It is currently 6.1% of the total metro (Maricopa County) market. That is based on a 4.7 million total population, meaning just under 300,000 African American residents in the market.
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KBSZ is sold
- Thread starter Sammi Brie
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Well, I was looking at the assignment application. Comments are: 1) that is stupid $'s for an AM and FM translator, but you'll note its mostly in a note. 725K in a 6 percent note. I would guess Low will be lucky to get paid in the long run. 2) I highly doubt the South Mountain CP to move the translator will ever get built out. The CP calls for KZON to be the primary to be rebroadcast, not KBSZ. That is because the daytime 2 mv/m of KBSZ doesn't totally encompass the CP's 60 dbu contour of the proposed K247CF on South Mountain. They would have to modify the CP to pull in the pattern more to allow KBSZ to be rebroadcast on it from South Mountain. Lastly, being on the first adjacent channel to KMVA, it would be inside of the 45 dbu contour of KMVA, so if there was any interference complaints, K247CF would have a tough time fighting them. So basically this guy is buying a crummy signal AM daytimer with a crummy East Valley FM translator signal. They also only show exhibits for taking over the Usery mountain tower site lease. No mentioned of a South Mountain site, which FYI, is tough to get a lease to be up there. All just some FYI.
I imagine his signal would be somewhere between a KDIF 102.9 and KWSS 93.9 at best. Might as well save the money and just invest his current online stream station.
But many, if not most of them reside in south and central Phoenix, Ahwatukee east of 40th St., and southwest Tempe. This is per the 2020 census data. A translator on South Mountain serving a 8-10 mile radius of its tower would serve it well, if it could run an Urban (or whatever it's called these days) format.
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Lots of good points @TowersRus
Looks like the monthly payment will be $8,417.86 per month which is pretty rough. Tower rent for the AM is a reasonable $650/month. Power is separate. I have no idea what South Mountain rent will be but I wouldn't be surprised if it's $2,000/month or higher. So just those are over $11,000/month. Not included is the lease of an HD subchannel, I have no idea what those usually go for.
I would also be surprised if KMVA doesn't make a stink with the translator that will be stepping on their signal.
Looks like the monthly payment will be $8,417.86 per month which is pretty rough. Tower rent for the AM is a reasonable $650/month. Power is separate. I have no idea what South Mountain rent will be but I wouldn't be surprised if it's $2,000/month or higher. So just those are over $11,000/month. Not included is the lease of an HD subchannel, I have no idea what those usually go for.
I would also be surprised if KMVA doesn't make a stink with the translator that will be stepping on their signal.
This guy overpaying for that signal is precisely why people like John Low and Ted Tucker stay in business flipping crappy signals. Keep your expenses low, keep the needles moving, and hold out until you get your price.
Tucker had a huge payout when Mike Cutchall's PE-funded group purchased 95.1 in 2004, but KCDX has been on the market for almost a quarter of a century (since the aborted sale to Z-Spanish). I think Low will have the same problem trying to sell KIKO-FM (and probably KIKO 1340 too). That didn't keep someone from buying the KRPH license alone, which will always have interference issues no matter where they rebuild.
On top of everything, Tucker has a CP to move KFMR to the Pinal Mountains on channel 247C3 at Central Heights, or co-channel to K247CF. K247CF will be within the 45 dbu of the new KFMR, assuming it gets built. KFMR will have a decent signal in the east valley. So I not sure if the guy buying KBSZ and K247CF knows it, but there is a good chance K247CF will have to go away. No wonder Low was anxious to get it sold!
If this happens, this would be the third 97.3 from the Pinal Mountains in 30 years (KRXS and KIKO-FM operated as 247C3 from that location).
As I mentioned back in post #20, the CP for 97.3 KFMR to move into Globe is set to expire in September. I had also brought up the current Tucker-Low connection the two have with this station.
We already saw someone buy KNUV without K298CK and then have the translator be sold to Family Radio, so...
This could be a problem for William Tucker as he awaits approval of his purchase of the Rattler. Specially, the 97.3 translator. Ted Tucker was granted a License to Cover today for 97.3 KFMR Central Heights, AZ. Along with that he got a special condition approval to power up simultaneously 97.3 KFMM Virden, NM.
Yep, that 97.3 is going to be one busy frequency.
Yep, that 97.3 is going to be one busy frequency.
Why would KFMM need to change it's COL as well as a signal change,i if it's already on a different frequency? I don't understand how that would have any effect on 97.3 KFMR.
because of the 10.8 IF, id gather
It's not uncommon for a station to have to change COL without changing facilities to backfill a move of another station. This ensures that there remains a station licensed to that community.
I thought of the once-more-powerful KNIX (1580) Tempe-Phoenix when I read this.
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This comment made me look up the old KNIX history cards. If I'm reading them correctly, KYND 1580 signed on as 10kw daytime. In 1962 they filed for 50kw day/10kw night, but it took them 3 years to get it. Buck Owens bought it in 1967 and it became KNIX in 1976.
In 1962, I can see that being a decent business proposition. It's the guys who lit their cash on fire doing this within the last 20 years where I have to ask why they thought buying an AM was a good idea in the first place.
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