KMEN Mendota Silent

[MrZoom]

That only applys to channels that were on the auction -- not channels that have been
licensed. If KMEN was not there the 100.5 A allocation would still remain available for the next auction. If 100.5 A is then NOT auctioned off -- then and only then would the channel -- MIGHT be deleted, if after public notice -- no interest is made for the channel.

If you will check the FCC data DKSLK 96.1 A is still in the data base. The Allocation will remain until it is added to the following auction window.

 

[K.M. Richards]

I'm sorry, sir, but you are WRONG.

Here is a direct cut-and-paste from the FCC document I linked above:

Similarly, Randy Hendrix requests that we add the allotment of deleted station DKSLK(FM), Channel 241A at Visalia, California. This allotment was subject to legal challenges until August 4, 2014, and has not been reinstated to the FM Table of Allotments. We are unable to grant Mr. Hendrix’s request because we cannot offer a permit in an auction until the underlying allotment is added to the Table through a rulemaking.

Of course the deleted station is still in CDBS. All deleted stations are.

However, as the FCC states above, the allocated channel is not in the table of allotments at present, and a rulemaking will be required to add it back.

See, what you don't get is that there is no longer a table with permanent allocations for FM. There exists, at FCC §73.202, a list of unused channels (referred to above as the FM Table of Allotments) which are eligible for auction. Once a station exists, it has use of that allotment until it vacates it for any reason -- going silent and relinquishing the license, moving to a different channel, cancellation of license by the FCC -- and then the frequency is available to be allocated by rulemaking anywhere it will fit.

Go look up §73.202 ... there is no allocation of 241A (or any other channel) at Visalia.

 

[MrZoom]

That's say that you are correct. Then that is just one more reason to think that Casa
Media will return KMEN back "on the air" and not drop some big cash down a dry hole.
That's wait another 10 days and find out. I say that KMEN will be back soon.

 

[K.M. Richards]

That's say that you are correct. Then that is just one more reason to think that Casa
Media will return KMEN back "on the air" and not drop some big cash down a dry hole.
That's wait another 10 days and find out. I say that KMEN will be back soon.

I agree with you on that. If they let it go silent they've lost everything they put into it and there would be no certainty that they could get the allocation back.

Let's you and I wonder in unison whether it will be one of those "return to the air to keep the license active" situations or whether there is a real chance for it to come back full time.

 

[MrZoom]

Done.

 

[mendotatech]

6:45 PM April 24 - KMEN returns to air... Carrier Only.

 

[kenrayc]

I don't see the point of that station carrying the same programming as KAAT 103.1 which covers that area very well, well if they want to pay the extra power bill for something not needed, more power to them.

 

[mendotatech]

8:00 AM April 27, 2015 - KMEN goes of the Air... KMQA ups their power to cover Mendota (albeit a degraded signal) and identifies as "KMQA / KMEN - Porterville, Fresno, Mendota.... La Maquina Musical 100.5.

 

[mendotatech]

8:00 AM April 27, 2015 - KMEN goes of the Air... KMQA ups their power to cover Mendota (albeit a degraded signal) and identifies as "KMQA / KMEN - Porterville, Fresno, Mendota.... La Maquina Musical 100.5.

Had a chance to go out to the transmitter site... Nobody around, just a lot of Stamoules Produce equipment. I go back to CDBS and sure enough, KBHH all over again. They filed for another STA off the air as they are trying to complete their bankruptcy in court.

 

[K.M. Richards]

8:00 AM April 27, 2015 - KMEN goes of the Air... KMQA ups their power to cover Mendota (albeit a degraded signal) and identifies as "KMQA / KMEN - Porterville, Fresno, Mendota.... La Maquina Musical 100.5.

If that is a verbatim transcript, that ID is about as far from legal as I can imagine under the circumstances. KMQA has no authority to identify with the KMEN call letters ... in fact, their official COL is East Porterville. Inserting call letters which are not theirs is a violation, and not including the word "East" is a second violation.

And "ups their power"? Under what authorization?

 

[davideduardo]

If that is a verbatim transcript, that ID is about as far from legal as I can imagine under the circumstances. KMQA has no authority to identify with the KMEN call letters ... in fact, their official COL is East Porterville. Inserting call letters which are not theirs is a violation, and not including the word "East" is a second violation.

And "ups their power"? Under what authorization?

Perhaps the poster just means that KMEN is on the air sumulcasting KMQA and is thus "upping" its coverage. KMEN covers nearly nobody (the 65 dbu catches less than 15 thousand people).

Messing up the ID's of a simulcast... even one with an HD channel... is getting to be very, very common.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Messing up the ID's of a simulcast... even one with an HD channel... is getting to be very, very common.

Maybe it's time for us to do away with those. With the exception of stations (like KFI, WABC, WGN, etc.) which actually brand with their call letters, more effort seems to go into hiding the legal ID than actually doing it correctly.

In any event, I note that the OP in post #28 said KMEN is silent again, so this isn't a simulcast. Therefore those calls have no place whatsoever in a legal ID for KMQA. And I still want to know what the OP meant by KMQA "upping its power", as there is no authorization showing in CDBS for anything other than its licensed 2kw operation. No CPs, no STAs, no applications.

 

[mendotatech]

I live in Mendota... KMQA usually does not come into Mendota, even when they moved on top of the hill in Porterville. I have been hearing KMQA since Monday night. Monday morning, they turn off their KMEN carrier, but I couldn't hear Porterville until later that day. And it has been audible since. This can only indicative of an unauthorized increase of power. Inversions wouldn't be able to achieve KMQA's signal getting into Mendota.

At any rate, they did file another STA for KMEN requesting it for at least 4 months while Casa gets their bankruptcy approved in court.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101676999&formid=910&fac_num=88205

Maybe it's time for us to do away with those. With the exception of stations (like KFI, WABC, WGN, etc.) which actually brand with their call letters, more effort seems to go into hiding the legal ID than actually doing it correctly.

In any event, I note that the OP in post #28 said KMEN is silent again, so this isn't a simulcast. Therefore those calls have no place whatsoever in a legal ID for KMQA. And I still want to know what the OP meant by KMQA "upping its power", as there is no authorization showing in CDBS for anything other than its licensed 2kw operation. No CPs, no STAs, no applications.

 

[K.M. Richards]

You should call the FCC field office. This sounds like a laundry list of apparent violations.

 

[kenrayc]

I live in Mendota... KMQA usually does not come into Mendota, even when they moved on top of the hill in Porterville. I have been hearing KMQA since Monday night. Monday morning, they turn off their KMEN carrier, but I couldn't hear Porterville until later that day. And it has been audible since. This can only indicative of an unauthorized increase of power. Inversions wouldn't be able to achieve KMQA's signal getting into Mendota.

At any rate, they did file another STA for KMEN requesting it for at least 4 months while Casa gets their bankruptcy approved in court.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...xt=25&appn=101676999&formid=910&fac_num=88205

First of all I don't think they would be including Fresno in their ID unless they include KAAT 103,1, and I make deliveries throughout Fresno Co and their no inprovement to KMQA at all, the signal on 100.5 is very weak, like a station from Bakersfield, actually 98.5 KDFO is clearer.

 

[mendotatech]

I will listen for the ID again.

First of all I don't think they would be including Fresno in their ID unless they include KAAT 103,1, and I make deliveries throughout Fresno Co and their no inprovement to KMQA at all, the signal on 100.5 is very weak, like a station from Bakersfield, actually 98.5 KDFO is clearer.