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Your dream Seattle radio dial

The KKWF and KZOK moves would be an incredible doozy to Washington (and Oregon) FM listeners. Like you said, KSWW would become "Sunny 102.5" but why would both KSWW and KPQ do that? It would be super-confusing.

-crainbebo
 
Shake ups are that way. NARBA wasn't easy to implement, but radio survived. The point is since everybody and their dog wants a station and the FCC insists on making space for them, something's gotta give. The only other option is to go down to 76 MHz.
 
What about the stations which have been around the longest, with a great deal of invested into their branding? For example, KISW 99.9 has always been called "Rock 101" or "Rock 99.9" (when digital tuners became common), I think they should have the right to stay on that frequency. As for other stations who have not been around that long, I believe they should be fair game to move to other locations on the dial.
 
They were "FM 100 KISW" then "Seattle's Best Rock FM 100" They began using their actual digital frequency in late 1991.

Longtime heritage stations get shuffled around the dial in many other parts of the country, usually when the parent company acquires another local station with a better signal (or sometimes they're moved to a weaker one.) All it means really is a promo blitz to announce the upcoming dial position change, new imaging and an office letterhead/business paper upgrade.
 
I wonder if a shake up would ever happen.. I do believe they could very effectively make room on the dial if they consolidated and moved the stations around. The only problem, it would cause havoc on the daily listeners. I think its time the FCC do something about all of these low power transmitters screwing up the dial. Only a few people really listen to them anyway.

Why is it that some radio stations would perform better on different frequencies? For example, would KZOK moving to 102.1 improve reception? I am all for a shakeup if some of the fluttering disappears
 
fordranger you are probably thinking about CFMI 101.1 (They are Classic Rock 101)

-crainbebo
 
If we can get rid of the useless religious translators, that alone would be a massive improvement. The NWPR repeaters on this side of the mountains make no sense either. And KPLU needs to at least get rid of that 105.5 translator in Mount Vernon.
 
Does 105.7 have a CP up in Skadget County yet? If so, then that translator will probably be off within a couple years. On the other hand, why does KPLU even need so many repeaters? Skadget County is between markets with little local service, so I can sort of understand why KPLU would try to serve that audience, but my take on this is that if the audience is willing to put up with a static-filled signal on a commercial station or one of the other non-coms, then KPLU listeners shouldn't get special treatment with a city-grade signal. I feel the same way about the KMTT translator at 103.3. I'm not sure where KUOW's translators are, but they have an excuse because even though they have a large signal, it's heavily multipathed as discussed here before due to a badly located tower. In this case, I support the use of translators to fill in coverage gaps where many other stations already have a good signal. As for the religious translators, the rules need to be changed to make non-com stations play by the same rules commercial stations do. Then I'm sure a large number of these translators would go away, since KAWZ doesn't have full powered stations all over the country. As for the ones up here on 89.1, it wouldn't surprise me if EMF bought those, upgraded KWAO to hd, and rebroadcast KWAO-hd2 running K-Love on those translators should that rule change ever happen.
 
As far as I know, 105.7 is still in limbo in Skagit County. As with 103.3 in Oak Harbor. No CPs issued.

105.5 is useless because CBU-FM KILLS them in most areas. And just makes that portion of the dial a noisy mess.

We have the internet now. And with mobile streaming apps, the very need for translators and repeaters itself is in question outside of the originating market of the station.
 
With KROH 200 kHz away from CJZN 91.3, don't Victoria listeners get sick and tired of interference from KROH? That would be the same with 105.5 KPLU's listeners - tired of CBU interference.

-crainbebo
 
About the only time I get annoyed with adjacent interference is when the radio I'm listening on has a terrible filter that doesn't filter out splatter to adjacents well. I haven't been up to Victoria since KROH signed on, so couldn't tell you how bad it is. I do know though that trying to listen to KKBW on the radio up here is impossible unless there's tropo because of KCMS causing splatter. On my iPod though, I can hear KKBw pretty well most of the time, and if I'm in the right spot, I can get RDS.
 
I think KROH isn't strong enough to give CJZN any real problem in Victoria proper. If it were, we'd hear about it by now.
 
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