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KTCU 88.7 -- The Metal Shop 10-1 Fridays

TheRover said:
I'm enjoying KTCU's program, The Metal Shop, which runs from 10pm to 1am, Fridays. They stream over the web mms://broadcast.tcu.edu/ktcu, and they take requests. College Radio as it should be ! ! !

The Metal Effect's choice of music is not full of commerical metal "hits", read Ozzy-- aka 93.3 The Bone's Metal show(s).
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Shouldn't that link be www.broadcast.tcu.edu/ktcu ?

Anyway, glad they're streaming, especially for the folks in Dallas County who have trouble getting 88.7 since it's swamped by next door KEOM. KTCU has a two-year old construction permit for a 99-watt translator on 102.5 from the Bone's tower off I-30 and Loop 12. Anything happening with that?
 
According to the KTCU website, their ERP is 3 kW. That’s the same ERP KEOM used when broadcasting at 88.3 FM. In both instances, this was plenty of juice to essentially reach most areas within each station’s city of license.

True KEOM is presently using 61 kW of ERP, but the directional signal protects KTCU’s licensed coverage area.

So yeah, I can see how Dallas is stuck between a rock and a hard place. ;D

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jd said:
Anyway, glad they're streaming, especially for the folks in Dallas County who have trouble getting 88.7 since it's swamped by next door KEOM. KTCU has a two-year old construction permit for a 99-watt translator on 102.5 from the Bone's tower off I-30 and Loop 12. Anything happening with that?
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Robert Bass said:
According to the KTCU website, their ERP is 3 kW.
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KTCU recently upped their power to 10kw, still somewhat directional. Noticeable improvement in Denton from my recent visits there.
 
With Sherman's KMAD on 102.5 barely making it to north Dallas how or why are they allowed to use that frequency?
 
Really? Wow, I'm surprised. The KTCU site said they would love to increase their power (from 3kW), but that the radio dial (well "band" actually, since "dial" sounds too old fashioned to me) was too crowded to allow for it.

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Mediafrog+ said:
KTCU recently upped their power to 10kw, still somewhat directional. Noticeable improvement in Denton from my recent visits there.
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Texas Gopher: It is probably the same FCC "logic"(?) that allows 95.9 the Ranch,95.9 Sulphur Springs,and 95.9 Malakoff to operate. When the seasons change warm to cold, and vice versa The Ranch swamps out Sulphur Springs and Malakoff.
 
Nah, it's all a little deeper than that. I've personally read the documents where KTCU signed away their rights to KEOM back in the early 1990s so that KEOM could move from 88.3 to 88.5 and increase their power exponentially. It was a very short-sighted decision that today's management of KTCU laments. It basically landlocks the KTCU signal to only Fort Worth and points west. I don't recall if cash or other goodwill was exchanged for it, but I don't think there was.
 
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