Now who might this be?

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

The title of an ad.
"AC Drive Time Talent Opportunity in North Dallas Suburbs"
It's owned by Next Media and its an "AC move-in" according to the ad.
KHYI and KXEZ are Metro owned,so that rules them out. KNOR,maybe? ( I don't know who owns them). 106.9 is in Campbell owned by The Ranch Folks or would it be The Greenville Fm KIKT 93.5? HMMmm.

 

[TironeShoes]

K-Lake!<P ID="signature">______________
WG</P>

 

[bluescreen]

> K-Lake!
>
KLAK -FM in Sherman/Dennison. Unfortunately there's a translator at 97.5 that obliterated any DFW penetration KLAK had. How a non-profit like the Calvary Satellite Network got a translator on a channel usually reserved for commercial broadcasters boggles me.

 

[CW]

> > K-Lake!
> >
> KLAK -FM in Sherman/Dennison. Unfortunately there's a
> translator at 97.5 that obliterated any DFW penetration KLAK
> had. How a non-profit like the Calvary Satellite Network
> got a translator on a channel usually reserved for
> commercial broadcasters boggles me.

A translator can go anywhere in the FM band..BUT as a translator in the commerical band(92.1-107.9MHz), it CANNOT be fed from satellite...it MUST be over the air reception only...Is it retransmitting a local non comm? If not, someone needs to call the FCC....and have it shut down.

 

[UncleCharlie]

K-LAKE, Sherman

 

[bluescreen]

> > > K-Lake!
> > >
> > KLAK -FM in Sherman/Dennison. Unfortunately there's a
> > translator at 97.5 that obliterated any DFW penetration
> KLAK
> > had. How a non-profit like the Calvary Satellite Network
> > got a translator on a channel usually reserved for
> > commercial broadcasters boggles me.
>
> A translator can go anywhere in the FM band..BUT as a
> translator in the commerical band(92.1-107.9MHz), it CANNOT
> be fed from satellite...it MUST be over the air reception
> only...Is it retransmitting a local non comm? If not,
> someone needs to call the FCC....and have it shut down.
>
It's rebroadcasting KDKR out of Sherman - which is a CSN station.

 

[UncleCharlie]

at one point they were petitioning for a big signal to blow across north dallas. never heard what happened.

 

[Phantom]

North Dallas Suburbs"

In "AllAccess"?

Do you consider Sherman a north Dallas suburb?

I don't. Or does the ad imply the signal reaches some of those areas.

I heard it once -- driving back from Oklahoma and lost it well before the north Dallas area.


> The title of an ad.
> "AC Drive Time Talent Opportunity in North Dallas Suburbs"
> It's owned by Next Media and its an "AC move-in" according
> to the ad.
> KHYI and KXEZ are Metro owned,so that rules them out.
> KNOR,maybe? ( I don't know who owns them). 106.9 is in
> Campbell owned by The Ranch Folks or would it be The
> Greenville Fm KIKT 93.5? HMMmm.
>

 

[vide0chik]

> A translator can go anywhere in the FM band..BUT as a
> translator in the commerical band(92.1-107.9MHz), it CANNOT
> be fed from satellite...it MUST be over the air reception
> only...Is it retransmitting a local non comm? If not,
> someone needs to call the FCC....and have it shut down.
>
Yes it is getting fed OTA. I wondered about that exact thing when I first heard it. Looked into it a couple years ago... I don't remember all the details of what I found, but unfortunately they're legit. Hallelujah. *sigh*<P ID="signature">______________
vide0 killed the radi0 star</P>

 

[Gopher]

> North Dallas Suburbs"
>
> In "AllAccess"?
>
> Do you consider Sherman a north Dallas suburb?


Think of it as far, far, far, north Dallas.

 

[KPLEXCOMPLEX]

> North Dallas Suburbs"
>
> In "AllAccess"?
>
> Do you consider Sherman a north Dallas suburb?
>
> I don't. Or does the ad imply the signal reaches some of
> those areas.
>
> I heard it once -- driving back from Oklahoma and lost it
> well before the north Dallas area.
I never considered Sherman a North Dalals Suburb,but in this crappy era of deregulation I suppose moving a whole city,population and all would not surprise me. A helluva job though, and they would have to re widen 75.

 

[CW]

> at one point they were petitioning for a big signal to blow
> across north dallas. never heard what happened.
>
I think the best they could get was a C1 and it would barely cover N Dallas...this due to KWTX in Waco...BUT if the major realignment takes place that has been proposed a few years ago, KWTX would move south toward Austin and downgrade...thus opening up for 97.5 to upgrade to a full C..yet with 97.1 at CH, 97.5 would still be a rimshot on the far north side.
IIRC, this was all because of 98.3's proposal to become a full C move in rimshot....and sooo many stations would have to move/downgrade,etc.

 

[txchipk]

KLAK Tom Bean (Re: Now who might this be?)

> North Dallas Suburbs"
>
> In "AllAccess"?
>
> Do you consider Sherman a north Dallas suburb?
>
> I don't. Or does the ad imply the signal reaches some of
> those areas.

Like the ad implies, KLAK is moving in to suburban Dallas.

KLAK is changing its city of license from Durant OK to Tom Bean TX to allow it to fairly fully cover Collin County. It's pending a grant -- the coverage from the application is off the FCC website:

http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM1091855.html

There was a huge proposal to move-in like 96.7 and 101.7 from the Sherman/Denison area (via a re-allotment to 97.5C Keller with a tower site co-located with KTYS/KZZA/KTCY/KNOR, etc.), but that was dismissed. Instead, it will be a C2 allotted to the small town of Tom Bean.

Basically, it will have coverage similar to KHYI -- about the same latitude, but KLAK's transmitter will be in SE Grayson Co, while KHYI's is in SW Grayson Co.

I would assume, as the ad would indicate, it would have studios somewhere in Collin County. I guess they are basically re-inventing the old KMMK/KWPL 95.3 McKinney (former Collin County AC outlet -- now moved out of the area as KRVA-FM 107.1 Campbell TX in eastern Hunt County).