[IRCA] Fw: 1380 off for good now??

["Dennis Gibson" <wb6tnb@xxxxxxx>]

Here's the story straight from the horse's mouth; Jim works for Clear 
Channel and got this from their CE.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hilliker" <jimhilliker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Richard Toebe" <richtoebe@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <WB6FYRTOM@xxxxxxx>; "Dennis Gibson" <wb6tnb@xxxxxxx>; "Greg Hardison" 
<bcbupdate@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Bob Wien" <wienrobert2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:03 PM
Subject: Fw: 1380 off for good now??


> Hi everyone!
>
> In case you didn't know, KZFX-1380 in Salinas is now dark, and has been 
> off
> the air as of Thursday afternoon, November 4th.
>
> The reason, from what I heard earlier, was that the land on the 
> transmitter
> site is being developed by the landowner, and it would cost Clear Channel
> too much money to find a new transmitter site at this time to keep it
> going.  I believe however they're keeping the KZFX calls in case they 
> decide
> to put 1380 back on the air in the future.
>
> The station had been a Fox Sports affiliate as KZFX since last fall, until 
> a
> few months ago, when sports was dropped and it was simulcasting the
> now-defunct news talk format of KION-1460.
>
> Before that, 1380 was The Dude with the KTOM-AM calls with sports talk 
> from
> the Sporting News network....And for many years as KTOM, it was 
> simulcasting
> KTOM-FM's country format and even earlier, had been a country station on 
> its
> own in the '70s and '80s...
>
> 1380-AM went on the air with 1,000 watts in 1948 as the first radio 
> station
> on the air in Salinas as KSBW, for the Salad Bowl of the World. The 
> station
> then was a Don Lee-Mutual network affiliate with local news, music and
> sports.


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