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KVST wants to move back home??

C

ContinuousWave

Looks like New Wavo (owner of KVST) filed to move north back to its old 103.5 tower south of Huntsville....on 103.5, it sucked as Bob-FM from the Austin market clobbered it....so they moved to 103.7 and of course the rest is history (103.7 was bought by Cumulus for $32 million and Ben Amato built 99.7 west of Willis to replace 103.7 which was relicensed to LaPorte)...Guess they are wanting to pick up the growing population in Huntsville but this will hurt them in Conroe (especially as KROY blasts in during tropo)....the old tower is down in a slight depression and their signal will have problems getting over the ridge into Conroe...at leas their current site has open view down the lake to the south side where all the new housing is...this doesnt make any sense at all (would have been better getting someone to get a translator in Huntsville for them)
 
Looks like about a 12 to 13 mile move to the north. Perhaps they figure improved Huntsville coverage makes up for losing Conroe. Montgomery county is well covered by the Missouri City sticks, so heavy competition for the Country format. By the time you get to Huntsville you're starting to enter the far reaches of the MC signals, so a better chance to dominate there. Of course KAGG is more of a factor in Walker County.

Wonder if this might have anything to do with KROY? Maybe not, but the thought crossed my mind.

Jog my memory...is the current 99.7 transmitter at the same site as the pre-upgrade 103.7? Or was the current 99.7 built after the 103.7 sale? I also recall that the former 99.7 site (for the KUST simulcast) was just northeast of Huntsville.
 
Was never NE of Huntsville.....103.5 originally signed on with studios at the Bank Of America in Huntsville and its transmitter at the tower that 99.7 is moving back to..Errol Coker built the station.....then it was shifted to 103.7....The FCC CDBS is soo screwed up, it shows EMF as the licensee when 103.7 was still licensed at Willis...I was living in Conroe at the time but cannot remember if 103.7 was ever on the Long St current site of 99.7 KVST (I dont think it was. I think 103.7 stayed where it was under the simulcast though it was licensed to Willis from that site). I DO know the original tower site (which is between US75 and I45 north of New Waverly) was sold to a ham...and evidently does not have an ASR issued..enter the coordinates in the ASR search box and nothing comes up...yet go to Google and zoom in on the site and the tower is there (actually, about 100 ft to the SW of the coordinates given...guess someone forgot to file on it...
 
ContinuousWave said:
Was never NE of Huntsville.....103.5 originally signed on with studios at the Bank Of America in Huntsville and its transmitter at the tower that 99.7 is moving back to..Errol Coker built the station.....then it was shifted to 103.7
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I was referring to the old KUST 99.7 in Huntsville, which was a simulcast of KVST 103.7. I recall transmitter locator maps putting the location just NE of Huntsville. Wouldn't have made sense to put it on what had been the original 103.5 stick.

KUST put in a very poor signal at my Cy-Fair location, though tropo would improve it quite a bit.

Don't know if what had been KUST ever had a separate format from KVST.

I do remember the original 103.5 version of KVST...wasn't it some form of AC? Only lasted a year or so before the move to 103.7 and the switch to Country. Somewhere in the 1992-94 time range? Somewhat fuzzy on that.
 
You did better than me, Frog. KUST was nowhere to be found in north Houston, when at 99-7 Huntsville. Even KVST seemed weaker over here when it was at 103-7, and only became consistent when the big move to 99-7 Willis occurred. That's why I'm afraid K-Star is going away from my dial when this goes down.
 
purpledevil said:
You did better than me, Frog. KUST was nowhere to be found in north Houston, when at 99-7 Huntsville. Even KVST seemed weaker over here when it was at 103-7, and only became consistent when the big move to 99-7 Willis occurred. That's why I'm afraid K-Star is going away from my dial when this goes down.
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Do you think KSBJ has a hand in this, since they bought KROY? This would seem to be exactly the opposite of what they would want to do - they have coverage issues for NGEN in North and NW Houston - I would think they would have wanted KVST, not KROY to fill that need. Hard to see how this benefits anybody.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
Do you think KSBJ has a hand in this, since they bought KROY? This would seem to be exactly the opposite of what they would want to do - they have coverage issues for NGEN in North and NW Houston - I would think they would have wanted KVST, not KROY to fill that need. Hard to see how this benefits anybody.
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That's an interesting question, Bruce. Of course, I have no way of knowing for sure, but perhaps KSBJ helped the Amatos financially facilitate the move northward in hopes of them dropping the complaint that was filed recently against KROY.

As for why on earth KSBJ purchsse KROY as opposed to KVST for the 99-7 dial position, my train of thought is that KROY has an application to double power to 100 kilowatts, while KVST can do no such upgrade with 1st adjacent KSHN over in Liberty sitting there. I would guess that the thought process is that KROY will cover more of Houston proper after the upgrade than anything they could ever accomplish with KVST.

I wholeheartedly expect KSBJ to pick up a translator for NGEN to cover the north side, sooner rather than later.

Wouldn't that be something if KSBJ made a play for the soon to move in 101-5 translator coming from Livingston? That one is going to cover a lot of affluent real estate when it lights up, that's for sure.

Could be too, they approached KVST and were turned away, resulting in the attention of making a purchase being turned to KROY.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I was referring to the old KUST 99.7 in Huntsville, which was a simulcast of KVST 103.7. I recall transmitter locator maps putting the location just NE of Huntsville. Wouldn't have made sense to put it on what had been the original 103.5 stick.

KUST put in a very poor signal at my Cy-Fair location, though tropo would improve it quite a bit.

Don't know if what had been KUST ever had a separate format from KVST.

I do remember the original 103.5 version of KVST...wasn't it some form of AC? Only lasted a year or so before the move to 103.7 and the switch to Country. Somewhere in the 1992-94 time range? Somewhat fuzzy on that.
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Finally searched enough of the FCC database to make sense of it....KUST on 99.7 had its original CP issued for a site west of Huntsville off Hwy 30 (where there is no tower I can find..there WAS a pipeline microwave tower a few miles away on a good hill)...then it modified the CP for change of location, power, etc...which I think KSHN filed against (someone did and KSHN would be the only one likely)..took the FCC almost a year to finally approve it. KUST came on the air east (not NE) of Huntsville on the Bergman tower just south of 190. Then it filed to move to Willis to replace 103.7 when the sale to Cumulus came along.

103.5 was country when it signed on iirc....I remember driving to work that morning on Loop 336 in Conroe and KBPA was blasting in that morning..

The callsign KUST is now at the Univ of Saint Thomas.....
 
purpledevil said:
You did better than me, Frog. KUST was nowhere to be found in north Houston, when at 99-7 Huntsville. Even KVST seemed weaker over here when it was at 103-7, and only became consistent when the big move to 99-7 Willis occurred. That's why I'm afraid K-Star is going away from my dial when this goes down.
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I seem to recall that the original KVST 103.5 transmitter had a poor signal at my Cy-Fair location, and was in a constant battle with what was then KEYI. Reception improved quite a bit with the move to 103.7. The comparison between the old 103.7 and current 99.7 is pretty much a wash for me...probably give the current signal a slight edge.
 
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You guys are having a lot of fun with this and I had to get in here. Do you notice I have not filed for a city of licenses change? You have heard of a main and Aux tower site. Come on snap to it. Dade http://www.kvst.com[/url]
 
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