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the old 1240 antenna site, in Monterey,CA

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alok

I noted that 1240 in Monterey was donated to a nonprofit group and they were unable to renegotiate the tower lease?
They put up a temporary antenna to get on the air elsewhere in the area.
That 1240 site they could not make a deal on . . . I guess was the tower located "on the small beach area" behind some stores on Cannery Row.
I always thought that 1240 KMBY owned that small piece of land, if not who did, the owner of the building the stores are in ?
I recall years ago on a visit to the area the transmission line went "over the street" from a building across the street that had the studios in it to that tower, at the time KMBY was a RnR station. This was in the 70's.

Al
 
I did notice an NCE proposal for a 100-watt station on Cannery Row. The engineering document says

"Teleamerica Communications West Palm Beach Corp. is applying for a new Educational FM station on
Channel 207A 91.9MHz to serve Monterey, California. This application proposes operation from an existing
208ft self supporting communications structure ASR 1010353."
"The proposed facility will use a circularly polarized antenna mounted on a tower. The tower and foundations
are existing and the transmitter will be mounted on the tower piers so no disturbance of the ground will take
place in construction of the station so no environmental effect can result from the installation...."

Frequency: 89.3 Height of Radiation Center Above Ground Level Horizontal:30 meters Vertical:30 meters

This sounds like the old KNRY AM tower. (I knew Cannery Row before the tourist days and have fond memories of the train from the "sand mine" further west.)
 
That cannery row tower (or former tower) was a longtime landmark in Monterey. The call letters KNRY stand for KaNneRY, and not canary as a friend of mine calls it.
 
Before it was KNRY, 1240 was KMBY. Robert W. Morgan's first radio gig after getting out the army. Of course he was still Bob Morgan then.
 
Interesting, I didn't realize that AM 1240 is now Oldies KNBI (branded as KMBY). A resurrection of sorts of the old KMBY. Will have to stream and listen to it when I get a chance
 
As I mentioned above it ( 1240 ) is now owned by a non-profit. Per the non-profit in FCC info, it seems repairs were going to made to the 1240 tower and they were operating on a temp AM antenna. But the renegotiated deal on the original tower doesn't show up in the FCC info, so maybe that is incorrect, I don't know . . . it is what I heard.
 
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alok said:
As I mentioned above it ( 1240 ) is now owned by a non-profit. Per the non-profit in FCC info, it seems repairs were going to made to the 1240 tower and they were operating on a temp AM antenna. But the renegotiated deal on the original tower doesn't show up in the FCC info, so maybe that is incorrect, I don't know . . . it is what I heard.
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Yes, Alok. And the non-profit is owned and run by Verne “Chris Edwards” White. This thread has a decent look at how that’s been going:

 
The 1240 tower is owned by the Cannery Row Company - they are landlords. 630 AM is currently diplexed on that tower. 300W-D/250W-N on an STA. The tower is only 41 degrees for 630 khz but the signal gets out very well off of the tower. 1240 is negotiating a new lease to return to the tower. There's a diplexing unit at the tower and the two stations were broadcasting together off that tower as late as Winter 2020.
 
RF101 said:
I did notice an NCE proposal for a 100-watt station on Cannery Row. The engineering document says

"Teleamerica Communications West Palm Beach Corp. is applying for a new Educational FM station on
Channel 207A 91.9MHz to serve Monterey, California. This application proposes operation from an existing
208ft self supporting communications structure ASR 1010353."
"The proposed facility will use a circularly polarized antenna mounted on a tower. The tower and foundations
are existing and the transmitter will be mounted on the tower piers so no disturbance of the ground will take
place in construction of the station so no environmental effect can result from the installation...."

Frequency: 89.3 Height of Radiation Center Above Ground Level Horizontal:30 meters Vertical:30 meters

This sounds like the old KNRY AM tower. (I knew Cannery Row before the tourist days and have fond memories of the train from the "sand mine" further west.)
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The landlords and the current tenant (630 AM ) had no notice of this proposal. The NCE people were proposing a 12-bay antenna which is impractical and would comprise the physical integrity of the tower. The current tenant and the landlords expressed to the FCC they were opposed to the use of the tower for an NCE FM (or any FM) and the commission denied the application forthwith.
 
Mark,
Thanks for the info. When 1240 was RnR, in the 60's/ 70's, did the station own that tower behind the stores, at that small beach area or was it owned then by Cannery Row Company, back then too?
Al
 
A post to the aborted attempt at a Cannery Row NCE. After getting denied at Monterey the TeleAmerica group modified their original application . It calls for a 2kw outlet in Los Banos... It will have to compete with at least four other NCE applicants. Oh yes, the Spanish stations call the place "Los Baños". I will have to check how the town's Portuguese radio station (KLBS) calls the locality.
 
RF101 said:
A post to the aborted attempt at a Cannery Row NCE. After getting denied at Monterey the TeleAmerica group modified their original application . It calls for a 2kw outlet in Los Banos... It will have to compete with at least four other NCE applicants. Oh yes, the Spanish stations call the place "Los Baños". I will have to check how the town's Portuguese radio station (KLBS) calls the locality.
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I can answer that question for you, @RF101 !

From my old listening posted of Laramie, WY I'd heard KLBS several times including once, I got lucky enough to get a legal id. Here's the audio:

 
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