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John Oslund's 1150 am
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ki6bkj said:
It came through the FCC database last week.
Rick Bentley's article about John Ostlund's CP for a new station on 1150 AM in Easton:
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/02/24/1835292/john-ostlund-adds-easton-to-radio.html
From the article:
Despite all of the radio stations in this market, there are plenty of formats that are not available - such as comedy, urban, and polka. ... The [1150 CP] includes a proposal to build a tower array that would be located near Highway 168 and Alluvial.
I'm shocked -- there's no comedy or polka format currently running on any station in the Fresno market? Unbelievable!
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/02/24/1835292/john-ostlund-adds-easton-to-radio.html
From the article:
Despite all of the radio stations in this market, there are plenty of formats that are not available - such as comedy, urban, and polka. ... The [1150 CP] includes a proposal to build a tower array that would be located near Highway 168 and Alluvial.
I'm shocked -- there's no comedy or polka format currently running on any station in the Fresno market? Unbelievable!
Am I reading the CP correctly? Daytime power will be 260 watts (non-directional, from a standalone tower)...
Nighttime power will be 5,000 watts (directional, from 12 other towers).
Thirteen towers? Good luck with that...
Nighttime power will be 5,000 watts (directional, from 12 other towers).
Thirteen towers? Good luck with that...
BossRadioDJ said:
Why would anyone build a facility like that? How many square miles of usable coverage can you get with 250 watts these days with all of the noise on the AM dial. A 12 tower directional array for nights? How many listeners will he get at night? :
He must have a ton of money to spend.
mofocat said:
You're looking at something different. The engineering report for the CP that was granted states:
It is proposed herein to use separate transmitter sites for daytime and nighttime operation. The proposed daytime site is the site of existing station KYNO, 1300 KHz, in Fresno, CA. It is planned to combine the 1150 KHz signal with KYNO into Tower 1 of the KYNO tower array through a diplexer. The 1150 KHz station will operate with 260 watts non-directional daytime.
The proposed nighttime transmitter site is on vacant land northeast of Fresno. The proposed antenna array consists of twelve uniform cross section guyed radiating towers arranged roughly in a parallelogram (see attached Figure 4-B). The towers will be of varying heights (see Figure 3-B). The nighttime operating power will be 5.0 kilowatts.
http://valleyradio.org/kyno/Ostlund_1150_Eng-Report.pdf
Good work in digging that up, David. You dug deeper than I did. for that. John O. is doing this at the same time as swapping 1300 for 940. Wow.
I'm sure you are aware that the famous KYNO call letters are moving to 940.
KGEN, Tulare, is moving into Fresno market and what was once a 250 watt, daytimer, KLIP (now KQEQ) is now 5kw days and a fulltimer on 1210, programming in Hmong. Fresno has two fulltime Hmong stations. Someone mentioned on another board that the Stockton area doesn't have and could use a SE Asian station.
I'm sure you are aware that the famous KYNO call letters are moving to 940.
KGEN, Tulare, is moving into Fresno market and what was once a 250 watt, daytimer, KLIP (now KQEQ) is now 5kw days and a fulltimer on 1210, programming in Hmong. Fresno has two fulltime Hmong stations. Someone mentioned on another board that the Stockton area doesn't have and could use a SE Asian station.
The AM, 1370, not the FM. Has CP for change of 'city of license' from Tulare to Sanger, with 3800w days, directional (2 towers) and 102w nights, ND.
There have been a couple changes to the proposed antenna location. Was once at Academy Av. & Kings Canyon Rd, now is co-located with KQEQ's night time site. CP is set to expire this June.
There have been a couple changes to the proposed antenna location. Was once at Academy Av. & Kings Canyon Rd, now is co-located with KQEQ's night time site. CP is set to expire this June.
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