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Houston area radio notes (update thread)

rosecitymedia said:
I wonder if it's the same 10kW rig that was set-up in 1985. I sure can't imagine Liberman ever replaced it...
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Liberman would get three bids, and then argue intensely with the one submitting the lowest quote.
 
Mark Roberts said:
It so happens that I still have my DXing notes from 1980-1984 when I lived in mid-Missouri. One note says, "KIKR, moved from 900, Conroe, TX. Call-letter ID in newscast, 5:11 pm, 11-9-84." This was likely in the window between Missouri local sunset and southeast Texas local sunset, which could be 30 minutes that time of year.

It also so happened that, just three months later, I had moved to Houston, and definitely remember that the Conroe station was at 880 then. Swaggart's KJOJ was on FM at 106.9. It was sold in 1989 for $9 million, and, according to an article in the Houston Post (8/26/1989), had been shopped around for a while. There was also a spat with Montgomery County over property tax exemptions that Swaggart settled the previous year.

You guys are much closer to the market than I am, so I didn't have much luck tracking down precisely when KIKR became KJOJ, but it looks like it was around 1991, which is consistent with what you've said.
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Here's a little footnote for your DX notes, @Mark Roberts. Now, I'm not sure whether it was Steve or Rigby Owen, but one of the two (maybe the combination of the both of them, maybe someone whispering in their ear) was so short-sided that they sold 106.9 to the Swaggart ministry to pay for the whole upgrade for 880. You say late 1984, I thought it was early 1985, but either way you look at it, you've just got to wonder what they were thinking? Of course, this is the same guys who lifted parts of the old KIKK and tried to recreate it up in Conroe, hence the former KIKR calls.
 
Seems like they’re doing work on the Senior Road tower(s?) this morning. Multiple stations have HD off and or missing RDS. Some are even coming in weaker. KBXX displays KBXX-AUX on the RDS
 
Memo to Hope Media Group: Your newly acquired Worship 24/7 on KHVU HD-2 has been dead air at several checks this afternoon, though song titles are still showing.
 
I was listening to The Vibe on KUHF HD3 tonight and noticed when it gets quiet especially at the end of the song there’s an annoying buzzing sound. I guess it’s the PPM encoding?
 
HTX said:
I was listening to The Vibe on KUHF HD3 tonight and noticed when it gets quiet especially at the end of the song there’s an annoying buzzing sound. I guess it’s the PPM encoding?
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PPM only encodes when there is audio equal to or greater than any of the frequencies it can use to mask the encoding. If there is not adequate audio, the PPM device does not encode at all.
 
HTX said:
I was listening to The Vibe on KUHF HD3 tonight and noticed when it gets quiet especially at the end of the song there’s an annoying buzzing sound. I guess it’s the PPM encoding?
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The Vibe gets fed to KUHF directly off a program feed over a codec from the KTSU studio, and the TSU facility is mostly analog with some really old distribution amps. So when the song fades out and the processing pumps up the volume, it can get a little noisy.

When they first signed the simulcast on, there was some serious crosstalk on that wire, so what you're hearing now is better than it used to be.

I like The Vibe. I donate to it, too.
 
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Bruce Logan Returns To Audacy Houston

Former Audacy Houston VP/Programming Bruce Logan is returning to the cluster as _____ Brand Manager for Variety Hits “95.7 The Spot” KKHH and Country “100.3 The Bull” KILT-FM. Logan spent five years leading CBS Radio Houston from December 2013 to December 2018. He then joined Hubbard West Palm...
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Seems like someone forgot to turn off KKHH's auxiliary site. I'm getting to feeds (one delayed by a second) fighting each other inside the loop this afternoon.
 
Not really related with technical radio info but on air staff. Everyone on The Raul Brindis show tested positive for COVID. Raul Brindis was not on air since it seems to have affected him the most.

The rest of the crew was on air stating they had minor symptoms.
 


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