Tastes like pork! /j
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KASA: That's a big fat NO!
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Yikes. Talk about a post that jarred loose a deeply buried memory. I haven’t heard that song anywhere since it got some radio play in 1970 but the tune was instantly running through my head. Amazing what is stored in the obscure recesses of your brain.🤔🫥
Had forgotten the possibly morbid lyric subject matter, which didn’t click when the song was new.😳
A complimentary Media Hut Piña Colada if you know who wrote "Timothy".
Rupert Holmes.
Make it a Margarita and you got a deal. I hate Pina Coladas, mostly because of that song.
I didn't hear it when it first came out but a few years later, when I was in college, our college station played it practically every week on the Sunday night oldies show (back then the oldies weren't so old, either), and the phones would just light up.
That's a good point. KASA was leased, and InPower Media wasn't at fault if KASA Radio Hogar couldn't keep up compliance.
The green grass behind the stadium was killed by climate change.
Appeal and recover their frequency?
Kind of troubling that the folks at 106.7 seem to be OK with broadcasting illegally, and part of the problem by continuing to let KASA air their programming. I'm wondering if these folks at 106.7 are the real driving force keeping the translator on the air. If it's truly a viable format, then I'm sure they will be able to find a legal way to bring it to the airwaves.
Well, since you brought up call letters, I suspect those great KASA calls will get picked up pretty quickly. Calls that spell out a 4 letter word (no, not one of those!) are always popular.
NBC will have the last word on that. Our KASA let the owner of a TV station in New Mexico use them, so now it'd be up to them if they want the calls to be shared.
Time for someone to write an opposition letter regarding this saying that THE LICENSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED! What part of "they're causing interference" don't they understand?
Interesting. KXEG has (or had) K241CS 96~One, which has been silent since 12/23. Took a lightning strike and obviously they shipped the defective equipment to Houston for repair. Who knows? Maybe it was damaged in transit on the return to KXEG
The argument is intriguing and is about conflicting license conditions. Why did it change from four-year to permanent? They are arguing that, under the earlier four-year rule (and not the later license to cover under different AM window rules with a permanent connection to KASA), K294CW should be allowed to change originating stations. They may have a case; I am not quite sure why we wound up with the discrepancy.
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Both applications have been dismissed/canceled by the FCC. Nothing changes the fact that K294CW is causing interference to KFUE, and is the overriding reason for shutting down the translator.
While there may be some interference between K294CW and the new KFUE, the 40 dbu interference contour of K294CW does not overlap with the primary 60 dbu contour of KFUE. Thus technically allowable. However KFAU has filed interference complaints from listeners inside of its 45 dbu contour, the new standard the FCC has made for interference complaints. Under these same new rules, a translator is allowed time to address the interference complaints. K294CW has not had the opportunity to do this yet. The cancellation of its license was based on the failure of being authorized to be on the air since its primary, KASA, was off the air. The Commission appears to have errored somewhat by thinking that K294CW was forever tied to KASA. While this is true from some of the later window filed translators, it isn't true for K294CW. It was a 250 mile 4 year tied to KASA translator. It was on the air the whole time, just rebroadcasting an invalid primary station. While may not be a valid reason to cancel the license. I would think a fine would be more appropriate. But yes, then the next hurtle would be to deal with the interference complaints.
Would a reduction of K294CW's power from 150 watts down to 48 watts from Shaw Butte, be enough to eliminate interference?
Secondly, is KXEG back to being on the air full time or still on an STA? Either way, I suppose it could be leased for La Indiscreta. The 96.1 translator was sold off, but the AM I believe is still in bankruptcy receivership.
Secondly, is KXEG back to being on the air full time or still on an STA? Either way, I suppose it could be leased for La Indiscreta. The 96.1 translator was sold off, but the AM I believe is still in bankruptcy receivership.
"Que fue" is, literally, "what's up". And "Fue" is the first syllable of "Fuego" or "Fire". Since the station targets Hispanics, the easily jumped to conclusions for English-only speakers is irrelevant... even in the Media Hut.
The STA request stated that they would reposition the antenna on the tower to further reduce interference, and that the TPO would be 48 watts. No specifics were given on how it would be directed, but I don't think that would help the station reach its target audience - I'd think it would have the reverse effect.
I believe the 96.1 translator is being transferred to the new owner. They still claim they can't go back on the air because of equipment issues.
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