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SBS Buys KROI for $7.5 million

If EMF winds up with KTHT I would keep a sharp eye on the future of KJIC, whose 90.5 coverage would be a good complement to 97.1 for the southern side of the market.
 
I didn’t know KJIC was an EMF signal. 97.1 would be perfect for 90.5. Although I don’t know if they would think Christian Country would compete with 93Q.
 
JustinT said:
VCY checks so many boxes. Think about their other recent/attempted purchases. 103.3 in Dallas, 92.7 in San Francisco, 103.9 in New York. Clearly these guys are not signal snobs waiting around for a Missouri City option to open up.

My only pause…. is how much competition they would have. In the talk/teaching space, you’ve got the big KHCB, plus KKHT, American Family Radio, plus Relevant Radio. Looking at program lineups in other markets, VCY stations even carry some of the same ministries as KHCB and KKHT. Then you’ve got music representation from Hope Media across two big signals, EMF’s Air 1, and KJIC. Then you have all of the translators with non-English teaching.

With 97.1, VCY might not need to have a local studio, but they would be committing to the estimated $5m sale price plus a 100,000 watt power bill. They need to get some kind of return on this investment and they’d be opening a “church” on a street of churches. If they really want to be on the air in Houston, then they’re going to do that. But I have to wonder if there are other markets for them to use their bandwidth sale money that could use a “church” more.
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Regarding the 100,000 watt power bill, it would be great if a radio engineer here could tell us exactly what that means. I always assumed that a 100KW station had a 10KW transmitter and an antenna gain of 10 to get that kind of ERP. With FM, you should not need any audio power to speak of, so maybe that 100KW station only uses 12 or 15KW continuously??

So, If I plug in 10 hair dryers, that's about the same. But surely the radio station gets a break on the cost per KWH ??
 
Robert Douglas said:
Regarding the 100,000 watt power bill, it would be great if a radio engineer here could tell us exactly what that means. I always assumed that a 100KW station had a 10KW transmitter and an antenna gain of 10 to get that kind of ERP. With FM, you should not need any audio power to speak of, so maybe that 100KW station only uses 12 or 15KW continuously??

So, If I plug in 10 hair dryers, that's about the same. But surely the radio station gets a break on the cost per KWH ??
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100 kw ERP with a 10 bay horizontal/vertical (circular) polarization antenna with cable loss likely needs about 22 kw transmitter output. At around 80% efficiency, that is about 28 kwh of electricity each hour.

If electric is $0.15 a kwh (check local commercial rates) that is about $100 a day and $3000 a month.

Look at commercial power rate column at Electric Power Monthly - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

In Hawaii, it would be about $10,000 a month, and in Oklahoma around $2,200.

In a larger market where that is a tiny percentage of revenue, the station may want to use fewer bays on the antenna, with 6 being what I would go for.
 
Let's keep this in mind. Ben Amato sold then KVST to Cumulus for $32.2 million in 2004. Cumulus sold it to EMF, just 8 years later, for a whopping $5 million. That's a hefty discount of $27.2 million. What Lance Venta stated earlier, speaks volumes. EMF really has a knack for picking up these types of signals for pennies on the dollar. If the purchase price is going to stun folks to the degree we felt when the Foundation bought 103.7 a decade ago, it's pretty certain that "Love is in the Air", or will be forthcoming, for 97.1.
 
rosecitymedia said:
EMF really has a knack for picking up these types of signals for pennies on the dollar.
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That's more of a statement on the market for radio stations than on EMF. They got a good deal on KVST because the market changed. Anyone would have paid less for KVST by that point because station values had dropped.
 
rosecitymedia said:
Let's keep this in mind. Ben Amato sold then KVST to Cumulus for $32.2 million in 2004. Cumulus sold it to EMF, just 8 years later, for a whopping $5 million. That's a hefty discount of $27.2 million. What Lance Venta stated earlier, speaks volumes. EMF really has a knack for picking up these types of signals for pennies on the dollar. If the purchase price is going to stun folks to the degree we felt when the Foundation bought 103.7 a decade ago, it's pretty certain that "Love is in the Air", or will be forthcoming, for 97.1.
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And whenever EMF buys a station and ruins it, that station just gets removed from my radio.
 
Palpatine said:
And whenever EMF buys a station and ruins it, that station just gets removed from my radio.
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Good thing there's nobody from EMF sitting there putting a radio to your head making you listen to their programming.

Lots of people enjoy it, and that's extremely evident based on the donations they receive. You're of course more than welcome to try and start your own non-profit radio group and play whatever you want, but I guarantee it won't be as successful as EMF's operation.
 
b-turner said:
Palpatine - your comments are hate filled
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Care to quote the hate? I'm sorry, but some of you are melodramatic when there is skepticism towards anything close to religion.

CRITICIZING OPINIONS AND BELIEFS IS NOT HATE. Hate is criticizing someone for how they're born. And people are not born with religious beliefs. So just stop with this victim mentality. This type of response is the reason why valid criticisms of Islam or Israel are always dismissed as "bigotry".
 and not backed up by any evidence.
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I won't speak for Palpatine. His claim about EMF is his and his only.

Having said that, there are plenty of non-profit organizations of every religious denomination (atheists included) that engage in shady practices. I won't single any particular one out since my intention isn't to start a debate (again) on what the purpose of non-profits should be (although it is a discussion that should be had at a societal level and not in a radio forum).
 
It will be nice to finally have a resolution on the future of 97.1.🤔😖

We should note that Houston will also be losing a religious station with the impending flip of 92.1.
 
Palpatine said:
There are plenty of suckers who give money to tax free scamming organizations.
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Except that your theory is flawed. If an entity does not have a profit, it pays no income tax anyway.

So the only "non-profit" advantage EMF has is not paying sales tax in some states, but business to business does not pay sales tax usually anyway.

So the savings from being a non-profit are mostly in property taxes. Hardly a "scam" considering the community activities, free counseling and the like that EMF does in many of its larger market.

If I were an evangelical Christian, and enjoyed the K-Love music format and occasionally called to get a prayer or some advice, I'd find that I was not being scammed at all. I'd gladly give some money each month to help them.
 
BamaTX said:
Care to quote the hate? I'm sorry, but some of you are melodramatic when there is skepticism towards anything close to religion.
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He directly called their operations a scam and tax fraud.
BamaTX said:
Having said that, there are plenty of non-profit organizations of every religious denomination (atheists included) that engage in shady practices. I won't single any particular one out since my intention isn't to start a debate (again) on what the purpose of non-profits should be (although it is a discussion that should be had at a societal level and not in a radio forum).
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In every field of endeavor there are unscrupulous persons or organizations that take advantage of the vulnerable. I'd say that some of the drug companies that bought the rights to narrow but needed drugs or medical products to be vastly more "shady" than EMF. An example is the EPI Pen, which used to be about $45 and anyone with life-threatening allergies has to get a new one every year; now they come in a 2-pack and are around $300 or more!
 
Palpatine said:
And whenever EMF buys a station and ruins it, that station just gets removed from my radio.
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Yes, that is your opinion. And when someone buys a station and puts alternative rock on it, it gets "removed" from my radio.

As is said in my home, "para los gustos se hicieron los colores" or "different colors for different tastes."
 
TheBigA said:
That's more of a statement on the market for radio stations than on EMF. They got a good deal on KVST because the market changed. Anyone would have paid less for KVST by that point because station values had dropped.
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In fact, I'll betcha' that the seller would have gotten much less if EMF had not been there as a willing cash buyer.
 
Hate defined: is an intense negative emotional response towards certain people, things or ideas usually related to opposition or revulsion toward something.

It could be you hate a certain group or people. You can hate, for example, the weather, a food and just about anything else.

Palpatine said: And whenever EMF buys a station and ruins it, that station just gets removed from my radio. There are plenty of suckers who give money to tax free scamming organizations (in response to my statement listeners support EMF financially).

In my opinion that meets the definition.
 


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