KBND-AM Combined News/Talk 8.8
KQAK-FM Horizon Oldies 7.9
KXIX-FM Gross CHR/Top 40 7.9
KSJJ-FM Gross Country 7.4
KTWS-FM Combined Classic Rock 7.0
KWPK-FM Horizon Hot AC 6.0
KRXF-FM Fields Pond Group Alternative 5.6
KLTW-FM Horizon Soft AC 5.1
KMTK-FM Combined Country 4.7
KLRR-FM Combined Triple A 2.8
KMGX-FM Gross Hot AC 2.8
KRCO-AM Horizon Classic Country 2.8
KWLZ-FM Horizon Classic Rock 2.3
KICE-AM Gross Sports 1.9
KNLR-FM Cowan, Terry A.Christian AC 1.9
KRDM-AM Red Mountain Regional Mexican 1.9

And we care about a shit hole market like Bend because????

Wow buns, thanks for calling the beautiful and scenic city I live in a "$#!7 hole".

Jay_zie, thanks for posting the numbers!

buns is comparing the ghetto that is pdx to the wonders of natural beauty in Bend?
what a maroon.

I'd be sorely tempted to move back to Bend if I had a high-speed internet connection and my biz better established... And it's changed A LOT since the late 70s. Loved it then, and I'd love it now...

(My thanks to the intrepid soul running a couple of webcams from the west side...very cool!)

My old HBG buddies are looking better! 104.1 and KQAK made gains. Even 95.1 had a good book. Laser will never do well, it's signal is terrible.

Looks like the sampling for KRXF is starting to fall off already. They've got a fairly eclectic playlist, much like NRK. Bend is a pretty progressive market, but I've rarely seen stations like that produce good numbers.

Bunsofsteel wrote:
And we care about a shit hole market like Bend because????

Oh, I don't know. It may have to do with Bend is still one of the fastest growing areas of the country.

96.5 would be better off as "Bob FM"...and long as 98.3 (which covers Bend perfectly) is Classic Rock. Listeners would be more likely to tune into 96.5's weak signal, if a unique format was being offered.

Then again, 100.7 would be wise to flip to "Bob FM"...and is one of Bend's strongest signals.

96.5 won't be there much longer. It'll be 96.3 in West Linn.

This from All Access:

----------------------Bend, OR To Get New Talker----------------------

HORIZON BROADCASTING Classic Rock KWLZ (LAZER 96.5)/WARM SPRINGS-BEND, OR and new AM station KBNW-A/BEND will flip to Talk as NEWS RADIO CENTRAL OREGON with a lineup including PREMIERE's GLENN BECK, PREMIERE/ABC's SEAN HANNITY. WESTWOOD ONE's DENNIS MILLER, TALK RADIO NETWORK's LAURA INGRAHAM, DIAL GLOBAL's ED SCHULTZ, and TALK RADIO NETWORK's PHIL HENDRIE, plus a local morning show, "WAKE UP BEND!," with PD ROY LAMELA and News Dir. BILL BAKER.

Also airing on the new station will be the syndicated MIDNIGHT RADIO NETWORK and WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT and weekend shows "AT HOME WITH GARY SULLIVAN" and LEO LAPORTE's "THE TECH GUY." ABC affiliate KOHD-TV will share news resources with the new station as well.

“Listeners and clients have often asked us about an alternate News/Talk service in CENTRAL OREGON and we are excited to offer a new product with well established nationally syndicated talk show hosts,” said President and CEO KEITH SHIPMAN. “We are also committed to providing local, regional and national news coverage that is relevant to our listeners in CENTRAL OREGON.”

HORIZON is acquiring the new AM (at 1340 AM) from IMMACULATE HEART RADIO
______________________________________________________________

This also from All Access:

---------------KRXF Voted 'Best Station' In Central Oregon---------------

BEND RADIO GROUP Alternative KRXF (92/7FM)/BEND, OR follows up a stellar SPRING'08 book by being voted "Favorite/Best Radio Station" in the CENTRAL OREGON reader's poll in the weekly newspaper, THE SOURCE.

This is a good way to keep 96.5 on the air, before it moves into Portland at 96.3!

Any date for the switch?

Wow, I hope Buns Of Steel was saying the market is shit, and not the area. Bend is a beautiful city that's the perfect size and place for a great work/life balance. I'd love to live there.

I was driving through Bend last night and was able to experience every PD's nightmare: The man behind the curtain was in his boxers! KBND was on auto pilot and everything the net sent was being aired - and little the local station was supposed to insert was where it was supposed to be.

Got to hear the 8:46 tone checks (with announcer)to test the relays for Network On, Network Off and Spot Trigger. A couple of highly-entertaining 1KC tones plus the obligatory long chunks of dead air to round out the festivities. Oh, and a little of Jim Bohannon's Westwood One show here-and-there.

Judging from the rankers at the top of this thread, maybe it's time to play tones and dead air for your next Focus Group. Seems to be working for them.

thats what's changed and crazy about modern day automated radio operations is that the operator (if there is one on duty) is not even listening to the station(s) as closely as they should...the silicon based unit still needs babysitting from the carbon based unit!

KBNW seems to have taken to the air. I didn't listen long enough to see if they are currently simulcasting KWLZ, though.

OK I jumped the gun - KBNW must be testing. I took a drive by the transmitter site and someone was there in the building. It also looks like they have new ATUs at the bases both towers. In any case, it should be on soon.

I thought they were going to erect a new tower.

They're co-located with KICE, at least according to the FCC database.

So is KBNW on the air? AM&FM?

FM is on the air but as of this morning, no AM.

Tom. Everything was pre-recorded for the weekend. KBND was moving into their new studios on Empire from Friday to Sunday. Since the STL's were down, all of the stations were being broadcast at the tower by computer. KBND finally came back on at the studio at 5:30am Monday. It was the last of the 4 stations to come back online. Their FM's KTWS, KMTK, and KLRR were on by Sunday at 6pm.

I was told that they had to go out to the transmitter site and take out all the ID's that tried to time up to the news(they didn't have a dish at the transmitter site.)

This is KBND's first move in decades. I guess they have beautiful new studios on the top floor of the Pahlisch Homes building.

That explains it. I did hear them announcing that the move caused them to air Dr. Laura in place of Lars on Monday.

Radio's promise since 1920: "It will all be better in the new building"

The website barely mentions the 96.5 FM frequency. I guess they figure that the FM will be moving into Portland, fairly soon.

www.newsradiocentraloregon.com

Well, I caught some political commentary that had Ed Schultz in it this evening.

Signal was clean and clear from West Hillsboro.

Dead air now...

Tuesday night around 10:40 there were several commercials playing over the net feed.

Ouch! When the full-powered 96.5 comes to Portland, I assume that we'll have to say goodbye to all of the 96.3 MHz LPFMs and translators in Portland, Woodburn, and McMinnville (K242AF, KKJC, KPCN, and KPVN), as well as squatters "KGayBC."

KBND is a good station regardless of what building it's in. It was a big mess Friday night because of a problem with the merge. FMs ran flawlessly all weekend thank goodness. The KBND glitches continued until Tuesday when the STLs finally were restored.

And Combined's new facilities are gorgeous.

Too bad about most of the content! Sounds good though, and I suppose that's the draw!

(too bad it's not more left!)

Nice to hear the real production values of the various programs come through! Talk on FM is just decent. We need more of it.

I suspect that the format will change when 96.5 comes to Portland, since the syndicated programs that are on KBNW now can be found on other Portland stations. If they stick with talk and change the lineup, they might end up like KTRO, which had low ratings, despite being on FM, because of its lineup of somewhat obscure talk shows.

I'm pretty sure it will be sold before going on the air.

I saw the new studios for KBND, KLRR, KMTK, and KTWS today. They are very nice overlooking one of the big irrigation canal that runs through town.

They are still working on the prod rooms so everything is being produced out of the main studios. They have a number of remotes this weekend and the Marti receivers are not hooked up...so the race is on to get it done.

Alfredo: The FCC website lists these stations:

KKJC-LP 96.3 McMinnville (Calvary)
K242AF 96.3 Portland (E.M.F.)
K242AB 96.3 Salem (Bicoastal)
KPVN-LP 96.3 Woodburn (Centro)
KPCN-LP 96.3 Woodburn (Pineros)
K243BG 96.5 Corvallis (Cumulus)

Would all of the above signals be forced off the air, or could K242AB in Salem stay on, if 96.5 came to Portland?

I am listening to 96.5 right now from my home in downtown Hillsboro. A tuner with a narrow IF is needed to pull this in because of K242AF. The 96.5 signal is fairly strong on an old RCA VHF TV log periodic mounted on a pole about 42' above ground level and pointed east. (Thanks JR for helping me get this mast put up!) On a rooftop RadioShack VU-120 about 24' above ground level, the signal is much weaker.

The automation on KBNW is screwing up big time. I just listened through about 20 minutes of dead carrier before the top-of-the hour ABC news! I am getting full quieting with the signal pulled off the RCA antenna, though.

KKJC-LP has an Application for 93.5MHz.
KPVN-LP has an Application for 95.9MHz.
KPCN-LP has an Application for 95.9MHz.

Could Bustos buy 96.5 when it moves to Portland?

K243BG 96.5 (Corvallis) will remain on the air, due to it's distance from Portland.

>>Could Bustos buy 96.5

if he did it would be a stronger signal than El Rey but not by much...depends on his cash flow and credit score. Actually the correct freq is 96.3.

Actually, at this point, they're both C3s.

Scroll to the bottom of the "Technical Information" section of this page for a look at the KBNW-FM construction permit:

http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?sr=Y&s=C&call=KWLZ&x=19&y=7

The signal will be 2.9 kW on 96.3 MHz. From the transmitter coordinates, it looks like the station will be at the Stonehenge tower.

>>could K242AB in Salem stay on

don't see how they could...the new Portland 96.3 could easily be heard in car radios in Salem.

I had goofed when I originally looked up KWLZ on radio-locator. I missed the detail that moving to Portland would involve a frequency change to 96.3 MHz. Bicoastal's Salem translator will thus be forced to move or go dark.

Two key differences between KRYP and KWLZ's West Linn CP is a directional signal which sends barely over 50% of the ERP towards Salem (to protect KZEL and KCRF?); and overall ERP - KRYP is at 1.6kW, KWLZ at 2.9kW.

Wait a minute... 2.9 x .501 = about 1.453. Not much difference between those two then.

Question...how is KWLZ getting a directional signal from the Stonehenge site where all stations on the "panel" antenna are non-dir?...or will they have their own antenna?
According to the FCC 60dbu contour map it looks pretty non-directional...

What you want to look at on the FCC's site is the field plot contour. They also list each radial separately if you want to plot it yourself.

Probably a major difference between receiving one station versus another at any given location is the location of any other stations in the area.

I still remember coming home after visiting the coast, reaching milepost 12 on the Sunset Highway and thinking 'great, we're in range of the Portland stations again,' hit the preset for what was then Star 105.9 (when they were at 4400 watts on Skyline), and they amazingly came in (obviously a bit weaker than the 100kW stations, but it was there and coming in acceptably).

96.7 KCRF (Lincoln City) isn't a factor for Portland's new 96.3 signal. 96.1 KZEL (Eugene) and 96.1 KXXO (Olympia) are the only signals that need to be protected.

KXXO is moving to the Olympic Peninsula. KWLZ won't have to protect them as a C3. The only protection is to KZEL, assuming full Class C facilities, which they don't have. I think there's a good chance KZEL will be reclassified to C0 and KQLZ won't need to be directional, as long as it's still a C3. Of course, they could end up keeping the null with the reclassification and also send one toward KXXO to become a C2. Who knows?

KQLZ meaning KWLZ

I'd like to see 96.3 become a C2.

Sorry, it was late.

FCC approval came through and KBNW 1340 signed on at 9am this morning.

Wasn't KQLZ Pirate Radio?

What's going to happen to KBNW-AM when KICE moves north of town per the CP?

From today's All Access:

HORIZON BROADCASTING GROUP LLC's KWLZ-F/WARM SPRINGS-BEND, OR, which recently flipped to a new Talk format, has gotten FCC approval of its move into the PORTLAND market. The station will change its community of license to WEST LINN, OR, change frequencies from 96.5 to 96.3 FM, and downgrade to Class C3 in the heart of the PORTLAND metropolitan area.

The FCC approved the move last week; the change was predicated on the move of 3 CITIES, INC. AC KXXO (MIXX 96)/OLYMPIA, WA's transmitter move to SOUTH MOUNTAIN.