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KCIL Move-In to New Orleans

txchipk

txchipk

Love that... KCIL is probably the number one or number two station in the area, but they want to chuck all of that to move to a area that the next hurricane will probably swallow up.... And to program what? It's better to make money in a small market (estimated at about 150 last I looked) where people are coming to buy from you (they do have salespeople, but people go to Sunburst to get the word out in the area as only sunburst and Gisclair are the only game in town currently until KTIB comes back online) than having to move to New Orleans and have to fight for that same dollar as the other stations.

Surprised they didn't do like others (CC) and try Westwego..

Best part is they want to go onto a tower that's transmitter site was knocked down by Katrina (Same coordinates and height as KKND 106.7)

Don't know the format as Citadel, unless they are under agreement will be pissed about trying to move this station here if it was country...

The part I love is how Houma is dying and Jean Lafitte is growing.... (read the application).. Yeah Houma's numbers are going down because everyone is moving to the outlying area (a community called Bayou Cane) which is almost the size of Houma now (the parish KCIL is in has 100,000 people.. It's service area has about 250k people)

The next Hurricane and Jean Lafitte is basically history. It suffers from the same coastal erosion concerns that south Lafourche,South Terrebonne,Plaqumines and Jefferson parishes have. Water intrusion has a B line to Lafitte now. Good Category 3 and you can forget it was even there.

Sorry for the vent, I just hate companies coming into an area, take a heritage station that has a built in audience, don't have to do too much to make money think they will make more money moving and find out in a few years they should have stayed.

If they wanted to serve New Orleans, better bet is as Chip said, KCIL under a previous owner promised to move to Larose at 300 meters.. No having to change COL and basically City service to most of New Orleans and Houma (KLRZ for example, had the best tower site for this if he wanted to expand it before ultimately moving to Cut Off Instead)

I think they are trying to do this on the cheap, However

Vent Off


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This might sound crazy but it is only an opinion, If it does happen could it be used as a relay for the Houma tower like 106.7 uses with their backup transmitter to fill in the gaps and dead spots in New Orleans? ???
 
No KKND has a backup transmitter in case the normal one goes offline for some reason. IF you put a transmitter online you have to get the signals just right in timing and such... It can be done, but cost and all is prohibative... That's why most stations that try to fill in gaps use a translator on another frequency for (Such as KTLN for WWNO)

This would be a full on move out of the Bayou region and become another New Orleans station... For owners who can, they try to move in stations from the outskirts to become full power stations in the metro area (Dallas and Houston are famous for that, with stations COLed to Beaumont for example actually trying to serve Houston), the outskirts be damned....

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If that is the case I can see a dismal failure for KCIL, unless they are purposely trying to abandon the Tri-parrish area (or mabye move the country format to 96.7?).
P.S. Any new news on KTIB?
 
Yep, My guess also would be to move KCIL's format (and even possible callsign) to 96.7 IMO

But what they could find in New Orleans I don't know.. As sometimes it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond (as they would have to have seperate staff in NOLA)

I'm just wondering if this is a play ala KLRZ?

And nope nothing on KTIB... Word was yesterday supposedly on the air (according to the newspaper article) but actual word is roughly 5 days after consummation of the sale (which may have been held up).

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