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Can't wait.
How much did he pay to get it on the air? I am assuming the show will not be a Dave Ramsey discussing how to manage your wealth type of thing.
Here is the release.
Please explain, back in circa 1969 when 1580 was KDAY and they moved their transmitter from Santa Monica to Alvarado St. in the Echo Park area, I assumed that KDAY built and and owned that xmitter plant. Back in the day nobody was di-plexing.
In the 60's almost all Honolulu stations diplexed or triplexed. 660 and 880 in NYC diplexed. I even had several diplexed stations in Ecuador starting in 1966. Diplexing was common wherever land was scarce or expensive, but directional diplexing really had to wait until computer technology caught up with with the intricate calculations.
Multicultureal, who is selling 1580, is not selling the land. They are keeping it as a profit center, with over $30 thou in rent per month, plus, apparently, a bunch of communications stuff.
The facility of 1580 does not change. It is simply getting a new owner, using the same site, same gear, same towers.
Unfortunately same pattern. In my neck of the woods in the southwest SFV 1580's daytime ERP is less than 1000 watts. The actual measured voltage (less than .5mv) is just slightly higher than KYPA 1230. Night pattern is more favorable in my direction and 1580 measures on average better than 2mV, but being about 30 miles out from the transmitter there is severe selective fading distortion due to the collision of the ground wave with the length of the Santa Monica Mountains combined with some sky wave signal. (Reception is a mess) . Although not long ago it was worse - it had Hermosillo and Phoenix to contend with but not any more.
It's a good looking lineup. I haven't seen or heard much from Alonzo Bodden in a while but that guy is funny. The commentary here has been mostly about the inferior signal and high price paid but against all odds it would be nice to see it succeed.
I'm not in L.A...what's on the air there now? Or is it just turned off until kickoff time?
Some kind of Spanish language religion. I don't know if in the last few days they have changed that.
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As of this moment the religious programming is still running. It's funny that a couple of years ago, they ran an English language program for a couple of hours on Sunday evenings about deep sea fishing (really!)
A syndicated program? Is it still on?
i haven't checked but probably not.
I believe it was Fish Talk Radio, which started on AM 830 in its Radio AAHHs days, and remained on through several format changes before moving to 1580, and also being picked up by Sports Byline nationally. The host, John Henigin, passed away in January, and the show archives on the web site (fishtalkradio.com) end shorty thereafter.
Thanks for the info. Sorry that Mr. Henigin passed away.
https://news.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n40708
KBLA-AM is named as the affiliate of BIN. This has to be one of the largest BIN affiliates that's managed by another group and not Iheart directly.
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