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Iowa KJMC Des Moines sold

radiorobert said:
Ok, here it is.



File Number:BPED-20020926ADM
Record Type:FMNAD83
Coordinates:41 48' 0.9" N 93 36' 27.7"
WChannel:207Class:C3
Domestic Status: Elevation: 296 meters Effective Radiated Power:9 kW

October of 2002. If you look at the technical data tab it shows the coverage area. It ended up being superseded and dismissed. But they were there for a year or two.

By 2004 it looks like it went back to the north side of Des Moines. Now, I believe what I remember hearing was either there was a lease dispute on the tower -or- the FCC didn't issue something correctly and they had to go back south with lower height and power. Its been 20 years so hard to remember exactly which.
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That's the shorter tower that KDSM channel 17 was on before moving to the candelabra. One of their engineers, now deceased, did the contract engineering for KUCB and KJMC back in the day, so it kinda makes sense they operated from that stick for awhile.

If you go to the FCC link and zoom in on the pin, the pin and the map's image of the site don't quite line up. If you follow the road from the site to the west, it intersects with the north-south private road that mostly follows the old railroad bed owned by the C&NW at the time of the tower's construction. You can see the Bridge of Death crossing Four Mile Creek heading north toward 134th Ave, which is officially closed. I enter the site from the south at 126th Ave.

As to previous comments, I didn't mean to imply WOI-FM had ever left the WOI-KDIN-WHO tower...only 100.3 moved north.

I spent the other night baby-sitting a tower crew replacing a radome on the WOI-FM antenna, amongst other routine tower maintenance. That was fun.
 
I was in Des Moines last week. KJMC was still going as usual, though the program material was in mono (the stereo pilot was on). I even managed to catch the elusive KJMC top-of-hour ID...not quite a legal ID because the call letters and city of license weren't adjacent, but probably as close as one ever gets.

I gave it somewhat more of a listen than on previous Des Moines visits. It sounds as if everything on the station is syndicated programming.
 
Yes most all programming is now syndicated and has been for several years.

I would look for the consummation to occur here probably in the next month. They have until end of year to do it.
 
Very interesting find...I went to this stations website which appears to still be active. When I click on the streaming I hear some classic hip hop. Only was able to listen for a minute or so. But, it sounds like this is still streaming under a service called KJAMZ????
 


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