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Last time I checked, WBOK 1230 AM, whose transmitter just off the I-10 and I-610 junction in eastern New Orleans (an area the Nation saw a lot of on the news) was inundated by Katrina; and KNOU 104.5 FM, whose owner is in receivership. KNOU did come back about two months after Katrina, but its hip-hop format went off for good not long after.

Also KTIB 640 AM Thibodaux, which puts a good signal over four MSA's (Houma-Thibodaux, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Lafayette-New Iberia), because of economic situation and ongoing court battle between partners.

KAGY 1510 Port Sulphur, down in Plaquemines Parish, the southern and central parts of which were literally wiped off the map by Katrina and then flooded again by Rita, is another, as well as a small-power noncommercial FM station down there in Port Sulphur-Buras, owned by a church.
 
Is 1510 in Port Sulfer the one they called the Swamp Dawg? I heard something around 1510 in Gulfport a couple of years ago playing some cool cajun and swamp boogie stuff. Its amazing how good some of these stations pick up when your down by the beach.
 
Don't know about KAGY being the Swamp Dog. For a while it was owned by a Pentecost church, but they sold it to a multiple station owner. Its signal was not the best in New Orleans proper. But KLEB 1600 AM in Galiano-Golden Meadow has an excellent signal into New Orleans and they do Cajun music parallel to 100.3 FM. The sale of the FM was announced just before Katrina but I have no idea if it went through or not.
 
KTIB is for sale but does include fueding partners who still are trying to get the courts to determine if it can be rightly sold (as Michael Starr claims) or can't be sold without a vote and his is no (Victor Bruno)

Add to that technical issues which keep it locked into needing STAs to operate

It's gonna be a while before we hear from this one...

Specially when Michael Starr stated that only one inside Louisiana group was interested in the station BUT other than the one website publisicizing the sale, and finally a newspaper article, did anyone know he had it up for sale again. But I think most will try to stay clear for the time being if they find out what Cajun radio found out about the questionable ownership of said station.


KAGY is owned now by Spotlight communications and wasn't the swamp dog (as most people thought they simucast with KMRC 1430 in Morgan City but KAGY was basically automated compared to KMRC with some live hosts) but was all the time swamp pop and advertised pretty heavy pre Katrina in the free classified paper in the Houma/Thibodaux area.

KLEB is located in Golden Measdow and other than a killer eastern lobe, has problems getting out in any other direction outside of the southern Lafourche parish area.. They do simucast some proframming but KLEB will usually go more cajun , whereas KLRZ does more swamppop. It was reported on here that supposedly the sale was cancelled as announced on the radio station's yahoogroups email reflector. Basically Katrina changed one of their minds.



RFLA
 
rfla correct me if im wrong but wasnt 1600 swamp pop first. didnt they originally simolcast the am on fm..but calling it 100.3 the rajun cajun. i know the audio was horrible for a couple of years. it seems to be better now.
 
If I remember, It was country music when Harold Callais had the station. he simucast his station with KLEB 94.3 before selling the FM to Costello. A few years later he sold KLEB to Coastal (then I think still calling itself EUI after his electronics business) who flipped it to a cajun format (unknown if it was cajun and swamp pop) but he did this while 100.3 was still a eclectic mix of Classic rock. Gisclair flipped KLRZ I think it was in 1999.

1600 Simucasts 100.3 on and off so people will hear the ragin cajun's FM signal on AM but at other times, he runs the Cajun music only (he has promoted it in the past as Cajun on AM, Swamp pop on FM) . Haven't listened in a while to know exactly when he is going it and all other than he will run the double ID over the FM when they are Simucasting.. Which I want to say is definitely mornings (as the Hot Sause Express if I remember correctly)

It's not my kind of music for the most part and is one of the stations I flip through and monitor occasionally about it. KLEB's signal has been tightened hard and it used to make it "up the Bayou" pretty decent in the 1980s.. but now there are times I can catch KKAY better than KLEB

RFLA
 
you may find this interesting, but I live outside Jackson, MS and I can routinely hear AM 1600 late at night. Usually after midnight. I was surprised to find out its only 250 watts at night. I thought it may have been on daytime power but I don't think so. I can hear it pretty good various times of the year. A while back I slept with the radio on the Raging Cajun and listened to it all night with occasional fades. I guess its possible because I've picked up 1590 AM in Jackson, MS which is 1000 watts when visiting the Gulf Coast or New Orleans. but not as clear as the Rajin Cajun up here at night. Not bad for 250 watts.
 
When I was living in Biloxi, I could hear it in a car radio almost anywhere along the coast. As far as I could tell, 100.3/1600 simulcasted 24/7 as the promos I heard were, "100.3 The RAJUN CAJUN!"
 
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