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KATA Arcata When Tiny Stations Did GREAT Top 40!
I smile when I see those old Class IV stations (1230, 1240, 1400, 1450,
1340, and 1490), During the 1960s and early 70s most of them were rockers or top 40. These formats take a LOT of skill in production and air in order to sound halfway decent. There were a few in the Bay Area that did this, KOMY Watsonville, KTOB Petaluma, etc., but these were stations in the midst of hefty metros. Even running 1kw, these stations still reached good-sized metro audiences. But hot about KATA? The other week when I was up in the Eureka/Arcata area I drove past the KATA transmitter. Long abandoned for studio use, it's just a graffiti-strewn transmitter site. I remember the day when it was a stand-alone running top-40. Well, lo and behold, I found an aircheck from KATA from 1970, and sure enough, they had TIGHT production and TIGHT on-air presentation. KATA was located in a college town of 8,000 (at the time), in a metro of no more than about 20,000, and its 1,000 watt signal couldn't have covered all of it, BUT YET KATA put out a VERY professional sound. For your amusement, here's an aircheck from KATA: http://radiodiscjockey.homestead.com...KATA-17min.mp3 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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KATA Arcata When Tiny Stations Did GREAT Top 40!
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:05:28 EDT, "David Kaye"
wrote: KATA was located in a college town of 8,000 (at the time), in a metro of no more than about 20,000, and its 1,000 watt signal couldn't have covered all of it, BUT YET KATA put out a VERY professional sound. For your amusement, here's an aircheck from KATA: http://radiodiscjockey.homestead.com...KATA-17min.mp3 You're right. This is great. Listening to the whole thing now. Big city pro sound. A great place for talent to get up and get going for their pro future. Now these places are mostly cookie cutter satellite. |
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I don't think you know what you are talking about. The amount of transmit power is irrelevant, it is the height of the stick and the location of the stick that counts!
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Check this out -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQV http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/jeffkqv2.html Line up of Dj's at 14 KQV Jim Quinn Rod Roddy Jeff Christie Chuck Brinkman Gary Gears George Hart Fred Winston Bob Wilson Oh ya - remember the Rock Group - The Beatles? 14 KQV played their new songs for a whole week before anyone else had access to the music - even the record companies! At night - you could listen to their signal while sitting on the beach in Daytona Florida and everywhere in between...
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KATA Arcata When Tiny Stations Did GREAT Top 40!
"Channel Jumper" wrote
Check this out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQV But my point was not what ABC with a boatload of money could do with KQV; my point was that a tiny station such as KATA in a tiny market, Arcata, population about 11,000 in a market of no more than 30,000 people could pull off a BIG CITY sound. THAT is what was impressive. KQV doesn't impress me. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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KATA Arcata When Tiny Stations Did GREAT Top 40!
"Channel Jumper" wrote
Unless someone didn't know what they were doing - 1000 watts - daylight - is enough power to cover about 30+ miles.. I don't think you know what you are talking about. First, I got my First Phone at age 14, one of the youngest people ever to do so. In fact, when I went to the FCC to take the exam, the clerk thought I was the son of someone who was there to take the exam. Second, 1340 is what was called a "graveyard channel", one of 6 AM channels set aside purely for local use. Under terms of its license it's only protected from interference in its immediate market area. The graveyard channels are 1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450, and 1590. There are hundreds of stations on those channels, making most stations using them buried in much just a few miles out of town. Third, whether or not KATA could carry 30 miles is irrelevant here because the entire MARKET within 30 miles isn't much more than about 30,000 people. The AMAZING MIRACLE of KATA was that they were able to put out a professional big-city sound with what must have been a tiny cash flow. Fourth, even if KATA was running 50kw people tend to listen and buy only in their local marketplace. Take the case of KGO, a 50kw signal that reaches clearly from Canada to Mexico. Their money base is STILL local SF Bay Area. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com |
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