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Las Vegas KIOF group has an experimental license on 81.9. Did they not pay the site rental costs?

LVPR is all gung-ho for Trump's "Made in America/America First policy", yet they're a registered lobbyist for Chinese tech giant Huawei, and they even visited China and met with Chinese government officials, with plans to start broadcasting there to help promote Chinese tourism to Las Vegas:
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The Strange Story of a Las Vegas Radio Station Co-Opted by China

At first glance, Las Vegas Public Radio (LVPR) looks like any other local FM radio station. It has local community sponsors, vaguely right-wing talk show hosts.
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Now they have filed to modify their OET license WP2XCQ to use 75.7 MHz at 2435 E Cheyenne Ave. (Again they have misfiled an application).
 
75.7 wouldn't even be receivable on most Japanese-market 76-108 MHz FM radios, although you can get cheap radios from China which tune all the way down to 64 MHz on FM, to cover China's former(?) analog VHF TV channels.
 
kevtronics said:
75.7 wouldn't even be receivable on most Japanese-market 76-108 MHz FM radios, although you can get cheap radios from China which tune all the way down to 64 MHz on FM, to cover China's former(?) analog VHF TV channels.
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I can’t remember if China ever used the OIRT FM band, which runs from 65.8 to 74.0 MHz. Was commonly used in other Communist bloc countries, but has mostly been phased out, except for a handful of stations. The official FM band in China is 87.0 to 108.0 MHz.

Recent editions of the World Radio TV Handbook include a mention of “low power college stations” operating in China between 60 and 87 MHz, though I have never seen any specific listing of such operations. The current 2025 edition doesn’t reference these.

The 72 to 76 MHz range in the U.S. is used (among other services) by Assisted Listening Devices for the hearing impaired, so maybe those could be considered “on the market” receivers for 75.7.🤪🤣
 
The 1979 and 1985 WRTH listings for the People's Republic of China have no indication at all of FM activity within that country. The WRTH could be inconsistent about its treatment of FM stations among various countries, however. These issues of the WRTH do indicate FM broadcasting in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. At the time, the PRC is shown as having extensive medium-wave and domestic shortwave networks. By the 1990 issue (possibly sooner), a few FM listings begin appearing for mainland China, all using the band that's in use today. One has to remember that, in the 1980s, China was still in the early stages of economic development along its present lines.
 
Mark Roberts said:
The 1979 and 1985 WRTH listings for the People's Republic of China have no indication at all of FM activity within that country.
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I'll ask my dad - he was in Beijing in 1979. He said the Chinese government gave him a charge card that could only be used at "Friendship stores" which were in a government owned shopping mall.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I can’t remember if China ever used the OIRT FM band, which runs from 65.8 to 74.0 MHz. Was commonly used in other Communist bloc countries, but has mostly been phased out, except for a handful of stations. The official FM band in China is 87.0 to 108.0 MHz.
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According to this chart, China has/had VHF TV channels on frequencies similar to those in the U.S., and a tuner that goes down to 64 MHz on FM would cover the audio carriers of China's VHF TV channels 2 to 5, as well as the OIRT and Japanese FM bands:

 
kevtronics said:
According to this chart, China has/had VHF TV channels on frequencies similar to those in the U.S., and a tuner that goes down to 64 MHz on FM would cover the audio carriers of China's VHF TV channels 2 to 5, as well as the OIRT and Japanese FM bands:

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The 1985 World Radio TV Handbook lists these allocations in the PRC:

1 - starts at 49.75 MHz, audio carrier at 56.25 MHz (hereinafter written as 49.75/56.25)
2 - 57.75/64.25
3 - 65.75/72.25
4 - 77.25/83.75
5 - 85.25/91.75
6 - 168.25/174.75
...
12 - 216.25/222.75
13 through 36 on UHF from 470 to 700 MHz.

Total bandwidth 8 MHz, video bandwidth 6 MHz, negative modulation for video, 625 lines, audio mode FM - parameters that, other than specific channel allocations, are similar to the OIRT standards.
 
Now their website says they will go commercial on Monday.
Las Vegas Public Radio and KIOF 90.1 FM rounds it's final transformational pivot to commercial broadcasting by executing 47 C.F.R Section 73.1690(c)(9) Modification of Transmission Systems within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rules and Regulations which allows "educational" broadcasters to pivot to commercial operations through waiver. Las Vegas Public Radio executed 47 C.F.R Section 73.1690(c)(9) Modification of Transmission Systems on December 31, 2024 through an Administrative Update with all processes underway to move Las Vegas Public Radio and KIOF over to commercial broadcasting.

The last day Las Vegas Public Radio and KIOF to be a noncommercial "educational" NCE will be January 20, 2025 (sooner the better) pending FCC action so the orderly winddown of LVPR as a 501(c)3 nonprofit business (a public charity) can be finalized. Either way, the organization will shutdown entirely to meet Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials actions/inactions playing politics, killing people to cancel LVPR as an NCE and even jailing the heads of NCE broadcasters like Las Vegas Public Radio here in southern Nevada seen across documents within FCC Facility ID’s 190166 & 766038 by the end of 2024.

Please get final donations/contributions to the organization by March 31, 2025 to help with assisting the shutdown/cleanup of the organization to meet those Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials actions/inactions.

Las Vegas Public Radio and KIOF will be back after this commercial break is completed...

Let's Go Brendon...
 
Didja read the next6-to-last paragraph?!

The second phase has Las Vegas Public Radio and KIOF permanently broadcasting on commercial FM channel(s) on a plan submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) back on December 31, 2024. This plan will involve Portsonic Communications, LLC (Arizona), home to America First/Made In USA initiatives where the company is building a new USA only based data center (with a full massage parlor) to house and drive America First/Made In USA projects. It will be the new home to KIOF on the restoration of the "travel & tourism" station with delivery of Las Vegas Public Radio content to tri-state listeners including tours of the original KIOF 97.9 FM studio when the station was destroyed during COVID-19 by Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials comprised of complete jerks and assholes who destroyed their very own tri-state tourism industry (including their own locally run and operated exclusive travel & tourism station on "Las Vegas Public Radio") that remains off-balance to this very day.
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Troll?!
 
No wonder the gentleman is trying to go commercial…not only are the state/local officials trying to plant charges on LVPR staff, but they’re actually killing LVPR folks! I’m assuming we didn’t hear about these political assassinations because channels 3,5, and 13 are trying to keep it under wraps to keep LVPR down.

I’m looking forward to a trip up to Kingman to check out the Portsonic data center/full service massage parlor. Get some Cracker Barrel, check out a data center and get a quick rubdown across the street from Walmart!
 
The latest post.
On January 20, 2025, Las Vegas Public Radio and KIOF 90.1 FM closed it's doors on the final day of being an non-commercial "educational" independent PBS public broadcaster after being driven out of business by Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials actions/inactions. The organization turns into it's final chapter through it's transformational pivot to commercial broadcasting when it executed 47 C.F.R Section 73.1690(c)(9) Modification of Transmission Systems within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Rules and Regulations which allows "educational" broadcasters to pivot to commercial operations through waiver on December 31, 2024.

Please get final donations/contributions to the organization by April 31, 2025 to help with assisting the shutdown/cleanup of the organization to meet those Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials actions/inactions.

Las Vegas Public Radio is still completing it's May 20, 2020 COVID-19 shutdown orders here in Nevada. Finalization is expected to be completed by or on May 20, 2025 through final COVID-19 fund distributions under the public-private projects as stipulated by those Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials actions/inactions by 2024 as seen in documents published in FCC Facility ID’s 190166 & 766038 for the general viewing who wanted the organization shutdown. It's just taking us alittle longer than expected to meet the censorship regime's demands of Nevada State, County/U.S. Government officials for getting the independent PBS public broadcaster shutdown entirely here in southern Nevada.

KIOF will be back under it's commercial brand soon...
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I'm getting a little torn here - on the one hand, it's amusing to watch just how far the LVPR folks are going into their delusion, but on the other hand, they're putting out all these crazy announcements specifically to get attention paid to them, and it's playing into their hands to keep pointing and looking at the craziness every time they turn the knob up again.
 
Sammi Brie said:
Get out your decoder rings to interpret this filling: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/d...&id=25076f9194899aab019489a1f7450000&goBack=N
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My point exactly - all they're doing here is submitting the same vaguely-legalese gibberish they already submitted in December, only this time on the form to cancel the ridiculous 90.1 CP that was never going to get built anyway.

I don't think there's any reason to think the FCC can or will grant their "administrative update" to move to 92.9, even under its new leadership. It's the same bureaucrats following the same rules they've been following all along.

So since nothing will actually come of it, is there a point where we're doing more harm than good by continuing to give it a spotlight?
 
fybush said:
My point exactly - all they're doing here is submitting the same vaguely-legalese gibberish they already submitted in December, only this time on the form to cancel the ridiculous 90.1 CP that was never going to get built anyway.

I don't think there's any reason to think the FCC can or will grant their "administrative update" to move to 92.9, even under its new leadership. It's the same bureaucrats following the same rules they've been following all along.

So since nothing will actually come of it, is there a point where we're doing more harm than good by continuing to give it a spotlight?
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Perhaps at a later point. Not now I don’t feel. Once he’s in Kingman fully with no licenses in his name we’ll have to check things out.

Also, just remember this is some of the busiest I’ve seen in a while on the Nevada forum over a relevant topic to radio.
 
Can we please stop taking anything this group does seriously? Just because someone files an application with the FCC does not give it legitimacy. Just ask Kaylee Stein in San Francisco for board longtimers Joanna Nicola DiSteafano Lutz.
 
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