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KZDC downgrading day signal

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Mediafrog+

KZDC 1250 has applied to move its daytime transmit site to the current night diplex with KTSA. Day power will be 290 watts from the same directional array used at night. Night power remains at 920 watts.

This obviously marks the end of the current separate day site, which ran 25kw.

There had been speculation that the KZDC license would be turned in, but it would appear the station will be kept going a while longer.

Check the attachments to the application:

 
Mediafrog+ said:
KZDC 1250 has applied to move its daytime transmit site to the current night diplex with KTSA. Day power will be 290 watts from the same directional array used at night. Night power remains at 920 watts.

This obviously marks the end of the current separate day site, which ran 25kw.

There had been speculation that the KZDC license would be turned in, but it would appear the station will be kept going a while longer.

Check the attachments to the application:

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While I can understand the advantage of dropping your daytime tower location so you are using the same location for both day and nighttime transmissions, why drop the power during daylight hours to less than half of the allowed nighttime power. It seems to me that you would lose some of your current and potential San Antonio market audience with such a drastic reduction.
 
ted chittenden said:
While I can understand the advantage of dropping your daytime tower location so you are using the same location for both day and nighttime transmissions, why drop the power during daylight hours to less than half of the allowed nighttime power. It seems to me that you would lose some of your current and potential San Antonio market audience with such a drastic reduction.
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The 1250 programming is also on 94.5. That's where the audience is listening... I too was told over a year ago the plan was to surrender the KZDC license when the daytime tower lease is up. They've instead for whatever reason decided to diplex it full time on the night site and that's the best they can do with the one tower non-directionally.
 
ted chittenden said:
While I can understand the advantage of dropping your daytime tower location so you are using the same location for both day and nighttime transmissions, why drop the power during daylight hours to less than half of the allowed nighttime power. It seems to me that you would lose some of your current and potential San Antonio market audience with such a drastic reduction.
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Probably because that's all the power they can get as a non-directional daytime operation from the KTSA site. I haven't looked to see what exactly 1250 has to protect, but if it's a choice between turning the AM off completely and leaving it on at minimal expense to support the translator, you do what you have to do these days.
 


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