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KGOW AT FULL POWER NOW ??

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OldChicago

I had been able to position my radio in a way that would null out the KGOW signal completly at my location around Richmond and Hillcroft. As of Wednesday morning, this does not work any more and the audio has constant "hisssss" in it. Still does not sound too bad. I wonder if they are at full power now ?


Old Chicago
 
I have been able to pick them up today down near Victoria which is something I couldn't do earlier in the week.
 
Jay5Ok said:
I have been able to pick them up today down near Victoria which is something I couldn't do earlier in the week.
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I measured very low signal in downtown Houston today while doing work for another client. Not very impressive, and IMHO a bad way to kick off a new format. If folks can't hear you, how are you going to get their attention?

Texas Tuner
 
The signal was improved at my Cy-Fair location Wednesday afternoon, but still sounding much less than full power. The initial 50kw tests some time back were much stronger here. They probably have the new unit on the air, but are slowly ramping it up while doing engineering checks.
 
Does anybody know how David Gow made his money and does he have enough to keep throwing it at his station until KFNC and/or KBME fails?
 
Jay5Ok said:
Does anybody know how David Gow made his money and does he have enough to keep throwing it at his station until KFNC and/or KBME fails?
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He apparantly made a boatload in several Internet ventures, a stint with Compaq as Director of Sales and various high positions in large technology companies. He has a Harvard degree so intelligence is present. He raised other money from a group of 20+ so they most likely have the funds. I only hope they use it wisely to promote the station.
 
well i can get it cristal clear in league city. After listening i think once they get to full power on friday they might be one of the more succsesful sports stations
 
WCJ said:
I'm getting a fairly decent signal in Orange.
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If you can hear it in Orange, Texas then the signal must be magically deflected around Beaumont. I can't pick it up at all here.
 
Beaumont, it's magically deflected. Is that like being magically delicious? I think they've been ramping up power at times or something. One check I made, 1560 had a listenable (although not 50kw) signal. Later in the afternoon, KILE was a no-show. I have yet to hear the Ken Hoffman show, and that's the one I'm most intrigued by. Hadn't heard Hoffman on the air since his days doing mornings with the Zoo at 93Q. Has he brought Mr. Leonard on his show yet? I read where he said he would.
 
I listened to Hoffman for about an hour on Thursday. Not bad at all. I love his sense of humor. He does much better (as most of us do) when he has someone to bounce his ideas off of. Not sure who was in the studio with him yesterday, but it was entertaining. No Mr. Leonard, sorry.

As for the signal. I thought it sounded good except for the nasty hum in the background. Sounded like a grounding issue to me...like you get on a PA system when something isn't grounded right. Other than that it was quite listenable.
 
At 2:24 this morning, it was very low power. I flipped to 1480 and it was fighting whatever else is on 1480 elsewhere. I looked at the 1560 The Game website and I like the way it looks and navigates as well. Once they get the power issue resolved, I hope they will do well. Will the difference be that they can do better without a huge corporate overlord? Time will tell.
 
I listened to Hoffman the last couple of days and he was much better than that shakey first day. Overall, their lineup is terrific. Every host is informative and entertaining and brings that local swagger that stations used to carry before the homogenization of radio. It's great to hear.

As for the signal, they must still be having problems powering up to 50K watts. I couldn't really pick them up anywhere from West U to Shepherd & I-10 or anywhere along 610 this morning. It was actually worse than the first day. Hopefully, they'll work it out today. This signal problem is the only thing standing in the way of their eventual success.
 
Still appears to be on the old 800 watt site early Friday afternoon. So much for the promises of being at full power today.

I want KGOW to have the chance to succeed. But at this rate, they are going to be a short-lived fiasco, on the level of such misfires as KKHU, KCRR, KTUS, KidStar 980, KPHD, as well as a long list of brokered programming on various stations.
 
I agree, yesterday was up and down. Most of the day you could not pick it up clearly anywhere. I was in my truck most of the day from Sugarland to Downtown. By mid afternoon the signal was coming in loud and clear along 59 from The Grand Parkway to Loop 610, but around the loop to I-10 the signal faded. This morning it's touch and go in West U. It doesn't sound like they are at 50W full power as promised. I hope they get this problem fixed fast or it could be a disaster for them. They have great programming and they already have a stable of advertisers on board.
 
Today the station was static free around Pecan Grove Plantation, but as I headed into Richmond proper, the station was almost impossible to listen to. So far a good product, but one must question the stations long run possibilities when GM Richard Topper has been talking with his old group about the possibility of returning there.
 
Chuck Tiller said:
I flipped to 1480 and it was fighting whatever else is on 1480 elsewhere.
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Honestly I don't know what is going on, 1480 is like this now day and night. I thought they were a Spanish station? Seems now, one signal is in english the other in vietnamese and you can basically understand none of it. Neither seems to be a 1560 simulcast. Very odd.

Still a pathetic signal for 1560 here in Clear Lake.
 
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