Re: "Same frequency" network

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 10:03 AM 7/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
>On yesterday's Let's Talk About Radio, a caller
>suggested buying stations on the same frequency
>(like AM 1230) and setting up a network...yeah,
>as soon as you lose the signal from one, the same
>programming pops up on the same frequency, 
>from somewhere else. Actually I can think up an
>example of this: WUMB-FM 91.9 has sister
>stations on the same frequency in Worcester
>(WBPR-FM?) and Falmouth (WFPB-FM?-  not sure
>on those calls), and I do believe they run the
>same programming.
>
The arrangement has been tried more on FM than on AM. Besides WUMB et al,
there is a group of three or four FMs on 107.1 ringing New York City. And I
think there's another group of same-frequency FMs simulcasting near LA.
There was for a time a pair of AMs in southern California and/or nearby Baja
California that were simulcasting. I think one was in Costa Mesa and the
other in Tijuana, both on 540. And it's not quite a same-frequency AM
simulcast, but I think the AM 670 in Simi Valley, north of LA, used to
simulcast XETRA from Tijuana on 690. Now, of course, Jacor owns KXTA 1150 in
LA (recently increased to 50 kW). KXTA kind of simulcasts Jacor-controlled
XETRA, from what I understand. But XETRA and KXTA are nowhere close on the dial.

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