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KLAK "move-in" is only 15 miles

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rbrucecarter

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I looked it up on Radio-Locator, and this "move-in" is only about 15 miles closer, it is a little more power off of a little shorter tower. That is not much of a move, I doubt it will be much stronger than it is now. I don't think the CSN translator will even have to go dark for them to move.
 
> I looked it up on Radio-Locator, and this "move-in" is only
> about 15 miles closer, it is a little more power off of a
> little shorter tower. That is not much of a move, I doubt
> it will be much stronger than it is now. I don't think the
> CSN translator will even have to go dark for them to move.
>

It will gain about 300,000 people within its protected contour when compared to its current protected contour. I call that a move...

Translator K248BC 97.5 Dallas is being forced to drop power to make way. It will reduce from 75 watts to 50 watts -- the CP has been granted for the reduction.

As was noted in the thread below ("CP granted for KLAK quasi-move-in"), it's coverage will not be unlike KHYI 95.3, in that it is also a C2 that will only be able to provide a decent signal to Collin County. Both are limited in how close they can move by spacing rules between themselves and 2nd adjacent FMs located in Cedar Hill. It certainly will have better coverage than KXEZ 92.1, which is hard to get in southwest Collin Co and northrn Dallas Co due to interference from KTFW 92.1 Glen Rose.

I don't think they are going to the expense of doing this to not target Collin County and the northern suburbs. NextMedia owns similar facilities targeting the suburbs around Chicago (WERV, WIIL, WXLC, etc.).

My question is what will they do with it? Surely, the bland, generic satellite AC feed will go.
 
> My question is what will they do with it? Surely, the bland,
> generic satellite AC feed will go.


"All Al Jazerrah, All The Time"
 
> > My question is what will they do with it? Surely, the
> bland,
> > generic satellite AC feed will go.
>
>
> "All Al Jazerrah, All The Time"
>
New Japanese whaling songs format
 
>
> My question is what will they do with it? Surely, the bland,
> generic satellite AC feed will go.
>
Just to clarify...KLAK features LIVE/LOCAL programming 5am-7pm, after that it is voicetracked out of ABC Dallas as well as all weekend. At no time do they broadcast "bland, generic satellite" programming.
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by abcdj on 12/03/05 03:25 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> I looked it up on Radio-Locator, and this "move-in" is only
> about 15 miles closer, it is a little more power off of a
> little shorter tower. That is not much of a move, I doubt
> it will be much stronger than it is now. I don't think the
> CSN translator will even have to go dark for them to move.
>
The will move a few miles south, they will INCREASE tower height above ground from 630 feet to 660 feet, and go from 27,000 watts to 32,000 watts.
Any one of those things would not make THAT big of a difference. Doing ALL of these things will certainly increase their strength in the Collin County area and put a decent signal into North Dallas.
 
> As was noted in the thread below ("CP granted for KLAK
> quasi-move-in"), it's coverage will not be unlike KHYI 95.3,
> in that it is also a C2 that will only be able to provide a
> decent signal to Collin County. Both are limited in how
> close they can move by spacing rules between themselves and
> 2nd adjacent FMs located in Cedar Hill.

The difference in coverage between KLAK and KHYI will be primarily in Denton county, where KHYI should continue to have a substantially better signal than KLAK will be able to achieve. Both stations are full class C2 facilities, and the transmitter sites are very close to equally far north...but KLAK's new site will be 20 miles east of KHYI, which limits their coverage in the northwest Dallas suburbs of Denton county..

> I don't think they are going to the expense of doing this to
> not target Collin County and the northern suburbs.
> NextMedia owns similar facilities targeting the suburbs
> around Chicago (WERV, WIIL, WXLC, etc.).

If you drive up US75, one of the things that you'll quickly note is the number of signs from home builders who are throwing up many, many new subdivision in towns like Anna, Melissa, and Van Alstyne. It's a fairly safe guess that in the future we're going to see a pretty much continuous swath of suburbia extending all the way up to Sherman -- which means that Grayson & Collin counties will become a huge, merged suburban market. This move positions KLAK to serve that market -- so my suspicion is that they will continue to serve the Sherman/Denison area from their Katy Depot studios in downtown Denison (studios which are also used for KMKT 93.1 and KMAD 102.5), but will "evolve" the station to also increasingly serve Collin County, as well. It will be interesting to see how they manage to do this...and what (if anything) they'll do to promote the station in Collin County.
 
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