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

["Richard Toebe" <richtoebe@xxxxxxx>]

Considering the cost of land in urban areas, and ratings of many AM
stations, we can expect more of this in the future.  I remember when 1380
(now KTKZ) was right next to I-80 (not Business 80) and the Sacramento River
with a 3 stick array; now there is a housing tract there, and the 1380 xmtr
site was relocated some distance away.

Rich Toebe
Vacaville

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Gibson" <wb6tnb@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:21 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Fw: 1380 off for good now??


> 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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