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KIEI-LP 101.5 San Antonio Christian LPFM has gone silent

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Their consultant engineer sent this to the FCC today.

"We have been asked by Lighthouse Network, Inc. (“Lighthouse”), licensee of KIEI-LP 194172 to inform the Commission that KIEI-LP has gone silent.
The Licensee of KIEI-LP has lost its current tower space, and ceased broadcasting. The board of KIEI-LP is seeking a new location for their transmit antenna as quickly as possible.
Lighthouse is requesting a Silent STA as they are looking for a new transmit location that can be achieved by means of a minor modification application. The licensee anticipates submittal of a 318 minor to this new location very shortly."


They ran Christian country Gospel music when they were up during the daytime hours. Nothing you'd hear on K-Love or anything like that. But I'm sure they have enough listeners and support to stay on as they've been doing so for 3 years. Just not sure why they lost the tower unless the tower company saw this article they posted in 2020 and said, "Nerp."
"We have literally gone from a day when men would cough just to cover the sound of a fart. Now we go out of the way to fart loud enough to cover the cough, so people don’t freak out."
https://lighthousenetworkinc.org/2020/04/26/are-we-there-yet/.




Their website is here but I don't think they stream, at least couldn't find one. https://lighthousenetworkinc.org/
 
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Usually a lost tower site is due to non-payment. Reading their advertising information, it is confusing, priced as if it is a contender in the San Antonio market and generally clueless. From all the LPFMs I have visited or talked to, such pages tell me the licensee has no grasp of LPFM radio and likely no grasp of funding their station.

For example: the rate for the Brother Ray show is $650.

Basic underwriting is $275 for 10 thirty second units a month anytime 24/7 (from what it says) but they'll put you on their website and mention you once a week on the Brother Ray show. Considering, if evenly rotated, only 25% of spots would air 10am to 6pm, the remainder to listeners on some obscure religious website.

First consideration: a LPFM on the air ONLY 10am to 6pm daily has how many listeners at any given time even in a fairly dense population area? There's only 80-100 other radio choices on the dial. What's that 'cost per thousand'? $1,000 might be generous.

AnyHuman your pondering of why they might have lost their tower site is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I laughed my butt off and had to go to WalMart to get a new one.
 
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AnyHuman your pondering of why they might have lost their tower site is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I laughed my butt off and had to go to WalMart to get a new one.
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Reminder: the WalMart ones are from China and they do a bad job of converting metric to feet, and feet are important to avoid being kicked in the butt.
 
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