Posted on 08/18/2014 3:02:05 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
I wonder what will replace the one in the Houston area that bleeds over 700 KSEV and almost 740 KPRC (both offering conservative talk during the daytime).
Houston’s other conservative talk AM station (1070) has bleedover from Radio Cuba at night. Why must they lower their station’s strength for “clear channel” stations if they are only going to be outdone by foreign broadcasts from Communists?
Current World Order
Where else can pre-teens be exposed to role models like Justin Beeber and Miley Cyrus?
I confess to proudly wearing my Mousketeer ears back in the early to mid-fifties.
It is legacy broadcast regulations stretching back to before the days of rock and roll (possibly even before the Great Depression).
Really outmoded concept these days.
And unfair when other nations aren’t expected to uphold the broadcasting standards.
The kids who’s parents have the money to purchase Disney products - including trips to Disney theme parks - can afford broadband internet connections, iPods, iPads, and computers with large-screen monitors.
Overlapping AM broadcast frequencies and weak night signals (and that terrible time around dusk (when station signal strengths change non-concurrently)) are annoyances of the past.
It's the new world order as demonstrated by Disney's changes.
A PC with a large display is actually kinda counter-intuitive, unless you’re using it as a home theater PC.
As for me, I’ve put only a few hundred into a PC, and it’s able to run games well on low graphics settings. It’s going into a 19” 720p TV, because I prefer small screens.
PFL
Why close down stations instead of selling them?
Are they on the International Space Station, or did we build that Moon base and Mars colonies after all?
wow. The radio dial sounds like a huge mess there.
I haven’t listened to a radio in a long time, none at all since I moved closer to San Antonio... which is hopefully temporary
Until about 2000 the Disney family (not the company) owned about 5 or 6 TV stations in southern California, IIRC.
CC
Anyone remember when they kicked radio off the internet? Wasn't that in the late 90's? What a drag that was, almost as frustrating as internet radio technology was to use back then. Nothing like today, for sure!
Because they can sell the broadcast licenses for money? Just a guess.
CC
Wikipedia show Disney on AM 1590 in Houston (as does the Disney web site). Not much chance of interference in the low 700s. And at 5000 watts, they aren’t going to step on many toes.
KSEV, a Tomball station apparently made a tradeoff, buying a station with 15,000 watts daytime but only 1000 at night.
KPRC is at 950 AM, which may explain your difficulty picking it up at 740.
And finally, 1070 is 10,000 days, 5000 nights. So even at its weakest, it’s as strong as Disney.
With AM radio, you get what you pay for, and it appears that the Houston market won’t support a strong station.
Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio have the only clear channel licenses in Texas.
Radio Shaka-Zulu
Shiela Jackson-Lee hosting 3 hour a day
We already get that from Michael Berry over on 740AM or is it 950AM these days?
Those Clear Channel stations are forever rearranging the deck chairs.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmLtmnLv4eI165d_unY0w9r7SOv9YfAZY
There is bleed over from Radio Disney onto 700. I experience it. Clear as day.
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