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Those Little Rascals at Educational Media Foundation

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Michael Rivers Kramer

Take a look at what EMF is up to:


Commercial KLVS 99.3 Grass Valley "Class B1" to 99.5 Citrus Heights "Class A"

New city grade coverage map:

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=464048

Application:

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101167648&formid=301&fac_num=70676

Argument for change of City of License: ::)

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=464051
 
Oh and two more:

KARA 99.1 (Commercial station) Williams upgrade to Class B1 on Sutter Buttes:

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101167969&formid=301&fac_num=88177


New station KLRS 89.7 Non-commercial Class B1 Lodi (with transmitter near Elk Grove)

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101140142&formid=340&fac_num=89079

The latter has already been approved.

The value of these two commercial upgrades is tremendous, if EMF should decide to cash in on them. :p
 
Well, here goes another round of move the community of license and/or transmitter to reach a larger market or in this case, series of larger markets.

The move of the Grass Valley 99.3 "KLOVE" station to Citrus Heights (read as "Sacramento Market") on 99.5 allows the shift of the Williams "KLOVE" transmitter to the top of the Sutter Buttes, making the 99.1 signal competitive in the Yuba-Sutter market and north into Chico.

The unfortunate thing that the FCC rules allow the Commission to ignore is that Citrus Heights is already well served by 30 signals, while rural Nevada County has one non-commercial in the Non-com band, a non-com in the commercial band (the one EMF wants to move) a co-owned AM/FM combo and Bustos Media's Spanish speaking station.

I'd like to see the Commission return to looking at the proposed programming as part of license applications, because what's ON the air is as important as what community its coming from.

In this case, Citrus Heights gains little or nothing of benefit unless the KLVS programming is going to include content directly related to Citrus Heights at a time when people are around to hear it. Since the station is operated as a non-commercial station, Citrus Heights businesses don't gain access to the new "voice" being proposed to "serve" its residents.

Grass Valley loses a signal, and of importance to some listeners... the programming they've been accustomed to easily tuning in.

The Mid-Valley already gets good coverage from the Grass Valley transmitter for KLVS... so a change isn't necessary here.

KARA's change may mean poorer coverage in Williams, depending on how the real world reception matches Longley-Rice projections.

If one looks at allotments and community of license changes as part of a long-term chess game played out over years, how do the moves here block future service where it may become needed in 5, 10 or 20 years?

I suppose one answer is: "We'll be listening to iPods the size of thumbnails, or we'll have discovered what happens after death and won't really care."

Ted.
 
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