Anonymouse Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 From RadioInsight: "Torey Doucette’s One Point Media acquires Brokered 1340 KOLE Port Arthur TX from Birach Broadcasting for $400,000." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purpledevil Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Unless something has recently changed, that "Brokered" should be changed to "Dark". KOLE has been off the air for a long time. Probably warrants someone filing a PTD against the sale, given it's been off the air longer than a calendar year. Stan would have to verify it being operational, no chance of KOLE Port Arthur at my QSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted April 18, 2016 Author Share Posted April 18, 2016 Does it matter though? Lots of stations are dark in TX, that's just how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 It's been off and on over the last year, sometimes with content being broadcast, often with dead air. When KSET was on prior to their equipment problems, I let Chris know that KOLE was causing interference on 1300 in Port Arthur. Someone got robbed paying $400K for that pile of junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purpledevil Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 $400K is a lot of dough, but it pales in comparison to the unbelievable $1.8 million that KCOH just netted for Lenard Liberman. At least KOLE isn't sitting on top of a toxic waste site, plus doesn't it have its own TX site? KCOH has to share with KLTN and now KAMA-FM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted April 19, 2016 Author Share Posted April 19, 2016 How's KSET these days? I haven't heard much as to what it's doing ever since they stopped streaming several months back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Chris had some transmitter damage which should be repaired shortly. I would expect the launch from the downtown studios soon. Also, a call letter change is expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Ugh! I hope he can get it fixed soon. One of us should invite him here, you know. Why change the call letters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purpledevil Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 16 hours ago, Anonymouse said: Ugh! I hope he can get it fixed soon. One of us should invite him here, you know. Why change the call letters? Because there's no "CW" in KSET, perhaps? Maybe KCWB, as there's no AM facility using it currently, only an FM up in Wyoming. Don't know if he'd want to go through that kind of trouble for that particular call set, though. Historically, 1300 was KKAS Silsbee, although I doubt a return to that set is what's up his sleeve. It is, however, available for the taking if he so chose to be nostalgic about it. Would have to return it to Silsbee as the COL to get the full effect though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 I think I know but am somewhat sworn to secrecy. Think of old top 40 jingles involving the word 'musicradio'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 I would say KBMT, short for Beaumont, but that's already on a TV station. Maybe they can work something out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Think WLS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purpledevil Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 17 hours ago, stan said: Think WLS... I'd rather be thinking about him suddenly having the finances to swoop in and save one of our dead in the water AMs over here in Houston. WLS, huh? I guess so, but as much as I respect and love my brethren from Golden Triangle, Chicago it is not. Too bad he can't get KPAC, now in San Antonio. 1250 KPAC was the legendary Top 40 in the Triangle, as I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CW Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 KPAC was never Top40 but more MOR...KOLE, KAYC with later KAYD joining in 78 and KLVI were the Top40 station's in the 70s..along with KWIC on the FM dial ..however, it may not be Chicago, but it will be high energy Classic Top40..& the voice of the station is WLS alumni and current WLS FM DJ/imaging voice Jeff Davis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purpledevil Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Lol, well, goes to show how little I know about the history of the Triangle AMs. I didn't even think about KLVI, but given its low dial position and long tenure in Beaumont, it certainly adds up. With our own legendary Top 40 parked right up the dial at 61 kilocycles, and the psychedelic sounds of my older brother's radio station of choice at 101 megahertz, I never got the chance to pay much attention to KLVI or much of anything else from the east end of I-10. That is, of course, until 1978 when I first heard the Beaumont blowtorch blasting at me from 106-1, which is what really led me to become the DXing machine that I am today. The one and only "K-106". Our own 104 KRBE had nothing on that superb take on FM Top 40, and had KIOC lit up in Houston instead of Orange, we may very well have never had the legend that was KKBQ over here, and KILT would've likely not made it out of the 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dogs Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 On 4/20/2016 at 2:24 PM, Purpledevil said: Because there's no "CW" in KSET, perhaps? Maybe KCWB, as there's no AM facility using it currently, only an FM up in Wyoming. Don't know if he'd want to go through that kind of trouble for that particular call set, though. Historically, 1300 was KKAS Silsbee, although I doubt a return to that set is what's up his sleeve. It is, however, available for the taking if he so chose to be nostalgic about it. Would have to return it to Silsbee as the COL to get the full effect though. How many employees have lost their jobs or moved to other radio stations as a result ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CW Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 As to which station? KOLE had no employees for some time as it was brokered all the time. KSET was dark for almost a year before I bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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