[IRCA] KKOL-1300 new transmitter site

["Eric Floden" <ericf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From a note on the Northwest Broadcasters site, I found this; article below, 
URL is  http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/223797_radiobeat12.html 

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When the conversation turns to conservative talk radio in Seattle, it 
usually involves Entercom's KTTH-AM (770) and Fisher's KVI-AM (570). 

But there's actually a third local station in that segment -- Salem 
Communications' KKOL-AM (1300). 

KKOL often is left out of the conversation, and rarely shows up in the 
overall Arbitron ratings because it doesn't have the prominent local or 
national hosts that the others do. 

It also has been hampered by a weak signal. Ever since losing its lease with 
the Port of Seattle on a Harbor Island site in 2002, Salem has been looking 
for somewhere new to put its transmitter. In the interim it has been 
broadcasting at a reduced power of 1,000 watts from a boat moored near 
Salty's on Alki. 

Salem had hoped to locate its antenna in the Kent Valley near Auburn, but 
that proposal ran into local opposition. 

So now Salem is trying something different. David Fitts, general manager for 
Salem's five Seattle AM stations, says the company has signed a lease with 
the Port of Tacoma for property in Pierce County. The station is awaiting 
Federal Communications Commission approval for the move, which Fitts hopes 
will occur by the end of this year. 

When it does, KKOL will be able to boost its power from the current 1,000 
watts to 50,000 watts. To allow for that power boost, Salem bought a Port 
Angeles station at 1290 on the AM dial; that station is currently 
simulcasting KKOL and will go dark once KKOL goes to full power. 

To go with the greater regional coverage the signal boost will provide, 
Fitts says changes could be coming in KKOL's weekday lineup of hosts, 
currently consisting of the nationally syndicated Michael Gallagher, Dennis 
Prager, Dave Ramsey and Hugh Hewitt shows. 

"Hopefully we'll have some local presence," he adds. "It would give us 
instant credibility." 

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