The article says "The towers owner is listed as Joseph Tabback DBA Tabback Broadcasting according to the Federal Communications Commission, though Tabback died April 29, 2010". Shouldn't whoever was in charge of that person's estate have notified the FCC once the person died/their estate went to probate?
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KAZG not at full power and KAZM not on the air
- Thread starter ted chittenden
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Indeed, KAZM was one of the best sounding full service small town radio stations in America during the tenure of the founder Joe Tabback. He took advantage of the "opening" of Clear Channels by the FCC in the early 1980s and moved from a high end frequency, 1600 daytime only, as I recall, down to 780 increasing the daytime power to 5000 watts and added 250 watts, two-tower directional. Even into the first decade of the 2000s, the station successfully aired a broad based Adult Contemporary format and was strong with local news and community involvement. Strong daytime signal across most of central Arizona. It could be heard in Prescott and Flagstaff like a local.
KAZM was also late to get into the FM translator business and by the time they did a good frequency with big coverage from a well elevated site wasn't available. When Joe died, his son and grandson took over and at one point went all sports. Good people I'm sure trying to keep the family legacy going but probably without the passion for radio like Joe had. You can't have such a targetted format in a small market because in a small town there are two audiences, local advertisers (often community leaders on the city council, school board, etc) and the general public. You need to have enough of both to generate enough reach to be relevant. If it's ever lost then there is no going back in today's media world. While Sedona is heavily tourism based, the truth is there are lots of locally owned businesses there..people who choose to live there and nearly all with a community mindset. That's all well and good but someone on the radio station staff has to go out and sell the advertising and radio advertising sales ranks among the most difficult occupations to achieve success. If the owner can't sell, then he or she better be able to recognize sales talent and hire it. That too is not an easy task. There are lots of public relations type personalities trying to sell ads but can't stomach the rejection a true salesperson lets roll off their back.
The Tabbacks sold the station a few years ago. It's not unusal for the tower ownership change notification to not get filed since it's a separate filing outside of the normal FCC filings. There are still a handfull of successful small town stations. Two of my favorites are KONP in Port Angeles, Washington; WHKP in Hendersonville, NC and WNEG in Toccoa, GA. All three built their community legacy during the stalwart days of local radio and have maintained their success with consistency, investing in their technical plants to maintain signal quality, and having small in numbers but big in dedication, staff. It should also be noted that their local markets are still vibrant small towns, too.
KAZM was also late to get into the FM translator business and by the time they did a good frequency with big coverage from a well elevated site wasn't available. When Joe died, his son and grandson took over and at one point went all sports. Good people I'm sure trying to keep the family legacy going but probably without the passion for radio like Joe had. You can't have such a targetted format in a small market because in a small town there are two audiences, local advertisers (often community leaders on the city council, school board, etc) and the general public. You need to have enough of both to generate enough reach to be relevant. If it's ever lost then there is no going back in today's media world. While Sedona is heavily tourism based, the truth is there are lots of locally owned businesses there..people who choose to live there and nearly all with a community mindset. That's all well and good but someone on the radio station staff has to go out and sell the advertising and radio advertising sales ranks among the most difficult occupations to achieve success. If the owner can't sell, then he or she better be able to recognize sales talent and hire it. That too is not an easy task. There are lots of public relations type personalities trying to sell ads but can't stomach the rejection a true salesperson lets roll off their back.
The Tabbacks sold the station a few years ago. It's not unusal for the tower ownership change notification to not get filed since it's a separate filing outside of the normal FCC filings. There are still a handfull of successful small town stations. Two of my favorites are KONP in Port Angeles, Washington; WHKP in Hendersonville, NC and WNEG in Toccoa, GA. All three built their community legacy during the stalwart days of local radio and have maintained their success with consistency, investing in their technical plants to maintain signal quality, and having small in numbers but big in dedication, staff. It should also be noted that their local markets are still vibrant small towns, too.
Indeed, KAZM was one of the best sounding full service small town radio stations in America during the tenure of the founder Joe Tabback. He took advantage of the "opening" of Clear Channels by the FCC in the early 1980s and moved from a high end frequency, 1600 daytime only, as I recall, down to 780 increasing the daytime power to 5000 watts and added 250 watts, two-tower directional. Even into the first decade of the 2000s, the station successfully aired a broad based Adult Contemporary format and was strong with local news and community involvement. Strong daytime signal across most of central Arizona. It could be heard in Prescott and Flagstaff like a local.
KAZM was also late to get into the FM translator business and by the time they did a good frequency with big coverage from a well elevated site wasn't available. When Joe died, his son and grandson took over and at one point went all sports. Good people I'm sure trying to keep the family legacy going but probably without the passion for radio like Joe had. You can't have such a targetted format in a small market because in a small town there are two audiences, local advertisers (often community leaders on the city council, school board, etc) and the general public. You need to have enough of both to generate enough reach to be relevant. If it's ever lost then there is no going back in today's media world. While Sedona is heavily tourism based, the truth is there are lots of locally owned businesses there..people who choose to live there and nearly all with a community mindset. That's all well and good but someone on the radio station staff has to go out and sell the advertising and radio advertising sales ranks among the most difficult occupations to achieve success. If the owner can't sell, then he or she better be able to recognize sales talent and hire it. That too is not an easy task. There are lots of public relations type personalities trying to sell ads but can't stomach the rejection a true salesperson lets roll off their back.
The Tabbacks sold the station a few years ago. It's not unusal for the tower ownership change notification to not get filed since it's a separate filing outside of the normal FCC filings. There are still a handfull of successful small town stations. Two of my favorites are KONP in Port Angeles, Washington; WHKP in Hendersonville, NC and WNEG in Toccoa, GA. All three built their community legacy during the stalwart days of local radio and have maintained their success with consistency, investing in their technical plants to maintain signal quality, and having small in numbers but big in dedication, staff. It should also be noted that their local markets are still vibrant small towns, too.
KAZM's first frequency was 1470 kHz, and it was a daytime only operation. The 1600 kHz frequency was then occupied by daytimer KPIO in Cottonwood. (It's now KYBC and has a miniscule nighttime output.)