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Help with Henderson area radio history

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jd

Does anyone remember KJMD in Laneville? A construction permit was approved back in 1985 for the station to operate on 800 kHz as a 500-watt daytimer with a directional antenna. The name of the licensee was Joan Maddock (sp?), but did it ever get on the air? The last listings I've found are from around 1991.
 
I remember seeing the listing in Broadcasting Yearbook, but I guess this station never was built. Was this the old KGRI 1000 license or a new station?
 
I was just curious about it, since I recall checking to see if it was on the air when I was in the area a few times back in the late 80's.

There apparently was no relation to KGRI, which was essentially gone by the time the initial application for the Laneville station was drawn up. As I recall it was an auction deal, although I can't pin down the date of the filing window or any other details.
 
KGRI was paid to be turned off to allow another station to power up (I want to say in Dallas or a really large market).

This was a new CP and from what I understand never built out. Who would build it for a community (not even a town) of Laneville!! Monetarily it would have to be a millionaire that just wanted to blow money for no good reason. With the ground conductivity of ETEX 500 watts would not make it to Henderson. And a few years ago new rules were passed that you cant build or license a new station if it cant make at least 250 watts night power.

If its not there now never will be, but who would want or need it?? There are no businesses in Laneville!
 
I can't find any engineering data in CDBS related to DKJMD, so we have no idea what the directional pattern would have looked like. I suspect that the plan was to build the transmitter somewhere between Laneville and Henderson with the pattern pointed at Henderson. That is the only town of any size in the area to target. There is not much in Mt. Enterprise, and Tyler and Nacogdoches are both too far away for a 500 watter. It's roughly 12 miles as the crow flies from Laneville to Henderson, so a 500 watter midway between could have provided sufficient daytime coverage to both towns.

But 600kogo, you are correct, there is not a lot out in that so it certainly would not have been a money maker, and Henderson still had KWRD. That's probably why it ultimately was never built.

I have never heard the story that KGRI was paid to shut off to allow another station on.
 
Greg Branch said:
I have never heard the story that KGRI was paid to shut off to allow another station on.
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Nor have I. Nothing on 1000 or 1010 was changed; the only possible tie-in would have an adjacent channel issue with the 990 move-in from Wichita Falls but that was years down the road, well into the 1990's.
 
jd said:
the only possible tie-in would have an adjacent channel issue with the 990 move-in from Wichita Falls but that was years down the road, well into the 1990's.
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Yes, many years down the road. 990 moved from Wichita Falls to Farmersville sometime between 1998 and 2002. I see nothng in CDBS that indicates a deleted app or permit in the DFW area on 1000. And with 5 kW KTOK from OKC already on that frequency, I think that would eliminate DFW as the target market. Houston already had stations on 980 and 1010, and Shreveport had 980.

There is a 1000 kHz, 250 watt station in Marion, TX, serving greater San Antonio, KBIB. Interestingly, it went on the air in 1985 which was around the time that KGRI went dark. Perhaps there were plans to upgrade that station, but it seems far fetched that little 250 watt KGRI would have interfered with it.
 
Greg Branch said:
There is a 1000 kHz, 250 watt station in Marion, TX, serving greater San Antonio, KBIB. Interestingly, it went on the air in 1985 which was around the time that KGRI went dark. Perhaps there were plans to upgrade that station, but it seems far fetched that little 250 watt KGRI would have interfered with it.
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They may have wanted more, but the station in Marion did well to even get the air with 250 watts. It's a grandfathered short-space with Waco's KBBW 1010 and they also have to consider an adjacent 990 in Kenedy/Karnes City.
 
I was told that by the man who owned the station radio legend Tom Perryman! He sold the FM to Chipper Dean, he and Billy moved to Nashville at that point and bought WMTS AM/FM with Mary Reeves (Jim's widdow).

I suspect that being a daytimer that the Laneville station would have been a non-d station and they probably were going to build it on the cheap with a long wire or something of the sort. But 250 watts non-d day wouldnt hurt anything in that area for the most part. With ETEX ground conductivty and all other variables that stations reach would have been less than 3-5 miles.
 
My memory is fuzzy but I believe the Laneville station format was planned to be religious. That format is easy to run and profitable if you get enough programming.
 
When there are less than a thousand people in your listening and coverage areas then there is no profit to be had no matter what format. 250 watts day time only in Laneville is a money looser no matter how its programmed or built.
 
It would be so bad and lose so much money that it will lose with two "o"s that much money !! But Im sure in a town with one hooker that maybe she can share her money with the station.
 
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