"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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The station, without knowing it, failed because it was a Class IV on 1340
in a very sparsely populated county... where even today, a C2 FM only puts
a decent signal over 60,000 persons. And that county, unlike in the 50's,
is now invaded by many usable FMs from other nearby locations... yet it
had a monopoly when it went on in 1950.


1) KAPA was a damn fine station, with great local flavor and a good
community presence. I listened to it while I lived there most of the time,
even though KOL in Seattle put in a very good signal to the south, and
continued to listen when I lived in Astoria, because the signal they put in
there was quite good, and they had a better program than the (then) two
locals and a semi-local (KVAS, KAST and KSWB).

2) To quote a certain shill person "nobody listens to radio outside the
64dBu city contours" and "stations don't care about anyone outside their own
city contours... they do not count in the ratings." I know there was other
BS in there somewhere..