[BC] 890 KIRB in California? Travis Airforce Base?

[Scott Fybush]

PeterH wrote:
> 
> On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Scott Fybush wrote:
> 
>> And yes, that does mean that KLX and KROW were spaced at the pre-NARBA 
>> 50 kc minimum, 880 and 930. Going way back, KGO fit into that spacing 
>> scheme, too - it was on 830 from 1925-27, then briefly on 780.
> 
> AND ... that was precisely my point.
> 
> The same was true in L.A., BTW ...
> 
> 900 (KHJ) ... 950 (KFWB) ... 1000 (KFVD/KGBS/KTNQ, then of Culver City) 
> ... 1050(KNX)

With one more in that sequence, too: KIEV in Glendale, on 850!
> 
> 900 and 950 moved by table.
> 
> 1000 and 1050 moved outside of the table, with 1000 going to 1020 
> (should have gone to 1030), and 1050 moving to 1070 (should have gone to 
> 1080).
> 
> But, if KNX went to 1080, then 1110 couldn't have been dropped in, and 
> then there would have been no easy solution to several time-sharing 
> arrangements (WTIC, WBAL, etcetera).

I'm fascinated by the shuffling that took place in the middle of the 
dial during NARBA.

The last frequency in the "up by 30" group to move almost completely by 
table was 970, where WCFL in Chicago and KJR in Seattle moved up to 
1000. (WIBG in Philadelphia moved from 970 to 990 for reasons that will 
become clear in a moment.)

A new Canadian clear was created at 1010, and populated in Calgary and 
Toronto, with later fill-in US signals in New York (WINS, moved from 
1180) and San Francisco, among others.

Because of the new 1010 clear, KDKA (980) and WBZ (990) each moved up 40 
kc by table, to 1020 and 1030 respectively.

Then it got weird. 1000 had been shared by WHO in Iowa and KFVD in LA. 
WHO followed the table up to 1040, but KFVD, as Peter notes, took 1020, 
operating L-KDKA, with additional nighttime hours while KDKA was off the 
air.

Stations that had been on 1010, as noted in an earlier post, scattered 
widely over the dial.

1020 moved by table - KYW in Philly up to 1060.

1030 had been a Canadian/Mexican clear, and those stations were 
scattered to new spots on the dial.

1040 went by table to 1080 (KRLD, KWJJ, WTIC).

1050 would have gone by table to 1090, but KNX went to 1070 instead, as 
did KFBI Abilene KS (later KFDI Wichita).

1060 would have gone by table to 1100, but instead its US stations (KTHS 
in Arkansas, later KAAY, and WBAL) took the 1090 spot that should have 
gone to the 1050 stations.

The "plus-30" table resumes from here - WTAM and KJBS from 1070 to 
1100,; WBT and WMBI from 1080 to 1110 (with KFAB, which had been sharing 
770/780 with WBBM, moving up here a few years later thanks to the 
breakdown of former I-A WBT); KMOX from 1090 to 1120, and so on up to my 
local WHAM, which went from 1150 to 1180.

Then it gets weird again, as some of those share-time messes were 
cleaned up.

1160 had been shared by WWVA Wheeling, which went to 1170 as a II-A 
alongside KVOO and WAPI, and WOWO Fort Wayne, which went to 1190 as a II-A.

1170 was WCAU Philadelphia, which went to 1210 as a I-A.

1180 had been shared by WINS New York, which went to 1010 as a II-A, KEX 
Portland, which went to 1190 as a II-A (it was co-owned with WOWO at the 
time), WDGY Minneapolis (to 1130 as a II-A), WMAZ Macon GA (to 940) and 
KOB, which deserves a chapter of its own in any history of the clears.

1190 was WOAI, which went to 1200 as a I-A, as well as two smaller 
stations that became III-A regionals, WSAZ Huntington WV (to 930) and 
WATR Waterbury CT (to 1320).

The regular pattern resumed on the class IV local channel of 1200, which 
went to 1230. Everything from there up to 1450 followed the "plus-30" 
table.

Interesting times...wish I'd been around for the negotiations and the 
actual moves when they happened!

s