[IRCA] KYHN 1650 Oklahoma reactivated

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Feb 12 at 1303 UT, our other X-band station has finally been reactivated after losing its transmitter site to flooding. (DX MidAmerica claimed it was back last August but no one else, least of all me, ever heard it then). Now there is no doubt, big signal on the FRG7 just after official February sunrise at 1300:

KYHN ID just as I tune in, then series of long-form promos for shows on station, interspersed with more IDs, but never mentioning the airtimes! Not very helpful. 

1303, just did Clark Howard Show promo; 1304 for Michael Smerconish; ``KYHN: we`re larger than all the other [AM] radio stations in the market, combined, 10,000 watts, KYHN``

1305, Focus on the Family promo, running ``best of the best`` segment on marriage; 1309, ``AM 16-50, Arklahoma`s conservative talk radio``; 1310 promo for Sooner game coverage; ``We`re 10,000 watts, larger than all other stations combined, this is AM 16-50, KYHN``.

1311, Dennis Miller promo, lauding snack provider who gives no less than 11% of his profits to veterans.

1316 retune, ending Sunday Night Football promo song; singing ID as ``16-50, Arklahoma`s talk radio, KYHN``

1317, Geraldo Rivera promo; that`s enough. 

So far no problem from KOAG-1640; but at 1743 UT recheck, cannot hear KYHN aside KOAG splash, but IIRC it was tough to hear on daytime groundwave anyway, some 200 miles away.

FCC topo map is captioned 12 km southwest of Fort Smith, i.e. across the line in Oklahoma. Yet we get second-billing, instead of ``Oklansas``! 

Evidently they are just re-introducing themselves to long-lost listeners. Smerconish? He`s no conservative, a substitute host on MSNBC. His affiliate list (one you know how to spell him)
http://smerconish.com/radio-affiliates-map/
shows nothing ``in`` Arkansas but KUSH-1600 in Oklahoma, M-F 17-19 UT.

Looking thru KYHN`s FCC info, in the Correspondence File we find this dated Sept 25, 2012:

``In re: KYHN(AM), Ft. Smith, AR
Facility ID No. 87114
Silent since February 18, 2012
Request for Extension of Special Temporary
Authority to Remain Silent

Dear Mr. Honig:
This letter concerns the request you filed on September 19, 2012, on behalf of Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, Inc. ("MMTC"), for extension of Special Temporary Authority to permit AM Radio Station KYHN to remain silent.

Commission records reflect that MMTC stated that Station KYHN(AM) went silent on February 18. 2012, for financial reasons. The previous STA was granted on March 29, 2012, and expired on September 25, 2012. MMTC requests extension of its STA pending the grant of its application for assignment of license (File No. BAL-20 12073 IAHH). The request includes the appropriate certification regarding Section 5301 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988.

MMTC's request is granted. Accordingly, Special Temporary Authority is granted to permit Station KYHN(AM) to remain silent until February 18, 2013. Notwithstanding the grant of this Special Temporary Authority, the broadcast license for Station KYHN(AM) will automatically expire as a matter of law if broadcast operations do not commence by 12:01 a.rn., February 19, 2013.2 See Section 312(g) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. § 312(g).``

So this may only be a temporary turn-on only to prevent losing its license. They are obviously now fully capable technically to broadcast. But will they be gone again after today? Hasten to hear them. And just what ``Minority`` does their corporate name allude to?

We also see an FCC notice of consummation, i.e. ``assignment of license/transfer of  control``, Nov 26, 2012, to DAVID E. HONIG. 

KYHN does not seem to have a website, but here`s its sibling station, KWHN 1320, which has remained active and often audible here:
http://www.kwhn.com/main.html

More background from Wikipedia:

``On April 2, 2008, the 1650 kHz station (KWHN at the time, Facility 87114) filed a 'Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA' with the FCC for the following reason:

"Due to heavy spring rains, localized flooding of a nearby waterway placed the transmitter site, and the transmitter itself under several feet of water. Access to the site to determine damage has only recently been allowed, and a casual inspection has revealed tremendous amounts of damage.

In order to be allowed time to decide how to best proceeded (sic) with this facility, the licensee requests Special Temporary Authority to remain silent for up to 1 year."[3]

According to the filing, the flood damage occurred on March 24, 2008,`` so that`s ancient history now and they could stay on the air if they want to (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

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