Re: [IRCA] Low Priority West Coast Question (KCBC-770)

[Mike Hawkins <michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm just down the road from Don about 15 miles, and KCBC is pretty strong
here.  Their IBOC plays some serious hell with adjacents.  I lived in
Manteca for a few years, and regularly roamed anywhere in the Bay Area and
San Joaquin Valley.  Bay Area stations do cover Manteca very well in the
daytime...AM much better than FM.  At night, its hit or miss.  I never
listened to Art Bell on KSFO because they never came in very well at night.
Clears and regionals were in strong, but graveyards were pretty much
non-existant at night.  I don't know about whether a Manteca COL would give
them an "in" for a nighttime power increase, but geographically speaking,
Riverbank isn't on a main road and isn't near as much in your mind as a
place you run into on Highway 99.  I wouldn't call Manteca a burgeoning
metropolis, but more people know where it is than those who know where
Riverbank is.  Who knows, maybe the owners picked up a few foreclosures in
the collapsed housing market.  Manteca, Lathrop and Stockton are at the top
of the list in northern California for foreclosures, drug busts and stolen
cars.

Mike

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Donald K. Kaskey
<kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks for the support Mike :-) .  Right now I'm really feeling my age.
>  Too many aches & pains lately.
>
> As to Riverbank.  They've always tried to include the Bay Area.  I don't
> know whether they still ID this way but after they first came on it was KCBC
>  San Francisco, Stockton, Modesto or something like that.  S.F. being their
> first locale.  Their signal was pretty solid in S.F. during most of the day
> hours, excepting the first couple & the last couple.  At night it's a
> different story.  With Albuquerque & Seattle playing havoc with their
> signal.
>
> Only the strongest bay area stations make it to Manteca fairly well.
>  Stockton-Modesto market is growing like wild fire!?!
>
> Don K.  Ole Wheezin Geezer to some!
>
>
>
>
>
> Mike Hardester wrote:
>
>>    Just noted the following in the latest SDXM (Vol. 47 #26):
>>
>>
>> 770  KCBC  Manteca, CA   License to cover 50K/4.1K DA-2 Change city of
>> License from Riverbank to Manteca (A)
>>
>>    Mainly just curious as to why the City of License change. Does this
>> place the station in a better market? Being born and raised in Modesto, and
>> Riverbank just up the road a piece, Modesto and Stockton would seem to be
>> the main market for the station. In Manteca, I would think that the Bay Area
>> (San Francisco/Oakland) and Stockton (Modesto to a lesser degree) would be
>> their market competition.
>>
>>    Enlightenment for this oldster (still younger than Pat Martin and Don
>> Kaskey, hi) would be welcome.
>>
>>
>>        Mike
>>
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