{"id":16049,"date":"2016-08-03T09:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16049"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T13:21:57","slug":"behold-the-talk-radio-metro-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16049","title":{"rendered":"Behold the Talk Radio &#8220;Metro&#8221; station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talk1045.com\/\">http:\/\/talk1045.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Behold K283CC &#8211; started this week in Des Moines, Iowa, operated by Saga Communications, which has been very aggressive in creating &#8220;metro&#8221; FM translators.  Few people listen to the sub channels on digital HD radio (HD2\/3\/4), but by saying you intend to retransmit an HD channel using an analog FM translator, you essentially create a new FM station for the cost of an FM translator license.  As a bonus, the new FM translator doesn&#8217;t count against the per market ownership caps.  In theory, that could mean one owner having 15 or more FM stations in a market.<\/p>\n<p>The down side is FM translators are limited to 250 watts, but if you mount it up very high in the air, that can cover most of a major city.  I like to call them Low Power commercial FM stations, mirroring the NAB&#8217;s fight against the LPFM non- profits cluttering up &#8220;their band&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio-locator.com\/cgi-bin\/patg?id=K283CC-FX\">K283CC coverage map (250 watts)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/radio-locator.com\/cgi-bin\/patg?id=KAZR-FM\">KAZR FM Analog map (100,000 watts)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see that 250 watts is almost as good as 100,000 unless your target demographic is corn plants growing in the sun making ethanol,<\/p>\n<p>This is the first metro station I remember running a conventional conservative talk format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/talk1045.com\/ Behold K283CC &#8211; started this week in Des Moines, Iowa, operated by Saga Communications, which has been very aggressive in creating &#8220;metro&#8221; FM translators. Few people listen to the sub channels on digital HD radio (HD2\/3\/4), but by saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16049\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,180,110,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm-translators","category-hdradio","category-low-power-fm","category-saga-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16052,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions\/16052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}