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Is 1330 fibbing to the FCC?

RadioBill said:
Green Valley is probably 35 miles as the crow flies from KWFM's transmitter site on the far NE side of Tucson. With only 2,000 watts during the day and at a relatively high dial position, KWFM doesn't put a strong enough signal into Green Valley to have an impact. And KWFM suffers from co-channel interference in this somewhat fringe area at sunrise/sunset. I know because I live very near Green Valley and use to listen when it was 1330 the Jolt. KWFM does put a decent signal into Green Valley at night with their directional pattern and power increase; however, everyone is in bed by 7pm :)

The primary area where KWFM has a competitive signal, day AND night, is to the SW across Tucson - including South Tucson and the SW metro area, an area which is mostly Hispanic.
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The only format in Spanish that might get sales, even if it gets no ratings, would be the Univision / Televisa joint ventur, TUDN. Well done, mostly soccer, and on target for Spanish speakers who like only three sports... soccer, soccer and soccer.
 
KWFM is back on the air. Heard them yesterday afternoon with M.G Kelly's classic hits. However, KWFM was broadcasting only one of the two stereo channels so some of the songs sounded a little strange. KWFM is still on the air today.
 
Still off on Thursday night. Any ideas on what they are trying to accomplish other than to play games with those of us who use Radio Discussions?
 
CAVEMANager said:
Any ideas on what they are trying to accomplish other than to play games with those of us who use Radio Discussions?
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Doc Sprei - one of his minions, certainly - has been tasked to periodically 'fire it up!' in order to keep the 8 or 12 of us that periodically stop by here to see what's happening wondering those very things.
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Not quite like it was nearly a decade ago, when the Tucson Weekly's Media Watch column...and the comments that followed, were legendary in quantity - and vitriol.
 
KWFM is still telling the FCC that they air a weekly public affairs program at 7 a.m. every Saturday. Here is their report:
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I'd be amazed if such programming is actually being broadcast. Like all stations in Arizona their license expires in October. Will they file to renew it?
 
CAVEMANager said:
I'd be amazed if such programming is actually being broadcast. Like all stations in Arizona their license expires in October. Will they file to renew it?
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Will it ''bite the dust'' this time?
 
...and did 'she' or her minions ever sue the Tucson Weekly for slander, like they kept threatening to, both in on-air 'editorials' as well as on the Weekly's website?
 
99KTKT said:
...and did 'she' or her minions ever sue the Tucson Weekly for slander, like they kept threatening to, both in on-air 'editorials' as well as on the Weekly's website?
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Great question.

I'm sure something would be printed in the TW had that pressed on

A lot of comments made might have been used against 'her' had it went to trial, it seemed to me.

Ahhhh, the good old days.
 
The FCC is getting a bit more restrictive on issuing STA's. I do work for a few stations that, for various reasons, have been silent except for around 5 days a year for the last several years. The last STA the commission granted stated that, since the stations had been mainly silent, they would not issue another STA.
 
1) They failed to pay their annual regulatory fee. 2) They failed to apply for the renewal of their license which expired in early October. What's left is for the towers to be taken down if that hasn't already happened. Then the land gets sold to a real estate developer who will build some up scale houses on the land. It is conceivable that someone could apply to use 1330 from a different transmitting site but very unlikely. Very few new AM stations are being constructed. And if there were going to be a new AM in the Tucson area there are better frequencies than 1330.
 
CAVEMANager said:
1) They failed to pay their annual regulatory fee. 2) They failed to apply for the renewal of their license which expired in early October. What's left is for the towers to be taken down if that hasn't already happened. Then the land gets sold to a real estate developer who will build some up scale houses on the land. It is conceivable that someone could apply to use 1330 from a different transmitting site but very unlikely. Very few new AM stations are being constructed. And if there were going to be a new AM in the Tucson area there are better frequencies than 1330.
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No one wants to build a station requiring multi towers these days
 
Hey, it started out as a 500 watt daytime operation.

Yeah, nobody wanted that, and it's gone.

I've not looked up the current land ownership situation. Maybe I'll get it tomorrow.
 
1330 had a fascinating history for those who have been around for awhile. I think back in the 1960s it was K-MOP. According to Ms Avalon, the "O P" stood for "Old Pueblo". Later it became KHYT using a small tower near the Congress Street freeway interchange. In the early 1980s they kept the 500 watt daytime facility and added the 5 kw night time setup off Sunrise Drive. So every day they had two transmitting facilities about fifteen miles apart. The station really took off when it began to play dance music during the disco era. In the early 1980s Rich Robbin programmed the station which Hispanic teens loved. After that the station switched to various talk formats and it went downhill. For awhile John C Scott was in charge of programming and the situation looked hopeful but he was let go and the ratings went to near zero. The "Star" music format was a total dud.
 
Started out as KMOP in 1957, and changed to KHYT in 1965. Think it started life with that small tower over on Congress. That stick would easily cover metro Tucson (and, even S. Tucson) back then with ease.

Early radio history by Barry Mishkind (wasn't he the CE of KHYT that actually built that six tower array?) here:


Bob Scholz (RIP) was the owner at that time.
 
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