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KHCB 1400 GRANTED MOVE TO LEAGUE CITY, AGAIN

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Mike O

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The FCC granted KHCB 1400 Galveston a CP to move to League City witha DA2 antenna, although from looking over the application it looks like a DA1 to me. The grant is today January 5th, 2007. What is confusing is that JD reported the same Grant back in September 26, 2006 and with the same File Number BMJP-20051018ACX, only today it shows the grant being on Januatry 5th, 2007. Apparently the FCC granted this Major Modification twice.

It will give League City with approximately 60,000 residents it's first station. Galveston with also approximately 60,000 residents loses another station. This leaves Galveston KOVE 106.5, in reality a Houston station and 1540, KGBC which sounds like Satelitte fed fare to me. Sad that a city the size of Galveston has lost two stations over the years and does not have a real local voice. KGBC at one time was a very good News-Talk station for Galveston County. Just another example of the sorry state that radio is in today.

You would think that KGBC, especially now that it has increased daytime power to 2500 watts could be a News-Talk station that covered the Galveston and Brazoria with their growing populations. Also KGBC should be able to do better than 250 watts at night and cover both counties fulltime.

I looked at The FCC database and I could not find another station in the US that is directional day and night on a Class C frequency. KHCB will be breaking new ground. Maybe we will see some activity on KRCM's move from Beaumont 1380 to Shanandoah and possibly Roy Henderson's KNUZ 1090 from Bellevile to Katy. KNUZ may be held up for a while as the license renewal filed April 4th, 2005, still has not been renewed.

I would wonder why The FCC approved the move from Galveston twice, but it is The FCC.

Mike O
 
Mike, I've noticed a stronger signal recently from KGBC, but not from KHCB. I know that KHCH/Huntsville has already moved frequencies from 1400 to 1410, so I'd assume that Houston Christian Broadcasters would move pretty quickly on the upgrade for HCB since they moved as fast as they did on the move of HCH.

Speaking of upgrades, have you heard anything further about the power increase for KZRC/Markham? I caught a fair signal in Rosenberg this past weekend, and that's from the 6kw they are currently licensed for. IIRC they have filed for an upgrade to 25kw, which should put a healthy signal as far up 59 as BW8, consistently.
 
Mike O said:
I would wonder why The FCC approved the move from Galveston twice, but it is The FCC.
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I was going to say, "Don't start me lyin'," but you summed it up better.

purpledevil said:
Speaking of upgrades, have you heard anything further about the power increase for KZRC/Markham? I caught a fair signal in Rosenberg this past weekend, and that's from the 6kw they are currently licensed for. IIRC they have filed for an upgrade to 25kw, which should put a healthy signal as far up 59 as BW8, consistently.
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They did file for an upgrade back in 2002 from a class A to C3, but it wasn't for the maximum of 25kW ERP at 100 meters. The application showed them operating with 16kW as a contour protection station (protecting adjacent channel KVQT 92.3 Victoria); not really much improvement. It was dismissed per applicant's request in April '03, and I haven't seen anything since.
 
purpledevil said:
Mike, I've noticed a stronger signal recently from KGBC, but not from KHCB. I know that KHCH/Huntsville has already moved frequencies from 1400 to 1410, so I'd assume that Houston Christian Broadcasters would move pretty quickly on the upgrade for HCB since they moved as fast as they did on the move of HCH.

Speaking of upgrades, have you heard anything further about the power increase for KZRC/Markham? I caught a fair signal in Rosenberg this past weekend, and that's from the 6kw they are currently licensed for. IIRC they have filed for an upgrade to 25kw, which should put a healthy signal as far up 59 as BW8, consistently.
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As JD posted there are no current Applications or Construction Permits for KZRC Markham to upgrade from a Class A 6kW station. You must of caught the signal on a good day with enhancement from the SW along The Gulf. Normally KZRC gets very little distance from Bay City to the north or east before you lose the signal. What is shown as the 60dBu Service Contour is closer to the coverage of KZRC. I know from many trips to Bay City that you are less than ten miles north of Bay City on Hwy 60 before there is any signal and that is very poor. I have on just the right enhancement from the SW caught KZRC at home a few times. I couldn't find anything on their website about upgrading to a stronger signal either. The FCC does show that KZRC has an allotment to upgrade to a Class C3 station if they choose.

Have a question for you or CW, JD, or whoever knows, what do you know about a Religious station KQZX 91.3 that was at one time in Markham with 5kW? Other than the station existed I haven't seen anything else. Thanks.

I would agree with you that HCB will jump on that move to League City and have KHCB on the air before the year is done. I wonder what KHCB 1400 will program at night, as I believe the evening and all night programming was in Vietnamese and I doubt that there would be much demand for that format in the nighttime coverage area they will have? I'm not sure that even the Spanish Language format would be in great demand. Simulcast KHCB-FM?

Mike O
 
Boy Mike, you weren't kidding. I've done some looking, and the only thing that I can find that even acknowledges KZQX/Markham is this:
http://radiostationworld.com/Locations/United_States_of_America/Texas/radio.asp?m=bay

I knew that I was listening to KZRC at it's current 6kw while in Rosenberg. I've been lucky enough to catch it as far east as the Randall's parking lot on Westheimer and Wilcrest on a really good day about 6 months ago, but that was just PURE luck. I seem to remember seeing it posted somewhere that they were to begin construction on, I thought, A C2 at 25kw, and that the application had been approved by the FCC. I'm going to look around to see if I can find that article and post it.

In regards to KHCB-AM, I couldn't imagine what benefit they would get by simulcasting KHCB-FM. 105.7 covers all of Houston, all of Galveston, hell half of SE Texas. Maybe they will do something along the lines the Salem uses for 100.7 and 1070. One station for News/Talk, the other for their religious programming. I would think 1400 would make a great outlet for News/Talk covering Galveston, Brazoria, and southern Harris County.
 
purpledevil said:
In regards to KHCB-AM, I couldn't imagine what benefit they would get by simulcasting KHCB-FM. 105.7 covers all of Houston, all of Galveston, hell half of SE Texas. Maybe they will do something along the lines the Salem uses for 100.7 and 1070. One station for News/Talk, the other for their religious programming. I would think 1400 would make a great outlet for News/Talk covering Galveston, Brazoria, and southern Harris County.
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That makes good sense and would be an excellent use for 1400 at night, which is why it didn't cross my mind. Good catch.

Mike
 
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