This is VERY peculiar.

According to RHC's post, http://www.KMAXAM.com is a domain name owned by
American Radio Networks. If, however, you go to their URL and click on "Radio"
and then do a search for "KMAXAM" you get nothing...

If you go to the web page of "KMAXAM", http://www.KMAXAM.com, you will note that
the URLs for the inline page links all lead to web page files on
http://home.pacbell.net/deanlew, whoever that may be!

And on http://www.KCLAFM.com, the links lead to an account on http://ourworld.
compuserve.com/homepages; and http://www.KTSTFM.com's page has inline links to
articles found on http://home.pacbell.net/ktstfm/.

These are simply "home pages" provided with either DSL or dialup subscriber
accounts, apparently. Just like the home pages that almost any ISP subscriber
can put up on the net. The domain names merely redirect to them.

This is often a way to make your page easier to find and remember on the net,
but it's not at all like the pages of a business with professional web service.


The fact that fictitious radio stations that are *not* actually on the air in
this market are being promoted here makes me wonder if a complaint could be
lodged against these people.

Another confusing item: "KLAS FM" is, according to their webpage logo,
supposedly at 89.7, which is in the educational band. I looked up KLAS-FM on
the FCC FM station database, and got no hits whatsoever. But if you do a Google
search you get more than a thousand of them. Again, however, the FM database
shows NO entry for "KLAS" on the frequency database for 89.7.

I then looked at the ARN employees list, and particularly at the engineers
(since I was in that business myself.) No names stuck out, but I searched for
"John Fogarazzo", identified as "FCC licensed broadcast engineer". He appears
to be with a jazz station affiliated with NPR in New Jersey. Quite a distance
from Neward, N. J. to LA -- if we are to infer that he is their transmitter
supervisor person. The other "FCC licensed engineer" is "Mike Cappetta"; after
wading thru pages of useless Google hits for various Cappettas, I finally found
one post from a "Mike Cappetta" at Lucent to an electronics forum, inquiring
about a schematic for a welder.

Other than the Google hit for these names on the ARN employee page, I did not
find anything that would really signify that these "stations" have such
engineers as "Fogarazzo" and "Cappetta" who, if they were contactable, could
confirm exactly HOW such "stations" are maintained in accordance to FCC rules.

I think this suggests that at some time in the past, "Fogarazzo" and "Cappetta" -
- whoever they may be -- must have come in contact in some way with this strange
outfit (maybe they wired up a cart machine: who knows?) But as to being their
"FCC licensed engineers": well, this challenges credulity.

Even in our deregulated world of American broadcasting, these "stations" are
going to need an on-call transmitter supervisor. Who dat?

I think that an elaborate smoke-screen has been erected to give persons who
encounter these websites the inference that REAL radio stations, operated by
actual people, are on the air in LA. I live very far from that market and cannot
confirm directly; but if these were entities actually licensed to the market,
and broadcasting within it, they'd leave more of a trail than some obscure home
pages linked to a domain name.

This is rather fun and challenging: and anyone intuiting more about what is
going on, other than some over-the-top promoting, will pique my interest.

For example: is this organization complying with all the appropriate licensing
for streaming music, and for using ASCAP, BMI, and other published musical
materials? All radio stations must subscribe to the music licensing
organizations and pay appropriate fees. Anybody want to take on the task of
searching them out?

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