Re: [IRCA] 1120 Yelm Wa.

["Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>]

They do have another radio station, they own 65,000 Watt C1 FM Mixx 96.1
KXXO.

Well, their sales manager is the one who holds the CP for Am 1120... hmmm.

Paul;

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>This all assumes that this signal even gets built; the weakening of
> the economy has shaken out a lot of marginal signals that might have
> been worth building a decade ago, but aren't worth it now.
> If I held this CP, I don't think I could justify building it. A
> three-tower DA doesn't come cheap, and I don't think there's enough
> business in Yelm to make this worthwhile as a hyper-local station...or
> enough usable coverage even in Olympia to make it viable there.<<
>
> I agree. The economy is bad enough that even the TV stations in Portland
> do not know when they will upgrade their translators to digital, and
> that is TV!  The only value I see, is if the company has other radio
> and/or TV stations, adding another may increase their net worth. But
> with a coverage like that, why bother? It doesn't look like they will
> cover any decent population area. Yelm sure doesn't have the population.
> I will be surprised if this is built. There is also another CP in
> Raymond WA on 1350  5/.5 KW and I don't see that going anywhere either.
> 1340 KAPA went off years ago, so why do they think another AM will make
> any money. I think the market has two FMs anyway. Raymond has 5,000
> people.
>
> Patrick
>
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