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SBS Buys KROI for $7.5 million

ChuckTiller said:
KHCB 105.7 has been approached many times through the years. They are NOT going to sell. That gets us back to, 'if the price is right.' I don't see it happening. However, you never know. Stranger things have happened.
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A formidable trade maybe? I know the Libermans approached them and got turned down fast. I always wondered if HCB would consider a trade. Hypothetically speaking, would they be interested in taking a station like KAMA-FM plus a rimshot signal in a different major market (say maybe KMYO-FM and KLJA-FM) in exchange for 105.7? There's no doubt they're growing and want to continue to grow. An exchange like this could give an entry into a new marker whole maintaining a centrally located facility.

Of course, all of this is hypothetical.
 
Ryan Williams said:
Unfortunately there are a lot that are over-modulated. Some transmitters come by default without a limiter turned on and are putting out 130-150% modulation.
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Significant stations don't use transmitters with built-in peak limiters (and historically known brand transmitters did not have peak limiters anyway). They use an Optimod or Omnia, which is separate.

With any decent processor and transmitter, you can adjust your peak modulation. At Z-101 in Santo Domingo, I found that every other local was doing way over 130% modulation. So we bought about 6 or 7 consumer radios and set out to adjust our station for the best sound without exceeding the bandwidth of consumer radios.

We found 130% was ideal. It was clean on all radios, while going above that would generate distortion in radios with narrower bandwidth. We were loud enough to compete, and sounded good enough to be #1 ever since!
 
tb_ said:
How can you be so sure? What is your source??? 🤣
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Chuck is the operations manager of Salem in Houston.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Significant stations don't use transmitters with built-in peak limiters (and historically known brand transmitters did not have peak limiters anyway). They use an Optimod or Omnia, which is separate.
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Of course that is correct, but I was talking about "insignificant", translator stations not operated by large group owners. Some, but not all, of these translators have questionable engineering with wrong antennas, over-licensed power, wrongly-oriented directionality, and poor or no real audio processing.

The 96.9 translator that broadcasts from the Medical Center area is now owned by Relevant Radio and I am not specifically familiar with its signal, however it is well within the translator complaint area of 97.1.
 
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Ryan Williams said:
Some, but not all, of these translators have questionable engineering with wrong antennas, over-licensed power, wrongly-oriented directionality, and poor or no real audio processing.
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Don't even get me started on stories I've heard about certain engineers in the past.

As for quality I use computer software for my at-home FM transmitter.
The computer is separate, but I have to say it does a better job than some of the crappy translators' audio. If I want to I can turn up the transmitter's volume slightly too loud to give peoples' radios a farting/rattling effect when the bass hits. The transmitter has no peak limiter itself that I can tell.
 
gimmetheoldies said:
Well that sucks, but I can't say I'm super surprised. Maybe Country Legends will pop up on an HD subchannel of KKBQ if it does indeed get axed?
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It's already on KKBQ HD-2 and it's not a stretch that KKBQ's new owners would keep the format there to keep the intellectual property alive, kind of like how The Point and Oldies have remained on 106.9 & 107.5 HD2 for many years. It would cost them almost nothing to protect the branding that way.
 
Ryan Williams said:
The 96.9 translator that broadcasts from the Medical Center area is now owned by Relevant Radio and I am not specifically familiar with its signal, however it is well within the translator complaint area of 97.1.
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Ryan, I share in your questioning of this specific translator, and was rather surprised that Darrell Martin was able to get it approved in the first place, with KTHT and KXBJ both operating at the maximum wattage. It's one heck of a shoehorn job, that's for certain.
 
rosecitymedia said:
Ryan, I share in your questioning of this specific translator, and was rather surprised that Darrell Martin was able to get it approved in the first place, with KTHT and KXBJ both operating at the maximum wattage. It's one heck of a shoehorn job, that's for certain.
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Also some weird ones for me are the 98.3 and 98.7 translators in between KTJM. I wonder if they’re part of the reason KTJM isn’t running HD anymore.
 
HTX said:
Also some weird ones for me are the 98.3 and 98.7 translators in between KTJM. I wonder if they’re part of the reason KTJM isn’t running HD anymore.
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I can't say for sure, HTX, but I would imagine it had less to do with signing on those two translators, and more about the HD signal of KTJM having little to no reliable presence within the target city of Houston.

We had a similar situation here, where the former KLJT broadcast in HD under the ownership of Dudley Waller, but the signal was not reliable in Tyler or Nacogdoches, and came nowhere close to the cities of Longview or Lufkin. When ERFET purchased it and returned it to service as "Fuzíon", the HD remained off.
 
HTX said:
It’s actually not on any HD subchannel currently. I’m pretty sure KTHT was last on that HD2 back in 2020. KKBQ HD2 goes by “The New Texas Country 92.9 HD3” even though they’ve been moved down to HD2 for awhile now.
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Okay, it was there for awhile, because that's how I used to listen on the SW side of town. Not hard imagining them putting it back on at some point, just to keep someone else from flanking KKBQ using the Legends branding.
 
I don’t know where I read this but it said the sale is not expected to close until October. So I’m assuming that’s when it will flip.
 
Mrtejano said:
I don’t know where I read this but it said the sale is not expected to close until October. So I’m assuming that’s when it will flip.
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I haven’t found any official filing about the KROI sale to SBS, and there is still nothing on the SBS website about the station acquisition. Since there are two phases to the transfer, things might take a little while. Gives SBS more time to prepare for the launch of the new format.

Guess the identity of the new KTHT owner hasn’t leaked as well.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
I haven’t found any official filing about the KROI sale to SBS, and there is still nothing on the SBS website about the station acquisition. Since there are two phases to the transfer, things might take a little while. Gives SBS more time to prepare for the launch of the new format.

Guess the identity of the new KTHT owner hasn’t leaked as well.
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It does mention it on the SBS website about the purchase.
 


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