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KRIZ 1420

That signal is so hard to hear, even ten miles away from Renton, that it's hard to notice. I would listen to it once in awhile (more if they've stopped saying "party blues and oldies" every five minutes) -- and more often if I could actually hear it in Seattle and north suburbs on my car radio, but the weak signal means that this potential listener has essentially forgotten they're there. I'm guessing the transmitter and ground facility is way overdue for maintenance, due to lack of finances. Vicious cycle...
 
Goldilocks94941 said:
That signal is so hard to hear, even ten miles away from Renton, that it's hard to notice. I would listen to it once in awhile (more if they've stopped saying "party blues and oldies" every five minutes) -- and more often if I could actually hear it in Seattle and north suburbs on my car radio, but the weak signal means that this potential listener has essentially forgotten they're there. I'm guessing the transmitter and ground facility is way overdue for maintenance, due to lack of finances. Vicious cycle...
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For 10,000 watts on 1620, KYIZ doesn't do so hot with it's signal either. The ground must be terrible where their transmitters/antennae are at. A move to Vashon or anywhere in South Puget Sound could do wonders, but again...finances.....
 
PER FCC SEARCH, KRIZ FILED FOR SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY TO REMAIN SILENT, STATING:

EMERGENCY DUE TO LOSS OF TOWER SITE. CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING AN ALTERNATE SITE. AN ALTERNATE SITE HAS BEEN SECURED. WILL BROADCAST FROM SAME SITE AS KYIZ PER PERMIT BP2070829ABV.
 
AND IN THEIR STA APP, THEY DROPPED A DIGIT FROM THE FILE NUMBER, WHICH IS REALLY:
BP20070829ABV
AND THAT IS THE FILE NUMBER FOR THE APPLICATION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE FOR KYIZ, I BELIEVE.
 
I was gonna write a thread about this!

1420 is nothing but a super-weak KITI Centralia during the day, and KITI/mess at night.

-crainbebo
 
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
AND IN THEIR STA APP, THEY DROPPED A DIGIT FROM THE FILE NUMBER, WHICH IS REALLY:
BP20070829ABV
AND THAT IS THE FILE NUMBER FOR THE APPLICATION TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SITE FOR KYIZ, I BELIEVE.
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http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KYIZ&service=AM&status=C&hours=D

From the looks of it, there's not going to be much change to the signal. That's a real bummer. Like I said, KYIZ should be covering far more turf than they do with 10,000 watts.......
 
Up here in Maple Ridge, B.C. KYIZ 1620 is barely audible in the days. At nights Sacramento totally wipes them out.

KNTS 1680 isn't much better either.
 
I helped get that station on the air in late 1981. The call letters were KSCR (South County Radio). The owner/engineer was Dale Owens. His mother was the money behind it (shades of WKRP!) The towers were on the east hill of the valley off of Petrovitski or maybe Carr as was previously mentioned. We had to attenuate the signal pattern so as not to tread on a station in Centralia. As weak as our signal was we had to reduce power at night. Forgive my lask of technical expertise as I was merely the sales mangler! I left there in 1983, my last job in radio. I was tired of being broke. The owner sold it a short while later and the call letters were changed to KRIZ
 
Before the station was KSCR it was KREN. According to vintage Broadcasting Yearbooks KREN signed on in 1965 with 500 watts N-D DA. The station was owned by Washington Broadcasting Co. and Ray Pounder was the GM.

If you're trying to solve mysteries from radio's past, longtime DX'ers David Gleason and Lee Freshwater have put together an excellent website where they have scanned vintage Broadcasting Yearbrooks, Vane Jone's Logs, White's Radio Logs, etc.
http://www.davidgleason.com/Radio_Archives.htm
 
This version of 1420 had nothing to do with the KREN version. The KREN version had been off for many years. Dale Owens figured out that he could re-apply for that frequency. Pretty hard to sell advertising on that station as Ricky Crocker found out. A small signal with few listeners. Dale Owens did a lot of trade outs with restaurants as he was a large man with a huge appetite.
 
BurntOutRadio said:
This version of 1420 had nothing to do with the KREN version. The KREN version had been off for many years. Dale Owens figured out that he could re-apply for that frequency. Pretty hard to sell advertising on that station as Ricky Crocker found out. A small signal with few listeners. Dale Owens did a lot of trade outs with restaurants as he was a large man with a huge appetite.
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I knew I was doing something wrong. All this time I could have been supplementing my grocery bill. And hey all else fails it's a great diet :eek:
 
TheX-KXRX said:
BurntOutRadio said:
This version of 1420 had nothing to do with the KREN version. The KREN version had been off for many years. Dale Owens figured out that he could re-apply for that frequency. Pretty hard to sell advertising on that station as Ricky Crocker found out. A small signal with few listeners. Dale Owens did a lot of trade outs with restaurants as he was a large man with a huge appetite.
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I knew I was doing something wrong. All this time I could have been supplementing my grocery bill. And hey all else fails it's a great diet :eek:
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Whoa....get me started on anything like that and there'll be some serious gravity problems between the Earth, the moon and me
 
I am surprised to hear anyone else on here that knew Dale. We were such small potatoes in the market. A previous employee perhaps? Must have been on air talent as former sales people are living under assumed names in the witness protection program due to all the trade outs Dale and the station arranged! Gasoline, auto repairs and you could eat at a different restaurant five days a week, as long as Dale went along.
 
I kinda miss the days when there were just as many small fish as big fish in the radio pond.....
 
Bongwater said:
I kinda miss the days when there were just as many small fish as big fish in the radio pond.....
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Big Corporations almost always equal formatted and boring, its the small players and independents that are usually the wild cards that add flavor and diversity to the landscape.
 
heres one small player, small fish, independent for mr X, and bongwater to sink their ears into:

KWYZ 1230 everett----all korean, all the time....enjoy that independent, small player programming fellas!

welcome to the seattle market. we can do korean, we can do hispanic, we can even do russian, but we sure the hell cant do "real" red, white, and blue country music/classic country. notice, i said "real", not corporate countrypolitan.
-scott
 
scott salvatori said:
welcome to the seattle market. we can do korean, we can do hispanic, we can even do russian, but we sure the hell cant do "real" red, white, and blue country music/classic country. notice, i said "real", not corporate countrypolitan.
-scott
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Get an HD radio - you'll find all the classic country you can handle on the HD2 channels.. Besides, Scott why do you care? You listen to the satellite radio most of the time, good buddy.
 
SRP said:
scott salvatori said:
welcome to the seattle market. we can do korean, we can do hispanic, we can even do russian, but we sure the hell cant do "real" red, white, and blue country music/classic country. notice, i said "real", not corporate countrypolitan.
-scott
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Get an HD radio - you'll find all the classic country you can handle on the HD2 channels.. Besides, Scott why do you care? You listen to the satellite radio most of the time, good buddy.
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I listen to KWYZ sometimes, it's a refreshing break from the ordinary. I also think KQMV-HD3 (Vietnamese, 24/7) is light years better than their main channel. But what I was illustrating were the days of ACTUAL, single station independent operators (and yes, once the check clears, I'll own a station.) But for now, let's all lament over the days of the crazy local independent radio station owner. The kind of eccentric who dared to be different and left a lot of unpaid bills and personalities/sales staff still in the mental health system in their wake.

Listening to radio today, they really weren't so bad after all....(Sigh!).....
 
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