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New move in to San antonio KTMR

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jras20

KTMR Moves into San antonio as Business News Multicasting KJSA in Mineral Wells TX. Any thoughts of how this may impact the talkers in SA? It has a tight squeeze over KDRY, KRDY and WOAI. How well does it go into San antonio? Its more weaker out at my place than before.
 
jras20 said:
KTMR Moves into San antonio as Business News Multicasting KJSA in Mineral Wells TX. Any thoughts of how this may impact the talkers in SA? It has a tight squeeze over KDRY, KRDY and WOAI. How well does it go into San antonio? Its more weaker out at my place than before.
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They are probably testing their new antenna array and are temporary broadcasting at low power.

"Its more weaker out at my place than before."

Are you saying the signal you now receive from their new tower site is weaker them from their old tower site near Edna, Texas?
 
gabigley1 said:
jras20 said:
KTMR Moves into San antonio as Business News Multicasting KJSA in Mineral Wells TX. Any thoughts of how this may impact the talkers in SA? It has a tight squeeze over KDRY, KRDY and WOAI. How well does it go into San antonio? Its more weaker out at my place than before.
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They are probably testing their new antenna array and are temporary broadcasting at low power.

"Its more weaker out at my place than before."

Are you saying the signal you now receive from their new tower site is weaker them from their old tower site near Edna, Texas?
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Yes when it was in Edna, it was about 20 miles away it was one of the strongest AM stations. Now its about as strong as KTSA or KTRH.
 
Since I first reported this new radio station on Feb 1,2009, I have only occasionally listened to it. I don't think it will deprive any of the existing local talk stations of listeners, mainly due to it being a long distance translator from Mineral Wells-DFW area. Never is there any mention of local San Antonio news or information. I guess if you are a DFW expatriate, then you might enjoy hearing the metroplex traffic reports, weather and local (Dallas) news. It seems sort of like when we watched superstation WGN on Rogers cable from Chicagoland in the early 1980s. I never could find that Jewel grocery store for that used meat clearance spectacular, or that Gallant men of Olds dealership for that thoroughly reliable and efficient 1981 Gutlass Supreme, though.
 
I thought the local ads for Chicago and Atlanta added to the charm of WGN and WTCG (now TBS.) In Bronwsville... before we had superstations we had the Corpus Christi affiliates (whatever KGBT & KRGV) didn't carry... and KWEX and KLRN out of San Antonio. Ooooh!
 
fredcantu said:
I thought the local ads for Chicago and Atlanta added to the charm of WGN and WTCG (now TBS.) In Bronwsville... before we had superstations we had the Corpus Christi affiliates (whatever KGBT & KRGV) didn't carry... and KWEX and KLRN out of San Antonio. Ooooh!
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Wasn't there a time in the 80's when KEDT(PBS) from Corpus Christi was on the local cable system in the RGV?
 
according to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEDT

KEDT began as a satellite of KLRN. I wouldn't be surprised if the valley cable switched to KEDT once it was on the air to save them the microwave hops to San Antonio. Afterall this was before satellite delivery became the norm. The Valley's PBS station KMBH signed on in 1985.
 
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