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KBSZ A.J.

oldiesfan6479 said:
On the air between 5:45 and 6:28 AM, but still on night power.

As inferred elsewhere in this thread, there's not much of a playlist
on the hard drive--songs are repeated much too often. Overall it
seems a bit "heavier" than Lumberyard 1440, but then you hear
some '50s moldy oldie... ::)

BTW, one song I've not yet heard is Brown Eyed Girl. ;D
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Give it a couple of days. ;D

But they sure do play a lot of Chuck Berry! :D
 
Three questions:

1) Why do the most insignificant Ancient Modulation© stations get the most postings?

2) Will KBSZ eventually become the Valley's 37th Spanish station or 28th Colonblower?

3) When will it hit 100 degrees for the first time this year in Apache Junction?


Los Buckeye Boyz (hey if Los Suns can do it, so can nosotros!)



© copyright 2000 Akjeff Enterprises. Rated #1 6a-M according to Pulse.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
Three questions:

1) Why do the most insignificant Ancient Modulation© stations get the most postings?

2) Will KBSZ eventually become the Valley's 37th Spanish station or 28th Colonblower?

3) When will it hit 100 degrees for the first time this year in Apache Junction?
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1) Because until they hit question #2, they're more interesting than the more significant ones.

2) Explotar de colono....el combinacion de los dos.

3) Maybe today.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
1) Why do the most insignificant Ancient Modulation© stations get the most postings?
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Uh...we're not allowed to post about the most significant one--KFYI--
because it supports senate bill KNX 1070? ;)


3) When will it hit 100 degrees for the first time this year in Apache Junction?
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Ask Preston.


Los Buckeye Boyz (hey if Los Suns can do it, so can nosotros!)
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If "The Sun" (singular) translates as "El Sol," then wouldn't "The Suns"
(plural...yeah I know the team is a singular entity) be "Los Soles"?

Better re-do those uniforms, or we'll have another "San Francicso." ;D


BTW...KBSZ finally powered up to its daytime 800 watts at 7:55:23 AM.
 
Signal varies widely by receiver, too. What was borderline listenable in north Phoenix on a Toyota Tacoma radio and a bit better in an '11 Ford Mustang isn't even close in a VW Passat (the glories of automotive journalism).

What are they gonna do with this thing?
 
Eric Stein said:
1330 is still on the air. They were playing some alt-rock at around 4:30pm.
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They must be having transmitter problems. I was listening at just before 4 PM yesterday and they were off. They were back on this morning at 6:30 but off at noon.
 
They must have borrowed the processor from KIHP as the audio is muddy and terribly distorted (Daniel by Elton John is more annoying than Brown Eyed Girl). Los Buckeye Boyz* agree with Professor Hagerty - What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports are they goin' do with this thing? Does it take longer to go out of business in Apache Junction than Wickenburg?


* gracias a Los Suns para nuestra nombre nuevo!
 
michael hagerty said:
What are they gonna do with this thing?
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Obviously, they haven't learned that the way to make a small fortune in radio is to start out with a very large fortune.
 
Okay, I made it to the East Valley and finally got to hear it. So-so signal at Tatum & Union Hills. Pretty good signal from Shea to 44th & Camelback. Oooh, somebody's got competition (for 12 regular listeners in the Phoenix market).

Does anyone have contact information to the owner of this AM 1260?
 
michael hagerty said:
What are they gonna do with this thing?
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They could:
  • Sell it to one of the weaker west-side AM's for better East Valley coverage (KXEG anyone?), or...
  • Lease it to the "East Valley Radio Network," since it doesn't go any farther west than 32nd Street (third time could be a charm)
 
Eric, don't think I haven't been watching this station very closely...they can't make money selling an 800 watt station that competes with all these other flamethrowers with just music, BUT....one that covers the East Valley...or MESA's 500,000 people and adresses their lives and concerns?

Radio must stop thinking demographically and more geographically in advance of the coming wave of Internet radio from the heavens, which is not far off.

Scott Anderson
East Valley Radio Network
 
From http://www.ajnews.com/

1260 AM Project Manager Jon Hinz, left, and Program
Director Jeffry O’Brien will celebrate the grand
opening of their radio station on Friday, May 7.

Apache Junction Radio Station To Debut
1260 AM to serve Apache Junction area— will play everything from Elvis to The Beatles
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
The News
For Jon Hinz of Apache Junction’s Alliance Book Co., helping found the city’s only local radio station, 1260 AM, was a labor of love.
“If you did it and succumbed to frustration, you’d never get it done,” said Hinz, the project manager, with a laugh. “We dealt with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), the county and we came across every obstacle you could think of to get it right. It seems like evwe’d get everything done, one more thing would happen.”
But now the radio station, KBSZ, is ready to hit the air on Friday, May 7, 2010. To coincide with the grand opening, 1260 AM will celebrate its dedication and raising of the Arizona State flag at its location, 3687 S. Royal Palm Road, Apache Junction, with festivities beginning at 11 a.m. Friday, May 7. The public is invited.
“We’d love everybody and his brother to attend,” Hinz said.
So far, those who have RSVP’d include Rep. Frank Pratt and Sen. Rebecca Rios. Hinz is hoping that Rep. Barbara McGuire, and Pinal County Supervisors Bryan Martyn and Pete Rios will attend.
“Bryan Martyn was very helpful to us,” Hinz said. “He helped us go through the bureaucracy.”
Hinz and station owner John Low started the 1000-watt radio station about 18 months ago. The target area for 1260 AM is Northeast Pinal County with Apache Junction as its center.
 
rockjock420 said:
So far, those who have RSVP’d include Rep. Frank Pratt and Sen. Rebecca Rios. Hinz is hoping that Rep. Barbara McGuire, and Pinal County Supervisors Bryan Martyn and Pete Rios will attend.
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damn...another Barbecue where Los Buckeye Boyz weren't invited! This has all the makings of being bigger than Pratt's!

The target area for 1260 AM is Northeast Pinal County with Apache Junction as its center.
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So can anyone tell us the difference between Apache Junction and East Mesa? Nurse Jeff and I are scratchin' our fezes wondering why these guys think just because they're in A.J. people will listen.
 
Notable is the use of a very short, 85' Valcom fiberglass antenna (39.2 electrical degrees) per the FCC's CP document, the first in the Valley to my knowledge. That's a good alternative to a regular tower when there are NIMBY type concerns. Radiating efficiency is reduced. The original 1250 kHz. Wickenburg tower was a massive 225 degrees, or nearly 500'.
 
Tried dialin' 'em in last evening from the friendly confines of Fashionable South Tempe (McClintock & Warner) on my Icom R-75 with an east-west longwire. I could hear the music but it was so far down in the hash ID was impossible.

It's possible all those aluminum trailers in A.J. are acting as a wave guide and sending the signal the wrong direction.
 
landtuna said:
It's possible all those aluminum trailers in A.J. are acting as a wave guide and sending the signal the wrong direction.
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Funny you say that, Senor Tuna. You look at the pattern in some of the PDF
documents on the FCC site and, instead of the usual non-directional circle
(or close to a circle) there's a "null-like" chunk to the WNW that appears
to begin maybe 10 miles out.

Is their newfangled tower able to do this, or is the pattern depiction like that
for some other "paper" reason and in reality it's still a circle?

Again a shout out to some of our engineer buddies for a tutorial here. :)
 
radioiscrack said:
Eric, don't think I haven't been watching this station very closely...they can't make money selling an 800 watt station that competes with all these other flamethrowers with just music, BUT....one that covers the East Valley...or MESA's 500,000 people and adresses their lives and concerns?

Radio must stop thinking demographically and more geographically in advance of the coming wave of Internet radio from the heavens, which is not far off.
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Not to say that hyper-local radio isn't being done next door to Apache Junction (I haven't been out to Gold Canyon lately, but is Scott Kramer's Part 15 "K-HITS" still on the air? The site is up, but the stream has been down for more than half a year). The problem with the Part 15's is that, unless it has good grounding, they don't go much farther than a few blocks away (Fountain Hills' late "KFHX" anyone?). Being a new station on the AM dial doesn't help either (but it's easier than the hurdles it would take to start an LPFM).

All in all, I wish them the best of luck and success.
 
Dr. Akbar said:
rockjock420 said:
So far, those who have RSVP’d include Rep. Frank Pratt and Sen. Rebecca Rios. Hinz is hoping that Rep. Barbara McGuire, and Pinal County Supervisors Bryan Martyn and Pete Rios will attend.
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damn...another Barbecue where Los Buckeye Boyz weren't invited! This has all the makings of being bigger than Pratt's!

The target area for 1260 AM is Northeast Pinal County with Apache Junction as its center.
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So can anyone tell us the difference between Apache Junction and East Mesa? Nurse Jeff and I are scratchin' our fezes wondering why these guys think just because they're in A.J. people will listen.
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The newspaper piece reads to me like they're hoping to establish their own market of AJ, Florence and Coolidge...all of which are bedroom communities and might total a population of 100,000 or so...a little bigger than Flagstaff.

Apart from KCKY, they'd be the only station...but Phoenix (and some Tucson) FMs come in loud and clear out there....so what's going to make a significant number of those Pinal County residents tune in?

Good luck to them, but we've seen this movie before...L.A. is a perfect example...until about 30 years ago, you could make money serving the San Fernando Valley (KGIL) or Orange County (KEZY, KWIZ)...but not now.
 
AJ and East Mesa are full of retirement communities, trailer parks, and retirement trailer parks. Seems like an audience that would appreciate the music they're playing, don't mind AM radio, and don't drive around much.
 
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