KFNC & KHJK

[charles123]

Hello All

It looks like 2 Cumulus stations: KFNC & KHJK have filed for bankruptcy. If this is true I expect changes happening with at least one KHJK.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Hello All

It looks like 2 Cumulus stations: KFNC & KHJK have filed for bankruptcy. If this is true I expect changes happening with at least one KHJK.

Care to elaborate? Odd that individual operating units would go that route, although the ratings for both stations are horrible.

Update: Never mind, overlooked this: http://www.radio-info.com/news/for-just-4-stations-cumulus-files-a-pre-packaged-bankruptcy

Looks like changes are on the way.

 

[OldChicago]

Hello All

It looks like 2 Cumulus stations: KFNC & KHJK have filed for bankruptcy. If this is true I expect changes happening with at least one KHJK.

Has KFNC built the new xmtr site at Mont Belvieu yet? Why are they doing this. There is not much difference in the coverage from the M.B. site than the current site.


Old Chicago

 

[Mediafrog+]

Has KFNC built the new xmtr site at Mont Belvieu yet? Why are they doing this. There is not much difference in the coverage from the M.B. site than the current site.

That was supposedly a Community of License change. Wouldn't affect transmitter location, which is driven by second-adjacent separation rules.

 

[sdh483]

How is this bankruptcy going to change the stations? Is someone else going to take over? I doubt anyone is going to change the station. KHJK is a breath of fresh air compared to the other crap on the airwaves (except for KTSU, KUHF, KUHC & KACC and hopefully KROI).

 

[OldChicago]

Has KFNC built the new xmtr site at Mont Belvieu yet? Why are they doing this. There is not much difference in the coverage from the M.B. site than the current site.

That was supposedly a Community of License change. Wouldn't affect transmitter location, which is driven by second-adjacent separation rules.

Can someone explain why stations do this. Change their COL, but not
their power, HAAT or anything else. Just the legal COL. What is the reason for this?

Old Chicago

 

[fredcantu]

IIRC-- The FCC doesn't like to see a community lose its only station... even if the COL is only on paper. So when one station moves away because they're changing their coverage and moving to the big city, they'll find another station to change their COL to replace it so the community is still "served." It just expedites the paperwork.

 

[jd]

What you describe is true, except in this case they didn't have to find another station to change COL to take their place (see KPTY to Winnie, KKHT to Lumberton for a situation that required changes in COL). Cumulus was able to convince the FCC that Beaumont would still be adequately served by the signals that remained licensed there, whether FM or AM, while Mont Belvieu would get its first "local service."

The real reason for KFNC changing their COL is this: by relocating to a community in Chambers County they will have moved from the Beaumont/Port Arthur market to the Houston/Galveston market. This goes back to Docket 04-426, which followed the first filing by Cumulus requesting the allocation for Mont Belvieu in May 2004, the details of which can be found here: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=6516186019 (Note, of course, that the call letters changed since then; at the time they were KRWP.)

 

[stan]

The bankruptcy filing only cleans things up financially, so that Cumulus can arrange their affairs more effectively and shed some debt.

I still think that KFNC should move back to the Triangle, but this move makes that unlikely. As abysmal as KFNC's ratings are, I'm not sure what you can do with the signal such as it is, other than move it closer to Houston, if that is possible. Until that is done, the station is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

 

[metroneck]

Only in America, a over-leveredged radio company gets more leverage to buy out a larger BK radio company, then starts filing BK on sister corporations within the now mega leveraged conglomerate.

 

[greenbastard]

I still think that KFNC should move back to the Triangle

There are not enough words to precisely describe how dumb the above statement is...just not enough words.

 

[stan]

I still think that KFNC should move back to the Triangle

There are not enough words to precisely describe how dumb the above statement is...just not enough words.

Misquoting me does make for a dumb statement. Ok, Mr. Bastard, what would you do with the KFNC signal where it's presently located? The rimshots really have a challenge covering the greater Houston area. KFNC has not had the success previously had when it was KAYD in Beaumont. The current tower location is a handicap.

 

[fadedglory]

97.5 can fill a void in the BPT with a favorite missing format and probably do much better; If it were to return to KD97 KAYD, then that frees up 101.7 for a new format

 

[radiogooroo]

Misquoting me does make for a dumb statement. Ok, Mr. Bastard, what would you do with the KFNC signal where it's presently located? The rimshots really have a challenge covering the greater Houston area. KFNC has not had the success previously had when it was KAYD in Beaumont. The current tower location is a handicap.

The most significant handicap to KFNC's signal (or KHJK's for that matter) is tropo interference from co-channel stations in Corpus Christi. The signal for both of these stations is quite listenable in a car in Katy and even farther west when they're not being obliterated by tropo.

If they were mine, I'd buy the Corpus stations, move them as far east as possible with maximum facilities and set up a synchronous operation. Hopefully, on days when the eastern signals are being sucked out of the market by tropo, the western signals would get sucked in and vice-versa.

And yes, there would be some timing concerns with the simulcast, but it would have to be better than your sports getting hammered by country songs.

 

[Fieldtech1]

KFNC has not had the success previously had when it was KAYD in Beaumont.

I dont know if its still a true statement, but i was once told the worst billing FM station in Houston did better than the best billing station in the Beaumont market and thats why the rimshots will never go back to targeting Beaumont.

 

[stan]

KFNC has not had the success previously had when it was KAYD in Beaumont.

I dont know if its still a true statement, but i was once told the worst billing FM station in Houston did better than the best billing station in the Beaumont market and thats why the rimshots will never go back to targeting Beaumont.

If that's really the case, no one should ever have high expectations for KFNC or KHJK.

 

[greenbastard]

KFNC has not had the success previously had when it was KAYD in Beaumont.

....the worst billing FM station in Houston did better than the best billing station in the Beaumont market and thats why the rimshots will never go back to targeting Beaumont.

Because of this...It's about market potential, not personal preferences. Radio is a business. The more potential listeners, the better. 97.5 is more valuable servicing half of Houston that it is covering only the entire Triangle.

 

[foursider]

They're actually doing the smaller Beaumont operations a favor by moving / staying out. Frees up what little advertising revenue is still in Beaumont for the ones who can't move.

 

[Ryan Williams]

If that's really the case, no one should ever have high expectations for KFNC or KHJK.

Who has ever had high expectations for either of those stations?

 

[Kent]

I dont know if its still a true statement, but i was once told the worst billing FM station in Houston did better than the best billing station in the Beaumont market and thats why the rimshots will never go back to targeting Beaumont.

I couldn't tell you either, but it would make sense. When Clear Channel decided to go private in '07, I seem to remember they said that either their top-10 or top-20 market stations comprised more than 90% of the company's revenue.