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KOGO-AM changing sites

michael hagerty said:
I'm not sure iHeart owns the tower or the land. Several years back, iHeart began selling its towers and then leasing them back. So it could be Vertical Bridge that reaps the money from the land sale.


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Mr. Hagerty, you are correct. I just checked public records, and that huge parcel is owned by Vertical Bridge Landco LLC. It's surrounded by single-family homes. With fantastic views and easy access to downtown San Diego, it would be a great spot to build homes that would easily sell for $1m+. Zoning is RS-1-2, which under the San Diego zoning code requires minimum 20,000 sq. ft. lots. Just doing some quick math, and assuming there are no set-asides for parks, etc. you might be able to build 74 homes on that 34-acre parcel.
 
TomasEstefan said:
Perfect description. Just read the Wiki on Radio Swan. It said the operation was operated by the CIA, with a sponsorship from Herbert W. Armstrong and his World Tomorrow program and the Plain Truth magazine. The late H. W. Armstrong and his son the late Garner Ted Armstrong owned and ran the World Wide Church of God way back then, which I believe is still around today. The constitution is generally interpreted that government can't foster or establish religion, but the reverse is apparently ok ??
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The spooks back then tried all kinds of silly methods to hide their clandestine activities. But when they go in fields where they were not experts, such as AM radio in Latin America, they made lots of mistakes based on assumptions or a feeling of mental superiority.

When I first traveled through Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela in 1963, I visited several hundred stations and took pictures of each. A few weeks after returning, a classic big Chevy with plain wheels and a searchlight parked in front of our home. Two CIA guys in Robert Hall suits wanted to talk to me about my trip and to know "which stations are anit-American".

They ended up giving me a "subsidy" to drive to Lawngley where I was taken to a deep third or fourth basement in a vibration isolated room where I went through about 1,000 slides of all the stations and people and places. At the end, I was taken to an "office with a view" upstairs and another agent explained how I could get my college education paid for if I committed to a career with them. I declined.

I got the impression that, to a great extent, they lived in a fantasy world based on false assumptions and theories that supported more espionage.
 
Isn't the 760 KGB-AM tower site still owned by Tegna? I-Heart didn't get any land when they purchased 760 for a bargain basement price since all they got was the license and still have to lease the tower site from Tegna. Maybe Tegna didn't put into the lease that the price goes up if you add any other signals to that land? But I'm sure it will be figured into a new lease when it is up. I believe they got a 10-year lease on the 760 transmitter site? If there's no additional cash going to Tegna now, I assume KOGO is moving to save the tower lease costs for the KOGO transmitter site..
 
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