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Montana Two Missoula FMs sign off the air

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KMSO-102.5, RIP 1985-2024.
KHDV-107.9, RIP 2007-2024.

Both signed off the air on New Year's Eve. Sheila Callahan retired from local broadcasting after over 40 years.

I assume this will mean a possible tweak in format for KKVU. Classic hits are still available on The Ride, a translator on 94.3 in Missoula, and in some areas, The Big 100 (KIBG) makes it in...especially south Missoula and Lolo, as a fringe rimshot. This would be a great opportunity for Anderson to buy out 102.5 or 107.9/103.7 to simulcast 100.7 KIBG to Missoula/the Bitterroot (thus adding thousands of potential listeners - a "superstation" of sorts from Whitefish to Darby). At one point, they were available on 95.3.

From the other site: Missoula Duo Signs-Off With Owner Retirement
 
So with zero notification to the community they just pull it off the air? Not giving someone a chance to come forward, as in the case of Stephen King's stations?

I understand the owners may have their own issues and concerns, but I'm not sure that just taking the stations off before anyone had a clue they were leaving was the best choice.
 
The official STA filing today with the FCC says:

"The officers and directors owning the radio station have retired and the station has been turned off and will be assigned to another entity."
 
One wonders if, because of the current major Federal downsizing, anyone in the FCC will even notice or care if a new entity is found to take over these frequencies.
 
ted chittenden said:
One wonders if, because of the current major Federal downsizing, anyone in the FCC will even notice or care if a new entity is found to take over these frequencies.
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With FMs that are "turned off and turned in" the FCC has, IIRC, never done a single special auction for just a pair of stations in one market. If those stations are not sold to someone else in the "grace period" of silence, then the frequency licenses are cancelled and can be added to the next auction. As far as I know, there is not even a procedure for offering deleted licenses outside of the auctions in the era when auctions have been used for open facilities and vacated licenses. Señor Fybush will know more about the procedure, but as to "notice or care" I can say that such was not the norm in the past, either.
 
Unless something has changed in the last month that I haven't heard about, Congress still hasn't restored the FCC's legal authority to conduct auctions, which has been lapsed for a while now.

I don't know where that fits on Chairman Carr's agenda, but it needs to happen at some point so that these vacated channels can get filled again. Right now auctions are both the only way they can be filled - and also something the FCC can't legally conduct. Oops.
 
fybush said:
Unless something has changed in the last month that I haven't heard about, Congress still hasn't restored the FCC's legal authority to conduct auctions, which has been lapsed for a while now.

I don't know where that fits on Chairman Carr's agenda, but it needs to happen at some point so that these vacated channels can get filled again. Right now auctions are both the only way they can be filled - and also something the FCC can't legally conduct. Oops.
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This is an example of how Scott's posts are always a learning experience for me. I did not realize that future auctions were not authorized and that they have to be done through Congress' authorization. đź‘Ź
 
103.7 reached the biggest audience. And that translator got out very well. Good signals well into KHDV's Grade A contour.
 
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