Re: [IRCA] KKOL-1300 new transmitter site

["Dennis Gibson" <wb6tnb@xxxxxxx>]

Recently I have been looking at a lot of the engineering aspects for current 
CP's. I don't pretend to understand all of it but have learned a thing or 
two. For the complete KKOL CP see:

http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=100601534&formid=301&fac_num=20355

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Floden" <ericf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:14 AM
Subject: [IRCA] KKOL-1300 new transmitter site


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