KNUZ AM

[LCHS05]

Does anyone know whats going on with KNUZ it has been off the air for quite a while now, also Radio-Locator has it listed as Currently Off Air, while this is not a big suprise i was just wondering whats happening with the station, is it being moved to katy or is it staying in bellville or has Roy Henderson Killed it off alltogether have we seen the last of KNUZ

 

[rrgroup]

KNUZ will be returning to the air in a timely manner following the construction of new broadcast facilities.
Thanks for asking.
Roy Henderson

 

[purpledevil]

New facilities? Sounds great....but my educated guess is that those new facilities will be in Brenham, and not here in Bellville. LCHS05, the move of KNUZ to Katy appears to be dead in the water with the FCC. Not that I'm a big Roy Henderson fan or anything, considering the decade old treatment the once mighty KACO 1090/Bellville has received since it was reborn as KNUZ, but on what premise are threads like this are really based on? I see more of an opportunity to take a shot at Henderson than actual concern for a station that doesn't even come on the air for months and months at a time. Sorry if I sound bitter, but 1090 is a pretty sore spot for me. Ask the guy using the handle "Ultanium" on these boards about how serious I take our one and only licensed "service". If there were more real concern for 1090, more real petitions for denial of Henderson's license would have reached the FCC's desk from actual residents of Austin County back in '05, and not the poorly worded, uneducated sounding letters that actually made it to the Commission and Roy Henderson's desk making it even harder now than it was before to actually return 1090 to somewhat of a usable service for the area. As it seems now, 1090 will remain what it is today and that is a dead signal. That is unless another company wants to expand their coverage in a simulcast to cover west and NW Houston where their AM signal doesn't. I recall Chuck Tiller mentioning KNTH inquiring about a purchase to expand 1070's coverage. This is what I figure will eventually become of 1090. A simulcast partner for a Houston signal. I guess at least then, it will return to the air.

pd

 

[Mediafrog+]

If there were more real concern for 1090, more real petitions for denial of Henderson's license would have reached the FCC's desk from actual residents of Austin County back in '05

The license for 1090 should be revoked immediately. Period. If an owner is unable to keep a station consistently on the air, then said owner has no business holding what is a scarce commodity--a broadcast license. Let someone else have the opportunity to provide a broadcast service, and at the very least, have a chance to fail.

Of course keep in mind that RH sat on the CP for 105.3 in Hempstead for at least a dozen years before finally getting it on the air.

 

[purpledevil]

If there were more real concern for 1090, more real petitions for denial of Henderson's license would have reached the FCC's desk from actual residents of Austin County back in '05

The license for 1090 should be revoked immediately. Period. If an owner is unable to keep a station consistently on the air, then said owner has no business holding what is a scarce commodity--a broadcast license. Let someone else have the opportunity to provide a broadcast service, and at the very least, have a chance to fail.

Of course keep in mind that RH sat on the CP for 105.3 in Hempstead for at least a dozen years before finally getting it on the air.

Won't happen, MediaFrog. The fiasco that ensued year before last all but ensured that Henderson will remain in control of 1090 (unless sold at the grossly inflated price tag) and any legitimate complaint from the service area of KNUZ would fall on deaf ears. In the eyes of the FCC, the only reason for the Petitions to Deny during the last window were hastily thrown together letters from people nowhere near the service area of KNUZ wanting Roy Henderson's license denied so KLOL's format could be resurrected on our little 250 watt flea powered AM radio station. Did I miss something during all of that? Seems kind of stupid, doesn't it? Taking KLOL from a 100kw Class C FM at Senior Rd to Bellville?!? The FCC and Henderson himself certainly got laughs out of it, but we didn't get one thing resolved on the constant silence that has become 1090. One man's dream of a hostile take-over of the KNUZ license ended up costing all of us our service and the FCC from even hearing true and real complaints concerning the lack of service our station has been providing us for nearly the last decade.

 

[CW]

If there were more real concern for 1090, more real petitions for denial of Henderson's license would have reached the FCC's desk from actual residents of Austin County back in '05

The license for 1090 should be revoked immediately. Period. If an owner is unable to keep a station consistently on the air, then said owner has no business holding what is a scarce commodity--a broadcast license. Let someone else have the opportunity to provide a broadcast service, and at the very least, have a chance to fail.

Of course keep in mind that RH sat on the CP for 105.3 in Hempstead for at least a dozen years before finally getting it on the air.

Supposed to have 3 yrs max to build out a CP.....of course there are legal ways around it....file admendments, etc....
In the BPT area, 990 AM (Class B 1KW 24hrs) has POOR coverage and doesnt even cover the COL of BMT!! 1150 licensed to Port Neches has been off the air since Rita.....though they claim they were on until recently in a STA request...funny....one one tower of their 2 tower array is up....so how the hell could they be on??

Radio Maria lost a 500ft tower in 1250 KDEI's two tower array....their STA back in Sept 07 said they would only need 30 days to replace but asked for 60days to be safe...as of THIS week, they finally got 80ft in the air....AMAZING huh??? Yet the Hail Mary's keep on coming at 250watts....and I guess the moneyt (donations) keep coming in....so why hurry????

WHAT a crock.....in the 70s and 80s, you were off the air, and the FCC watched you like a hawk.....you are correct it is a scarce resource.....one that NEEDS to be on the air...or SOLD or given to someone who WILL keep it on and do the right thing...lately most owners fall flat on that part....

 

[kendro]

This had to resurface.
Curchill could have written the letters and it wouldn't have mattered.
The license sets securely in someone's curio collection like a 1946 Jefferson Nickel.

When the money and the initiative were available, nobody cared.
Why does anyone actually care now?

 

[purpledevil]

This had to resurface.
Curchill could have written the letters and it wouldn't have mattered.
The license sets securely in someone's curio collection like a 1946 Jefferson Nickel.

When the money and the initiative were available, nobody cared.
Why does anyone actually care now?

Why does anyone care? For starters, I actually live in the town the station is supposed to serve. Unlike you in Houston, with many stations to choose from to hear about the goings on in the city, we have Brenham, B/CS, and a Hempstead station that's targeting a town not even in the same COUNTY as the service license! Do you know how often you hear about ANYTHING going on in Bellville, from one of these stations? Look, I understand there is no profit in any mention of Bellville besides running a 30 sec. commercial for one of the businesses here, and I would be rather foolish to expect it, but what I do expect is for the one station that we have licensed to us to actually come on the air. Nevermind the fact that it's a simulcasted Brenham station. At least turn it on.

Let me bounce your question back into your court. Why did you care at all? Considering you knew the limitations of 1090's signal, and still encouraged the signatures of your board members to revoke Henderson's license under the false premise that Mr. Johnson could then assume the license, and revive KLOL's format on 1090? This is where I have an issue with the whole ordeal. It was one man trying to (for the lack of a better term) hijack our service, and it made any future legitimate petitions for denial suspect and subject to intense scrutiny. I guess it's all just water under the bridge to some and they've moved on, but the silence in Bellville is still here, and it is to the point where an ending is nowhere in sight.

 

[kendro]

True, you have nothing covering Bellville. You would not have otherwise had anything in Bellville. There is no financial motive for there to be a station there in the future. There is nothing to "hijack". I would have financed it for personal reasons fully knowing that it would have operated at a net loss.

My opinion is that no one other than you really cares at the end of the day.
If you honestly feel that the license would actually ever be used to a local advantage then I apologize for ruining that opportunity.

 

[radiobiz]

Hey Mediafrog. You mentioned Henderson's 105.3 station. Rumor has it there's NO ONE working in The Woodlands anymore. I know a business owner in The Woodlands and they have been trying to call the station for two weeks to cancel their contract. No one ever answers. My friend also told me they heard an Easter commercial on the station just last week. Does anyone know what the story is?

 

[Mediafrog+]

Hey Mediafrog. You mentioned Henderson's 105.3 station. Rumor has it there's NO ONE working in The Woodlands anymore.

I'm surprised KTWL has lasted this long (two years.) The signal simply is inadequate, and is lost amongst the glut of other FM choices. Sounds like they are now a ghost ship on autopilot.

I've mentioned this before, but the 105.3 signal might be a good place for EMF to put one of their satellite fed religious networks (the demographics of the KTWL coverage area fit well with that) but I hear they have a gentleman's agreement not to compete with KSBJ.

The KTWL website is still up, but I can't really tell if it has been updated lately. I occasionally check out the station while driving around, and it is still going, but I haven't heard anything live on it at the times I've listened.

 

[CW]

Hey Mediafrog. You mentioned Henderson's 105.3 station. Rumor has it there's NO ONE working in The Woodlands anymore. I know a business owner in The Woodlands and they have been trying to call the station for two weeks to cancel their contract. No one ever answers. My friend also told me they heard an Easter commercial on the station just last week. Does anyone know what the story is?

Welll when you dont have coverage over a town you are calling home, what do you expect?? As I said before, 105.3 will NEVER be city grade or even close over the Woodlands...aint gonna happen (unless the FCC has a major brain fart and relaxes adj channel spacing....but then that wont help either!)

 

[Brokenhearted Bill]

If there were more real concern for 1090, more real petitions for denial of Henderson's license would have reached the FCC's desk from actual residents of Austin County back in '05

The license for 1090 should be revoked immediately. Period. If an owner is unable to keep a station consistently on the air, then said owner has no business holding what is a scarce commodity--a broadcast license. Let someone else have the opportunity to provide a broadcast service, and at the very least, have a chance to fail.

Of course keep in mind that RH sat on the CP for 105.3 in Hempstead for at least a dozen years before finally getting it on the air.

Mediafrog, I totally 100% agree with you. L