Oregon
NEW -AM(CP)/Bend
PRICE: $40,000
TERMS: Asset sale for cash
BUYER: Summit Broadcasting Group, LLC., headed by President/CEO Keith Shipman. Phone: 541-383-3282. It owns no other stations. This represents its entry into this market.
SELLER: IHR Educational Broadcasting, headed by President/Treasurer Douglas Sherman. Phone: 916-535-0500
FREQUENCY: 1340 kHz
POWER: 250 watts day/night
FORMAT: CP - NOA
COMMENT: IHR Educational Broadcasting's CP for NEW-AM/Bend, Ore., (BP-20041029AJJ) to Summit Broadcasting Group for $40,000. $100 escrow deposit plus $39.900 cash at closing.

Doesn't he own Horizon Broadcasting? It says here he does not own any other stations.

250 watts; they must get crunched at night!

They have an app to increase power to 1kwD/.5kwN
Don't tell me this'll be another Spanish Station?

What's with the 500 watts? This isn't a border station!

Don't know why the FCC does not give AM's full class power on some new/changed location facilities...annoying...

At night too much signal towards the 1340 in N. Bend thus the 500 watts.

Is he going to put it on the air and sell it or simulcast with KRCO to get a good night time coverage of Bend.

I was under the impression local channels aren't protected at night. In any event, Bend should be far enough away from North Bend for this to not be an issue. What about Corvallis? That's much closer!

Still have to not contribute a certain percentage of interference to a stations Nighttime Interference Free contour. Looks like N. Bend has a lower NIF than most others around, since they don't have anyone to the west contributing to the interference level. Skip distance is optimal too.

>>lower NIF

whoooshhhh...that just flew over us non-engineer types...

Perhaps, I'm mistaken. I understood that there was no protection given to local channels at night other than the mileage requirements set up for daytime protection. They must accept any interference from licensed broadcasters.

Here's the engineering statement:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=6 42689

NIF stands for "Nighttime Interference Free contour." I had to look this up, so I must renounce my membership in the FCC engineering club.

NIF has to do with defining how much interference other radio stations on the same or adjacent frequencies are allowed to put into a radio station's local listening area. The NIF is defined in terms of the strength of the signal of a radio station; this signal strength is not the wattage of the transmitter but instead the amount of the station's signal that reaches any specified location.

back to the question about keith owning stations in bend oregon,,he does, 5 through horizon broadcasting group. I am concerned that he is branching off in summit broadcasting group without his seattle investors knowledge,,they have been waiting patiently for a return on their investment,,also this venture into summit broadcasting group is a breach of his non compete clause, i'm pretty sure of that. H R for Horizon, regan brick and sales mgr brian canady are part of this new venture too.

1340 AM Bend's got call letters KBNW
I hear this station's format will be news/talk. Similar content/programming as KRDM used to carry. How will this effect KBND?
Would they be better off with a simulcast of KRCO

I just talked with someone from the station. He said it is scheduled to start up August 11th and will be a talk station. He told me that the line up includes Sean Hannity (who was on KBND, tape delayed, until last month).

note that KBND is the number one station in the new book.

I thought I would post this here too. KBNW 1340 signed on at 9am this morning.

96.5 KWLZ has been News/Talk since Monday though, right?