Posted on 03/28/2008 7:33:37 AM PDT by fishtank
The XM-Sirius merger was approved in the last week, I do believe.
If that’s the case, cut ‘em to 50 watts.
From 50Kw to 1Kw??? Give me a break. If the justification were as you are suggesting, the reduction in power would be 50% or something like that, not 98%. 98% is putting them off the air.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993095/posts?page=48#48
As well, I posted the same info a few minutes ago.
A few years ago, the station pulled an April Fool’s stunt. In that one, they said they were going to dump sports broadcasts of UNM in favor of NMSU.
This is a MUCH bigger stunt, though.......
Hehe I remember that! I think about half the state nearly had a heart attack.
“I smell a sneaky, dirty way to implement the Fairness doctrine.”
These government agencies like the FCC are unconstitutional, against freedom, and are oppressing individuals. They and the laws that mandate these agencies need to be repealed.
See, this is what you who call for the EPA,FDA to “regulate” private companies from China get, a totalitarian socialist, unconstitutional government.
The EPA,FDA,FCC,FEC, IRS,HHS, HUD, dept. of education, and the rest of these affronts to liberty must be destroyed.
For God sakes, the founding founders wrote the Constitution to limit government, to protect the people and individuals from the government. The free market , private companies (capitalism ) work. private property is capitalism and gives us our rights. The EPA,FDA,FCC,FEC, IRS,HHS, HUD, dept. of education etc. are unconstitutional and are not private property so that is socialism/communism.
Who has the guts to repeal all these unconstitutional laws which mandate these oppressive government agencies.
Rush knows if he were to move to Sat radio he would loose at least 75% of his audience.
After all of my searching, you came up with the answer first!
KKOB is a class B station, which means they share the frequency with a large number of other stations and they’re required to protect the signals of the other stations at night. (AM radio travels much further at night) The nighttime KKOB signal is directed to the west and slightly south, protecting primarily a class A station in New York that’s on 770 (WABC). There is a Seattle station, that runs high power in the day, and low power at night, but it should be pretty much in the null of the KKOB pattern. There are also nine other class A or B stations operating on that frequency, including one in California.
Because of its pattern, KKOB doesn’t get into Santa Fe really well at night, and it’s applied for permission to run a second station on the same frequency up there. This is a proposal that would be rather unique, because the engineering is fairly tricky, and if you don’t pull it off you get two stations ‘beating’ against each other that throw a ‘squeal’ into the air for a long distance. In consideration of that, the new station, if it gets approved, would be a 230 watt station.
It’s possible the FCC is conditioning approval of that new station on a reduction of nighttime power for the primary transmitter.
Incidentally, the ownership of KKOB is currently in a dispute with one of its former personalities who’s claiming ‘censorship’.
Actually I think WOWO in Fort Wayne Indiana saw a major reduction of its nighttime signal several years ago to protect an NYC station.
Why do you think Limbaugh would move to satellite radio? His money is where he is now.
Levine and Hannity are on broadcast radio and satellite radio. If Limbaugh goes to satellite he will continue on broadcast airwaves.
BTW: It should also be noted that the day they’re claiming is the cut-off day is April Fools Day.
i don’t think i said he would make a complete switch. however, as the others you mentioned, he will do a partial switch. then at some point in the future current media am/fm will go away just as digital has taken away old tv. i think am/fm will be much quicker to die than broadcast tv. too many choices already available that compete directly with radio.
I grew up DX-ing too. Used to have a whole wall full of QSL cards back in the days AM stations still sent them. In the sixties, I moved from San Francisco to Yuma, Arizona. Man, talk about culture shock! The only thing that kept me alive was that nighttime skywave from KNBR.
I listen to Michael Savage on a station out of New York, evenings after 6 PM — In Milwaukee, WI.
Just saying that some of the high powered stations could stand to turn down the volume just a bit.
But then again, I’ve always been a fan of overpowering signals from far away. 25 years ago, my dad and I would drive around and scan (with a manual knob, not a digital “scan” button) for stations. French hockey and stations from the coasts were especially fun to find back then - especially when baseball games would come through.
LOL
I used a Stromberg-Carlson All wave. Older auto radios run from a battery were the best.
From Tucson you could get lots of Mexicans, even Wolfman Jack - stuff from TX, OK and even the odd catch from KSL UT.
My best was a New York stn while sitting in my van in Anchoragfe AK. Wow.
So much fun, so little expense.....
When did you get your ticket?
“Older auto radios run from a battery were the best.”
Excellent reminder......
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