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artmorris
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Posted: Thu Apr 24th, 2008 02:17 am |
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From the Chicago Sun-Times............
• Bill Kurtis is expanding his radio empire with the addition of two more stations on the border of Texas and New Mexico.
Along with partner Joe Walker, the Chicago broadcast icon's Tallgrass Broadcasting agreed to buy KIJN-AM/FM for $150,000. Tallgrass already owns five stations in the two states.
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artmorris
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Posted: Fri Apr 25th, 2008 12:53 am |
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From Radio & Records
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KQZQ-FM/Kiowa
PRICE: $387,000
TERMS: Asset sale for cash
BUYER: Joseph Walker. Phone: 847-289-8018. It owns no other stations. This represents its entry into this market.
SELLER: Unruh, Troy A, headed by owner Troy Unruh. Phone: 620-231-5620
FREQUENCY: 98.3 MHz
POWER: 100kw at 279 feet
FORMAT: Variety
COMMENT: Troy A. Unruh's KQZQ-FM/Kiowa, Kan., to Joseph Walker for $387,000, payable in cash at closing. $37,500 escrow deposit.
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Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 09:45 pm |
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artmorris wrote: From the Chicago Sun-Times............
• Bill Kurtis is expanding his radio empire with the addition of two more stations on the border of Texas and New Mexico.
Along with partner Joe Walker, the Chicago broadcast icon's Tallgrass Broadcasting agreed to buy KIJN-AM/FM for $150,000. Tallgrass already owns five stations in the two states.
KIJN-FM is about the only FM station you can get on the I-40 run between Amarillo and Tucumcari. The FM band becomes pretty much empty aside from KIJN-FM and KGRW 94.7 before you reach the state line at Glenrio. Too bad no one lives there! There's no question he'll combine it with his Clovis stations. I also doubt he'll keep the format, though I think it would be funny to hear "Tallgrass Jesus!"
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Posted: Sat Apr 26th, 2008 10:05 pm |
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artmorris wrote: From Radio & Records
Kansas
KQZQ-FM/Kiowa
PRICE: $387,000
TERMS: Asset sale for cash
BUYER: Joseph Walker. Phone: 847-289-8018. It owns no other stations. This represents its entry into this market.
SELLER: Unruh, Troy A, headed by owner Troy Unruh. Phone: 620-231-5620
FREQUENCY: 98.3 MHz
POWER: 100kw at 279 feet
FORMAT: Variety
COMMENT: Troy A. Unruh's KQZQ-FM/Kiowa, Kan., to Joseph Walker for $387,000, payable in cash at closing. $37,500 escrow deposit.
It will be interesting to see what he can do with this one, too. He's getting a great signal that covers very little. A few years ago, that was one of the most impoverished areas in the entire country, and I doubt it's gotten any better. It was poorer than any area of Mississippi, Alabama or South Carolina and depended on government subsidies for a substantial majority of its income. However, he's not really going to have anywhere to target. The signal doesn't citygrade Enid, Kingman or Pratt let alone Wichita.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 03:21 pm |
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I don't know about that.I lived in Amarillo 15 years and have been there in last year. Think it is only about 100 miles from Amarillo to Tucumcari and lots of 100kw FM stations in Amarillo which is slightly larger than Springfield. This is flat country and I know to the east on I 40 can hear Amarillo stations to the OK line..
By the way on AM ground conductivity is about the best in the country.I know you can hear the day signal of 5000 watts KIXZ 940 clear 150 miles in all directions except south as their 2 tower day directional antanna has to protect Lubbock on 950.
I worked for KIXZ 9 years and one of our slogans 5000 watts in 5 states..TX OK NM KS and CO.all within 150 miles.I know they have a great signal inthe Okla panhandle and Liberal Kansas. Also Tucumcari and Clovis NM. To the east about the same stength in Elk City OK as WKY in Oklahoma city. It is 250 miles from Oklahoma City to Amarillo.Groundwave is so good there can hear KRMG 740 Tulsa clear in Amarillo in daytime with a station in Carlsbad NM way in the background. Even KGGF Coffevville KS is heard on groundwave but QRM from a Texas station to the south
John Roberts
710 KGNC in Amarillo is 10kw day and night directional north and south at night.They are owned by Morris(not you Art) same company that owns WIBW Topeka
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 07:49 pm |
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I don't know about that.I lived in Amarillo 15 years and have been there in last year. Think it is only about 100 miles from Amarillo to Tucumcari and lots of 100kw FM stations in Amarillo which is slightly larger than Springfield. This is flat country and I know to the east on I 40 can hear Amarillo stations to the OK line..
Well, I was there 3 years ago on my way to Albuquerque, and the Amarillo FM's were gone well before the New Mexico state line. I'm sure the distance to the state line seemed a lot farther than it really was, but Oldham and Deaf Smith Counties seemed like real FM wastelands. I didn't have the same luck you did holding onto them to the Oklahoma line either, but they seemed to do better going east than they did west. KQAY 92.7, the Tucumcari FM, has a terrible signal and doesn't cover anywhere near all of Quay County. It seemed like forever before I could pick it up.
By the way on AM ground conductivity is about the best in the country.I know you can hear the day signal of 5000 watts KIXZ 940 clear 150 miles in all directions except south as their 2 tower day directional antanna has to protect Lubbock on 950.
This is true. I could hear the AM's into Torrance County, though I lost most of them before reaching Moriarty.
I worked for KIXZ 9 years and one of our slogans 5000 watts in 5 states..TX OK NM KS and CO.all within 150 miles.I know they have a great signal inthe Okla panhandle and Liberal Kansas. Also Tucumcari and Clovis NM. To the east about the same stength in Elk City OK as WKY in Oklahoma city. It is 250 miles from Oklahoma City to Amarillo.Groundwave is so good there can hear KRMG 740 Tulsa clear in Amarillo in daytime with a station in Carlsbad NM way in the background. Even KGGF Coffevville KS is heard on groundwave but QRM from a Texas station to the south
KGYN 1210 from Guymon used to advertise itself as serving "The 5 States." Something else I remember is picking up 680 AM (KWKA??) out of Clovis on the I-40 run between Amarillo and Tucumcari. It seemed like quite an achievement for station that had 500 watts power and a pretty tight directional pattern in the daytime! When I was at KRMG and KWEN in Tulsa, I remember the coverage map they used to have in the KRMG newsroom, and it showed the coverage going well past Amarillo. I was told we had a small, but very loyal, audience there!
710 KGNC in Amarillo is 10kw day and night directional north and south at night.They are owned by Morris(not you Art) same company that owns WIBW Topeka
I remember hearing KGNC in Oklahoma City during the daytime. It always did a lot better than the signal maps indicate!
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Posted: Mon Apr 28th, 2008 04:50 am |
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I think one of the problems with FM coverage there is low humidity and very little bending of signal, most just line of site groundwave..
What was your air name at KRMG/KWEN ?. I lived in Tulsa around that time but not ib radio..That was probably late 70s when they owned KWEN the first time.Think they sold KWEN around 1980 or so.
I remember when I came to Amarillo AFB in early 50s while in the AF, and small radio use to listen to KRMG all the time..Airbase was 10 miles east of Amarillo between old highway 66 and highway 60..They had to relocate highway 66 to land the B52s. The civilian airport was across the run way.from the military..
I know KRMG pattern is east and west even during the day.
By the way until 1979 KIXZ 940 Amarillo and KELI 1430 Tulsa were joint owned.The company also owned KHOG then on 1440 Fayetteville AR, and KTRN 1290 Wichita Falls TX.Broadcasting associates was a great company to work for treated employees well. Would not invest in FM regretted it later.
John Roberts
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Posted: Mon Apr 28th, 2008 04:50 am |
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I think one of the problems with FM coverage there is low humidity and very little bending of signal, most just line of site groundwave..
What was your air name at KRMG/KWEN ?. I lived in Tulsa around that time but not ib radio..That was probably late 70s when they owned KWEN the first time.Think they sold KWEN around 1980 or so.
I remember when I came to Amarillo AFB in early 50s while in the AF, and small radio use to listen to KRMG all the time..Airbase was 10 miles east of Amarillo between old highway 66 and highway 60..They had to relocate highway 66 to land the B52s. The civilian airport was across the run way.from the military..
I know KRMG pattern is east and west even during the day.
By the way until 1979 KIXZ 940 Amarillo and KELI 1430 Tulsa were joint owned.The company also owned KHOG then on 1440 Fayetteville AR, and KTRN 1290 Wichita Falls TX.Broadcasting associates was a great company to work for treated employees well. Would not invest in FM regretted it later.
John Roberts
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Posted: Tue Apr 29th, 2008 02:44 am |
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I think one of the problems with FM coverage there is low humidity and very little bending of signal, most just line of site groundwave..
Makes sense. Also, most of the FM's in Amarillo are class C1's and don't have much height. The first stations I remember picking up on the Albuquerque run were KMXJ and KGNC-FM, and those are the class C's.
What was your air name at KRMG/KWEN ?. I lived in Tulsa around that time but not ib radio..That was probably late 70s when they owned KWEN the first time.Think they sold KWEN around 1980 or so.
I was there in 1992 and '93 as an intern. Yes, they still had the coverage map on the wall then! For all I know, they still have it. I was only on the air four times (two on KRMG and two on KWEN), but I used the name "Kent Scott," which I also used at KPLA almost 10 years later.
By the way until 1979 KIXZ 940 Amarillo and KELI 1430 Tulsa were joint owned.The company also owned KHOG then on 1440 Fayetteville AR, and KTRN 1290 Wichita Falls TX.Broadcasting associates was a great company to work for treated employees well. Would not invest in FM regretted it later.
Thanks for the information! I didn't know that. I mostly remember KHOG as a TV station in Fayetteville as that was what it was when I lived there during part of college. However, I heard lots of stories about KHOG the radio station. My old friend Lisa Oliver, who did radio in Texas for a number of years in the 80's and 90's, got her start at KHOG, though she didn't start until it was on 1250. I remember the old KELI in Tulsa, too. My mother lived in Tulsa most of her life and my father lived there for quite some time when he was younger. We moved there (and they moved back) in '77, and KELI was the big station that ran the legendary KAKC out of the format about a year later. There was also the brief attempt at KELI on FM with "14K/92K," but that only lasted about a year. I'm not sure who owned it at that time. I know they worked out a deal to get KCMA's stick at 106.1 in exchange for 92.1, and that was pretty much the end of KELI. I'm not sure of everything it did after that, but I remember KVLT Lite 106 and how they got Johnny Rivers from KRAV. I also remember 1430 as KSKS "Kiss 1430." I know Kiss was country at one time and AC at another. I can't remember the order in which it did those formats, though I remember I had a bus driver in junior high who listed to "All Music, All Memories Kiss 1430." Most of the boys were annoyed by it, but a lot of the girls were always shouting, "Lou Ellen, turn it up!!" I've still never been able to figure out if that was because they liked the music or because they liked how it annoyed us!
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Posted: Fri May 9th, 2008 11:51 am |
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THis may be a little out of date, but .... from rbr.com
Tallgrass Media, headed by Joe Walker, is officially the new owner of KIJN AM & FM in Farwell TX. According to broker Jamie Rasnick of John Pierce & Company, the price was 150K cash, which will go to seller Mark Acker and his Metropolitan Radio. The stations are part of the unrated Clovis NM market.
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Posted: Fri May 9th, 2008 01:59 pm |
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Farwell TX is the only city in the Texas panhandle on Mountain time as it is in the Clovis NM market just over the line. Clovis is the largest city in Eastern NM north of Roswell, however they are closing the airforce base there and that will really hurt their economy so don't know if a radio investment there is good at this time.
By the way for those not familiar with Clovis it is on highway 60 the same highway that goes through Missouri about 90 miles SW of Amarillo TX. My wifes sister lives in Roswell and we have been through there many times.
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