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Post by David on Jan 20, 2017 18:55:09 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Jan 20, 2017 22:18:03 GMT -6
I think everyone knew the station was for sale, though that price seems pretty low. I'm not surprised that Cumulus keeps the KRUZ callsign. That's pretty valuable and not really relevant to a church station.
Given the lack of viable choices for a graveyard AM station this seems like as good a choice as any. The graveyard nature of it shouldn't be too bad for this church. I have no knowledge of them but does anyone know if they really have much influence outside of their local area?
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Post by David on Jan 20, 2017 23:42:00 GMT -6
Taking into account that KOGN (also a 1 KW graveyard station) sold for only $25,000 in 2013, $55,000 seems about right for KRUZ. Although it was later discovered that the KOGN transmitter had suffered lightning damage which had to be repaired before the station could go back on the air, Cumulus isn't exactly giving away the license considering that the new owners will have to purchase a transmitter and some type of antenna system at minimum. At least KOGN came complete with a studio building and tower. A Google search turned up the following web site for the Pentecostal Church of God in Salt Lake. They are apparently affiliated with Radio Vision Celestial Internacional, or VCI for short. I'm guessing that's going to be the format for 1230 AM. Realistically, it's got to be hard for any church but the LDS Church to have much influence in Utah, although KANN and KUTR seem to do OK. www.iglesiadediospentecostalutah.com/ |
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Post by David on Feb 21, 2017 11:43:17 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 22, 2017 6:20:05 GMT -6
Actually the KRUZ callsign went to a Cumulus station near Oxnard CA. Makes sense. That callsign is too valuable to just give up. That's how it ended up on 1230 in the first place. The KRRF callsign that's now on 1230 is what used to be in Cali, so that may not be the final callsign when it hits air.
The application you pointed to is much more interesting. They want to put a whip antenna on the roof? 1230 had enough trouble getting out (especially at night) when it had a real antenna with a ground system. I have the feeling this configuration isn't going to get out for squat. Then again, maybe they don't care and only want to reach a very localized audience. It'll work, but probably not very well.
It should also be noted that the coordinates given actually put the antenna in some guy's yard, not the church. But who's counting?
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Post by David on Feb 22, 2017 11:42:30 GMT -6
The FCC must have updated the listing for KRUZ after I did my research yesterday morning. When I tried searching for KRUZ around 10 AM, the server responded with a "0 records retrieved" message, so I assumed the call had been deleted. I had to search by frequency and state to access the information on 1230. I think the FCC database was still a little flaky Tuesday morning because of being offline for the President's Day weekend.
I've got a feeling that the antenna setup on the roof of the church might be just a temporary setup until the new owner can find a more suitable location for the antenna and transmitter. If a media conglomerate like Cumulus couldn't find a new location for an antenna almost two years after the old tower collapsed, a church is probably going to have a harder time locating a suitable plot of land. With the ridiculous amount of land being used for new housing developments in Utah and some people's fear of RF exposure from radio towers, high voltage power lines and the like, I think it's becoming increasingly harder to find good locations for transmitting facilities. On the other hand, Cumulus may not have really tried to find a new location for a tower because they were planning on selling the license all along, and the Pentecostal Church of God is probably cash poor after spending $55 K for the license plus a transmitter and antenna. I don't think the deal with Cumulus included a transmitter, did it? In any event, the church may just be looking to get the word out to their congregation and a little beyond, in which case 1 KW and an antenna 75 feet above ground should do the trick. On a good day I can hear KRUZ with their flea power 20 watt transmitter and wire antenna in Ogden on the radio in my 2012 Toyota, but just barely.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Feb 22, 2017 23:52:59 GMT -6
Unless you know of a search I don't, the FCC's searches are individual by band. The new home for KRUZ is an FM station so an AM search would come up with 0 records. (I get the same results now.)
I'm absolutely sure that Cumulus was just avoiding having to make the investment in a station they didn't care about anyway. I'm not an engineer but I would be shocked if they couldn't have engineered a diplex at KFNZ or KKAT that would cover Murray. They just didn't want to. We'll have to wait and see how well the roof antenna works and then speculate on the future. Who knows, maybe they'll still end up diplexing off a Cumulus station in an amendment to the original deal.
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Post by David on Mar 4, 2017 13:09:13 GMT -6
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Mar 14, 2017 23:50:32 GMT -6
And you can mark down KADH as the new callsign for 1230 when the sale is finalized.
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Post by David on Mar 27, 2017 20:31:25 GMT -6
And you can mark down KADH as the new callsign for 1230 when the sale is finalized. Apparently it's a done deal: the KRRF call has been deleted from the FCC's AM station database. I'm pretty sure I heard something that sounded like church choral music on 1230 a couple Sundays ago, but KADH's 20 watt signal is pretty hard to hear in the north end of Ogden. From looking at the FCC data, it appears the power increase to 1 KW is still pending. |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Mar 28, 2017 4:49:53 GMT -6
CBS Sports Radio (or Radio Sports or whatever it is) was on 1230 last week, though there might be some kind of LMA in place waiting for the sale to go through. The application for transfer was approved but doesn't appear to have been consummated yet. The license is still listed to Cumulus. Also, the existing licensed site is still 1kw, so the minor change that's pending is just a return to the licensed power.
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Post by David on Apr 5, 2017 11:36:53 GMT -6
Cumulus has filed a request with the FCC for a 180 day extension of special temporary authority (STA) for KRRF to continue operating at 20 watts from the monopole located at their office on Bearcat DR in Salt Lake. The reason given is to allow Cumulus and the station's new owner sufficient time to complete the transfer of ownership. At this point I'm not even sure that KRRF is still on the air. When I was driving to work yesterday afternoon, I was hearing an oldies station in Burley, ID on 1230 AM instead of the usual CBS Sports programming: licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101754415&qnum=5330©num=1&exhcnum=1 |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 5, 2017 13:27:50 GMT -6
I don't know about yesterday but today it's on the air. I just monitored The Doug Gottlieb Show.
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Post by David on Apr 28, 2017 13:56:42 GMT -6
And you can mark down KADH as the new callsign for 1230 when the sale is finalized. FWIW: The call letters for 1230 AM were changed back to KRRF (from KADH) on April 4th, probably as a result of the extension of Special Temporary Authority filed by Cumulus with the FCC on April 5th. |
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Apr 29, 2017 3:20:26 GMT -6
I may be wrong but I don't think that's what happened. I believe the KADH calls were requested for when the sale is finalized but somebody at the FCC goofed and made the switch early. The callsign system seems to indicate that. The callsign list on the license seems to have been updated when someone figured out the goof. Even if that's wrong I don't see the connection to the STA request. The FCC shouldn't care what callsign a station uses as long as both sides agree on the same one, right?
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