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It does seem like a slightly longer delay than what it was
Funny thing is, because Country Legends is now on 92.9 HD2, it actually has better coverage to the Houston area than it did on 97.1. So putting it on 92.9 HD2 is much better than if it ended up on 97.1 HD2 (which would never happen under EMF’s ownership, since they exclusively run Christian formats).
Why would a religious broadcaster have kept a secular format?
EMF couldn't do that even if they wanted to. FCC rules are very specific regarding NCE and LPFM stations - no commercial broadcast at all, including HD sub channels.
There are some translators owned by EMF that have commercial formats.
Are they in Houston? Translators in Houston appear to be exempt.
Translators on the commercial part of the FM band can be fed with commercial programming. EMF is doing that in just a few markets. My point was that full power NCE stations can’t feed commercial programming on the main channel or HD sub channels.
They may be leasing out the translators to for-profit programmers. We have already established that they are in it for the money. More heads covered equates to more revenue, and as that great philosopher, P.T. Barnum, once said, "There's one born every minute."
They didn't turn it off. It was already off when they bought the station. It had actually been off for years at that point.
Did 103.7 ever actually run HD after the big upgrade in 2005? I didn’t have an HD receiver during the pre-EMF years of the station (KUST/KIOL/KHJK).
97.1 HD did go off a lot after it was sold. I can't recall any of the other HDs being completely off.
Yes, as KIOL, but it was incredibly spotty unless you were east of downtown and reached almost into Lake Charles going east. I do not recall 97.5 ever being in HD prior to Gow picking it up.