BS when Houston suburbs like The Woodlands, population 115,509 per CNN Money Magazine in 2005, can not fit a station into the FM dial under current spacing requirements. Some other cities near Houston that are deserving of first service would be Spring {230,781 pop.); Friendswood {42,577}; Katy {135,912}; Sugar Land {134,670}; Pearland {71,315}; Richmond {52,290} and the list could go on, but 2663 population, get real. I would like to know how that station would ever make any money. I don't understand the FCC even approving these applications in the first place, other than greed from the auction of the allocation. /Soap Box Off/
An interesting fact is that KHPT 106.9 Conroe is short spaced to KOVE-FM by 1.8km under an agreement and Waiver of 73.207 rules on July 18, 1995 when the then KKHT 106.9 could not find a suitable site to upgrade that wasn't short spaced to then KQQK 106.5. The original application was filed June 13, 1989 by then KJOJ 106.9 for the short spacing of the two stations. The FCC by granting the Waiver to KJOJ/KKHT/KHPT allowed 106.9 to increase their coverage by 7,304 sq. km. and a population of 684,099, which is now likely over a million people.
KOVE-FM will remain at the same location and increase the height of the tower and increase the 60dbu {1mV/m} contour about 12 kilometers further out. This will add Spring, Kingwood, Liberty, Winnie, Jersey Village and Katy inside of the 60dbu contour.
Now if the FCC could see fit to grant waiverS to KTWL and allow the station to move to The Woodlands and provide City Grade service to nearly 500,000 people instead of the small population of Hempstead. It would take waiverS though to move 105.3 from it's current location to The Woodlands as it would be severely short spaced to KHCB 105.7 and short spaced to KYKS 105.1 Lufkin, and KPTI 105.3 if it moves off the sand dune to Winnie as a C2. Unfortunately Hempsteads KTWL is stuck right where it is and no where to move without being short spaced to at least one station and often two or more stations.
Thank You Univision for preserving KOVE's Class C status and increasing the coverage area to the maximum.
Mike O
Too many Class C stations have not filed to upgrade their facilities to a Class C status {100kW at 451 meters, minimum} and have been downgraded to a Class C0{Zero} for a new station in some town of 500 people. Hardly enough of a population to sustain a station and usually a Class A station that will serve under 5000 people.
I have read in several publications that a station needs to be located in a town of at least 10,000 population to be viable. KZRC 92.5 Markham, which has been for sale for years is a prime example of one of these stations and it covers Bay City with a population of nearly 20,000. I can not see how a town of a few thousand people can support a station and the allocation is in the public interest.
Univision upgrading KOVE-FM will stop the applications by Katherine Pyeatte to construct a Class C3 on 106.1 in Matagorda, TX (population 1752) and Charles Crawford to construct a Class A on 106.5 in Iowa, LA (population 2663). Both had requested the FCC to have Univision downgrade KOVE-FM to a C0 in a Show Cause Order. Hopefully the FCC will grant Univision's Application and stop two more unneeded stations on an already crowded FM band. Both the above people file numberous applications for stations in towns as small as a few hundred people in the name of serving the public interest. I personally find their applications BS when Houston suburbs like The Woodlands, population 115,509 per CNN Money Magazine in 2005, can not fit a station into the FM dial under current spacing requirements. Some other cities near Houston that are deserving of first service would be Spring {230,781 pop.); Friendswood {42,577}; Katy {135,912}; Sugar Land {134,670}; Pearland {71,315}; Richmond {52,290} and the list could go on, but 2663 population, get real. I would like to know how that station would ever make any money. I don't understand the FCC even approving these applications in the first place, other than greed from the auction of the allocation. /Soap Box Off/
An interesting fact is that KHPT 106.9 Conroe is short spaced to KOVE-FM by 1.8km under an agreement and Waiver of 73.207 rules on July 18, 1995 when the then KKHT 106.9 could not find a suitable site to upgrade that wasn't short spaced to then KQQK 106.5. The original application was filed June 13, 1989 by then KJOJ 106.9 for the short spacing of the two stations. The FCC by granting the Waiver to KJOJ/KKHT/KHPT allowed 106.9 to increase their coverage by 7,304 sq. km. and a population of 684,099, which is now likely over a million people.
KOVE-FM will remain at the same location and increase the height of the tower and increase the 60dbu {1mV/m} contour about 12 kilometers further out. This will add Spring, Kingwood, Liberty, Winnie, Jersey Village and Katy inside of the 60dbu contour.
Now if the FCC could see fit to grant waiverS to KTWL and allow the station to move to The Woodlands and provide City Grade service to nearly 500,000 people instead of the small population of Hempstead. It would take waiverS though to move 105.3 from it's current location to The Woodlands as it would be severely short spaced to KHCB 105.7 and short spaced to KYKS 105.1 Lufkin, and KPTI 105.3 if it moves off the sand dune to Winnie as a C2. Unfortunately Hempsteads KTWL is stuck right where it is and no where to move without being short spaced to at least one station and often two or more stations.
Thank You Univision for preserving KOVE's Class C status and increasing the coverage area to the maximum.
Mike O
..you cannot look at the communities as they have GROWN over the years...but the allocations were done when such areas were nothing and only the major areas like Houston proper were allocated service. And as for Public Interest?? Thats a joke!! When the FCC allocated the last rimshot in DFW to Azle, reading the petition was a laugh a minute...for those of us familiar with the area, we knew the FM would NEVER program for Azle but DFW...Dallas in particular...and sure enough, thats what they are doing...forget the FCC official word on public interest and COL..its all a matter of formality and consultants know this..which is why they will try to license a station to anything worth a first aural service..just to get it licensed...but it will serve the larger area next door.