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Engineering

I have been listening occasionally to KHIH (formerly KSHN, owned by Bill Buchanan) 99.9 FM in Devers, which is apparently owned by one of these "educational" entities with deep pockets, such as the one who acquired KXXF in nearby Winnie. Anyway, rather than hearing educational programming, all they seem to be playing is dead air. Does anyone have a clue as to what their intention is?
 
Engineering said:
I have been listening occasionally to KHIH (formerly KSHN, owned by Bill Buchanan) 99.9 FM in Devers, which is apparently owned by one of these "educational" entities with deep pockets, such as the one who acquired KXXF in nearby Winnie. Anyway, rather than hearing educational programming, all they seem to be playing is dead air. Does anyone have a clue as to what their intention is?
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Soudns like they lost the program feed, probably delviered by UP using a hardware appliance and they dont have a silence alarm. It's owned by the Hope Media Group, KSBJ folks.
 
Technical problems, probably. No local studios for these stations any more. When KSHN used to broadcast high school football games in serving their community (which I doubt the current licensee does) they would actually broadcast different games on the left and right channels.
 
b-turner said:
That's right and they got fined by the FCC for it!
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Is that gimmick actually prohibited under FCC rules? Why? Carrying two football games of local interest certainly served the public interest in its coverage area, so that couldn't be it. Did it somehow interfere with other stations?
 
Yes, carrying a different signal on both the left and right channels of your stereo signal is a fineable offense with the FCC. I wasn't aware of the rule but KSHN got fined for it as a violation of FCC Rules. I met the FCC field reps in Houston when I was in the market and they were very reasonable guys. They weren't nail you to the wall agents but seemed to look at the whole picture and apply only the correction needed to resolve the issue versus throwing the book at you.
 
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b-turner said:
Yes, carrying a different signal on both the left and right channels of your stereo signal is a fineable offense with the FCC.
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So is carrying one game on your main signal and another on your on channel booster, which a marble falls TX station got dinged for years ago
 
Doesn't matter if anyone is being harmed. You follow FCC Rules or get fined if caught. Who does it harm if I say 'give them a call' or 'their phone number is' in an Underwriting Announcement on a non-commercial station that may subject me to a huge fine is I say the first phrase or technically I can be fined if I make my Legal ID say, example, KYND in Cypress instead of KYND, Cypress.
 
I don't think the dead air lasted long. I've never observed them having dead air. Definitely not this morning when I checked.
 


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