I just checked with my Panasonic Walkman style receiver. Both KFNN and KQFN are off of the air and both the 99.3 and 105.3 translators are missing in action (I don't live close enough to verify the standing of the 95.9 translator of KQFN but I assume the same is holding true for it as well.) There is no current radio station in the Phoenix area carrying the GCU basketball game. The fact that both of these stations and their translators are completely off of the air (no carriers I can hear and Santa Monica's KBLA is getting some nice clear skywave action now on 1580) tells me that those stations may have finally bitten the dust, at least for this owner. The good news is that with some Senate Democrats agreeing to reopen the Federal government, we should soon know if both licenses are being cancelled or if only silent status is being sought for both stations. Stay tuned!
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Remaining CRC stations going to liquidating agent
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I just checked with my Panasonic Walkman style receiver. Both KFNN and KQFN are off of the air and both the 99.3 and 105.3 translators are missing in action (I don't live close enough to verify the standing of the 95.9 translator of KQFN but I assume the same is holding true for it as well.) There is no current radio station in the Phoenix area carrying the GCU basketball game. The fact that both of these stations and their translators are completely off of the air (no carriers I can hear and Santa Monica's KBLA is getting some nice clear skywave action now on 1580) tells me that those stations may have finally bitten the dust, at least for this owner. The good news is that with some Senate Democrats agreeing to reopen the Federal government, we should soon know if both licenses are being cancelled or if only silent status is being sought for both stations. Stay tuned!
I guess it's safe to say that KFNN and KQFN are off the air. Both the translators and streams have been down since the beginning of the week, and despite their websites still being up (so are the social media accounts with no updates since the end of September), the business line to CRC is out of service. 99.3 hasn't found a new source of programming yet, whether it be some other lessee or a new format originating from an HD2 (KEMP from Payson, which simulcasts KMZQ 670 in Las Vegas, could be faintly heard in its place in some places at this moment).
GCU went streaming only for its basketball games this season.
Now Arizona and Sonora are silent on 1580, and the war between two frequencies is over.
It looks like the big guy (Los Angeles) won again!
Here in NE Mesa, KQFN's 95.9 translator in Fountain Hills seems to be dead, but I do hear a weak station on that frequency airing Christian Rock, for lack of a better term. Couldn't hear it long enough to get a proper ID. It's much weaker than the KQFN translator was. Nothing shown on RadioLocator for that format (or anything close to it) on 95.9 within 200 miles of my location, but that doesn't mean much.
I believe what you're hearing on 95.9 mHz is K240DC. While radio-locator.com lists the translator's programming as coming from KYOT-FM, that is not the case. The folks at worldradiomap.com list the translator as being in the White Tanks and translating K-Love (though they don't identify the K-Love station being translated.) However, while radio-locator.com may be wrong as to the translator's HD1 source, the site does get a lot of its transslator information from the FCC. My guess therefore, is that (and I'm going to have to check this with my HD2 receiver) K240DC is actually carrying the signal of KYOT's HD3 channel which is in turn carrying the signal from Lake Havasu City's KNLB-FM per worldradiomap.com. I'll take a listen to see if I can find a more definative answer to your question.
K240DC tended to step over K240EU in parts of the East Valley when the latter was still on the air, so that's what's going on. It's not K-Love, but KNLB. That translator's location was a headache for CRC Broadcasting, and 95.9 was the best frequency they could find after having a CP for 99.5 (KIIM blasting in from Tucson would have made it tough to listen to in some areas) and attempting a synchronized operation with K257CD on 99.3.
While I was unable to pick up the 95.9 frequency on either receiver, I did finally check with Michi's site (it's sometimes a little difficult to find things there) and here is what I found:
Note that the information is confusing here as the site says that K240DC is a translator for KYOT then says it is owned by Advanced Ministries, the owner of KNLB-FM. So EricStein, thank you for clarifying the information.
Commercial-band (above 92 MHz) NCE translators cannot be fed by satellite. They must be fed by the same means available to commercial stations. This results in a lot of HD subchannel leases, including by EMF in some markets.
And does explain the need for KNLB to lease an HD subchannel from iHeart to feed K240DC, which I did not mention in my last post.
except in... alaska.
just being the pedantic outlier that i am......there are several commercial band translators fed by commercial and non commercial stations that are fed by internet and satellite. we also have several translators running well more then 250 watts and at least one running 1kw
This is an example of why I love RadioDiscussions: we learn, or have our memory refreshed, or even have mistaken impressions corrected.except in... alaska.
My goodness! I just now realized there is NOTHING after 1480 on the AM dial. KPHX is now the last stop on the dial.
Let's bow our heads for a moment of silence as we fondly remember the 1500's....
Well, there still is KUAZ/1550 in Tucson, but it's a daytimer that doesn't come in well in most of the Valley, despite running 50,000 watts. It's kinda proof that 50 kW at the high end of the dial is no match for 50 kW at the low end, such as KDRV/830 which blasts into at least the East Valley.
It looks like KUAZ-AM has allowed their CP to move the transmitter site and add directional night time coverage (3.9 KW?) to expire. The plan was to be able to fill in coverage gaps on the Tohono O'dham reservation and Cochise County. However, with the current state of funding...
The transfer to the Trustee was consummated during the Government shutdown. The Trustee has yet to file Silent STAs, even though they've been off the air for nearly two weeks. Websites and abandoned social media accounts are still up.
I would have thought that the 99.3 translator's owner would have found a new source to feed it by now. I really have doubts that either 1510 or 1580 will come back in some other forms, unless we see a miracle. Sign of the times for marginal AM signals.
Ol Buck Owens spent some serious $$ to get 15~Eighty a full-time 50kw signal. Every buyer after the station was spun off paid too much, but the KOOL Aid they drank convinced them something could be done with Ancient Modulation. 15~Ten generated revenue with its Financial News format, but the information they provided was available online, streaming, or thru podcasts as technology changed. At least the tower lights are still flashing.
Well, the tower lights are still working because KFNN is diplexed with KKNT. Same with KQFN at KSUN’s tower.
Time was running out on the “Money Radio” format more than a decade ago. They had added political talk to buy some time. While the 105.3 translator had okay coverage of their target audience in Scottsdale, it was pretty bad everywhere else, especially when KAIZ has their HD signal on the air.
I want to know if their North Scottsdale offices and studios are now empty.
Sounds like a local needs to go to the proverbial Lumberyard and document the space the way some YouTuber did for the canal-side KAZG a decade or so ago. South Scottsdale then, North Scottsdale now....