[BC] Re: Station for Sale

[Scott Fybush]

ACN wrote:
> I agree with you, Bob.   Especially if they do not own the transmitter 
> site. And someone thought there were two sites.
> 
> It is almost, "you will have to pay me" to take on the project.

There *are* two sites. The 50 kW ND day operation comes from a site on 
Kuna-Mora Road about 5 miles south of Boise. That tower is registered to 
Robert Combs, and is used only by KDJQ.

It's the night signal that's the obstacle - it's just 250 watts, from 
two of the towers of Citadel's KTIK 1350, about 3 miles south of 
Meridian. This is the site that KDJQ leases, and this is the one where 
there's reportedly the lease restriction on format. (Legal? I'm not a 
lawyer, but it would seem to me that there's a case to be made that KDJQ 
entered into the lease willingly, format clauses and all, and that the 
KTIK site is NOT the only suitable site in the area - Peak 
Broadcasting's KIDO 580 site is right around the corner, after all.)

The only way I'd think the deal might make sense (again, without having 
done due diligence on any of this!) would be if the new owner could get 
out of the night site lease, downgrade KDJQ from a 250-watt class B at 
night to a 240-watt class D, escape the need to have COL coverage of 
Meridian at night (which was presumably what drove KDJQ to get into the 
lease arrangement with KTIK rather than building out the nine-tower 
array that was once applied for at the Kuna-Mora Road site), and find a 
site closer to Boise for night use. 890's a fairly quiet channel there, 
and KDJQ was getting out decently with its not-very-directional 250-watt 
signal when I was in town last month.

All that said, there is indeed a LOT of radio on the air in that market 
these days, with at least one more big FM move-in yet to come...so 
anyone taking on an AM in Boise would need to have a really good format 
niche, even at just $800K...

s