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From their STA filed in December:
"KBXD WAS FORCIBLY TAKEN OFF THE AIR BY SALEM RADIO PROPERTIES (SALEM), OWNERS OF KSKY AND KTNO AM, AND KLTY AND KWRD FM. JAMES CRYSTAL ENTERPRISES (JCE), LICENSEE OF KBXD, IS CURRENTLY UNDER BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION AND THE COURT HAS AUTHORIZED PAYMENT OF BACK RENT OWED TO SALEM. SALEM OWNS THE LAND WHERE THE KBXD TRANSMITTER SITE IS LOCATED, BUT JCE OWNS THE TRANSMITTING EQUIPMENT. SALEM HAS LOCKED JCE OUT OF THE TRANSMITTING SITE, RESULTING IN KBXD GOING SILENT AGAINST OUR WILL. WE ARE UNABLE TO SPECIFICALLY STATE WHEN KBXD WILL RESUME OPERATIONS."
"KBXD WAS FORCIBLY TAKEN OFF THE AIR BY SALEM RADIO PROPERTIES (SALEM), OWNERS OF KSKY AND KTNO AM, AND KLTY AND KWRD FM. JAMES CRYSTAL ENTERPRISES (JCE), LICENSEE OF KBXD, IS CURRENTLY UNDER BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION AND THE COURT HAS AUTHORIZED PAYMENT OF BACK RENT OWED TO SALEM. SALEM OWNS THE LAND WHERE THE KBXD TRANSMITTER SITE IS LOCATED, BUT JCE OWNS THE TRANSMITTING EQUIPMENT. SALEM HAS LOCKED JCE OUT OF THE TRANSMITTING SITE, RESULTING IN KBXD GOING SILENT AGAINST OUR WILL. WE ARE UNABLE TO SPECIFICALLY STATE WHEN KBXD WILL RESUME OPERATIONS."
KBXD and the south Florida properties owned by JCE were supposed to have gone on the auction block Monday. This has been discussed at length on the Florida/Miami boards hear and at Radio Insight, but no one has posted anything new. I'm kind of surprised to learn that Salem owns the land that the tower site sits on! KBXD supposedly had a nice new 50KW Nautel transmitter that apparently wasn't paid for either.
1480 was doomed the day they sold the transmitter site on McCree Road!
1480 was doomed the day they sold the transmitter site on McCree Road!
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rbrucecarter5
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Sad days for legendary KBOX. If KLIF hadn't been a competitor, KBOX would have been the "go-to" top 40 in Dallas.
KLIF had the signal coverage night issue in FTW (and now N Dallas!)...1480 also has poor signal coverage in a lot of the DFW areas...especially at night..plus there was KAAM and WFAA in the AM music days fighting for market share...
KFJZ was also a contender for a while with its music format....but when FM started to make inroads, the AMers were doomed because of coverage issues...
KFJZ was also a contender for a while with its music format....but when FM started to make inroads, the AMers were doomed because of coverage issues...
It's important to remember that Dallas and Ft Worth were separate radio markets, each with local ratings, up until 1973. In that year, the two separate radio markets were combined, and most of the AMs that dominated each suddenly dropped KFJZ, KXOL, KBOX, KLIF were decimated by the change.
Dallas and Fort Worth became Dallas/Fort Worth.
http://www.dfwradioarchives.info/1973.htm has the story of the consolidation into one market.
In the 70's the KLIF 1190 day signal was solid in Fort Worth, but the night signal was usually no better than the skywave coming from WOAI 10 kHz up.
The old 1480 daytime signal was medicore into Fort Worth, and the night signal was nonexistent.
WFAA 570 flipped to Talk a couple of years before KAAM launched on 1310. The old WRR (AM) was never much of a factor into FW...listenable but medicore day and night from the old White Rock Lake site.
KFJZ's signal into Dallas was fairly decent day and night...not strong, but comfortably listenable. The old KXOL 1360 had no usable night signal into Dallas.
Then as now, 570, 820, and 1080 were really the only full market DFW AMs for night coverage.
Was digging on the web for information on KBXD 1480 and found THIS THREAD regarding the stunting and the classic country format (on the RD boards), along with this older thread I'm posting on currently. Good information.
Our beloved WFLL 1400 (the iconic WFTL back in the day) in Fort Lauderdale, like your beloved KBXD 1480, is also suffering greatly in the JCR bankruptcy fallout. Thought you guys might like to read about what's going on down in here South Florida on the Miami Fort Lauderdale boards HERE with WFLL 1400. Here's to hoping KBXD and WFLL pull through and make a great comeback.
Our beloved WFLL 1400 (the iconic WFTL back in the day) in Fort Lauderdale, like your beloved KBXD 1480, is also suffering greatly in the JCR bankruptcy fallout. Thought you guys might like to read about what's going on down in here South Florida on the Miami Fort Lauderdale boards HERE with WFLL 1400. Here's to hoping KBXD and WFLL pull through and make a great comeback.
Arbitron published ratings for both the DFW Metro and the Dallas Trading Area through roughly 1978. KBOX made a lot of money with the "Dallas book."
Sanger-Harris, Titches, Best Products Catalog Stores, Sewell Village Cadillac, Eagle Lincoln-Mercury, Ewing Buick, R.O. Evans Pontiac, 7-Eleven, Pacific Stereo, Friendly Chevrolet, Horn Williams Ford, Rodger Meier Cadillac along with Valley View, Town-East and Prestonwood, malls, Wyatts, Highland Park Cafeteria, Steak n' Ale, Victoria Station, the Playboy Club!
For the most part, they didn't need to reach people in Fort Worth.
They were focused on reaching the consumers that were within a tight radius of their retail trading zone.
By the 80's support for the Dallas Trading Area survey was gone, and FM stations with stereo and better signals completely disrupted AM radio's business model.
Sanger-Harris, Titches, Best Products Catalog Stores, Sewell Village Cadillac, Eagle Lincoln-Mercury, Ewing Buick, R.O. Evans Pontiac, 7-Eleven, Pacific Stereo, Friendly Chevrolet, Horn Williams Ford, Rodger Meier Cadillac along with Valley View, Town-East and Prestonwood, malls, Wyatts, Highland Park Cafeteria, Steak n' Ale, Victoria Station, the Playboy Club!
For the most part, they didn't need to reach people in Fort Worth.
They were focused on reaching the consumers that were within a tight radius of their retail trading zone.
By the 80's support for the Dallas Trading Area survey was gone, and FM stations with stereo and better signals completely disrupted AM radio's business model.
Two radio legends, VP/GM Chester Maxwell, and GSM Dusty Black kept "Today's Country - KBOX" alive longer than most AM stations, especially ones that couldn't be heard past the county line when the sun went down.
Those were the days!!!
http://www.dfwradioarchives.info/1973.htm shows how the Fall 1973 Arbitron book was the first combined metro survey area including both Dallas and Ft Worth.
Almost instantly national and regional buys used the combined books, and even local transactional buyers used the new metro. While there were separate break-out books for a while, as the FM stations took over the audience they became rather irrelevant. Of course, by 1977 the DFW FM share was over 50% and the money followed the ratings (Source. Duncan's American Radio AM & FM market shares).
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David Francis
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It's sold:
Under "Stations Sales of the Week" on Radio Insight: Mark Jorgenson’s ACM JCE IV B LLC -- also the current owner of the silent WFLL 1400 Fort Lauderdale (and the on-air West Palm Beach WFTL 850 and WMEN 640) -- sells the silent 1480 KBXD Dallas to Chris Muse for $1.5 million plus a $13,000 payment to break the station’s tower lease.
Its also chattered about at Inside Radio HERE: “Chris Muse files a $1.5 million deal to buy KBXD (1480) from Mark Jorgenson. The station – which has 50,000-watts day and 1,900-watts night – has been off the air for much of the past five years after lenders led by Atalaya Capital took control of KBXD from former owner James Crystal Enterprises.”
You can do additional reading on the RD boards HERE about WFLL 140.
Under "Stations Sales of the Week" on Radio Insight: Mark Jorgenson’s ACM JCE IV B LLC -- also the current owner of the silent WFLL 1400 Fort Lauderdale (and the on-air West Palm Beach WFTL 850 and WMEN 640) -- sells the silent 1480 KBXD Dallas to Chris Muse for $1.5 million plus a $13,000 payment to break the station’s tower lease.
Its also chattered about at Inside Radio HERE: “Chris Muse files a $1.5 million deal to buy KBXD (1480) from Mark Jorgenson. The station – which has 50,000-watts day and 1,900-watts night – has been off the air for much of the past five years after lenders led by Atalaya Capital took control of KBXD from former owner James Crystal Enterprises.”
You can do additional reading on the RD boards HERE about WFLL 140.
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David Francis
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Really now? There's scuttlebutt out there that this Chris Muse (googled, can't find anything other that the aforementioned articles), is going to buy WMEN 640 and WFTL 850? Right now, both of those West Palm Beach Stations are under and LMA with Alpha Media and Alpha / Jorgensen built really nice, very sharp studios for them inside the Alpha office/studios.
However, WFLL 1400 in Fort Lauderdale is dark, and currently working to move onto the stick for WEXY 1520 in Wilton Manors. You've heard that Mr. Muse might buy 1400 AM in Fort Lauderdale? That station is ripe to be sold and shown some love.
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David Francis
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Of course! Why didn't I think to go look at the application? Thanks catch and the heads up! Off for some reading . . . .
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