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WKBX in Kingsland for sale

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Chancethegardner

Ad in Tom Taylor's newsletter today. A friend told me that this station could be moved closer to Jax. Bet it would well if it focused on Nassau county. Don't think there is local radio in in Fernandina, Amelia Island, Yulee, or Callahan.
 
WKBX is required to protect WOKV-FM tower-to-tower by a minimum of 45 statute miles. It also is required to protect co-channel WEAG-FM Starke by 71 statute miles. WKBX may be able to serve Fernandina Beach, but not the Jacksonville Metro.
 
Almost a perfect match for Steve Kingston's 105.5/WYRE-FM, St. Augustine. Mirror-image signals from north & south of Jax, and virtually next-door neighbors on the FM dial.Sure, there would still be a big gap in the middle--where most of the bodies are. But, one of these days, check out WRNR-FM and see how much of Baltimore it misses, and think about how they make it work there. By being the cool station in upscale suburban Annapolis/Kent Island... northern equivalents to Suburban Jacksonville/Amelia Island/St. Augustine?
 
jmtillery said:
WKBX is required to protect WOKV-FM tower-to-tower by a minimum of 45 statute miles. It also is required to protect co-channel WEAG-FM Starke by 71 statute miles. WKBX may be able to serve Fernandina Beach, but not the Jacksonville Metro.
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If that's the case, I'm curious how WKBX even came to be (or WBGB) then, according to google maps, it's 42 road miles TX to TX and that's with the some bends in the road. Best I can tell air miles wise, it's more like 33 or 34.
 
ThatGuyOnTheRadio said:
I'm curious how WKBX even came to be (or WBGB) then, according to google maps, it's 42 road miles TX to TX and that's with the some bends in the road. Best I can tell air miles wise, it's more like 33 or 34.
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WBGB (Now WOKV-FM) is a second adjacent (106.5 A) to WKBX (106.3 A). According the FCC minimum FM separation requirements, a first adjacent to a first adjacent class A FM is 45 statute miles. It's possible WKBX and WOKV-FM may be short-spaced. However, if that is the case, neither station can move any closer to each other. FYI WKBX began broadcast service and was licensed several years before Ponte Vedra Beach was given the 106.5 A drop-in.

WEAG Starke is a co-channel to WKBX with both operating on 106.3 A. According to the FCC minimum FM separation requirements, a co-channel A to A is 71 statute miles. However, WEAG is only required to separate itself from WOKV-FM by the same distance that WKBX is required to separate itself from WOKV-FM - 45 statute miles. It may be worth noting that WEAG was licensed years before WKBX and WOKV-FM.

After further review of the maps, it appears the tower-to-tower separation between WKBX and WOKV-FM is more than 45-statute miles leaving some “wiggle” room for either station to move its tower slightly, but not by very much.
 
I have taken another look and it does appear the two towers are slightly closer together than 45 statute miles, possibly 38 miles. Also, WOKV-FM is operating with a directional antenna, which I was unaware till now, so it appears WKBX and WOKV-FM are slightly short-spaced which I acknowledged as a possibility in my previous post.
 
I heard that WKBX is bleeding red ink month after month, and that it's been for sale for years. Heard that the owner was asking 4 million at one point, and that had nothing to do with a cash flow multiple, likely has never really had a positive cash flow.
 
He must be counting on The Greater Fool theory--that someone who is a greater fool than him will come along and overpay for the SOB. Because radio is such a fun business to be in! LOL...
 
If WKBX is operating in the red, that means there is no positive cash flow which means only stick value can be use to assess a Fair Market Value (FMV) of the station, and I can assure anyone who is interested the stick FMV is no where near $4 million.
 
Nassau County has three or four radio stations, if I recall.

93.3 FM is still licensed to Callahan, FL (Now WJBT calls??), isn't it? And so is 1160 AM (still WEWC Calls?).

91.7 WNLE I think - it's licensed to Fernandina Beach, but is moving or has moved it's stick to Hogan Road?

and my ala mater, 1570 WVOJ FERNANDINA BEACH (I knew it as WHOG, WQAI, WYHI, and WGSR!) Fernandina Beach, FL; 10kw nondirectional by day. 30 watts at night (which you can follow out to I-95 usually, in a car). In my personal file cabinet I have an official copy of the 1570 application (Northeast Florida Radio, Inc.) application for moving 104.9 (yes... point nine) ALLOTMENT in Atlantic Beach, FL to Fernandina Beach, mounting an FM antenna atop the 707 Dade Street 1570 AM antenna tower, with 3kw of power. This is quite some time ago, of course.
 
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