Cedar Cove (Vic Michael) applied earlier this week for a power increase for 90.7 K214FJ, based near Golden but not on Lookout Mountain, presumably to improve coverage of Denver proper. In the technical statement for that application, Cedar Cove makes this statement:
90.5 K213EG is a translator for Colorado Springs' KTLF a/k/a Educational Communications of Colorado Springs, operating a contemporary Christian network called The Light. KTLF has two translators on Lookout Mountain: K213EG, which has very limited coverage, and 106.3 K292FM, which covers a substantial part of Denver.
In any event, I was wondering if the FCC staff would take note of that parenthetical statement. Maybe so, maybe not, but evidently, KTLF did, because today it filed a silent notification with this justification:
However, while doing some head-to-head receiver comparisons for a review I'll be writing, I noticed that K213EG was indeed on the air this afternoon, including a fundraising pitch for The Light. Curious. K213EG is hard to get, but doable in the right location, and is stronger at my east Denver location than K214FJ.
The existence of two translators on adjacent channels with just a few miles from one another doesn't seem like such a great idea to begin with - the 93.7/93.9/94.1 mess in my part of the city is bad enough as it is; do we need more of this? - but the "is it or isn't it" on-air status for K213EG has the potential for getting a little weird, I think. I don't understand why KTLF is even bothering when it already has K292FM for urban coverage.
90.5 K213EG is a translator for Colorado Springs' KTLF a/k/a Educational Communications of Colorado Springs, operating a contemporary Christian network called The Light. KTLF has two translators on Lookout Mountain: K213EG, which has very limited coverage, and 106.3 K292FM, which covers a substantial part of Denver.
In any event, I was wondering if the FCC staff would take note of that parenthetical statement. Maybe so, maybe not, but evidently, KTLF did, because today it filed a silent notification with this justification:
However, while doing some head-to-head receiver comparisons for a review I'll be writing, I noticed that K213EG was indeed on the air this afternoon, including a fundraising pitch for The Light. Curious. K213EG is hard to get, but doable in the right location, and is stronger at my east Denver location than K214FJ.
The existence of two translators on adjacent channels with just a few miles from one another doesn't seem like such a great idea to begin with - the 93.7/93.9/94.1 mess in my part of the city is bad enough as it is; do we need more of this? - but the "is it or isn't it" on-air status for K213EG has the potential for getting a little weird, I think. I don't understand why KTLF is even bothering when it already has K292FM for urban coverage.