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KGBC, KLVL and a Galveston non-comm FM

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Galveston may be losing its only remaining AM station. KHCB 1400 got approval to move to League City and now KGBC 1540, which only recently received approval for a daytime power increase, is now seeking to move their community of license to Dayton. The application calls for a power increase to 5,000 watts daytime and 3,500 watts during critical hours. At night, though, they'd be reducing power all the way down to 80 watts. All this would be non-directional from a tower just south of the dam at Lake Houston, about 17 miles northeast of downtown Houston, or roughly halfway to Dayton.

The owner of KGBC, Siga Broadcasting, has also filed an application to increase the power of KLVL 1480 Pasadena to 5,000 watts daytime, with no change in the current directional pattern. No nighttime changes are proposed.

Finally, the FCC has turned down an application for a new non-commercial FM on 88.9 in Galveston. The station would have had an ERP of 9,900 watts, using a directional pattern to protect Houston's KUHF 88.7. This was a ridiculous idea and I applaud the FCC for rejecting it; in their denial of the application they cited "prohibited overlap" and problems with the proposed antenna system. Bravo!
 
Galveston essentially hasn't had any local radio since KGBC flipped to brokered ethnic/religion. Hardly anyone would notice if it makes the move. But why Dayton? Perhaps to put some more distance from KGOW. Gotta wonder who/what they consider their intended audience.

The power increase at KLVL isn't going to make a great deal of difference. The boost from 1 to 3kw was quite noticeable, but not an increase to 5kw.

Whoever filed for 88.9 in Galveston was an idiot.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Whoever filed for 88.9 in Galveston was an idiot.
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If you get a chance look over the application. On their allocation study it looks like they listed the spacing to everything around them, co-channel or otherwise (including channel 6 in Beaumont) but omitted any mention of KUHF. Somebody really got taken, since they paid a consultant to do the required studies and file what was an inherently flawed application.
 
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