"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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In any case, what killed the station more than anything else was the
expansion of the metro to areas the signal did not cover.

As I said previously, it didn't cover most of the metro from the get-go.
It's nighttime pattern gave it a great signal right up along the Columbia,
but by the time you were 30-40 blocks south of the river, the signal was
poor, and, as I also stated earlier, there was a problem with IF doubling in
a lot of radios that caused a heterodyne in their signal, mostly at night
when it was poorer than daytime.

One of the primary reasons for loss of license was violations (lots of them)
of the Fairness Doctrine. They were in the tank for several politicians on
various levels, and pushed those politicians' agendas on the air and behind
closed doors.

Kind of funny, that you would never hear about any of this on the radio or
TV.. only in the newspapers. You would think that something like that would
have been all over the competitions' news programs. KGW and KISN were in a
toe-to-toe slugging match for a long while. KGW had their own signal
problems... in some parts of their pattern, they had a nice hum in the
carrier. The two stations sort of complimented each other. KISN had their
beam to the west, KGW had theirs to the south. Ironically, I think the two
plants share the original 910 antenna system now. KGW used to have theirs in
a nice open rather swampy area, which definately helped their local
coverage. KISN put in a good signal on the coast (Astoria, Seaside) due to
their pattern.