Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Modesto AM KMPH (840) will turn off August 31

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To me, this is simply another indication that there are too many AM stations crammed into the band and that some, with today's unfortunate economic conditions for radio, simply aren't going to make it.

Regardless of what KMPH has for antenna patterns, their skip seemed to get out very well to the east as I caught them a few times here in IL via both sunset skip and once when they should have been on night pattern. This was on Phased BOGs aimed west and prior to KOA's IBOC.  

73 KAZ


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>From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Aug 20, 2010 9:57 AM
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>Subject: [NRC-AM] Modesto AM KMPH (840) will turn off August 31
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>http://www.radio-info.com/news/modesto-am-kmph-840-will-turn-off-the-transmitter-august-31
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>It’s the 5-kw fulltime station that Pappas Radio of Modesto built to essentially replace the 860 (KTRB) that it moved into the San Francisco market. KMPH hit the air in July 2006, originally playing “Modern Standards” and then in March 2008 switching to a conservative talk approached named Patriot 840. Now Pappas Radio says it’s going to sign the station off at 9am Pacific time on Tuesday, August 31. Jim Pappas blames that on “the ongoing national, state and local economic downturn, combined with the insufficient growth in revenue” at the 5-kw AM. He says “the company is no longer willing to fund” the station’s operating losses. His letter ends with this promise – “when future circumstances permit, KMPH-AM will return to the airwaves.” One problem for the four-year-old station: very different day and night patterns. The daytime signal goes Southeast and, with what the engineers call a tight null to northwest, doesn’t hit
> Stockton very well. The nighttime signal goes north and south, centered on Modesto (radio-info.com via Artie Bigley, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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