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Post by David on Feb 2, 2016 18:49:42 GMT -6
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Post by christopherjohn on Feb 3, 2016 0:58:32 GMT -6
Towers were knocked down just this week and soon the building from what I understand..
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Post by David on Feb 3, 2016 2:19:00 GMT -6
Towers were knocked down just this week and soon the building from what I understand.. I wonder what the scrap metal value of those towers was? This photo shows four towers, so that's a lot of scrap! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kwdztowers.jpgSo now that the extension of remain silent authority has been granted, I'm assuming that means Citicasters can sell the license if they can find a buyer before the silent period is up. If they don't find a buyer or reactivate the station from another location, would the license then revert back to the FCC? |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 3, 2016 4:29:20 GMT -6
First just to make sure everyone is on the same page, Citicasters was one of the predecessor companies that made Clear Channel which is now iHeart.
Curiously, the reason category for going silent says "financing." Somebody clicked the wrong button? Anyway, I would be floored if this was the end of the station. There's a noticeable demand even for AM stations in this market (like the pending 780 and 1580 stations) and a 5kw day/1 kw night (or roughly that if they moved far) should be useful for somebody even if it was just as an excuse to program an FM translator. Remember too that iHeart has the KNRS(AM) site up in North Salt Lake that could possibly be used with a new modifications and maybe a few new towers. Another possibility is going to another company's site. KDYL and KLLB are both only a few miles away from KWDZ's current site, so that might work too. It doesn't sound like a huge engineering hurdle to me. A bigger question is what to do with the signal once it's back on the air.
After being silent for a year the license doesn't "revert" to the FCC per se. The license is deleted (the same as what happened to KXOL) and that spectrum space becomes available for anyone to apply for. I doubt that would happen here even if iHeart wasn't able to secure a permanent new site. KTKK has (as far as I can tell) been running under continuing Special Temporary Authority requests since 1998 after they were kicked out of their licensed site in 1997. (No those are not typos.) KTKK has been running from the KLLB site which is coincidentally only about 3 miles away from the site KWDZ is being forced out of.
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Post by christopherjohn on Feb 6, 2016 2:07:11 GMT -6
I heard it costs more to knock the towers down than anyone would get from scrap metal.. the market is garbage.. And in my opinion 910 is a done deal.. It is not worth diplexing off another transmitter site... You got to think most AM stations can't even pay the power bills especially maint. costs etc.... Sad to see it go though it was a big SL station with a lot of history..  Towers were knocked down just this week and soon the building from what I understand.. I wonder what the scrap metal value of those towers was? This photo shows four towers, so that's a lot of scrap! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kwdztowers.jpgSo now that the extension of remain silent authority has been granted, I'm assuming that means Citicasters can sell the license if they can find a buyer before the silent period is up. If they don't find a buyer or reactivate the station from another location, would the license then revert back to the FCC? |
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Post by David on Feb 6, 2016 23:49:52 GMT -6
It seems really odd to me that Citicasters would file for an extension of remain silent authority if they didn't have some plans to do something with the license. One would think that if they just wanted to sell the land that the towers were on, they wouldn't bother filing an extension now that the land has been sold and the towers taken down. Maybe they are banking on being able to sell the license before the silent period extension is up, or doing an LMA deal similar to KDYL being leased to RCI?  |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 10, 2016 14:24:00 GMT -6
If I'm reading the sale agreement correctly, iHeart never owned the 910 site. Radio Disney was leasing everything and that lease transferred to iHeart with the sale of the station. Remember that then Clear Channel owned 910 back when it was KALL, so I wonder who DOES own the site.
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