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KSTN Shutting Down

BossRadioDJ

BossRadioDJ

In case you don't read the Sacramento or Central California boards here on Radio-Info.com, you should head over to read about the death of Stockton's KSTN/1420, which went silent on Friday night at 6:15 PM, and KSTN-FM 107.3, which will become a K-Love repeater on Monday.

Both stations put significant signals into the Bay Area, had rich and colorful histories, and were the starting place for many careers.
 
KSTN Airchecks on You Tube

Thanks for the news BOSS... Here's a link to my KSTN airchecks on You Tube : http://www.youtube.com/RadioAirchecks .



BossRadioDJ said:
In case you don't read the Sacramento or Central California boards here on Radio-Info.com, you should head over to read about the death of Stockton's KSTN/1420, which went silent on Friday night at 6:15 PM, and KSTN-FM 107.3, which will become a K-Love repeater on Monday.

Both stations put significant signals into the Bay Area, had rich and colorful histories, and were the starting place for many careers.
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Wow, that really is odd that only a megabucks religious broadcaster from Sacramento would make a successful offer on on of the strongest FM signals in the region. I recall 107.3 can put a steady signal at least as far north as Santa Rosa - seemed like it had a particularly good transmitter site to get the signal thru the right valleys into SF, the East and North Bays.

So how many signals does that get K-Love's format on now in each of Sonoma, Monterey and Sacramento Counties? 6? 7?

I'm surprised no one has tried to at least donate the AM1420 license to either Capitol Public Radio or KQED to boost their talk format coverage in Stockton, Monterey, and the South Bay. That 5kw signal also carried well beyond what you'd expect. Is there no longer a financial advantage to donating a facility to a non-profit (religous ones not included - or are they?) Or is it just too expensive to maintain the AM towers versus the listeners (and, in the case of public radio, potential contributors) it might attract? Or did nobody care to offer KSTN to a nonsectarian noncommercial entity, who probably couldn't otherwise afford to buy the license?
 
Long Hot days, Blue Sea Haze, KSTN-1420 Played, But Now It's Fading awayyyyyyyyyyy....

Those Were The Day's My Friend! We'd Thought They'd Never End. We'd Sing and Dance Forever and A Day. We'd Live The Life We choose. We'd Fight and Never Lose. Those Were Day's Oh! Yes Those Were The Day's!

All Things Must Pass, Even Radio Stations! Greg Mundae KXOA 107.9 Sacramento, CA. 1972.

All Things Must Pass, Even Radio Stations! RadioStarOne Feb. 20th 2010. That's Life! Turn Out The Lights. Good Night KSTN-1420.

Now for all of you radio "I Can Do It Better Types" Time to put up or shut-up! Seems this station could be had for a song and a couple of pennies! What are you waiting for? Show us what you're made of! What are you a man or a mouse? Guess the same could be said for a couple of the family members of a certain radio stations owners. Give up without a fight, The Fighting Sullivans would have never given up the ship! Never in a million years! Bill Drake is rolling over in his grave!

A friend of mine who has more money than he'll ever need said to me years ago, "Take Care of the Equipment and It'll Take Care of You Forever Til You Die." He's still got all of that money, and a lot more now! Because he's still taking care of the equipment. To Bad For The Loser's.
 
Why doesn't ABC buy the station for another radio Disney affliate? Kind of like they did with 1470 KIID in Sacramento. Or better yet use it to boost the KGO 810 signal in the Stockton area cause its terrible in that area.
 
RadioStarOne said:
Why doesn't ABC buy the station for another radio Disney affliate? Kind of like they did with 1470 KIID in Sacramento. Or better yet use it to boost the KGO 810 signal in the Stockton area cause its terrible in that area.
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Disney owns Disney Radio; if Disney wanted to be in market #84, they've had several options for years.

KGO serves the San Francisco Bay Area. Would having a "repeater" in Stockton extend the station's brand or increase its reach in its target market?
 
Goldilocks94941 said:
I'm surprised no one has tried to at least donate the AM1420 license to either Capitol Public Radio or KQED to boost their talk format coverage in Stockton, Monterey, and the South Bay. That 5kw signal also carried well beyond what you'd expect. Is there no longer a financial advantage to donating a facility to a non-profit (religous ones not included - or are they?) Or is it just too expensive to maintain the AM towers versus the listeners (and, in the case of public radio, potential contributors) it might attract? Or did nobody care to offer KSTN to a nonsectarian noncommercial entity, who probably couldn't otherwise afford to buy the license?
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I thought a natural progression for the AM would be toward sports, since they had so many teams' broadcasts and the FM is a gold mine for Hot A/C. There are plenty of spanish stations around. Also, do a full-blown upgrade. Who else would be proud of having the "oldest transmitters in the country"? Besides all that, the owners hinted that KSTN would return. It's anybody's guess how.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
KGO serves the San Francisco Bay Area. Would having a "repeater" in Stockton extend the station's brand or increase its reach in its target market?
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Good question; KGO had that arrangement with a Eureka station "repeating" KGO when it
was Cap Cities; first at FM 105 (in mono) with the call letters KGOE, then KGOE moved to
1480 sometime in the mid-1990s...

I don't know how well KGOE did in the ratings; I think Willhight was their ratings source,
but I can't find documentation on listener-numbers now...
--jay
 
Tom_KYA1260 said:
Who else would be proud of having the "oldest transmitters in the country"?
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The owners of KSTN ... if you've got one of the best chief engineers in the business around to keep it hummin'.
 
djj said:
Good question; KGO had that arrangement with a Eureka station "repeating" KGO when it
was Cap Cities; first at FM 105 (in mono) with the call letters KGOE, then KGOE moved to
1480 sometime in the mid-1990s...
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...But did KGO specifically seek out these stations to be able to extend their programming into Eureka?
 
BossRadioDJ said:
djj said:
Good question; KGO had that arrangement with a Eureka station "repeating" KGO when it
was Cap Cities; first at FM 105 (in mono) with the call letters KGOE, then KGOE moved to
1480 sometime in the mid-1990s...
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...But did KGO specifically seek out these stations to be able to extend their programming into Eureka?
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No. It was the station that arranged with KGO too carry the programming. This was widely written up in the trades at the time.
 
RadioStarOne said:
Why doesn't ABC buy the station for another radio Disney affliate? Kind of like they did with 1470 KIID in Sacramento. Or better yet use it to boost the KGO 810 signal in the Stockton area cause its terrible in that area.
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Disney is selling stations in the smaller markets... even shutting some down untill they find a buyer.

And KGO has no reason to improve coverage in Stockton. Stations get their revenue from the market they are located in, and adding some small numbers in Stockton would not produce any new revenue but lots of expenses.
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Both stations put significant signals into the Bay Area, had rich and colorful histories, and were the starting place for many careers.
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Funny thing is that I live in Stockton and I couldn't pick it up at nights. During the day, it was full of stactic and sounded like a distant radio station. Yet 3 other AM locals (KWG-1230, KWSX-1280 & KCVR-1570) sound crisp and clear like a local should sound like.
 
According to those who were at KSTN.....The most memorable KSTN memory was watching owner, Knox Larue walking around the station picking his nose.
 
djj said:
Good question; KGO had that arrangement with a Eureka station "repeating" KGO when it
was Cap Cities; first at FM 105 (in mono) with the call letters KGOE, then KGOE moved to
1480 sometime in the mid-1990s...
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As I understand it, the KGOE rebroadcast of KGO was at KGOE's instigation, not KGO's. Apparently, the owner liked KGO and wanted to have it broadcast in Eureka. Later they decided to go their own way and bring in syndicated talkshows.
 
Not only One of the VERY best Chief Engineers in the World but One Fine Outstanding and Wonderful person ! :)

KSTN will be back some day soon I am sure !
 
bkress said:
Not only One of the VERY best Chief Engineers in the World but One Fine Outstanding and Wonderful person ! :)

KSTN will be back some day soon I am sure !
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Paul, it's not good form to post on here under an assumed name... :D
 
On the Radio-Info.com Sacramento board (under "KSTN-FM Transmitter Signed On"), I have posted a link to audio with the first KSTN-FM legal ID under the K-Love format ... they are really pushing it as a San Francisco station!
 
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