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Fresno / Central Valley KMJ
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According to a former higher up staffer i know who used to work there, who still has friends there, he asked around and said "no changes planned"
we'll see
Maybe it’s just referring to the possibility of removing the AM part from the announcement, the same way 780 WBBM only mentions 105.9 on air, other than during legal IDs.
Maybe, KMJ 580 is going to a Spanish format soon! With so much of this going on lately, it would not surprise me!
Possibly, if they're sure they've migrated the vast majority of the audience over to the FM.
(That KMJ/580 signal is gangbusters. I pick it up on the San Francisco peninsula almost as well as the much-more-local KSFO/560. I have no interest in their programming, but have to admire that low-end-of-the-dial 50 Kw signal.)
Unless it was to be religion in Spanish, trying to do any popular format for Hispanics on AM is going to fail totally.
Might I suggest....Armenian? Basque?
In Oakland, didn't get it quite as well as you did, but it was always a steady presence in the daytime. The daytime signal is directional and aimed right toward the Bay Area. So you and I were effectively getting more than 50,000 watts from KMJ. Electrical heights of the towers are almost half-wave, which helps, too.
Who says? KNZR temporarily, it seems went spanish on AM, leaving the rimshot fm in ebnglish
They will not get rid of their AM, they had the 100th anniversary last year KMJ 580 with the original calls since 1922, first station in the Valley.
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If it was me, I'd swap the 105.9 FM and put KMJ on the 93.7 frequency, and put the 105.9 on the KISS country. The 93.7 seems to have much better reach, especially going north of Merced.
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93.7 is a grandfathered station with 68 KW at 4600 ft above sealevel at Meadow Lakes, the valleys most powerful FM.
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That is the reason why they should swap frequencies! North of Atwater or Livingston, another LP station/translator takes over. Like so many areas!
As so many on here point out so often, radio is a business. Does the *business* that is KMJ -- i.e., Cumulus -- make money from reaching small numbers of listeners across sparsely populated parts of the Valley, or is most (or all) of their revenue earned from businesses trying to reach listeners in the immediate Fresno area? If so, the smaller, weaker 105.9 signal will be adequate, with the blowtorch AM signal backstopping it to reach those listeners beyond the FM signal's limits. (It's not like KMJ/580 has a whole lot of other value anymore.) And the stronger 93.7 will remain a music station, reaching as many as it can, making as much money as it can. Ultimately it's a game of maximizing revenues and profits. The ratings are just a tool to achieve that.
Yes, but there are at least two other country music stations up there already. But, very few talk stations there.
It's not all about covering distant areas. It's also about ease of reception & building penetration in the local market.
Dave B.
Or just Mr Announcer trying to spice up the so often repeated sameness of an ID with just a little 'twist'. so cute lol
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