Comments on: More CP auctions

By: Boosters

Boosters — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:36:41 +0000

$1.2 million for Vale…Amazing. Simply Amazing! What prey tell is to come of it… I look forward to that one…

By: Oldtimer

Oldtimer — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:43:07 +0000

The final round of the week (#19) concluded Friday afternoon and here are the results:

Vale OR – Ace Radio Corp – bid of $1.2M

Ace is based in the Austin/Houston TX areas.

Hailey ID – Porter Hogan Co – bid of $1M

Hogan Co. is part of the ownership of FM Idaho & Locally Owned Radio which has multiple stations in the Twin Falls area including the new Canyon Country & the Music Monster as well as KSRV in Treasure Valley. Hogan’s bid has been holding steady for the last 2 FCC auction rounds.

Round #20 begins at 8am MT on Monday with 157 bidders still qualified with 6 bidding rounds planned each day.

By: Boosters

Boosters — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:59:21 +0000

Oldtimer, Thanks a great deal for the update. Please contine to let us know with updates as you can. It will be interesting to know what happens in the end. As you already know this is a high density population area rich in wealthy demographics consisting of…. Jackrabbits, sagebrush, ticks, cowpies, etc ….but maybe somebody has a vision I don’t… or maybe radio licenses are like the rest of the real estate bubble…..

By: Oldtimer

Oldtimer — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:39:41 +0000

After 7 rounds of bidding, JER Licenses is top bidder for Vale OR at $354k while Chaparral Broadcasting, licensee of 3 FMs in the Sun Valley area is high bidder for Hailey at $297k. Keep in mind that the last FM auction (2004) lasted 14 days and 62 rounds, so these prices could escalate substantially before it is all over.

The allocation coordinates for Vale are south of the Honeycombs Wilderness Study area, near Cedar Mountain in Malheur County, Oregon. That is significantly southwest of the Nampa/Caldwell area. It is probably protecting KJOT 105.1 in Boise & KCIX 105.9 licensed to Garden City, so unlikely it can move closer without a reduction in class…but just a guess.

By: Boosters

Boosters — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:07:59 +0000

Yes, that was an axiom from a college buddy… I use it proudly…..

By: Cow

Cow — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:30:19 +0000

Booster – Knewspaper. Genius.

By: Boosters

Boosters — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:53:33 +0000

The brains in the smoke filled rooms are probably planning on running Mexican-Country, They call that something like Tianno, or whatever the spelling is…That would be a really easy moron level decision to try and cover all their bases…

Isnt the TX site for Vale way over in the BLM lands, and they dont want anymore sites on their properties, at least that’s what all the Federal Notices of Pending Laws said a few years ago in our local Knewspaper. Dont think I would want to spend the big bucks you are talking about for the FMer given the marginal signal footprint. Maybe they can have KSRV FM’s site that will be vacated soon… John Runkle owns that stick….(if you know what I mean?)…That would be a great relationship to have….? Do you know off hand where the proposed stick would be placed?

By: boiseengineer

boiseengineer — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:26:01 +0000

Another rim-shot that doesn’t get into much of Boise. At 105.5 it’s sandwiched between KJOT & KCIX.

Let’s see what they put on it. Country or Mexican. Sure, why not.