NEW AUSTIN AM GETS POWER INCREASE APPROVED

[everydayguy]

KTXW -- the new AM at 1120 licensed to Manor and still to be constructed a few miles east of Austin -- recently got FCC approval to increase its daytime power to 5,600 watts from a little under 500 watts as originally proposed.

It will still run 153 watts at night. They will use a five tower array. The station is owned by Bustos Media.

The new daytime pattern will bring at least a 5mv/m signal from North Austin (starting at the river) to just north of Georgetown. At the Colorado River (Lady Bird Lake), the signal abruptly drops off to under 5 mv/m, no doubt to protect KTMR.

Not sure why anyone would build an expensive AM in a market where AM stations (other than KLBJ) have so few listeners.

Will it be an Asian format? Spanish? News-Talk? Some other format where's there's a hole in the market?

Here's their tech exhibit:

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101436059&qnum=5110&copynum=1&exhcnum=1

 

[mmnassour]

Well, if you look at the Wiki for Bustos Media, you'll find it almost exclusively a Spanish radio provider, but according to the Wiki it is currently in default on loans and has transferred its stations to another entity. Not a promising start for a new Austin A.M.

Wasn't out last A.M. statup 1060?

 

[fredcantu]

1060 was a move-in from Lockhart.
1600 was a startup licensed to Pflugerville.

 

[davideduardo]

Well, if you look at the Wiki for Bustos Media, you'll find it almost exclusively a Spanish radio provider, but according to the Wiki it is currently in default on loans and has transferred its stations to another entity. Not a promising start for a new Austin A.M.

Amador Bustos released a number of stations to his lenders, and the company was renamed as Adelante Media Group. Some of the stations were kept by Bustos in a settlement of his equity position, and since then Bustos has agreed to purchase several other stations.