Oildale's New Religion??

[sacriver]

Anyone know anything about KGDP-AM's CP from Orcutt to Oildale....seems like quite a move for such a station. Based on the maps, don't even think that the new station will really overlap with its former coverage area. Call me young (and sometimes stupid) but when you "move" a station with a CP, doesn't it have to stay in the same market/coverage area for the most part?

Looks like the new towers are going to be somewhere next to an oil well off of Round Mountain Rd, Guess I'll drive out there next time I'm down and take a look of it.

Anyone familiar with the format?

How well it does in the market?

Reason for the move?

 

[jonbruce]

> Anyone know anything about KGDP-AM's CP from Orcutt to
> Oildale....seems like quite a move for such a station.
> Based on the maps, don't even think that the new station
> will really overlap with its former coverage area. Call me
> young (and sometimes stupid) but when you "move" a station
> with a CP, doesn't it have to stay in the same
> market/coverage area for the most part?
>
> Looks like the new towers are going to be somewhere next to
> an oil well off of Round Mountain Rd, Guess I'll drive out
> there next time I'm down and take a look of it.
>
> Anyone familiar with the format?
>
> How well it does in the market?
>
> Reason for the move?
>
A bigger market. It is paid religion. Both the 97.1(freq.change to 96.9) and 98.1 FM's in SLO have apps. to move to B-town as well! No, you don't have to stay in the same market. For example, KBLU 560 Yuma,Az. has an app. to move to Las Vegas, and KSIQ 96.1 Brawley has one to move to the San Diego market.(city of lic. Campo)Another interesting one is KIRN 660 Simi-Valley moving it's transmitter site to the Palmdale area and an increase to 30kw, directional to L.A.

 

[jonbruce]

Correction! I meant to say KIRN 670.

 

[OldAkronite]

Long, Long AM Moves

> Anyone know anything about KGDP-AM's CP from Orcutt to
> Oildale....seems like quite a move for such a station.
> Based on the maps, don't even think that the new station
> will really overlap with its former coverage area. Call me
> young (and sometimes stupid) but when you "move" a station
> with a CP, doesn't it have to stay in the same
> market/coverage area for the most part?

No, not really. And this one is likely out of the "major changes" window recently.

One of those proposed changes would have been the move of local legendary station WWVA/1170 Wheeling WV to a COL of Stow, OH, well over 100 miles away. It was designed to serve the Cleveland market, though Stow is an Akron suburb...the transmitter site was proposed to be southwest of Cleveland in Lorain County.

WWVA has been on that frequency, in Wheeling, for decades, and is the long-time home of country music's popular "Jamboree in the Hills".

Clear Channel, which now owns WWVA, withdrew the application a couple of months after it was filed, so WWVA isn't going anywhere. But it's just one example of "how far" you can apply to move a station.

Oh, as far as CPs go, Clear Channel also filed to move a 1690 expanded band CP from southern Illinois all the way up to the southern Chicago suburbs. That move was successful, and the station is now CC's "Real Oldies 1690" WRLL/Berwyn. It was not on the air in southern Illinois when the move was proposed, and only lit up in the Chicago market.

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