Re: [IRCA] KGA 1510 app

[Bill Harms <philcobill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been looking at the old FCC records and it looks like KGA had
several years where they did not do well in the past, especially in the
1950's and 1960's. Many years, the owners had to infuse money into the
station to keep it going and FCC almost pulled the license at one point.

In the late 1960's they tried Top40 for one year, competing with KJRB, 
and I understand that KGA was not that successful in the local ratings. 
There is the unconfrimed story they actually did better outside of the 
market than inside. KGA had some good years with their country format 
through the 1970's and into the 1980's, when the local FM country 
stations took away its market share.

You are correct, now they sound like other stations on the band, with
a format that does not really stands out. I just wonder what kind of 
format it would take to change that - perhaps something of a more local
tint.

Still I mourn the loss of KGA's 50 kW nighttime Class A coverage.

I am curious, how is KXLY faring in the ratings?

Scott Fybush wrote:
> Bill Harms wrote:
> 
> 
> From looking at recent ratings, it looks like KGA isn't doing very 
> well, period. The last 12+ numbers I saw put KGA down in the high 
> 1-shares, with barely a third of the listenership of news-talk 
> competitors KQNT (the old KHQ) and KXLY. Citadel, which now has much
>  bigger issues with the recent ABC deal that gave it big-market 
> properties such as WABC, WLS and KGO, simply has bigger fish to fry 
> these days. KGA's barely a blip on their balance sheet now.
> 
> I don't think the move from the Moran Prairie site south to Spangle
> did KGA's signal (or KJRB's) any favors, especially over to the east
> toward Coeur d'Alene, where so much of the money in the market is
> these days.
> 
> And not that I celebrate the downgrade of any big skywave signal, but
>  there's a legitimate question of how much value KGA's nighttime 
> programming provides to listeners outside the Spokane area. There's 
> nothing very local about Jerry Doyle, Lars Larson (on many hours'
> tape delay) and Rollye James...and probably very little that isn't
> already heard on other big skywave signals in the region. Are they
> even doing local news at night?
> 
> s


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Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

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