KIXI will pick up the John Tesh Radio Show for mid-days

[fordranger797]

It's the terrain and the sheer size I'm talking about. You could probably cover most of Seattle and maybe, Bellevue from Queen Anne Hill but the Seattle market is much bigger than that.

A translator situation (like you are referring to) works well up in Vancouver. At ~690 metres with LOS to the entire region I think it would extremely well. Municipalities are very spread out in the Seattle-Tacoma area, unfortunately.

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

The real estate value of the KIXI tower site probably makes it all the more worth it to sell.

Not really. It's part of the Bellevue Mercer Slough...MAJOR WETLAND designation...so can't really sell the land to anyone. In fact, they lease the land from City of Bellevue Parks Dept.. So in your scenario there would be no buyer.

 

[fordranger797]

Not really. It's part of the Bellevue Mercer Slough...MAJOR WETLAND designation...so can't really sell the land to anyone. In fact, they lease the land from City of Bellevue Parks Dept.. So in your scenario there would be no buyer.

Seriously? I always thought they had a property elsewhere.

That is interesting though... You can probably see the towers from the studio in that case.

 

[xmtrland]

I hear the Bellevue swamp rents are cheaper than what the Vashon am sites rent for.

Would be interesting to crunch the numbers to see if Hubbard would be better off to negotiate the best price for KMCQ, Move KIXI to it, dump 880 am or move 1150 to 880 and get ride of 1150. I bet 1150 am's power bill is more than KMCQ power bill. Would the power savings in the PSE bill be worth over paying for KMCQ?

 

[xmtrland]

The following is used in my new engineering Comedy Routine.

"Why does KIXI need to see there transmitter site from the studio?"

"So they can tell when it's on fire!"

I got hundreds of these. Right now I'm working in the top ten things Nautel told me not to do to my NX-50.

1- Don't upgrade the software when on air.

 

[Kelly A]

Let's do the math: $20,000,000.00 purchase price plus whatever interest. So just taking the $20M divided by $2,500.00 per month power bill (which is about what a DX-50 burns per month in the Northwest) = 8,000 months. That means the return on investment for KMCQ stick value alone, excluding additional expenses, transmitter site rent, etc., means the station would be paid for just on power bill alone in 666.666 years (interesting number). So given that, are you still considering a $20M purchase would be a good idea to save on electricity?

 

[xmtrland]

So I guess there is no rational reason to buy KMCQ at that price.

But to get back to John Tesh, I found myself listening to KIXI to get away from the topic of the day dominating most stations in Seattle. And I actually heard John Tesh, he was talking about properly chewing your food and the benefits of properly chewing. Now if that can't fit any format nothing can.

 

[CarAgencyGuy]

Can we PLEASE not have every post on this board deteriorate into a conversation about speculation on KMCQ. Start a KMCQ thread if you want to talk about them. How about "what I'd do with KCMQ if I was willing to take a pay cut from the job I have now". I'll start that thread if you guys want.
Meantime, John Tesh on KIXI.
I have been waiting for a station here in town to do what some in other markets are doing. Get a translator and run your HD2 programming on it. It's allowable and if you were say entercom and had 103.4 or whatever that extra signal is you have in town then you run THE MOUNTAIN HD2 on it and now you have another radio station to sell. It would seem Hubbard could do the same thing with KIXI since it's HD 2 on one of their FM signal- and so if they could find an available translator signal. Maybe there's not that hard to get and you get several of them and all of sudden you have something.

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

I used to own a company that was literally across the street from KIXI transmitter site. One day I hear a loud "ka-BOOM" ... glance out the window to see wisps of smoke emerging from the transmitter building. Within 5 minutes an SUV screeches into the xmitter shack driveway....and I felt so sorry for that engineer without even knowing what had happened.

 

[installLSC]

For those who assume that John Tesh is associated directly with an AC format because of having been on KPLZ, remember that Tesh sends his voicetracks on a daily basis to all the affiliated stations in his network. It's up to the local station to place the generic tracks within whatever music format the station already has. From what I remember, Tesh was providing the same tracks across the board from contemporary Christian stations to classic rock. KPLZ just happened to be an AC station. What will be interesting in the whole KIXI thing, is what music Hubbard wraps around the Tesh tracks. Heck, the fact that KIXI even still plays music is interesting in itself.

Well I tuned into Tesh on KIXI, and it seems like they haven't changed their music mix at all. For that matter the announcements/commercials (KIXI has a very distinct style on their ads) are voiced by the same people.

 

[Lightingnut]

Well I tuned into Tesh on KIXI, and it seems like they haven't changed their music mix at all. For that matter the announcements/commercials (KIXI has a very distinct style on their ads) are voiced by the same people.

I think that is Dan Murphy. He went to Factoria after KWMX bit the dust and that is going on 23 years ago.

 

[Lightingnut]

I hear the Bellevue swamp rents are cheaper than what the Vashon am sites rent for.

Would be interesting to crunch the numbers to see if Hubbard would be better off to negotiate the best price for KMCQ, Move KIXI to it, dump 880 am or move 1150 to 880 and get ride of 1150. I bet 1150 am's power bill is more than KMCQ power bill. Would the power savings in the PSE bill be worth over paying for KMCQ?

I've wondered why the folks in Factoria haven't jumped on the sports bandwagon with AM 880. Does NBC sports have an affiliate in Seattle? Maybe Sinclair should do this with KVI.

 

[WDAE-FM101]

Charles Dreifus still wants close to $12million for KMCQ -- Way too much for a signal that doesn't provide good building penetration in Seattle, let alone cover all the metro area.

 

[semoochie]

A translator situation (like you are referring to) works well up in Vancouver. At ~690 metres with LOS to the entire region I think it would extremely well. Municipalities are very spread out in the Seattle-Tacoma area, unfortunately.

Yes, in Portland, it works pretty well. You get that 99 watts up to about 400 meters in the west hills and as long as there's good line-of-site, you can hear it in most of the metro area, at least in the car. Salem isn't THAT important for ratings. Seattle however has Everett on one far end and Tacoma on the other and is blocked by hill after hill. Even if it weren't, it just takes up too much space, for a translator to have much of an impact.

 

[Kelly A]

I have been waiting for a station here in town to do what some in other markets are doing. Get a translator and run your HD2 programming on it. It's allowable and if you were say entercom and had 103.4 or whatever that extra signal is you have in town then you run THE MOUNTAIN HD2 on it and now you have another radio station to sell. It would seem Hubbard could do the same thing with KIXI since it's HD 2 on one of their FM signal- and so if they could find an available translator signal. Maybe there's not that hard to get and you get several of them and all of sudden you have something.

There are two reasons why translators in the Seattle-Tacoma market are a problem: 1. Terrain. Hilly terrain cause signal shadows to large population areas. 2. Available Channels. There aren't many available for translator use in a major market like Seattle anyway. Even if you found multiple channels to put your audio on, the listener benefits would be less than a single frequency. Listeners don't like to flip around based on location. Once the signal fades, the average listener moves on.

 

[ronrob]

The KIXI news release said the Tesh show would feature KIXI Music. That means we'll continue to be treated to the usual nostalgia music KIXI is notorious for.

And the annoying 'Talk for Women' brokered feature ran only from noon to 1, whereas John Tesh will occupy a much longer chunk of time.

Isn't KIXI already featured on the HD2 signal of a Bremerton FM station? I can hear in my addled brain Dan Murphy's recorded voice so indicating on the ID hour after hour.

By the bye, KIXI on 880 is one of the stronger non-Canadian signals on the AM band many places in southern British Columbia. At least until sundown when it usually disappears into an unintelligible morass.

 

[Gregg.]

I think John Tesh does a pretty good show. He reuses magazine articles such as "How to Find A Good College for Your Kid" or "How to Avoid Getting The Flu." He does it in a 60 second rap, then it's on to the next song. KIXI will have a live AM show, a live PM show, and Tesh in the middle, between the Dean Martin and Dionne Warwick songs. I wish all stations were staffed with good-quality live DJs around the clock. But that's not going to happen. So having Tesh do his thing on KIXI in middays is a good option.

 

[AQH]

Could this be a sign KIXI is moving to soft AC, now that Warm actually plays rhythmic music like "Call Me Maybe" and "Royals"?

Carly Rae Jepsen and Lorde are considered "rhythmic music?"

 

[Bongwater]

Carly Rae Jepsen and Lorde are considered "rhythmic music?"

".....He reuses magazine articles such as "How to Find A Good College for Your Kid" or "How to Avoid Getting The Flu." He does it in a 60 second rap....."

Apparently, John Tesh does rap.....

 

[fordranger797]

isn't kixi already featured on the hd2 signal of a bremerton fm station?

kwrm 106.9 hd-2