Re: [IRCA] KYUK 640Khz - spot the irony - ironic spoiler

[Scott Fybush <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hint:
>
> "2010" and "all-digital"
>
> Irony: It is in the middle of nowhere...
>
> Their listener spread must be staggering... hundreds of square miles, if not thousands...
> and to abandon their AM Monaural signal for IBOC --
> would leave all the trappers, hunters, joe-six-packs, and vice-presidential wannabees
> without a viable media alternative.

Not if KYUK supplies them with radios, it wouldn't.

Here's my back-of-the-envelope-over-lunch math: at 50 cents/kWh, and 
assuming 50% efficiency on the analog transmitter, it's costing them $10 
to power the 10 kW transmitter for every hour they're on the air. That's 
$87,600 in annual power bills, which is a sizable chunk of change for a 
small station like KYUK.

If they can get a PTFP grant to pay for a new digital transmitter (as 
they very likely can), they could knock their power bills down to maybe 
10% of what they're paying now - a savings of close to $80,000 a year.

That would go a long way toward buying inexpensive radios (which do 
exist, and are available at serious bulk discounts to stations) for the 
1190 households that exist in Bethel, and the 4226 total households in 
the Bethel Census Area.

That's the theory, anyway...

s
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