[IRCA] China Radio International in Portland, OR

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mr. Hauser, My name is Brendan Monaghan and I live in Lake Oswego, a suburb of Portland, OR. Via the Portland Radio Forum - and my own monitoring - I found that long-dark station KXPD 1040 AM has begun relaying Beyond Beijing programming from CRI (China Now, Music Safari, etc.). The station had broadcast in Spanish until going dark in December 2009. The day before they were to have involuntarily forfeited their license, KXPD returned to the air with public domain old-time radio programs and low-quality, pre-recorded ID's - before going dark again a week later.

KXPD returned in early June with a similar old-time format from the 9-12 of June, before going dark again. I'm aware of CRI's apparent new business model of buying up/brokering time on other AM stations across the country, so now Portland appears to have joined the list.  Interestingly, the station identifies as coming from "Tiggerd/Portland" not "Ty-gerd" as it is actually pronounced. Wonder what the FCC thinks of that. Here is the link to the Portland Radio Forum, which is so far the only information available.
http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/kxpd-in-tiggerd
Thanks! (Brendan Monaghan, June 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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