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Is it really?

Ai4i

Ai4i

We just stumbled across this curious tidbit about a San Diego radio station which must be unique in North America.
Is 760 KFMB really ten times as powerful at night as they are in the day, and how did this anomaly ever come about?
Can't they just do something with KBRT and become an LA station, or are other protected adjacencies involved?
There is probably a thread about this somewhere, but we couldn't locate it.
 
ai4i said:
We just stumbled across this curious tidbit about a San Diego radio station which must be unique in North America.
Is 760 KFMB really ten times as powerful at night as they are in the day, and how did this anomaly ever come about?
Can't they just do something with KBRT and become an LA station, or are other protected adjacencies involved?
There is probably a thread about this somewhere, but we couldn't locate it.
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Not that unique, although the multiple of night vs. day is considerable. There are a few AMs that protect daytimers that have figured out how to do higher night than day power.

KFMB was jerrymandered onto 760 when a modification of NARBA forced them off 540 so that Mexico could use the channel for a clear channel, non-DA 150 kw operations. It should/could never have been licensed otherwise. It's short-spaced to KBRT, and because that daytimer transmits from an island (still) there is not much KFMB could do and still protect it in the daytime.

With KBRT moving inland, I wonder if KFMB might increase day power. I doubt that 760 could move much closer to KCBS, too. But the real issue is whether anyone would want to spend that kind of money on an AM that isn't religious or niche ethnic. All radio has much lower night listening, so there is minimal return on sinking money in an AM night signal, particularly at lower latitudes.

I'm guessing that KBRT makes more money than KFMB, anyway.
 
Possibly one factor in KFMB's keeping the increase in night power for so long was their Padres baseball broadcasts from 1979-1999.
Now, the extra wattage not needed as much. Although certainly the argument can be made that once you've got it, why give it back? Unless it becomes financially burdensome to continue it.
 
Always good to have the most competitive signal one can wrangle.
 
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