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[IRCA] KKOL-1300 new transmitter site
- Subject: [IRCA] KKOL-1300 new transmitter site
- From: "Eric Floden" <ericf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:14:05 -0400
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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