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Las Vegas Radio Activo KADD / KXLI Tower Battle

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While the radio trades picked up this story, it also has made the wireless industry news. Interesting to note the rental rate of $7000/mo quoted in the story. That's some nince income for the tower and land owner. Why complain?


Wireless Estimator.com :
"A federal judge in Nevada granted Radio Activo Broadcasting LLC a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking American Towers LLC and Insite Towers, LLC from decommissioning, dismantling, or removing the 190-foot self-supporting tower that carries the broadcaster’s signal, but declined to require American Tower to restore electrical service to the site immediately."

wirelessestimator.com

Radio Activo wins order to stop American Tower from tearing down Nevada broadcast site; power shutoff stands for now

A federal judge in Nevada granted Radio Activo Broadcasting LLC a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking American Towers LLC and Insite Towers, LLC from decommissioning, dismantling, or removing the 190-foot self-supporting tower that carries the…
wirelessestimator.com wirelessestimator.com

Radio perspective:

www.insideradio.com

Judge Halts Las Vegas Tower Dismantling, Declines To Order Power Restored.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking American Towers and Insite Towers from dismantling Radio Activo’s Cabin Canyon tower, vital to keeping KADD “La Mejor 93.5” KADD and
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com
 
Scumbags like American Tower, Clown Castle, Vertical Bridge, and SBA have put many a radio station under. Tower leasebacks are evil.
I once asked a couple of ATC reps at NAB why they owned sites on BLM land devoid of any tenants. (Which is against their BLM communications ROW terms.) I asked them why their rates for those empty sites were so high, that prospective tenants could not make it make sense. They had no clue. One of them, pondering what I told them, said to the other, "Isn't x dollars greater than zero dollars?" It surprised them, and I will never understand why they can operate in the way that they do. Why ask for $6000 a month and never get it, when you can have multiple tenants paying $1500 a month?

The mind boggles....
 
At one point the two stations had two separate owners so it isn't quite so bad each station paying $3,500. Add in years of CPI increases and it starts to add up. Still, the rent per station is probably double what seems reasonable.

AlligatorClipz said:
Scumbags like American Tower, Clown Castle, Vertical Bridge, and SBA have put many a radio station under. Tower leasebacks are evil.
I once asked a couple of ATC reps at NAB why they owned sites on BLM land devoid of any tenants. (Which is against their BLM communications ROW terms.) I asked them why their rates for those empty sites were so high, that prospective tenants could not make it make sense. They had no clue. One of them, pondering what I told them, said to the other, "Isn't x dollars greater than zero dollars?" It surprised them, and I will never understand why they can operate in the way that they do. Why ask for $6000 a month and never get it, when you can have multiple tenants paying $1500 a month?

The mind boggles....
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Dealing with the various tower companies over the years was one of my greatest stresses.
 
KADD-FM has just filed for an auxiliary site at Apex Peak NE of Las Vegas. Same site as KVGQ-FM 1, KXLI-FM 1 and the proposed site for a new LPFM KVPZ-LP. This is the same site as their KADD-FM 1 booster. The power level is Effective Radiated Power: 0.054 kW (H+V).
 
Frequency1 said:
KADD-FM has just filed for an auxiliary site at Apex Peak NE of Las Vegas. Same site as KVGQ-FM 1, KXLI-FM 1 and the proposed site for a new LPFM KVPZ-LP. This is the same site as their KADD-FM 1 booster. The power level is Effective Radiated Power: 0.054 kW (H+V).
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Why would they need to file for that as an Auxillary site ... It Looks like the same or similar specs as their Already Licensed Booster KADD-1 from the same site, with just 1 watt power difference. I guess if they do lose broadcast access from their parent Logandale/Bunkerville site they could make that their permanent site (with lower power).
 
KyleSmith1988 said:
Why would they need to file for that as an Auxillary site ... It Looks like the same or similar specs as their Already Licensed Booster KADD-1 from the same site, with just 1 watt power difference. I guess if they do lose broadcast access from their parent Logandale/Bunkerville site they could make that their permanent site (with lower power).
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Your aux needs to be licensed.


While your Aux doesnt have city of license coverage requirement, it cant extend behind that of the main signal.

The main signal doesnt have city of license coverage requirements and i doub t this site would meet the requirements to be the main and still cover the COL along with spacing requirements

(remember stuff from when i had to fill out, sign and file an STA years ago myself)
 
KyleSmith1988 said:
Why would they need to file for that as an Auxillary site ... It Looks like the same or similar specs as their Already Licensed Booster KADD-1 from the same site, with just 1 watt power difference. I guess if they do lose broadcast access from their parent Logandale/Bunkerville site they could make that their permanent site (with lower power).
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You can't (legally) run a booster facility if the main licensed facility is off the air. But you can run an aux, and the aux and the booster can be the same physical facility, just carrying two separate licenses.
 
I wonder if they can Co-Lo with one of the other Moapa Sites (89.3, 92.7, 97.5), (88.5, 104.7) on either side of Interstate 15, and a bit closer to Las Vegas than the current site.
 


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