Is the KFNN tower site owned by Salem? I had no idea
I'm not sure how they could make that work now that 1190 shares the tower as well.
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KFNN 1510 Gone Silent?
- Thread starter Mikey-Mike
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I would like to hear Stephanie Miller, and Thom Hartmann back on the radio. I would listen.
KFNN is diplexed with KKNT 960, so yes.
KQFN is currently on the KSUN tower, which I believe is triplexed. I don’t see why they can’t on the KXEG tower.
I'm not even a liberal myself, but even I'm tired of talk radio being dominated by hard-Right conservatives. I wish someone in Phoenix would go the all-news route, but I suppose this is as good as it gets for now.
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Maybe, just maybe, someone will bring back "Adult Standards" 😁 yeah, I know...
Pay iHeart for the KOY calls, and pipe in Westwood One's Adult Standards. Find a few assisted living centers, and mortuaries as advertisers...and you're good to go!
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i meant whatever signal Sierra H bought.. if its there to feed a translator, you ned very little from the am
True. But, they’ll have to still cover Tempe (COL) and the 99.3 translator contour at the same time, which might be tricky. Unless they can do some kind of maneuvers that can move it to a closer suburb like Peoria since Tempe already has two other allocations in use already.
What about the 95.9 translator? Do we know what's happening with that then?
Looking at the price (which is a bit lower than the inferior KFNN facility with Scottsdale-specific 105.3), I doubt KQFN comes with the 95.9 translator.
A man can dream...
Interesting, I wonder what's gonna happen with that one then...
See my reply above. Probably going to KNLB for a dual co-channel translator simulcast.
translators have no city of license coverage requirements, as i seem to recall and changing COL's in a big metro area where other things are already licensed to the city.. is pretty easy
As far as I'm aware, the only requirement is that a co-owned translator's service contour has to remain entirely within the primary station's 60 dBu contour (for FM) or daytime 2.0 mV/m contour (for AM).
If the translator and primary station are not co-owned, then this rule does not apply if I remember correctly. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.
As a metro area? We're still home to Turning Point, the Goldwater Institute and Alliance Defending Freedom - three of the most consequential organizations in the world. And a lot of bands still skip Phoenix for Tucson (which is far more "liberal"). I routinely see those red hats locally, whether in a Costco or at a ball game - I have never, ever seen a red hat in Tucson or Bisbee. 92.3, which pretty banks on people not knowing about 91.5, is evidence of how miniscule that "15-20 years ago" is.
On the other hand, look at voting trends. AZ went blue for the first time since 1996 in 2020 and was red by barely a nose hair in 2024. Even though Phoenix is still home to many conservative institutes, it's more than clear that the demographics have changed.
What would they do with the rest of the time as I think those are the only two nationally sindicated progressive shows now as far as I know.
Metro Phoenix, especially in the city itself, has a much larger US-born Hispanic population than it had 30 years ago, and most of them vote Democrat. That is most of the difference. Some areas, notably Tempe and Ahwatukee, also have a larger Black population than they had then. Most of them also vote Democratic.
Whoa. Influential in the United States perhaps, but open to debate as to being "most" of anything. Outside of the U.S., not even a fraction of one percent know what those are and even less care about their influence on American opinion.