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Some kynd history

There can be no format. There is no studio, no office, no equipment. The only option for KYND is brokered. Anything else requires an investment and the owners won't put any money in it. There is no best. They need to have a working station phone and get anybody at any price to lower expenses. The best format is to file for silent status.
 
b-turner said:
There can be no format. There is no studio, no office, no equipment. The only option for KYND is brokered. Anything else requires an investment and the owners won't put any money in it. There is no best. They need to have a working station phone and get anybody at any price to lower expenses. The best format is to file for silent status.
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I would expect fines will be handed down for the unauthorized night operations soon. This situation may just rectify itself if, as you say, they are ignorant enough of the consequences involved to just not pay them and the license is ultimately revoked.

What a ridiculous and unnecessary predicament they are putting themselves in.
 
You are correct. Even without the nighttime issue, it is crazy what they did.

After Hurricane Harvey hit, I suggested we contact IHeart to offer the station as a Hurricane Harvey info station, a way to temporarily add a signal without causing any of their formats to suffer while giving an additional dedicated signal for all those post-Harvey combo buys. I suggested we ask a monthly low rate plus low percentage of advertising they sell. I didn't think it would be easy but my owners said I should just do the format. I asked if they realized we needed news people, sales staff and so forth. My answer was "you're a talented guy. you can pull it off". They had no clue about how any of that worked much less the logistics of making that happen.
 
The ongoing KYND dumpster fire is entertaining. At 310pm today, I called the number being recited constantly (281-373-1520) = "Beep-beep-beep, This number has been disconnected or is no longer in service." I couldn't believe it so I called again, same result. So, KYND continues to broadcast a bogus phone number. That's a confidence builder.

The KYND 25 KW signal should boom into the Spring area from nearby Cypress, but is significantly weaker than the distant 2.5 KW signal of KGBC-1540 in Galveston. The logic must be to save money on electricity to transmit a weaker signal so the station will impress fewer listeners to call a number that doesn't exist.

At 4pm-sharp today, KYND abruptly disappeared even though it is allowed to broadcast until 830pm in June. Maybe signing off early was intentional, OR, the transmitter auto-clock is still messed up so the station will illegally re-fire late tonight.

KYND: "The Mystery Continues." KYND: "The Smoldering Wreck that Won't Go Away." KYND: "Call us - we promise not to answer."
---Thanks to Bill Turner for continued insights.
 
b-turner said:
Mediafrog: I know the owners personally and have well over 25 years. They have a decent respect for the FCC and the rules. Like I said, I doubt they know the station is on, especially at night.
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They never check the station? If I were them I would have accepted a lower offer by now, especially as they're getting 0 revenue and undoubtedly the bills are costing them.
Unless they're so rich they don't care about making money as far as KYND is concerned... But I'm not them and therefore shouldn't talk too much I suppose.

Did anything like this happen to radio stations back when you started working in radio? Something tells me no and that people worked a lot harder in the industry back then. I think the truth is that online streaming is just so much better quality than AM radio... I'd personally much rather listen to a stream than an AM station.
 
I’ve got 20k a month if the folks at Pro Broadcasting are interested. I could run my Tomball Ford/Tomball Dodge ads on a continuous loop and play some Dwight Yoakum/Eddie Rabbit in between breaks.

I could also play LSU Football games in the fall during daytime hours. I do not have a studio, though, so that’s why I haven’t looked into it further.
 
The Rimshot said:
Get me a studio, an engineer, a radio personality, a program director and a director of sales and you got a deal.
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You could have the studio at your house and use a Comrex Brick link to get audio to the transmitter.
You can control the transmitter from your house. Put the AES unit at the transmitter and monitor it.
It sounds like much would be automated, get Station Playlist to run the programming. This could be at your house with remote access for Voice tracking.
Ever hear of a Mom and Pop operation. With today's automation it's easy to be a one man show. It sounds like you have an idea of what the programming would be.

You could hire a high school student to put it together.
 
I don't think the poster was serious. He would not have asked for what he asked for if his words were legitimate. He basically said he was interesting in renting a space (aka 1520 AM). When I offer to connect him with the owners, he says you not only provide the space for me but provide all my product. You know if I was looking at a busy intersection strip center and decided to put up a corner convenience store I would not be saying okay I'll take it, but you move in the shelving, stock the shelves, find my employees and I'll rent the space...but this poster did. That's why I said forget it. After all, I don't work for KYND and have nothing to gain by putting an interested party in touch.
 
how does KYND not monitor EAS or perform tests?

I just don't get how a person can tie up a license and do absolutely nothing with it for years and years.
 
KYND has had no programmer since Hurricane Harvey finished it's assault on Houston....early September 2017. So, years and years is under 3 years. KYND doesn't monitor the EAS? How do you know?
 
b-turner said:
KYND has had no programmer since Hurricane Harvey finished it's assault on Houston....early September 2017. So, years and years is under 3 years. KYND doesn't monitor the EAS? How do you know?
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and if i recall, stations only have to log weekly tests, they dont have to broadcast them.. i think they only have to air the statewide monthly tests.. or is it national? Sounds liek bobhill is just making assumptions based on kynd's current status, assumptions without entirely correct info
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
and if i recall, stations only have to log weekly tests, they dont have to broadcast them.. i think they only have to air the statewide monthly tests.. or is it national? Sounds liek bobhill is just making assumptions based on kynd's current status, assumptions without entirely correct info
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Every broadcast station is required to transmit a RWT, required weekly test...except in that week the RMT, required monthly test, is retransmitted. All rcvr tests must be logged.
 
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