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KBRD has moved to 920 AM and 101.1 FM

KilowattKat said:
Also on the 680 KBRD Wikipedia page....Skip's Cockatoo was the station's music director, and only songs that the bird would dance to would get played. Just think of all the money that the iHeart's and Audacy's would save for their music research just by getting a Moluccan Cockatoo!

I'm hoping that part on Wikipedia is correct.
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.......AND....Professional music research is really not much different than this; You're rating songs with bird-brains who are really wanting a treat at the end.
 
The old KGTK on 920 was listed as running just 7 watts at night. Anybody know if that's still the power they're using after dark? KBRD on 920 was holding its own and overpowering Spokane's usually reliable KXLY tonight at my Lake Stevens location.
 
Treehouse SWL said:
The old KGTK on 920 was listed as running just 7 watts at night. Anybody know if that's still the power they're using after dark? KBRD on 920 was holding its own and overpowering Spokane's usually reliable KXLY tonight at my Lake Stevens location.
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I am surprised to learn they are 3,000 watts daytime, and only 7 watts at night I was under the impression 920 was 5kw day /500w at night. Yeah, 7 watts isn't going anywhere, definitely not all the way to Lake Stevens. Also, the FCC database has the 106.5 translator tied to KBRD 920, not 101.1.
 
Apparently in the "old days" AM 920 was a two-tower directional so more power could be offered both day and night , still protecting Spokane.
 
I heard the 101.1 signal in Seaside, OR, while visiting one evening last week. I've noticed that driving up I-5, their signal really interferes with KXL. I'm surprised that the FCC allows them not to protect KXL's signal.
 
Where on I-5 did you hear the interference to KXL? To my amateur eyes it seems KXL is legally protected to just north of Castle Rock WA. Anything north of there is bonus coverage and not protected.

Seaside is also outside KXL's protected contour from what I can see.
 
I thought the rules for translators were a bit different? If I understand right, a translator can interfere with a co-channel all it wants outside of the protected contour, but if listeners complain the translator has to do something about it. I don't think many people will be listening to KXL north of Castle Rock, though it is one of the biggest signals in the market.
 
KXL transmits in mono, so it gets out a bit further compared to other Portland FM’s. I always used to hear it loud and clear through most of the I-5 corridor in the south sound.

This translator does eat into the fringe coverage, but as someone already mentioned that coverage isn’t protected (as it’s “bonus coverage”).
 


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