Is it possible for KLUC 98.5 FM move to 98.7 FM, KNXT 100.5 FM move to 100.3 and KSNE move to 106.7? Since in the US, FM spacing are .8 Mhz between channels. If 98.5 move to 98.7 100.5 move to 100.3 and 106.5 move to 106.7, then it would be easier for KOAS-FM move to 105.9 FM, and KRGT move to 99.5 FM from 99.3, also adding a station on 97.9 FM.
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KLUC 98.5 FM KXNT 100.5 FM and KSNE 106.5 FM
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Obviously, you must be joking and can't be serious. All of those companies would never agree to move frequencies (giving up their important preset in listeners cars and forcing them to spend boat loads of air time and money to promote their new position) only to make room for another competitor!!!
Well i think it would good idea because some stations like Jelli 96.7, Hot 97.5 can move their transmitter into the vegas metro instead out in the desert where most its signal is, so Jelli can relocate at 101.1 fm and hot can be on 97.9 fm some like that.
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Such major moves on the part of major players are possible, but only when it can be shown all will gain. In this scenario, the majors all lose to benefit the minor players. Not likely to happen. At this level radio is not a charity, but a business, employing hundreds. FM spacing is not fixed at 8 KHz, but dependent upon distance, class of station and in rare cases, special considerations like terrain sheilding. When we moved 101.9 to the same site, different towers as 102.7 (note 8 KHz spacing) it cost us over $44,000 just in additional filters for their system and ours to make it happen. That's not something you do on a whim.
There have certainly been examples in recent years of a market's frequencies being shuffled to bring additional signals into town - in Boise, for instance, there's a plan in the works to shift several class C FMs up one notch on the dial to allow for another new signal. The company hoping to bring the new signal into town has to cover the expenses (both technical and promotional) of the stations being forced to shift.
But - and this is a big but - this is increasingly difficult to do. Any shift you make has to fit with spacing rules that take into account stations up to 0.6 MHz (3 channels) away and more than 200 miles distant. You can do that in Boise because there's very, very little else within 200 miles in most directions. In Vegas, though, you need to fit with signals in Arizona (including the surprisingly crowded Lake Havasu-Bullhead-Laughlin-Kingman market), St. George/Cedar City, and down the 15 corridor into California.
As noted earlier in the thread, you can't move KSNE to 106.7 because of KVGQ at 106.9. You can't move KVGQ to 107.1 because of the 107.1 in Havasu. You can't move 107.1 in Havasu to 107.3 because of KXTE. You can't move KXTE to 107.7 because of KVGS...and of course you can't move 107.9 anywhere.
And if you can't move KSNE to 106.7, you can't move KOAS to 105.9. (Which you can't do anyway because of a St. George signal at 106.1...)
Same deal lower down the dial - KLUC can't go to 98.7, in part because of the Highway Stations signal on 98.9 in Essex CA and in part because it would create an interference issue with KCEP 88.1. 99.3 can't go to 99.5 because of the Highway Stations signal on 99.7 Mountain Pass. KXNT-FM can't go to 100.3 because of 100.1 in Kingman and 100.1 in Crystal (out past Pahrump).
But - and this is a big but - this is increasingly difficult to do. Any shift you make has to fit with spacing rules that take into account stations up to 0.6 MHz (3 channels) away and more than 200 miles distant. You can do that in Boise because there's very, very little else within 200 miles in most directions. In Vegas, though, you need to fit with signals in Arizona (including the surprisingly crowded Lake Havasu-Bullhead-Laughlin-Kingman market), St. George/Cedar City, and down the 15 corridor into California.
As noted earlier in the thread, you can't move KSNE to 106.7 because of KVGQ at 106.9. You can't move KVGQ to 107.1 because of the 107.1 in Havasu. You can't move 107.1 in Havasu to 107.3 because of KXTE. You can't move KXTE to 107.7 because of KVGS...and of course you can't move 107.9 anywhere.
And if you can't move KSNE to 106.7, you can't move KOAS to 105.9. (Which you can't do anyway because of a St. George signal at 106.1...)
Same deal lower down the dial - KLUC can't go to 98.7, in part because of the Highway Stations signal on 98.9 in Essex CA and in part because it would create an interference issue with KCEP 88.1. 99.3 can't go to 99.5 because of the Highway Stations signal on 99.7 Mountain Pass. KXNT-FM can't go to 100.3 because of 100.1 in Kingman and 100.1 in Crystal (out past Pahrump).
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