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The saga of Siga Broadcasting & KTMR

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Oh, this is a good one. KTMR 1130 Edna/Victoria has filed a modification to their pending application. Currently running 10,000 watts daytime, the station had filed sometime back to move their tower to just outside of Shiner, with the same power. And during the major filing window back in '04 they had asked to relicense to Bulverde (north of San Antonio), also with 10,000 watts.

The transmitter move to the Shiner area was approved but no construction was done on it; the Bulverde application was dismissed and replaced with a modification of their construction permit, this time with the San Antonio suburb of Converse as a new community of license. Instead of running 10,000 watts, however, they would have reduced the level to 4,000 watts from a site in Wilson County.

Now comes another modification, authored by Houston engineer Bob Morrow, who was instrumental in KGOW 1560's power increase from 800 to 50,000 watts. KTMR's latest plan is still to relicense to Converse but to run a whopping 45,000 watts, even during critical hours. Sure, it might work on paper, but my advice for them is to decide how to word their response to an informal complaint from co-channel KWKH Shreveport. And that might come in a matter of days. KWKH has never liked the idea of a station operating from the Victoria area on their frequency, and the bad blood goes back more than three decades. I can't wait for next chapter in this dogfight!
 
Yeah Arango...AKA sIGA bROADCASTING sometimes doesnt know what he really wants..would the 45,000 give him a solid coverage in SA?
 
omega said:
Yeah Arango...AKA sIGA bROADCASTING sometimes doesnt know what he really wants..
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I know, and this is pretty gutsy application that's facing a lot of hurdles. I've got to think that KTMR isn't one of the FCC's favorites, since they got slapped pretty hard a while back for several violations, including operating illegally past sunset, a defective fence around the towers and failure to maintain tower lighting.

omega said:
would the 45,000 give him a solid coverage in SA?
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Yes, it definitely would. Even the previous level of 4,000 watts would have delivered a decent signal over SA. The way the pattern is configured, it would have virtually equal strength lobes northwest and southeast from the proposed site, which is near Stockdale. Serious nulls are shown toward Shreveport (of course) and toward Austin, due to an application for a new 250-watt station in Manor on 1120.
 
KTMR and the Proposed Manor AM at 1120

The application for 1120 in Manor (just east of Austin) was dismissed by the FCC in July '07 due to, among other things, nighttime skywave overlap with KMOX in St. Louis.

It does appear the Manor applicants (who are in Palo Alto, California) have amended their application and are asking for reconsideration by the FCC.

By the way, they're proposing building 7 towers for their 250 watts day/153 watts night coverage for a signal that would send most of its strength northwest of Manor toward North Austin and Williamson County and away from the proposed coverage of KTMR.
 
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dx7 said:
The application for 1120 in Manor (just east of Austin) was dismissed by the FCC in July '07 due to, among other things, nighttime skywave overlap with KMOX in St. Louis.

It does appear the Manor applicants (who are in Palo Alto, California) have amended their application and are asking for reconsideration by the FCC.

By the way, they're proposing building 7 towers for their 250 watts day/153 watts night coverage for a signal that would send most of its strength northwest of Manor toward North Austin and Williamson County and away from the proposed coverage of KTMR.
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Seven towers? Really? For a 250 watt station? It seems like a lot more trouble than it would ever be worth. Am I missing something?
 
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Chuck said:
Am I missing something?
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I don't think so. I'm amazed they applied for it back in '04 and that they stuck with it. It's a bad daytime pattern and at night KMOX would flatten them five miles outside of Manor.
 
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I noticed KTMR has not been doing any more radio gospal shows, BTW did kind of off the topic, but did KZRC flip to gospel now? when did they do that? It seemed they were playing a lot of gospel now.
 
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