KIOV still off the air?
Don Day | April 27, 2006What’s the fastest way to kill a radio station? Go off the air for long stretches of time.
Apparantely crews finally got in to the tower… but they still aren’t on the air.
What’s up?
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They don’t have a construction permit to build it as far as I can see since the FCC denied their last application on March 10th. Where are they putting the tower? They just filed an amendment (on the 14th) that moved the tower location to the south of Notus.
So does that mean they can move a stations tower location without FCC approval or did they just file and move it anyway… They have been trying for several years to take the station away from its city of license Payette, so they can try and be a Boise station. Have they succeded in doing so…..Legally or otherwise? Anyone have a comments or in the know?
Can’t say about the legality of it. I’m guessing anybody can build a tower as long as the FAA is notified (if needed) & they sign off on it. If they install a transmitter without a CP the FCC will make them disassemble it & box it up and donate to the US Treasury. That happened to a station locally back in 1967.
Daytime they’ll get into Boise ok if you’re not trying to listen in a building. Night? Forget it. They’ll be lucky to be heard Eastward in Nampa on a good night. When the transmitter was in Payette maybe 50K people were in their night coverage area. Now they’ll be lucky to have 4K people able to listen at night.
Years ago the Ontario-Payette stations convinced Arbitron they were a separate Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Networks and syndicators use these. Being in the Ontario-Payette MSA they could get network programming that Boise already had. Arguably, they’re moving to the BOISE MSA and can’t duplicate anything that Boise MSA stations have.
Thanks Boise Engineer. This group has been trying to make big bakers out of little seed potatoes for a lot of years. Wish they could just leave well enough alone. West end of the valley needs all the radio stations they can get now as they have “dontated” enough spectrum to the Boise market as it is, with New Plymouth, Fruitland, Weiser,OPayette: BSU’s FM, KQXR-FM etc…. So much for another “local” station…. Keep us abreasted if more info comes to light….
90.3 or 91.5? I was listening to that station when they were 3 kw and extremely hard to get in stereo of any quality in Nyssa or Ontario.
The Power and the Passion by Midnight Oil and most of an album by the Laughing Clowns was on a very old tape I had for years. I ate it up, made a rude sound and begged for more.
Still looking for a copy of “Feeling Cavalier” by EBN-OZN, you know. My cassette wore out.
I am the host of a syndicated program called Amazing Outdoors. We have been (I thought) airing on KIOV since early February of this year. Not being in the Boise area, it’s hard for us to varify the status of the radio station and reading your blog has me wondering if we’ve even been on the air in the Boise market. Can someone enliten me? All of the numbers I had for the GM are now disconnected or ring off the hook. As a side note, we are obviously interested in getting another affiliate in the market should KIOV indeed be dead air at this point! It’s a great show offered on a straight barter basis!!
Thanks!