Oldies!!!

[spectacle]

kool1023.com

Wow!

If you lust for KBSG pre 9-11 then this Vegas station will seal the deal.

Automated, high and dry (who isn't), dj free (who isn't) and a little heavy on beatles.

But!

Great fun time oldies type 60s sound with hourly news, which is odd but acceptable.

 

[Blatherwatch]

I find myself listening to KGHO. No commercials and several translators in the South Sound.

K224DR (92.7 FM) Aberdeen
K277BQ (103.3 FM) Olympia
K297AY (107.3 FM) Ocean Shores
K225AX (92.9 FM) Seattle-Des Moines

 

[radiotower40]

The Vegas station is good, it is a real oldies station. I was there when the station changed.102.3 is a 99 watt translator of KQQL AM 1280 which is 5,000 watts day and 28 at night. If I remember right the translator is on top of a building at the north end of The Strip. It may be The Stratosphere, I know it is somewhere in that area.

The station used to be typical conserv. talk as Fox 1280. A little interesting fact is that they only paid a buck for the translator construction permit. I guess the company that did all the legwork either couldn't find the money to build it or just didn't want it anymore.

Thanks for listing the local stations I'll be coming there soon I'm going to give them a listen. You said they are commercial free, are they public radio or just a non profit group?

 

[bossbill]

KGHO is an LPFM, which of course is non-commercial. Under the guise of being an educational institution, they operate the translators outside their market area. What a country!

 

[searadiofreak]

I was just in Vegas last week and KKLZ sounds good. Love their jingles, love their talk presentation, (as in non-intrusive), and their music, while obviously is heavily researched, sometimes throws in a few left-field hits.

KJUL (The Jewel), sounds tired and sleepy. I used to like this station for its "Las Vegas" sound, but they have severe issues with tempo it seems. Boring, tiring songs back to back. Come on KJUL, bring the tempo back up. I realize this is the Seattle thread. Perhaps time to copy and paste to the Nevada thread.

 

[FMSteve]

KGHO is an LPFM, which of course is non-commercial. Under the guise of being an educational institution, they operate the translators outside their market area. What a country!

An LPFM can have 2 translators. Also, I think the Seatac translator is owned by a different entity, NW Rock N Roll Society, with a lady named "Ethyl" as President from Eugene. Probably somebody's Mom at KGHO.

Bill, I somewhat agree that this is a bastardization of the spirit of the LPFM service to have a Seatac translator, so far away from Aberdeen/Hoquiam.

More intriguing is not knowing where they are broadcasting from. The CP coordinates refers to the tower behind the McMicken Heights Safeway, a location I know quite well just East of the Terminal. However, I doubt they are broadcasting from there. When I tune in at that location I can hear KISM flip back and forth. If they were indeed at their authorized coordinates, the translators' strong 100 dbu contour would easily overpower the KISM 50 dbu (approx) contour. In other words, you would not expect to hear KISM at all at this authorized location. Besides, on the receive 103.3, I get the KMTT 103.3 translator and not the Capitol Peak KGHO translator in McMicken Heights. As near as I can determine, they are broadcasting about 1 or 2 km SW from their authorized location. Maybe someone else can drive around and let us know what they think.

 

[bossbill]

Ethyl is Brian's mom. NW R & R Preservation Society is a separate entity in name only.

The concept of limiting LPFM power to 100 watts and then allowing translators to take a separate feed and operate 250 watts well outside the contour of the LPFM is really interesting and maybe something I could do in my next career. The Bill School of Broadcasting and Social Justice has a nice ring to it.

Dunno where the transmitters are located really, other than they cover Grays Harbor as well as my high-falutin' stuff.

 

[Blatherwatch]

I would agree Bill et al about the same station rebroadcasting LP all over to a point. What I have an issue with is a station like KACS out of Chehalis that already has a Class A on 90.5 (6k erp ) then has another Class D a few miles away on 102.3, thus putting up the brick wall on KZOK. Is that really an effective use of the spectrum?

 

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

Seems like the simple "fix" would be a requirement that programming is specifically relevant to the location of the transmitter before it can be licensed. For example, that local news coverage of that area would be offered on a regular basis. If someone doesn't want to invest in the product, then no benefit of a translator. Might help cut down on all the Calvary Church repeaters too. Somewhat common in BC for a group of stations to network and provide same music, etc. but they also provide regional news hourly so seems reasonable (and those aren't even translators..those are full blown licenses that link together). Since the FCC really has no gonads, it's extremely unlikely they would ever create policy based on common sense ... especially in this age where programming is skewing national with centralized voicetracking vs. satellite one-format-blased everywhere vs. internet streaming soon available in cars, etc. You would THINK there might be some proactive effort to plan spectrum use, but alas it will be up to the lobbyiists @ NAB to do it and have FCC rubber-stamp.