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What up with the signal on 1190

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I was in Dallas this weekend and heard some good radio. However I heard something that I did into understand. In the 60's and 70's KLIF was a 50.00 watt station during the day and either reduced power at night or directional or both. For a long time the station on 570 has had the KLIF call letters Nothing weird about that change but I was 15 to 20 miles outside of Dallas and the station now on 1190 pounced like it was in a different market and at night it was worse. If the station was still 50.00 watts it should have come in perfect even 20 miles our of town. Has it reduced power. Is there a reason for the weak signal being on a frequency that originally blasted out an increasable daytime signal and a good night time signal now with a decreed signal? At dusk I could pick up 1190 in Houston and now just outside of Dallas there is hiss barely in the background because the signal is so weak. What is the deal?
 
Not sure when it changed but the night time signal drops to 5,000 watts at night and comes out of Rockwall
 
OK after looking at the coverage map and other comments after my post about this. I looked at the coverage map and as a visitor to Dallas not knowing the area could not tell much. Despite the coverage map info the signal only 20 miles out of town in the day was not good for a 50.00 watt station. A station on 1010 in Little Rock that was 50,000 watts days and 10.00 watts night was purchased by the company who owns 1010 a 50,00 watt both day and night in New Yark city signed the Little Rock station on 1010 off to go 50,000 watts non directional our of New York City. I was wondering it this was the same kind of thing with 1190.

1010 in Little Rock over time was purchased by a different company and is back on 50,000 days and to protected the New York station is only on in the day.

This kind of stuff is happening because radio is a business not like it use to be were people bought stations because they were radio people who wanted a radio station that might make money. For the most part station are owned by people who only want to make money so what is good for radio is only considered if it makes money.
 
Jeff Rivers said:
OK after looking at the coverage map and other comments after my post about this. I looked at the coverage map and as
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As a listener in Midland in the 60's, I was very excited about their increase from 1 kW nights to 5 kW nights. The 50 kW signal did well enough in the day, but the 1 kW left them with a lot of other stations underneath at night. To my dismay, the increase to 5 kW did little, if a little negative, to the nighttime coverage in Midland.

When KLIF was "the mighty 1190", and played music - the change to 570 would have been very welcome, because the 5 kW low band signal actually did better over Midland than the 50 kW 1190.
 
That power decrease, epecially in the winter was just awful. You'd press the 'lower' button on the daytime remote control and then 'pffft' it was gone.

The Belar monitor that we used primarily for monitoring the night signal from KLIF's (then) Arlington studios had this eerie whine too. But it was still cool to crack open the microphone on that frequency, even if it had a fraction of the audience it once had-it was still The Mighty 1190.

The mornings could be even worse just before sunrise. That is when WOAI would blow us off the damn dial. Back then if I remember, KLIF's first news local news was at 5:30, and even more relaible than the Seth-Thomas clock was 'OAI's news sounder faintly in the background. That was the backup cue that it was newstime on Cliff!
 
A note about the 1010 in Little Rock . . . they were taken off many, many years ago, remain off, never to return. 1090 remains in LR with 50 kW day and night with two slender lobes headed SSE and NNW protecting KRLD-1080 among others.
 
TXDXer said:
A note about the 1010 in Little Rock . . . they were taken off many, many years ago, remain off, never to return. 1090 remains in LR with 50 kW day and night with two slender lobes headed SSE and NNW protecting KRLD-1080 among others.
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Good ole KAAY. Used to rock n roll back in the 70's but now is all gospel.

When I lived in Hot Springs I couldn't hear KRLD very well because they were protecting KAAY.
 
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