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Kansas Reyes Media buying 105.9 KKSW in Lawrence

route56 said:
With the KKSW signal degraded, yesterday (7/18) I was able to pick up KXKU (106.1) with a strong enough signal to receive RDS data in eastern Shawnee County. This morning, I heard a weakened KKSW fight it out with a station playing Led Zeppelin in western Douglas County - I am presuming this was co-channel KKCD Omaha.
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Yeah, I've heard KKCD (Classic Rock 105.9, ex-CD 105.9) several times in Johnson County this month.
 
I actually was traveling through here recently and flipped by with this discussion in mind. The day I was driving by I heard the station but it was noticeably weak given the proximity I was in. Being form outside the area I can concur this sounded very weakened compared to its usual stronger signal. I also heard it fighting with what was likely CD 105.9 Omaha. I was on 70. Also heard a third thing faintly mixing in too.
 
Now the audio is normal again with the bass on, but the bass has always been a bit low on KISS-FM. I think they should boost the equalizer frequencies below 75 hz or so.
 
Flipped around the dial to see which station was carrying the KU football home opener, turned out it was being carried on KLWN/K269GP, KMXN, and KKSW. I also heard liners from lead announcer Brian Hanni stating “The Jayhawks play here, on (92.9 The Bull/The New 105.9 KISS-FM)”
 
The station's yet again been off air/unreceivable where I am for the past few days. If I go to Lawrence sometime, I'll check to see if it's on air there. The stream is still working.
 
Went to Lawrence this afternoon and KKSW’s signal is solid in Lawrence but fades going east. It starts to get static in it just before where K-10 and K-7 intersect. I also found out KKSW did a remote this morning at the new Dillons grocery store grand opening, but I have no idea who was there from the station.

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Other than the KU home football games, I don’t know of any other remotes they’ve done lately.
 
SnottyNose799 said:
KKSW has TELEPHONE QUALITY and BUFFERING every 30 seconds or so now, though.


Someone was probably just like, "Oh yeah let's turn it on."
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The quality is bad compared to what I heard earlier yesterday, it sounded great then. In KC the signal has a lot of static over the top of the music, etc. but haven’t heard any buffering either on air or on the stream. The stream is as solid as the audio and signal were when I heard them yesterday south of St. Joe.
 
I don’t know that there's an easy, or cheap, way to feed the transmitter with a cellular hotspot. Broadband internet, however, is replacing the traditional STL at both iHeart and Cumulus. Both have markets that can be fed from anywhere using cloud-based automation and broadband at the transmitter site. Not sure if that makes sense for smaller companies yet, though.
 


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