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Martin McCormick <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:38:12 -0600
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        Yes.  They tried everything once during the eighties.
Actually, at that time, KOMA was only AM.  They bought out a so-called
beautiful music station on FM in the early nineties or maybe late
eighties--I forget exactly when and then simulcast until February of
2003 when KOMA AM became a news/talk station.  I believe they have
been heard as far away as New Zealand.  I knew a guy whose brother was
in the Navy on the aircraft carrier Kearsarge.  He said they could get
KOMA almost up to the coast of Japan.  Just think.  That's almost 160
metres.

        Years ago, the Oklahoma City City Counsel had passed one of
those really dumb ordinances aimed at trying to stop criminals from
listening to police radio while driving around and committing crimes.
They passed a law forbidding anyone from having a car radio capable of
tuning wavelengths shorter than 200 metres.

        Guess what.  The top end of the AM broadcast band fits right in
to that description.  KOMA at 1520 is on a wave length of 197.37
Metres.  In the mid sixties, somebody caught on to that at KOMA and a
campaign started to make a laughing stock of the OKC City Counsel.
KOMA would frequently bring up the point that it was technically
illegal to listen to them in your car in Oklahoma City.

        I believe the counselscrapped the law right away.

Buddy Brannan writes:
>But...but...but...but...but...didn't KOMA used to be country? At least
>the AM station did, way back when I was a kid in the early '80's when
>I first discovered that AM really stretched out at night! :)

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