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K-Love and all of it's frequencies???

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liam808

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Why does K-Love take up so many frequencies or transmitters in the Tucson area?

88.1
100.9 (Tucson transmitter)
102.7 (Tucson transmitter)
105.5 (Casa Grande frequency)
 
Geez, with those 50,000 watts on 88.1, why on earth would they need repeaters? :)

> Why does K-Love take up so many frequencies or transmitters
> in the Tucson area?
>
> 88.1
> 100.9 (Tucson transmitter)
> 102.7 (Tucson transmitter)
> 105.5 (Casa Grande frequency)
>
 
> Why does K-Love take up so many frequencies or transmitters
> in the Tucson area?
> 88.1
> 100.9 (Tucson transmitter)
> 102.7 (Tucson transmitter)
> 105.5 (Casa Grande frequency)

It's not unique to Tucson by any stretch. I went to Albuquerque about a month ago, where K-Love upgraded KQLV 105.5 moving it from Grants to Bosque Farms, giving it a city grade signal over most of Albuquerque. They also, however, had a translator at 90.5, and there is KVLK 90.9, licensed to Belen, that is apparently still running K-Love programming. The translator at 90.5 is licensed to Placitas and is apparently supposed to hit areas in Sandoval County that don't get KQLV quite-so-well while KVLK has a much better coverage area to the south as its transmitter is in Socorro County. I'd guess they're doing the same with Tucson. There was plenty of overlap among the Albuquerque signals, and Tucson is probably much the same in that area, too. I was also quite shocked to be listening to 90.5 (well inside KQLV's city grade signal contour) and hearing it ID "KLOV Winchester." In other words, 90.5 was being fed by satellite instead of just picking up KQLV over the air. Didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
 
> Why does K-Love take up so many frequencies or transmitters
> in the Tucson area?
>
> 88.1
> 100.9 (Tucson transmitter)
> 102.7 (Tucson transmitter)
> 105.5 (Casa Grande frequency)
>
You forgot 100.5. The station on 88.1 does not have 50,000 watts or even the equivalent of 50,000 watts. There are dishonest billboards all over town. What I've always wondered is if God is really behind the religious stations, why doesn't he make sure that everyone listens to them? They all have terrible ratings no matter how many frequencies they take up.
 
> > Why does K-Love take up so many frequencies or
> transmitters
> > in the Tucson area?
> > 88.1
> > 100.9 (Tucson transmitter)
> > 102.7 (Tucson transmitter)
> > 105.5 (Casa Grande frequency)
>
> It's not unique to Tucson by any stretch. I went to
> Albuquerque about a month ago, where K-Love upgraded KQLV
> 105.5 moving it from Grants to Bosque Farms

Bosque Farms and Los Lunas seem to house a couple stations, but from driving around, seem like distant suburbs of the market.

Nonetheless, KLOVE and other EMF-like operations run thousands of translators that schlock up the dial. Someone should start an LPFM task force to start legimiate stations and boot them off. Of course, these "religious" operations, as was mentioned regarding the dishonest billboards, run completely dishonest operations not conducive to "God's will". And "religious talk" stations are what those of us in the business call "brokered" stations. Why they can't be honest about their whoring out of time, which I don't object to, is beyond me.
 
The possible answer

I could be wrong because I do not have any contacts other then looking at their current CP's and applications. But my guess is this. The owners of K-Love are EMF which also operates the air1 christian rock radio network. EMF has a CP for KAIC 88.9 in San Manuel north of Tucson which will be air1. 88.7 is only 26 feet and would not reach Tuscon so my guess is they are holding on to the translators until KAIC signs on and they can rebroadcast air1 into Tucson on the translators. I am guessing KLVA 105.5 in Phoenix will be sold once the upgrade for KLVK 89.1 in Phoenix is approved and built. That applicayion is to go from 2.5kw @ 935 feet to 30kw @ 2306 feet at a different location. That would leave only 1 full power K-Love signal into each Phoenix and Tucson. Otherwise I do not see what good the Tuscon translators would do for K-Love. My dad lives in Green Valley and says he listens and likes K-Love and KLTU 88.1 gives him a good strong signal. But he said he did not listen to the translators because they did not come in good enough. Not even in Tucson where he drives to work everday. Also EMF does not own KLTU 88.1 in Tuscon. 88.1 is owned by Good News Radio. As part of the settlement agreement they had to give K-Love a 3 year lease. After that they might not be on 88.1 depending on what Good News Radio wants to do. If k-Love loses 88.1 in 3 years it could change things. Maybe KAIC 88.9 would switch from air1 to klove and the translators would again become k-Love. I am sure K-Love would hate losing 88.1. I wonder if Good News Radio plans on renewing the lease. If you remember Good News Radio used to own 97.1 from Green Valley and programed it with contemporary christian music locally before they sold it to clear channel. They could do that again with 88.1. Good New Radio also owns KGMS 940 in Tucson.

As far as K-Love in Albuquerque is concerned things will change there too. KQLV 105.5 has an application to upgrade to 100kw. KVLK 91.1 has an application to move to 90.7 on the 105.5 tower and then it will switch to air1 as KQRI. That will knock off the 90.5 translator and give K-Love 1 k-love and 1 air1 signal in Albuquerque.
 
To put it simple terms

In other words, the money-changers have agreed who gets to stand where in the temple.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by zumahans1 on 09/07/05 03:09 PM.</FONT></P>
 
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