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KYND 1520am Cypress/Houston TX On Air All Night

awsherrill said:
The Commission staff that would have been involved in that issue are probably long retired, and posing the same question to the FCC today would probably get a significantly different answer.
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Good point. Unless there was a formal sanction or notice of violation, there would be nothing in the FCC administrative law a newer Commission staff member could refer to. So it might be "well, the rules don't say you can't do this".

Of course, a station with HD might have considerably more trouble making this work... if it could work at all.
 
cotton belt said:
In Wyoming, wow! That is impressive, given KYND's directional pattern.

As for KGOW, "funky" is certainly a nice way of putting it. It has not been right since the 2007 upgrade. Day or night, in variable degrees of signal strength KGOW is audible here in ETX. It shouldn't be, but it is.
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You aren't kidding there. I lived in Houston around the time KGOW upgraded but it did not matter where I was in the area ... I could never get a great signal except a few times when I was in Bellaire at night and was close enough to catch that puny night signal. Lived up near Inwood Forest, lived on the League City-Friendswood border ... didn't matter. KGOW never compared to KILT, KTRH, KBME et al.
I didn't live down there long enough to benefit from the array they built out toward Katy.
 
KYND loud but fading in and out right now giving KOKC run for their money with a loop for airtime purchase.

This is Texas station number 54 heard from Chicago area for me.
 
CADXER said:
KYND loud but fading in and out right now giving KOKC run for their money with a loop for airtime purchase.
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I was hearing pretty much the same thing before sunrise today. KOKC was getting the better of it most of the time.
 
Here in Chatham, IL (southwest of Springfield), KRHW Sikeston, MO remains dominant but something is mixing underneath. I can't tell if it's KYND or something else.

KOKC's 50 kw signal is non-existent in central Illinois due to KRHW.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Probably just as thrilled as they are about having to share their 50 kw with KRHW from only 516 miles east of OKC.
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Do you know when KRHW(Sikeston) came on the air? Way back in KOMA's big years they(KOMA) put a decent signal into the Chicago area most nights. I don't remember hearing Sikeston until later years--80s?
 
You can find the long running KYND discussion on the Houston boards. Apparently they can carry fairly far at night. Maybe that will garner them a buyer, but unfortunately the recorded message is out of date.
 
radioman148 said:
Do you know when KRHW(Sikeston) came on the air? Way back in KOMA's big years they(KOMA) put a decent signal into the Chicago area most nights. I don't remember hearing Sikeston until later years--80s?
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They came on around 1966 as KMPL. I don't know if their pattern was the same then as it is now, but they were a pest for KOMA from the very beginning at my home location (ten miles east from where I am now). At my college location in southeast Iowa, KMPL was pretty much invisible, but I did hear them a few times under KOMA.
 
cyberdad said:
They came on around 1966 as KMPL. I don't know if their pattern was the same then as it is now, but they were a pest for KOMA from the very beginning at my home location (ten miles east from where I am now). At my college location in southeast Iowa, KMPL was pretty much invisible, but I did hear them a few times under KOMA.
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Interesting I do remember KOMA coming in pretty well into the Chicago area, at least at my location. There was fading, but they were there most of the time. I remember KMPL being a pest usually during morning critical hours.
 
Somewhere, I have upscoped DX tapes from Sporadic and Troposheric events in Michigan. I heard KYND 92.9 a lot. I remember the ID, "KYND, Pasadena Houston, Kind"
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
Somewhere, I have upscoped DX tapes from Sporadic and Troposheric events in Michigan. I heard KYND 92.9 a lot. I remember the ID, "KYND, Pasadena Houston, Kind"
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Are you sure that wasn't 92.5 KYND? BM "Kind 92.5" moved up 2 channels in 1982, making way for the new sign-on 92.1 KZRQ, licensed to Seabrook. Very soon afterwards, and due to the overwhelming success of sister AM KKBQ (prior KULF) "79Q", the FM changed to Top 40 KKBQ-FM ("93 FM", then "93Q"). No later than January '83, for sure. 92.5 broadcasted from One Shell Plaza in downtown Houston, while the new 92.9 KKBQ-FM originated from the Senior Road tower farm in Missouri City, southwest of Houston proper, while maintaining the Pasadena COL as it currently does.
 
Interesting hearing KYND FM (not 93Q Country...oops "THE NEW" since they have been "the new" for 28 years. KYND AM came after KYND FM had been KKBQ for several years. I recall driving to Norh Dakota from Houston. I'm just north of Dodge City, Kansas and it's 5pm. I'm looking for a good station on the radio and land on 92.9. I'm hearing a Houston traffic report on 93Q in stereo and my mind thinks I' glad I'm not in all that before I realize I'm getting KKBQ in Houston in stereo like a local station in the middle of Kansas. There was a place along that route before Jetmore where I heard stations hundreds of miles away in stereo on FM every sumer on my trip. Key West, Florida was the most distant.

Keep in mind the tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma last time took out a KOKC tower. They've been at 10,000 watts ever since. That may be why they are not heard as often as in the past.

For the record, KYND AM 1520 is a daytime only station (sunrise to sunset). I recall we had a Pre-Sunrise and a Post-Sunset authority but the wattage was minimal. The sheet I saw was incremental by month and in winter sign on at 6am was about 7 watts. Post-sunset dropped us to about 200 watts at sunset to about 10 watts or less the second and final hour we could be on post-sunset. We never used either authority except a few select evenings when we replayed a football game for the local high school. We had a client that bought time on stations to run high school sports. KYND was sort of his last resort since it always had to be tape delayed. Even though we were set up to run at the proper power levels (changing every 15 minutes most months), the coverage area was so small it just wasn't worth doing. If it was a small town it would be fine but as a suburb of Houston, it didn't make sense.
 
I thought I remembered it as 92.5! Did KYND fight it? Then the FCC played Gino Vannelli singing "You Gotta Move" to KYND?

I was involved in coming up with a one channel frequency swap back in the 1990s, where the other party held it up for years. Because the other party didn't like their format! In the end they were each able to double their power, and three other stations were able to upgrade, one to 6 kW, one from Class A to Class C2, and a Canadian station was able to go nondirectional 100 kW.
 
If I'm understanding you correctly, Schroedingers Cat, KYND did not fight the move as it was one facility in the same. 92.5 KYND-FM was the former KLVL-FM owned by Felix Morales, who concurrently owned KLVL 1480 and the Morales Funeral Home in Houston's East End. I want to say Harte-Hanks owned 92.5 KYND by 1982, but something is telling me that may not be right. In any case, another Houston area broadcaster by the name of Roy Henderson was attempting to drop a Class A about halfway between Houston and Galveston island. In order to accomplish this, KYND had to be moved to 92.9. It did so in mid '82, opening the door for Henderson to build out and sign on the then KZRQ facility. By January '83, with the ratings beginning to drop dramatically, 92.9 KYND quickly assumed the identity, calls, and format of the highly successful AM sister station, which had just launched 6 months earlier and shot to #1, becoming KKBQ-FM.

Ironically, the new sign-on in Seabrook dropped the Top 40 format Henderson had launched on start up, shortly thereafter, and assumed the BM/EZ format and calls abandoned by 92.9. 1520 is actually the 3rd Houston area facility to use the KYND call. The silencing of the 92.5 frequency in Houston also opened the door for a facility to be built in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, the current KCOL licensed to Groves, Texas.
 
Roy Henderson (Fort Bend) owns a bunch of stations in Northwest Michigan that he has been trying to sell for years. I even did some technical consulting on a couple of those (dropped in the first one, did the HAAT radials by hand!) for the previous owner before Roy. He has run into numerous problems. Most stations are barely on the air. He lost one of his tower sites in a lease deal gone bad, his best facility. He is having health problems the last I heard.
 
While I'm nowhere near as far north as Dodge City, KS., and taking the risk of severely dating myself, I can vividly remember the days of picking up 101 KLOL and "Super Rock 104 KRBE" from Houston in he Metroplex on a near daily basis. Those days are long gone, given the significant number of facility increases since those days.

I wouldn't count Henderson out just yet on that deleted facility out of Ganado. He has made a literal career of bouncing back from setbacks like this and most of the time coming out ahead when all was said and done. I've had a couple of interactions with the man over the course my career. An extremely intelligent, sharp minded gentleman. I would assume he is well advanced in age now, but he has more than likely forgotten more about the radio industry than the newer generations of stewards will ever bother to learn.
 
cotton belt said:
While I'm nowhere near as far north as Dodge City, KS., and taking the risk of severely dating myself, I can vividly remember the days of picking up 101 KLOL and "Super Rock 104 KRBE" from the Metroplex on a near daily basis. Those days are long gone, given the significant number of facility increases since those days.

I wouldn't count Henderson out just yet on that deleted facility out of Ganado. He has made a literal career of bouncing back from setbacks like this and most of the time coming out ahead when all was said and done. I've had a couple of interactions with the man over the course my career. An extremely intelligent, sharp minded gentleman. He has more than likely forgotten more about the radio industry than the newer generations of stewards will ever bother to learn.
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Gentleman? Hardly.. I've heard from people who live in areas where hes owned or owned stations and gentleman is the total opposite of what people call him.

he recently got nailed for operating an fm 20 miles from the site it was suppsoed to be at
 
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