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KLTR 94.1 is coming

Maybe the owners are just out of cash due to pandemic. As for transmitter power levels, I thought they were non adjustable or only adjustable by small amounts. But they could have just replaced the transmitter.

Lite FM has just gotten dim I guess.
 
AnyHuman said:
Maybe the owners are just out of cash due to pandemic. As for transmitter power levels, I thought they were non adjustable or only adjustable by small amounts. But they could have just replaced the transmitter.

Lite FM has just gotten dim I guess.
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I wonder what the progress of the KTWL sale is?
 
I would have liked to have seen what would happen to the overpowered K231CN with no legal originating station. But I also don’t want KLTR to interfere with K231DA
 
BamaTX said:
I'm not even sure how well these towns would be covered by the new facility. KLTR used to have a better CP that would have made it a bonafide B/CS station. Unfortunately, it seems the economics to become a B/CS station no longer make sense. Since KLTR's original CP was granted, seven new commercial translators and two commercial FM move-ins now call B/CS home.

If I'm Roy, I would upgrade KLTR and then let the pastor, his ex-wife, and Cumulus go into a bidding war. All of them could use the station in some way, shape or form.
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Cumulus has no dog in this hunt
 
ContinuousWave said:
Cumulus has no dog in this hunt
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I agree with you, but I think Bama's comment was in reference to Cumulus already owning co-channel KQXY in Beaumont, which I know you are familiar with being around that market. Regardless, KQXY is not even close to a rimshot of Houston and KLTR, even if the CP is built out, is more like a rimshot of Katy or Brookshire than of the Houston market as a whole.

Cumulus hasn't even been building out "free" translators they were were granted during "AM Revitalization" for AMs that make money and could use the FM help (KFAY's expired unbuilt last year for example). I can't remember the last time Cumulus bought anything of any size.
 
Yea, Cumulus won't spend money on FXs if the AM isn't making money. Got that from a source at Cumulus. I bet they'll turn in more AMs this year...which is stupid. They COULD get something for them...any $$ is better than none and just deleting the license.. makes no cents at all , pun intended 😜
 
Actually turning in a license in a competitive market makes sense. Whoever you sell to will be your competitor for advertising revenue. The thinking is by turning in the license, there's one less competitor to deal with. Chances are the AM isn't making money and will sell cheap, likely at a loss, so why welcome a competitor versus eliminating a potential competitor.
 
AnyHuman said:
Maybe the owners are just out of cash due to pandemic. As for transmitter power levels, I thought they were non adjustable or only adjustable by small amounts. But they could have just replaced the transmitter.
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in general, most of today’s solid state transmitters usually have infinitely variable power output. Older rigs are much more fixed, but more And more of those are out of use as tubes become more costly and hard to obtain.
 
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