True, and those of us who get to compete with them can consider that a stroke of luck.. But in the Disney case, the radio operation had downscaled so much that apparently they no longer hand the support staff for legal and engineering to keep the manager from installing and commencing broadcasting on an improperly installed facility.
They are still licensed on am 1110 am for the rest of the year are you talking about the fm signal 99.1 fm they had as the improperly installed facility ?
Yes, as I said, a translator. There are no AM translators.
They are licensed as long as they comply with the on-air requirements. At the moment, with the rebroadcast of ESPN, they are in compliance.
If they are both 50000 watt stations what is the difference if it’s on 710 or 1110 I’d think 710 is actually a better frequency to have being the station right after 640 kfi.
710 sold its transmitter site, and is moving to the 1110 site with much less power and a horrible directional system that will miss a big piece of the LA metro.
Remember, sunrise in winter occurs well after 6 AM and sunset can be before 6 PM as well... so the night pattern and power are quite important, particularly in a market that is as geographically large as Los Angeles.
Lower frequencies travel farther.
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The 710 signal is compromised because it protects other stations on the same frequency and I believe still powers down at night to almost complete uselessness. Even back in the early 90s I had to listen through static in the SGV when catching Jim Healy on the way home from work.
710 is still, until it moves, in the San Fernando Valley with a decent 50 kw day signal, but it drops to 10 kw at night and is restricted to the north and east. When it moves to the 1110 site near Azusa, it will be aimed to the West -Southwest. The Eastern SGV will still be bad, but it will lose most of the OC and all of the SFV. And it wll be much lower power at night, and reduced power in the daytime.
In a way this would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. 710 KMPC was the number one radio station in the market for much of the '50s and continued to do well into the '60s. 710's non-directional 50kw daytime signal is nearly the equal of KFI. Where I live in the far-west San Fernando Valley it measures a whopping 100 mV! (I am only about 10 miles from the xmitter), still the daytime signal still sounds local in Santa Barbara, and Bakersfield. On night-pattern I am on the west side of the signal and get only about 5 mV , which is probably what I'll get during the day from the new SGV facility. I am expecting virtually no signal at night. I won't be surprised if my GE Superradio picks up KIRO from Seattle. BTW, does anybody know exactly what FCC rule permits already established AM stations to make changes so that they no longer serve their city of license on night pattern? If 710 were vacant and available in the LA market and someone were to submit an app for a new station I'm pretty sure it would be rejected based on the proposed night pattern.
So would his company be keeping krdc or the espn simulcast would he be keeping it sports oriented on 1110 or change it something else. I dont see what the point of putting music on it though would be as there is already so many popular los angeles fm music stations maybe like a left wing news talk station would get some ratings for the area.
They are making 710 AM a really bad signal by moving it to the Azusa area. I suspect that the keeper will be 1110, which "belongs" at that site and covers the market reasonably well. Disney could then sell 710, as I am sure they took an impairment charge already for the downgrade.
A sad end for what was once the "Station of the Stars". Many considered KMPC 710 to be the gold standard in broadcasting for many years.
Yeah, but really, the end was 30-plus years ago. Numbers fell dramatically from '90 until they dumped the music in '92. And nothing worked after that, until ESPN (to the extent that it does).
Their ratings notably spiked every afternoon at 5:30 in the early 90s.
