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KCBQ AM

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cahokia

KCBQ has a good signal, it has been in last place for years. does anyone think they should put music and DJ'S on the station? like WDJO. I Think they would do a lot better, even if they played music like KPOP Played. they cannot do any worse than they are doing now. it would be nice to hear Jerry G. And Happy Hare again.
 
cahokia said:
KCBQ has a good signal, it has been in last place for years. does anyone think they should put music and DJ'S on the station? like WDJO. I Think they would do a lot better, even if they played music like KPOP Played. they cannot do any worse than they are doing now. it would be nice to hear Jerry G. And Happy Hare again.
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It's owned by Salem, and doing what Salem intends it to do. While Salem owns it, it is really unlikely it will do anything else.
 
Thanks David, For letting me know that there is no chance of that happening.
I was looking forward to KCBQ Changing to music.
 
rickityone said:
I read the KCBQ is back to 50,000 watts - is that so and if it is how good is the signal these days?
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It's a "mighty" 2,900 watts at night, and the daytime is very directional towards the ocean. 1 mv/m barely hits Encinitas, and the overall useful coverage is about 2/3 the metro population daytime and maybe 1/4 at night.
 
KCBQ always had deficits at night even back in it's 5kw-n days. I think the north-eastern portion of the county was the weakest area after pattern change. However at the old Santee plant, before the incursion of KSDO and KFMB the Q had a blow-torch daytime signal in the county. Not much further.
 
DavidEduardo said:
rickityone said:
I read the KCBQ is back to 50,000 watts - is that so and if it is how good is the signal these days?
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It's a "mighty" 2,900 watts at night, and the daytime is very directional towards the ocean. 1 mv/m barely hits Encinitas, and the overall useful coverage is about 2/3 the metro population daytime and maybe 1/4 at night.
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That should have been "10 mv/m barely hits Encinitas" since inside the 10 mv/m is where nearly all AM listening in large metros takes place.
 
Yeah, even in it's heyday, I don't recall the signal ever getting beyond the county and I grew up on the Encinitas fringe.

JD Clover
 
Sam the butcher said:
Yeah, even in it's heyday, I don't recall the signal ever getting beyond the county and I grew up on the Encinitas fringe.

JD Clover
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I used to be able to hear it in the daytime in the San Bernardino Mountains near Crestline, until they took down the towers at the present-day Lowe's location.
 
I got it up here in Oceanside as a kid, but it sure was frustrating when the array changed to night pattern - one minute you were rockin' down the highway, the next minute you were DXing something in Oregon. :p
 
I have picked the Santee KCBQ outside of Las Vegas in the morning. When stationed at MCB 29 Palms in the late i960's we could pick up KCBQ in the days quite well and I think Michael Haggerty has mentioned listening in Bishop. It seems they sent some good signal up the western California basins.

I loved that station. Every time I come back to San Diego I always check the "Lucky eleven seven" to see if some radio miracle has occurred ... alas ... just "what's his name" gabbin' on.

Rickity
 
I still have in my possession a rarely-worn KCBQ Keeps On Truckin' T-shirt, R. Crumb artwork and all, given to me in 1970 by then Promotions Director Steve Gaspar, who later designed the KLOS "racetrack" logo. Yowsa!
 
KCBQ's signal was decent when it was dangling from the guy wire of KGB, not too shabby for 5kw day and 650 watts at night. Can anyone tell me how KCBQ makes money??? Even enough to pay the electric bill ? or to pay the rent for the towers at AM 910?There is no way that that station makes money! I agree that KCBQ would do better as a music station, but I also agree that Salem is doing with it exactly what they do with the top 40 legends that they own (WMCA, KCBQ, etc.). They put fourth rate ultra-conservative talk (that no one listens too) just so they can get the national buys on the Salem satelite network.

Salem get a clue do something decent with that station!
 
Garrett said:
That "racetrack logo" was used by a bunch of station that were owned by ABC like WPLJ (also at 95.5), huh?
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Yes. The very same one. More specifically, it's known as a "Cassini Oval." It's named after mathematician-astronomer G.D. Cassini.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/cassini_oval

Steve Gaspar created the logo in 1972. ABC adopted the logo for all of it's O&O FM rockers shortly thereafter. At the time, they included WPLJ, New York, WRIF, Detroit, and WDVE, Pittsburgh.
 
The racetrack logo-never heard it called that, but in the 70's it was everywhere. Still around.
Whatever happened to Steve Gasper?
 
KCBQ does make money but it's owned by Salem - the largest "Christian" broadcast company. They have a huge cashflow and rake in the bucks. The conservative/religious format is the #1 cashflow format around so they'll be around for quite sometime I'm afraid.
 
jprg said:
KCBQ does make money but it's owned by Salem - the largest "Christian" broadcast company. They have a huge cashflow and rake in the bucks. The conservative/religious format is the #1 cashflow format around so they'll be around for quite sometime I'm afraid.
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They are a penny stock and are loosing revenue. Last year above $12, now $2.

SALM is the ticker.
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
jprg said:
KCBQ does make money but it's owned by Salem - the largest "Christian" broadcast company. They have a huge cashflow and rake in the bucks. The conservative/religious format is the #1 cashflow format around so they'll be around for quite sometime I'm afraid.
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They are a penny stock and are loosing revenue. Last year above $12, now $2.

SALM is the ticker.
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Am I correct that Salem doesn't care, as they are not in it for the money only to "spread the word?"
 
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