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Is this even legal what BMP is doing to KHHL?

jras20 said:
Hopefully they won't run out of minutes this time. :p
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Well it looks like they finally did because it (KHHL) is silent now.
 
Will someone please buy this station and make something out of it?
 
everydayguy said:
Does KHHL even reach Victoria? Looks like there's not much population where its main signal goes.
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It does, about like KZAR.
 
jras20 said:
Will someone please buy this station and make something out of it?
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What would they make out of it? It belongs in Karnes City not San Antonio. That would be one heck of a sale to advertisers given the size of Karnes City. Cheaper to buy it, turn it in, make it go silent, and get a tax write off while the pickenings are good, oh wait that was 4 years ago. :mad:
 
LOL Hispanic Target Media should add it to their collection, they've got about a million other small-market stations anyways.
 
A few days ago I noticed they turned off the transmitter for KHHL, and it's off the air still.
 
It's back with horrible telephone quality, guess they finally put some minutes into their prepaid plan LOL.

Seriously if they're using a phone line, why can't they use Dialup? With a 32 KBPS stream it'll sound 10 times better... Right now it's throwing up horrible muffled talk all over south Texas.
 
Anonymouse said:
It's back with horrible telephone quality, guess they finally put some minutes into their prepaid plan LOL.

Seriously if they're using a phone line, why can't they use Dialup? With a 32 KBPS stream it'll sound 10 times better... Right now it's throwing up horrible muffled talk all over south Texas.
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because dialup has timers, which equals more of the famous sounds of silence format on 103.1 while they redial and renegotiate the connection!!! :eek:
 
That'll just up the power of the transmitter, so that muffled talk will go further. Unless they really will change their feeding method by then.

And about Dialup timers, media players like Winamp will automatically keep trying to pull in the stream on connection drop, so if it drops it'll just grab it again.
 
fredcantu said:
What about their upgrade to 50kw?
Looks like that would help.
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The "upgrade" increases their power by 16kW but reduces their antenna height by 100 feet. Also in relocating the tower site to the southwest of their current one it has no real impact on coverage of San Antonio, which charitably is marginal at best. The reason it makes little difference is that despite running more power, it's a contour protection situation with the signal being suppressed toward co-channel KEEP in Bandera, and San Antonio is right in that path.

Somebody help me here, since I'm having trouble remembering. How---and more importantly why---did BMP wind up getting this turkey in the first place?
 
BMP got it the old-fashioned way... they bought it.

Nothing really too glamorous... KTXX was one of the early-90's FCC "auction" stations; the original builder waited the appropriate time and then sold it.
 
The maps do reflect that, and I recognize they show some increased penetration of certain areas. But overall the increase in coverage is negligible. With the vast majority of the city getting a signal level well below 60dBu before and after, what's the point of the upgrade?
 
With the oil boom down there someone could make some money targeting the well-paid roughnecks who will be working in KHHL's coverage area for the next couple of decades.
 
Karnes City/Kenedy looks big enough to support KHHL. I only find two other FMs that serve that area. One is Spanish and the other is silent due to vandalism.
 
Karnes City/Kenedy is already being served by long-time heritage station KAML 990 AM. Last time I drove through there about six months ago, I heard a number of local commercials on that station.

Maybe a local FM could make money there, but KAML is real well known in that part of south Texas and KHHL would have to attract KAML's advertisers.
 
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