Question about XMTR sites

[KBOS1965]

> 1050 KTCT - 5 towers located in Hayward, just north of KFAX tower

Southwest of KFAX,. not north. They're located on the old Turk Island dump site which James Gabbert bought eons ago and then figured out a way to move KOFY 1050 from San Mateo to the site so he could use it for something. It's got probably one of the most complex patterns in the Bay Area.

It sure looks like it's the other way around to me! KFAX is south of KTCT. The original comment is correct. KTCT is north of KFAX

 

[BossRadioDJ]

Southwest of KFAX,. not north. They're located on the old Turk Island dump site which James Gabbert bought eons ago and then figured out a way to move KOFY 1050 from San Mateo to the site so he could use it for something. It's got probably one of the most complex patterns in the Bay Area.

Wrong garbage dump. Turk Island is/was south of Union City's Alvarado district. Having (mis)spent my teen years within smelling distance of Turk Island, I am 100% certain of its exact location.

The dump (or "land fill," as we say in polite company) that DK may have in mind on which KTCT/1050 stands is the one at Russell City.

 

[recto101]

Wheres the XTMR of 91.5 Fairfield, 99.3 Napa, 1440 AM Napa, 101.7 Livermore, 101.7 Santa Rosa, 93.7 Petaluma and 91.1 Santa Rosa?

 

[DavidKaye]

Wheres the XTMR of 91.5 Fairfield, 99.3 Napa, 1440 AM Napa, 101.7 Livermore, 101.7 Santa Rosa, 93.7 Petaluma and 91.1 Santa Rosa?

I already told you: Have a look at Radio-Locator.

 

[recto101]

Wheres the XTMR of 91.5 Fairfield, 99.3 Napa, 1440 AM Napa, 101.7 Livermore, 101.7 Santa Rosa, 93.7 Petaluma and 91.1 Santa Rosa?

I already told you: Have a look at Radio-Locator.

99.3 fm antenna is in Saint Helena Hot AC., KLVC 91.9 K-love translators, 103.1 fm are translators for an independent religious station located in Vacaville and Leisure town. 1440 AM antenna is based east of Napa. 91.5 FM KASK antenna is in Vacaville. 93.7 FM antenna is in Santa Rosa. 101.7 FM XTMR is North of Santa Rosa. 101.7 FM antenna south east of Livermore

 

[jprg]

I know that KCEA in Altherton used to have their tower at Menlo-Atherton High School and now it's located in the Heather section in San Carlos. Is it by Heather Elementary and what kind of tower is it?

 

[DavidKaye]

I know that KCEA in Altherton used to have their tower at Menlo-Atherton High School and now it's located in the Heather section in San Carlos. Is it by Heather Elementary and what kind of tower is it?

Why don't you go look at Radio-Locator.com and see the photo.

 

[Frequency1]

I have a better way to look at transmitter sites.

Open Google Earth and minimize it.
Go to fccinfo.com
Look at top right of the screen and click on FCCInfo on Google Earth.
Download the kmz file.
Open Google earth and there are all of teh AM, FM, TV (full power and LPTV) as well as the ASR.

 

[Goldilocks94941]

KRCB 91.1's tower site is about 2/3 of the way up Geyser Peak, facing Headsburg. 92.9 is all the way up the mountain. I've notived on Radio-Locator that KRCB has finally applied for a change in transmitter site and power to get a stronger signal into Santa Rosa, its current city of license. Don't know when and if that's becoming reality. The original site is more than 700 some feet up Geyser Peak, with only 120 watts. It's an incredible view from up there. Temperature inversions on hot smoggy days have been known to hamper the reception of the station, complicated by the interference from KSCM 80 miles south. It's getting pretty tight on the dial in the North Bay with a lot of translators and new class-A signals in the past 15 years or so, too, but I wish them well at getting increased power and a tower site closer to the population center of the county.

 

[recto101]

Re:KQW, KSFO, CBS Network and KCBS on 740 (Was Question about XMTR sites)

KSFO was the CBS network affiliate in San Francisco for many years, including the start of WW II.

John Schneider's history of KTAB/KSFO and his separate KQW/KCBS history (with my insertions in parens) outlines how KSFO and CBS became intertwined... divorced and reconciled:

Schneider writes: http://www.bayarearadio.org/schneider/ksfo.shtml

"Within a matter of two years, the old KTAB had completely transformed itself. But Dumm and Lasky were not satisfied. They contacted Guy Earl and Naylor Rogers, who operated the well-known independent station KNX in Hollywood. Together, they formed the Western Network, a two-station hookup which began operation in 1935. The network functioned successfully until 1937, when CBS bought KNX. In negotiations that followed, KSFO became the Northern California key outlet for the new CBS network, replacing KFRC, and CBS was given an option to purchase KSFO.

Under the direction of CBS, a new quarter-million dollar studio complex was constructed in the fall of 1937 as an annex to the Palace Hotel, boasting no less than seven studios and 26 offices. KSFO took over the new facility the following year, and began construction of a new 5,000 watt transmitter plant at Islais Creek, on the Bay Shore in San Francisco; also, the station's city of license was officially changed to San Francisco.

From 1937 to 1942, KSFO was the origination point for many CBS programs that were heard along the Pacific Coast, and a few heard nationwide. The four-year rise of KSFO from the cellar of the market to the regional key station for CBS became a local broadcast legend."

KQW, San Jose was an also-ran, as John Schneider notes in his history of KQW (with my insertions in parens):
http://www.bayarearadio.org/schneider/kqw.shtml

"But the fate of the station (KQW) changed in 1942. That year, CBS offered to purchase KSFO, its San Francisco affiliate, but the offer was rejected by KSFO's owners. Immediately thereafter, CBS approached KQW with an offer of affiliation, which was accepted. KSFO had occupied a lavish studio complex in the Palace Hotel, which was owned by CBS; KSFO was evicted, and KQW moved in."

"In 1941, when KSFO was still the CBS affiliate in the area, the network had entered into an agreement with KQW which called for KSFO to take over KQW's frequency and increase its power to 50,000 watts. KQW, which was by then operating at 5,000 watts on the frequency, was to move to KSFO's dial position.

The entire transaction was awaiting approval by the F.C.C. when a wartime freeze was placed on all station changes. By the end of the war, however, the CBS affiliation belonged to KQW, and CBS was not about to give up its plans for a 50,000 watt affiliate in the Bay Area. It filed a competing application for a power increase at 740.

After lengthy hearings, the F.C.C. granted the power increase to the original applicant, KSFO. However, the management of KSFO began to have doubts about the future of AM radio, and were putting all of their money into their new television station, KPIX (Channel 5). Negotiations were re-opened with CBS, and the result was that KSFO gave up its claim for the 740 dial position, in exchange for the CBS-TV network affiliation for San Francisco.

In 1949, CBS purchased the license of KQW outright (from Ralph Brunton and Charles L. McCarthy. Brunton was one of the owners of KJBS in San Francisco, and McCarthy was the Manager of Station Relations for NBC in San Francisco.) and changed the call letters to KCBS. An elaborate multi-tower antenna site was constructed at Novato in Marin County. The new high-power network-owned facility went on the air in 1951."

I heard that KNX was independent since 1921 and was on for 17 years before CBS took over KNX and moved it to Columbia square for 67 years and now at Miracle mile in an area halfway between Hollywood and Downtown LA.



I heard that WCBS was WABC 880 in the 1940's as WABC in New Jersey or Connecticuit and ABC in the 1940's stood for Atlantic Broadcasters Coproration until 1950's when 770am and Channel 7 NYC changed its call letters from WJZ to WABC since ABC was born from the Blue era of nbc. Also WNBC was orginally from New Haven CT in the 1950's. Until the Call leters moved to NYC in 1960 for NYC channel 4 around the same time that KNBC 99.7 and 680 am of San Francisco moved to LA for Channel 4.