“On air, the station said that the ABQ station conflicts at 770 kHz with a station in SEATTLE of all places.
I smell a sneaky, dirty way to implement the Fairness doctrine.”
That is B.S. The signal is interupted by Mexican 770. In El Paso, you cannot hear KKOB. But in Ogden, UT and Wichita Falls, TX, You can pick the Albuquerque broadcast.
Phoenix too, like gangbusters at night. I was up at the Usery Mountain AT&T microwave site, and they had it coming out on the parking lot PA, Q5.
This was in the early 70's (when the station was simply "KOB"), so things may have changed since then.