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Silly Question:

Does Jim Sexton (Blount Broadcasting) still own 850 and does Pirkle just lease time on 850 for his former Talk programming? or Did Blount just pickup all of 'NOX's programming with no JP involvement?..

Is 850 broadcasting out of the studio they had in Alcoa when it was Country 850?

Thanks!
 
Apparently, Mr. Pirkle has the 850 signal leased for the time being and is currently broadcasting out of the former WNOX-FM 100.3 studios on Kingston Pike in West Knoxville. (Even though they have redone their van to reflect WKVL 850, the former WNOX calls remain over the entrance of the studios.)
 
It went from Dick Broadcasting to UT, then to J.B. Mull then to Horne and now owned by Sexton and leased by Johnny Pirkle.
 
knoxbob said:
It went from Dick Broadcasting to UT, then to J.B. Mull then to Horne and now owned by Sexton and leased by Johnny Pirkle.
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Doooooooooooo whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? When did J.B. Mull own WKVL? I knew he owned KXV, the DEHs and JBZ at one time or the other, but I didn't know he ever owned KVL. BTW, somewhere around here, I've got an ol' KVL ID from like the mid-'80s, bad timing and all. I've also got some later from the early '00s and even one Country one, but they're all somewhere around here, on tapes. LOL!

A man for whom Christ died,
Josh
http://www.thegladtidingsbroadcast.sermon.tv
 
He was using it with WJBZ for a while but you know JB Mull, when the power bill came in for that big 50kw hog he probably flipped out. Plus the transmitter probably needed a lot of work and the cost of replacing it would not have been cheap.
 
I did an engineering study about 10 years ago that showed if WKVL bought 860 in the Tri-Cities and shut it down, they could move the station to the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol market, maintain their 50KW daytime signal and add between 5 and 7.5KW at night, making it the most powerful AM in that market, and giving them fulltime status. (I'm not sure if this would still hold true since I haven't looked at the allocation parameters of 850 in eastern TN in several years.) Of course this begs the question, what to do with it? The obvious answer would probably be for the station to be bought by Bristol or Cumulus and move one of their AM's to 850 to improve coverage.
 
rtetro said:
I did an engineering study about 10 years ago that showed if WKVL bought 860 in the Tri-Cities and shut it down, they could move the station to the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol market, maintain their 50KW daytime signal and add between 5 and 7.5KW at night, making it the most powerful AM in that market, and giving them fulltime status. (I'm not sure if this would still hold true since I haven't looked at the allocation parameters of 850 in eastern TN in several years.) Of course this begs the question, what to do with it? The obvious answer would probably be for the station to be bought by Bristol or Cumulus and move one of their AM's to 850 to improve coverage.
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Ummmmmmmmmm, unless I've missed something along the way, there's no 860 in the Tri-cities, but there is an 870! Is that what you meant?

A man for whom Christ died,
Josh
http://www.thegladtidingsbroadcast.sermon.tv
 
rtetro said:
Yup...870 is what I meant. Love those typos.
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LOL, thought so, just wanted to make sure. BTW, thank the LORD for being able to proofread these things. LOL! Also, I remember when WPWT, the 870 in question was running tests. I heard them down in Greensboro, NC! Of course, I believe it was in the Fall/Winter and the airwaves were a-rollin', but anyway. Dr. Hill has a big footprint on that station, or at least, it appears that way to my ears, but as with 1090, nothing's being done with it, of any value, IMHO.

A man for whom Christ died,
Josh
http://www.thegladtidingsbroadcast.sermon.tv
 
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