KRUF Morning Show

[chota]

Has K 94.5 hired a new morning yet?

 

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show....morning show.... disciples of the dawn...

 

[ExplorerXLT76]

what happened to their previous morning show?

 

[snoman]

I wouldn't be surprised if they went with Kidd Kraddick. GAP did it in Texarkana. They'll probably do the same there in Shreveport.

 

[ExplorerXLT76]

Isnt Kidd Kraddick market specific? Mix 97.3 KQHN has them for their morming show, so how could K945 get them?

 

[snoman]

Isnt Kidd Kraddick market specific? Mix 97.3 KQHN has them for their morming show, so how could K945 get them?

Isn't 97.3 Low Power? I think Premiere has an "out" clause, if a full-power station, like K94.5 were interested. I've seen it happen with other syndicated programs before, especially Premiere's shows.

 

[jlt_03]

Isnt Kidd Kraddick market specific? Mix 97.3 KQHN has them for their morming show, so how could K945 get them?

Isn't 97.3 Low Power? I think Premiere has an "out" clause, if a full-power station, like K94.5 were interested. I've seen it happen with other syndicated programs before, especially Premiere's shows.

97.3 is 50,000 watts I believe. In any case, you can hear it as far west as Longview.

 

[snoman]

Isnt Kidd Kraddick market specific? Mix 97.3 KQHN has them for their morming show, so how could K945 get them?

Isn't 97.3 Low Power? I think Premiere has an "out" clause, if a full-power station, like K94.5 were interested. I've seen it happen with other syndicated programs before, especially Premiere's shows.

97.3 is 50,000 watts I believe. In any case, you can hear it as far west as Longview.

Wow. I thought it was a low power station. I'm sorry I guess I need to brush up on the market a little. Is there a low power station around that frequency that I'm getting it confused with?! Who owns KQHN?

 

[jlt_03]

Isnt Kidd Kraddick market specific? Mix 97.3 KQHN has them for their morming show, so how could K945 get them?

Isn't 97.3 Low Power? I think Premiere has an "out" clause, if a full-power station, like K94.5 were interested. I've seen it happen with other syndicated programs before, especially Premiere's shows.

97.3 is 50,000 watts I believe. In any case, you can hear it as far west as Longview.

Wow. I thought it was a low power station. I'm sorry I guess I need to brush up on the market a little. Is there a low power station around that frequency that I'm getting it confused with?! Who owns KQHN?

I'm not sure about a LPFM near 97.3....but KQHN is a Cumulus station.

 

[jd]

Wow. I thought it was a low power station. I'm sorry I guess I need to brush up on the market a little. Is there a low power station around that frequency that I'm getting it confused with?! Who owns KQHN?

The low-power station you're thinking about is KBLK-LP, which had to find a new frequency (106.3) to make way for KQHN. And Mix 97.3 is the reincarnation of KBED 102.9, following their extended absence.

In a strange series of events, KBED essentially lost their frequency in January 2005. It began when Cumulus moved 107.9 from Magnolia AR to Oil City LA, with the transmitter in Shreveport. The new signal immediately created problems with air traffic communications at Barksdale; it was "beating" with 106.9 (The Blaze) over in Ore City TX and creating a strong image signal up in the aircraft band. The FCC ordered 107.9 off the air, as engineers looked at everything like reducing power or using other tower sites. Soon Cumulus decided to scrap the Mix and put the new station (now KVMA) on 102.9 while they searched for a replacement frequency. They came up with 97.3, the frequency I had suggested early on. You probably recall that was an unused class C2 allocation for Longview, but it couldn't be used in the Shreveport area until other moves happened, as described by Chip Kelly: www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,21271.0.html

After months of debate and a lot of legal expenses from all the parties involved, the FCC approved the re-allocation plan that cleared the way for Mix to return to the air. Amazingly it was accomplished in just one year, and KQHN 97.3 signed on in January 2006, from the same tower that had been used by the ill-fated 107.9.

 

[snoman]

Wow. I thought it was a low power station. I'm sorry I guess I need to brush up on the market a little. Is there a low power station around that frequency that I'm getting it confused with?! Who owns KQHN?

The low-power station you're thinking about is KBLK-LP, which had to find a new frequency (106.3) to make way for KQHN. And Mix 97.3 is the reincarnation of KBED 102.9, following their extended absence.

In a strange series of events, KBED essentially lost their frequency in January 2005. It began when Cumulus moved 107.9 from Magnolia AR to Oil City LA, with the transmitter in Shreveport. The new signal immediately created problems with air traffic communications at Barksdale; it was "beating" with 106.9 (The Blaze) over in Ore City TX and creating a strong image signal up in the aircraft band. The FCC ordered 107.9 off the air, as engineers looked at everything like reducing power or using other tower sites. Soon Cumulus decided to scrap the Mix and put the new station (now KVMA) on 102.9 while they searched for a replacement frequency. They came up with 97.3, the frequency I had suggested early on. You probably recall that was an unused class C2 allocation for Longview, but it couldn't be used in the Shreveport area until other moves happened, as described by Chip Kelly: www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,21271.0.html

After months of debate and a lot of legal expenses from all the parties involved, the FCC approved the re-allocation plan that cleared the way for Mix to return to the air. Amazingly it was accomplished in just one year, and KQHN 97.3 signed on in January 2006, from the same tower that had been used by the ill-fated 107.9.

That's it. I was about to lose my mind. I knew I had heard something like that, but after the previous posts, I thought maybe I'd just dreamed that scenario. So Cumulus owns KQHN?

 

[jd]

That's it. I was about to lose my mind. I knew I had heard something like that, but after the previous posts, I thought maybe I'd just dreamed that scenario. So Cumulus owns KQHN?

Yes they do. Sorry to be so wordy in the explanation, but there were a lot of twists and turns in the story. While it was fascinating to people like me, it had to be really frustrating for Cumulus, and of course, the former Mix staffers who didn't make it through the forced absence.