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Markets With A 50s/60s Oldies Station

b-turner said:
Actually an LPFM can have translators but I think the limit is 2. LPFMs can lease or buy translators but it usually is an arm of the organization. You can see this in Sun Radio in Austin that began as a LPFM it still runs in Dripping Springs, Texas. Boosters, where proven, can be had by LPFMs too. Michi can offer better details.
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I don't think that's the question here, although I can confirm that a LPFM here in SoCal has an on-channel booster (similar technology but not the same legally).

The real point that caused this sidetrack was @thenetwork muddying the waters between commercial FMs with translators and LPFMs back in post #276.

Incidentally, I used @Michi's site to find everything in and around Grand Junction CO. There are four LPFMs in the region and none of them have translators.
 
ted chittenden said:
Correction. Since MBC is a commercial broadcaster, it cannot have a legal LPFM outlet. 95.7 is, in fact, a translator of the HD2 channel of KKVT-FM which MBC also owns.

Also, for the record, "The Funky Monkey," is being broadcast on an AM frequency in the mountains to the east of Grand Junction. The callsign is KNAM, the frequency is 1490 kHz, and the COL is Silt, CO.
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@ted chittenden @KilowattKat its "The monkey"

KNAM 1490 makes it up here about 200 miles somewhat regularly.

"The Funky Monkey" weas on 104.9 Tacoma years ago when I heart had it. I have a friend who used to work there. And up until a few years ago, there was a truck parked on the street here with a 104.9 Funky Monkey sticker on it
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
The fact youre listening to a station paying rock n roll and doo wop right there says youre an outlier..and its probbaly older rock n roll.

Doowop has been dead as a commercial viable format for 20 to 30 years
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We were getting off topic on the other thread but this is on topic here.

Somehow they make it work. There are advertisers. Each hour of music has a sponsor, and there are other advertisers.

The one man owns several stations and one is classic hits and shows up in the 12-plus ratings. One recent period the station was doing quite well. So the other station is propped up by this one.
 
vchimpanzee said:
So the other station is propped up by this one.
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And that can work, for a while anyway. And it is also inadvertently a real world example of why local ownership limits have been increasingly loosened.

How long do you think "the other station" would have lasted if "this one" wasn't making up the difference between ad revenue and accounts payable? If it were separately owned, the odds are that it would have changed formats a long time ago.

Even with that, though, we're still seeing marginal stations throw in the towel. Even the big multi-market operators like Connoisseur and Cumulus have been taking stations silent and surrendering the licenses.

As we lose more and more audience to the plethora of non-broadcast competition, we're going to see more stations go permanently silent, and the ones remaining will go more mass appeal to attract as much of the remaining terrestrial listeners as possible. (Actually, we're already doing that, much to the dismay of the outliers.)
 


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