[grc] [Stubblefield] Translator program origination

[Michelle Bradley]

It's rebroadcasting the HD-2 of KXBG, Cheyenne, WY..

It's (unfortunately) legal.

=m


On 1/7/2016 3:54 PM, Paul Bame wrote:
> Is this even legal?
>
> http://bizwest.com/iheartmedia-playing-contemporary-christian-music-on-107-3/ 
>
>
>
> IHeartMedia playing contemporary Christian music on 107.3
> by Dallas Heltzell on January 6, 2016
>
> LOVELAND — A low-power FM station licensed to Loveland has switched to 
> a contemporary Christian music format.
>
> The 250-watt station owned by IHeartMedia (OTCBB: IHRT), a San 
> Antonio-based media company that up until last year was known as Clear 
> Channel, has been branded “Up! 107.3” but officially is K297AK in the 
> Federal Communications Commission database. It can be heard in most of 
> eastern Larimer County and western Weld County.
>
> The frequency previously carried adult contemporary music and was 
> branded “Sunny 107.3” but was flipped in early November to all 
> Christmas music and then adopted the religion-based format on Dec. 26.
>
> Market manager Stu Haskell said the station will be programmed 
> locally, unlike similar stations that are fed by satellite. “Big Rob” 
> Lewis, disc jockey and program director at the company’s top-40 KSME 
> “96.1 Kiss-FM”, will also serve as program director for Up! 107.3, 
> Haskell said.
>
> In addition to “positive and uplifting music programming,” according 
> to an IHeartMedia release, the station also will carry “inspirational 
> messages and suggestions for how to get involved with local nonprofits 
> and churches with the goal of encouraging them to grow in their 
> Christian faith.”
>
> “This is really good music,” Haskell said. “I don’t even think you 
> have to be particularly religious to appreciate positive, uplifting 
> music.”
>
> The other stations in IHeartMedia’s Northern Colorado cluster are 
> news-talk KCOL-AM 600, classic country KIIX-AM 1410, country KXBG “Big 
> Country 97.9”, classic rock KPAW “107.9 The Bear”, and another 
> low-power station, adult album alternative K235BT at 94.9 FM. 
> Listeners in Northern Colorado and the Boulder Valley also can receive 
> the stations in the company’s Denver cluster, which include 
> 50,000-watt news-talk KOA-AM 850, talk KHOW-AM 630, sports talk 
> KDSP-AM 760, alternative rock KTCL-FM 93.3, top-40 KPTT “95.7 The 
> Party”, adult album alternative KBCO-FM 97.3, classic rock KRFX-FM 
> “103.5 The Fox” and active rock KBPI-FM 106.7.
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