This is XEPRS here in Alaska.. about the best ive ever heard IT with the least chatter ever from KFNQ Seattle. 1223am alaska time, 123am pacific..... with .. a legal id?
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Is KRDC 1110 am los angeles shutting down on the 22nd?
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This is XEPRS here in Alaska.. about the best ive ever heard IT with the least chatter ever from KFNQ Seattle. 1223am alaska time, 123am pacific..... with .. a legal id?
Way back in the day when the station was known as XERB Wolfman Jack had regular listeners in Minnesota !
By the later 70's it was all in Spanish and known as XEPRS; my wife was the PM drive jock! That was from around '76 until she went to KTNQ and KMEX-TV around 1985.
Little off the subject. Admit to being lazy and too busy to look this up, but has EMF ever sold any of their stations? They are in some fairly small towns and with the cost of just operating out of a closet, they still pay some hefty operations bills. Seems like they would see upward growth into the Top 50 markets and cut out the small markets with little if any profit.
A couple of AM stations were sold because they came with an FM and had to be bought together. I seem to recall an occasional sale when they got a better metro area signal, but in general they keep everything as they want to cover as close to 100% of the country as possible. They even have a full "Puerto Rican" Class B in San Juan (50 kw at 500 meters).
If you're talking about reception at night, then it could be that the station's skywave signal cannot be picked up when you are close to the station's transmitter.
I learned about this fun fact recently in a thread about WFME New York. WFME has been conducting experimental low-pwer broadcasts from its transmitter in New Jersey. In NYC, I have been unable to pick up WFME day or night; however, I have read about people who live in Ontario who have been able to pick up the station's 1,000-watt signal at night.
Not in this case. The station has a really deep null to the East-Northeast areas and even in the daytime when you go towards the eastern suburbs or towards Imperial County there is just no signal.
And I heard a 250 watt Hawaiian station in Cleveland, Ohio several times. DXers can hear all kinds of strange things. And they have more costly radios to do it with.
They’re protecting KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas.
What was her name, I may have listened?
Amalia González. XEPRS, KTNQ, KHJ, KTNQ, Recuerdo & Recuerdo Network, KMEX-TV.
A Ha...when she did her show on the Big X was it pre-recorded on cassette and bicycled across the border or was it live and telco-ed or microwaved across the border?
Prerecorded on a bunch of big reels and a messenger took them across and brought back the old tapes for reusing. At some point, it went to a phone line to SD, and then microwaved across the border to the transmitter site.
Radio disney format is probably done on that station. Although what if another kids network decided to get into radio and bought up some stations.
Interesting, the reason I suggested cassette was that at one time when the FCC Regs didn't allow live broadcasting from US operators into this country from Mexican stations, I read decades ago that in the early years of 91X, they actually recorded their shows on standard Phillips type cassettes.
Never really understood the legality of the FCC ruling. The US has never had any physical or practical control over any signals from the US that may be received outside US borders, and absolutely had no control over what signals broadcast from outside the US that may be received in the US. So for me the concept just didn't fly.
Related to this when XETV was forced to give up its ABC (or any US network affiliation for that matter as KGTV dropped NBC in favor of ABC) NBC apparently wanted XETV but instead had to go with with KCST. Consequently, the two Mexico City TV stations that had been CBS and NBC affiliates, lost their affiliations as well.
Never really understood the legality of the FCC ruling. The US has never had any physical or practical control over any signals from the US that may be received outside US borders, and absolutely had no control over what signals broadcast from outside the US that may be received in the US. So for me the concept just didn't fly.
Related to this when XETV was forced to give up its ABC (or any US network affiliation for that matter as KGTV dropped NBC in favor of ABC) NBC apparently wanted XETV but instead had to go with with KCST. Consequently, the two Mexico City TV stations that had been CBS and NBC affiliates, lost their affiliations as well.
So what's going to happen with 1110 now KSPN is sold?
They will sell it, too. I don't understand why Good Karma picked up 710 as its new signal will be somewhere between bad and horrible. They should have taken 1110 and let Disney find a sucker to buy 710.
Unless there’s a subsequent lease of 1110 on Good Karma’s part to keep the simulcast in place (which could happen so they don’t have to worry about owning the transmitter site), it’s a horrible transaction.
Plus it’s not like there’s a stream of buyers chomping at the bit for 1110. Good Karma is really the only practical buyer available.
Radio Disney put Radio Aahs out of business in the 90s
disney has been done on 1110.. its running sports now.
And what kids network would buy more stations? That'd be a massive waste of money
There is basically no market today for a kids format on terrestrial broadcast radio, much less marginal am signals. No one is going to make that kind of investment. No one is going to listen.
Maybe some limited market on SXM and digital platforms like iHeart. I just looked on iHeart and they have 12 stations in the Kids & Family section including Build-A-Bear Radio and Hit Nation Junior. That is where these types of formats can find any success. Not a static-y daytime am station.
As a silly, but maybe interesting aside.... I have young children and they LOVE this current season because there is Christmas music on the radio to listen to in the car and in the kitchen on the Amazon Echo.
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