Yet another change at AM 830

[davideduardo]

> > > I want to buy it and turn it into a Christian Rock
> station
> >
> >
> > Got milk? Er, I mean, "got $40 million?" It's yours for
> > that and your attorney fees!
>
> Wow, seems cheap. David, doesn't 830's 50kW daytime pattern
> put 60dBu into almost all of LA and most of the Inland
> Empire?

AM comparishons are usually done in mv/m and 830 has a sucky signal. Daytime does not get 10 mv/m, which is the bare minimum in LA to be competitive and overcome noise, into the area N of downtown. San fernando Valley is useless. Nights, it misses half the market.

The IE coverage is useless; not a dime can be made out of that.

> Also IIRC, I was in San Diego a few months ago and
> DXed them (or something on 830... didn't get an ID) at night
> a little north of the city (20kW?). Seems like low stick
> value, but I'll defer to your expertise.

It's and AM. And a defective one. Someone might overpay, perhaps up to $45, but it is worth about $38 million as a stick. They paid $37.5 million, and everyone said they thought it was overpriced in 2003.
>

 

[ajhenderson]

10mV/m... wow. I know the standard 0.5 mV/m maps stations use for sales purposes are useless, but although it shoudln't come as a surprise, LA must have the highest noise floor anywhere in the U.S.

 

[davideduardo]

> 10mV/m... wow. I know the standard 0.5 mV/m maps stations
> use for sales purposes are useless, but although it
> shoudln't come as a surprise, LA must have the highest noise
> floor anywhere in the U.S.

Nearly all rated metros are noisy. Having smaller geographic spread makes lesser signals viable. But it is pretty hard to get ratings outside the 10 today, and many stations think most diary returns are from within a 15 mv/m contour.