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KMUS AM 1380 Sperry/Tulsa

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Anyone know what's going on with this station? Disney shut it down some time ago, and it's been silent ever since. But Friday afternoon, I happened upon it, and it was playing what sounded like songs from the soundtrack of the musical "Promises, Promises". Following each song was a short station ID, which had the very beginning and end cut off so it sounded like "AMUS, Sper" instead of "KMUS, Sperry". Now, it's silent again.
 
That will put a total of FIVE Spanish-language stations on the AM dial in Tulsa.

Really, Tulsa? REALLY?!?

If we were Del Rio Texas, it might be a little more understandable.

Let's see if I've got them all:

KRVT 1270 (Claremore)
KTOW 1340 (Sand Springs)
KMUS 1380 (Sperry)
KXTD 1530 (Wagoner)
KZLI 1570 (Catoosa)

Plus, of course, FM 101.5 (Collinsville).

Perhaps I don't appreciate the size or buying power of Tulsa's Hispanic community, but I'm guessing there may be some AM stations for sale for back taxes in the not-too-distant future.

...1120 was off the air again last week... suppose they're the next to go Spanish-language? :mad:
 
OKCRadioGuy said:
Amen to that. There's no way that the Tulsa market could support that many stations focused on a small percent of the population.
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I remember 10 or so years ago when Clear Channel gave Tulsa what I believe was it's first full-time Spanish language station when they flipped 1300 am. The PD (who's name escapes me) told me himself that Tulsa could probably support 2 or 3 full-time Spanish stations.

I think 1270 and 1570 are simulcasting 1530 out of Wagoner.

1380 is still occasionally on air with a loop of the soundtrack to "Promises, Promises"...they were yesterday.

Spanish-language stations haven't been a blip on the Tulsa ratings radar, which leads me to believe that the owners have to be Latino themselves and thrive on local ad dollars that can't be spent on English stations.
 
Nothing new as of yesterday on 1380... still "Promises, Promises."

It appears the assignment of the license was "accepted for filing" Feb 18th.

Their application, filed when they resumed broadcasting in January, says:
The new main studio for the station is now co-located at the transmitter site at 7737 North Peoria
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This "positional interest information" page:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/posi_list.pl?Application_id=1417513&File_number=BAL-20110216AAY&Callsign=KMUS

...says the new licensee will be Radio Las Americas LLC, with 100% of the interest held by Antonio Perez in Owasso.

Here's the public notice, stating the same thing:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/comment.pl?Application_id=1417513&File_number=BAL-20110216AAY

1120 is still off the air; no response from the email address they listed with the FCC. (I wanted to know if he knew his station was off the air, and why it had been mis-identifying its city of license when it WAS on the air.)

Here's 1120's page on the FCC website:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?state=OK&call=&arn=&city=&freq=1120&fre2=1120&single=1&type=0&facid=&class=&list=0&dist=&dlat2=&mlat2=&slat2=&NS=N&dlon2=&mlon2=&slon2=&EW=W&size=9

Of particular interest to me in #1 the construction permit (granted December 7th, 2010) to significantly increase power & allow "critical hours" coverage at a greater level than the current license allows during daylight hours; and #2, the "ownership biennial" accepted for filing on 2/16/11... there doesn't appear to be any knowledge by the FCC or admission by the owner that the signal has been dark for quite some time now:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1417873

Should someone write the FCC a letter?
 
Can't read it since they went pay, but they are right; they were playing a promo in a loop the other day, and are now Spanish-language.

I don't know where they came up with their number or which one they missed... but actually there are SIX:

KRVT-AM 1270, Claremore
KTOW-AM 1340, Sand Springs
KMUS-AM 1380, Sperry
KXTD-AM 1530, Wagoner
KZLI-AM 1570, Catoosa

KIZS-FM 101.5, Collinsville

All of these signals (with varying degrees of success) get into the Tulsa metro. The Sand Springs signal might be the weakest, followed by Wagoner... although both stations have been programmed to Tulsa in the past and can be picked up on the side of town closest to them. Daytime is also better than nighttime, of course, for the AMs. :)
 
NightAire said:
Can't read it since they went pay, but they are right; they were playing a promo in a loop the other day, and are now Spanish-language.

I don't know where they came up with their number or which one they missed... but actually there are SIX:

KRVT-AM 1270, Claremore
KTOW-AM 1340, Sand Springs
KMUS-AM 1380, Sperry
KXTD-AM 1530, Wagoner
KZLI-AM 1570, Catoosa

KIZS-FM 101.5, Collinsville

All of these signals (with varying degrees of success) get into the Tulsa metro. The Sand Springs signal might be the weakest, followed by Wagoner... although both stations have been programmed to Tulsa in the past and can be picked up on the side of town closest to them. Daytime is also better than nighttime, of course, for the AMs. :)
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how it's necessary for Tulsa to have more than 1 FM and 1 AM programmed Spanish.
 
Spanish is a language and not a format. With that being said, it's a nitch of formats based on the language limitations of who would be interested in listening. There seems to be too many AM Spanish-language fomats in Tulsa, yes indeed! I'm afraid several have jumped on that bandwagon in hopes of being able to make their little AMs viable again. Too much of anyting is a bad thing though. My guess is the FM makes most all the money and the little AMs are just barely treading water, if that.
 
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