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The Horn's Round Rock Translator Files Long-awaited Modification Application

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Ryan Williams

On Monday, Royal Flush filed to modify The Horn's Williamson County translator K270CO (101.9 FM) from a directional antenna to a non-directional (a before and after coverage map is available at https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=140288) as was suggested here nearly two years ago in a prior thread. K270CO was highly directional with a null to the south due to the previous presence of an LPFM in Austin, which a couple of years ago relocated to a different channel.

Unfortunately, for The Horn, it's probably too late. At the end of last year, Charles Crawford's K231CZ (94.1 FM which is currently rebroadcasting 1560 KTXZ) filed to move to 101.9 on one of the West Lake Hills towers and was granted a construction permit.

The Horn's modification application will almost certainly be dismissed due to it being technically deficient as it includes only a 25 mile/2 mV compliance exhibit for primary station KTAE (1260). It does not include a technical exhibit or a channel study nor does it address the presence of K231CZ's construction permit on the same channel, which would have a prohibited overlapping contour with The Horn's proposed modification.

This is disappointing considering that The Horn can truly use all the help it can get in the Round Rock/Pflugerville area.
 
What is K231CZ playing? Spanish music?
I never heard it on the air when the previous owners had it.

As for The Horn, how much does it cost to file those applications? Someone should have paid more attention.
 
Shockingly, the FCC approved K270CO's application to go non-directional today.

The new pattern does not take into account K231CZ's previously-granted and pending move to 101.9 from a West Lake-area tower.

I do not know how this was approved unless it was done automatically without an actual human review.
 
If you look at K231CZ's application, they didn't account for the existence of K270CO since 2017. If you read the purpose of their application, it was because of interference from a station 120 miles away when the co-channel interference in their own backyard is much worse than somebody in Floresville. What idiots.
 
Ryan Williams said:
It's currently rebroadcasting KTXZ 1560 AM which is a tejano format.
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I had heard a very weak 94.1 signal in Cedar Park a week ago. It was Tejano KOKE-AM. Anyone know what signal that is if it’s not the translator? It was not KOAU-LP
 
HTX said:
I had heard a very weak 94.1 signal in Cedar Park a week ago. It was Tejano KOKE-AM. Anyone know what signal that is if it’s not the translator? It was not KOAU-LP
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Perhaps they switched it from KTXZ to KOKE, but I don't know what that would accomplish. Are you sure you heard "KOKE" branding or just tejano music?
 
Ryan Williams said:
Mystery solved... 1560 and 1600 are simulcasting currently with KOKE branding.
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I noticed those two were simulcasting while I was in Austin in late February, so this might have been going on for a while.

Outside of KLBJ 590, AM radio in the Austin market is hanging on by its fingernails. Would not surprise me if several licenses are surrendered in the near future.
 
I should have checked the AM stations.

Also the 105.1 translator in Hutto was off the air
 
RELEVANT RADIO, INC. owns 105.1.

I'd think they'd have it on the air...
 
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A quick update:

After the FCC mistakenly granted K270CO's technically deficient application to go non-directional on Monday, the licensee filed a "License to Cover" application yesterday. A License to Cover basically says that you have constructed the station according to the granted construction permit and are ready to be licensed.

That "Cover" application as of this afternoon has now been dismissed and the previous construction permit is now back to "pending".

It's not clear if the dismissal is from the FCC or if it was requested by the licensee, perhaps filed early erroneously.
 
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Mediafrog+ said:
Outside of KLBJ 590, AM radio in the Austin market is hanging on by its fingernails. Would not surprise me if several licenses are surrendered in the near future.
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First question: how many of them need to keep the AM to maintain a translator. Those are not going away.
 
DavidEduardo said:
First question: how many of them need to keep the AM to maintain a translator. Those are not going away.
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- 590 AM on 99.7 FM translator (translator is not from AM Revitalization; licensee has full-power FM stations with HD sub-channels in market) 590's transmitter site is near Tesla Giga Texas and a new site near The Domain is ostensibly under construction

-970 on 103.9 and 105.1 translators (103.9 translator is not from AM Revitalization, 105.1 is forever paired to 970; licensee has no full-power FM stations in market)

-1060 on 100.1 translator (translator is not from AM Revitalization; licensee has no full-power FM stations in market)

-1120 on 101.1 translator (translator was moved-in during AM Revitalization, but four year pairing has been satisfied; licensee has no full-power FM stations in market)

- 1260 on 101.9 translator (translator was moved-in during AM Revitalization, but four year pairing has been satisfied; licensee has a full-power FM station with HD sub-channels in market)

- 1300 not currently on a translator (licensee has other translators and full-power FM stations with HD sub-channels in market) station has previously been on 103.1 translator

- 1370 not currently on a translator (licensee has a translator and full-power FM stations with HD sub-channels in market) station has previously been on 96.3 translator (now located at 95.9)

- 1440 not currently on a translator (licensee has no full-power FM stations in market)

- 1490 on 96.3 (translator is from AM Revitalization and forever paired to 1490; licensee has no full-power FM stations in market))

- 1530 on 95.1 (translator is not from AM Revitalization; licensee has no full-power FM stations in market)

- 1560 on 94.1 (translator was moved-in during AM Revitalization, pairing status unclear; licensee has no full-power FM stations in market) 1560 is currently simulcasting 1600

- 1600 not currently on a translator itself (licensee has no full-power FM stations in market) see 1560

Note: I only included AM stations that are in-market according to Nielsen Audio's definition.
 
Ryan Williams said:
Mystery solved... 1560 and 1600 are simulcasting currently with KOKE branding.
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I forgot to update this, but a little over a week ago the two stations were separate again. 1600 was tejano and I believe 1560 was some kind of spanish-language religious programming.

Not sure how the simulcast happened. Maybe something got crossed at the studios or there was some kind of failure and they plugged in what they had.
 
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