iHeart surrenders KVET 1300 license

[Ryan Williams]

RadioInsight has now revised it's story. The license was not surrendered to the FCC.

Bizarre.

 

[Mediafrog+]

RadioInsight has now revised it's story. The license was not surrendered to the FCC.

In the words of Emily Litella, "Never mind."

However when checking the Kiwi SDR in Austin last night, I did not hear any sign of KTSN 1490. That receiver is tied up this morning, so can't double check.

 

[kevtronics]

KVET? One less station for them to kvetch about.

 

[MRD]

It was just a bad dream, or as the FCC calls it "a typo"

KVET License Restored - RadioInsight

In another instance of the land underneath the station being worth more than the station itself, iHeartMedia has surrendered the license of Sports “1300 The Zone” KVET Austin TX. KVET’s four tower array is located on Metric Blvd. in a residential neighborhood in North Austin. The property is...

radioinsight.com

 

[Kent]

I hope the doctrine going forward will be instead of saving these "allotments" for a future auction, that instead the government takes these licenses being turned in as an opportunity to thin the AM herd. Which possibly will even allow the remaining adjacent healthy AM stations to perhaps improve their own facilities.

AM allotments are generally not preserved for future auctions when their licenses are surrendered or terminated.

The next FCC auction will include a few previously dark AM's in the St. Louis area because the licenses for the stations were revoked (or surrendered before being revoked), and several parties were interested in trying to buy them. I don't know if the St. Louis area AM's are an exception to the rule or if the AM allotments are usually deleted outright because one would assume a station that surrendered its license or was dark for too long found itself in that situation because no viable buyer was interested. The FCC has always required "continued interest" in an allotment before putting it on the frequency allocation table for auction.

 

[AnyHuman]

So did anyone ever find out which license was supposed to be deleted by the FCC?

 

[Kent]

So did anyone ever find out which license was supposed to be deleted by the FCC?

KEVT 1210 in the Tucson area.