KUOW2 has six weeks to live

[IndigoCoyote]

Not that too many will miss it, from the sounds of things:  http://kuow2.org/

[Bongwater]

Not that too many will miss it, from the sounds of things:  http://kuow2.org/

They should go back to simulcasting KGRG-FM or KEXP until they get their bearings together and find something new for this frequency. Scary though......Wondering who will pick up 91.7 next? Some Jesuscaster? ANOTHER outlet for Northwest Public Radio?.....Hope not......

[swhyde1980]

Not exactly KUOW2 ending...just their broadcast on 91.7FM

Given the stipulations that the station must remain local when it was sold to PRC (Which means no K-Love, Calvary Chapel, etc...), I doubt it'll go religious.   Northwest Public Radio already has KVTI, so I don't think they'd have interest in KXOT other than maybe for the pending move to Gold Mountain.

[Bongwater]

Not exactly KUOW2 ending...just their broadcast on 91.7FM

Given the stipulations that the station must remain local when it was sold to PRC (Which means no K-Love, Calvary Chapel, etc...), I doubt it'll go religious.   Northwest Public Radio already has KVTI, so I don't think they'd have interest in KXOT other than maybe for the pending move to Gold Mountain.

NWPR still has that NPR News/Talk channel......I wouldn't put it ENTIRELY past them. They've been dying to get that signal out in some major area of Western WA (Though I'm sure KUOW would raise hell over that. But obviously KUOW really doesn't have much room to bitch about it if they did...)

There's also KING-FM. Don't know about their finances, but being a new non-com player, it's another potential scenario.

There's a lot of local public and community stations in need of a bigger reaching signal. It's just the $$$ problem......   

[crainbebo]

I agree Bongwater. These Jesuscasters and NWPR translators have taken up almost every part of the non-commercial band. I'd love for some of these translators to go off the air forever...

-crainbebo

[notalent]

They should be putting KUOW-1 on 91.7 since their 94.9 signal is crap in Tacoma and the south end unless you have an HD radio.

[crainbebo]

PLEASE...no simulcasting...

-crainbebo

[SeattleObserver]

Curiously, they don't mention that KEXP was simulcasted on the signal originally when they took it from Bates.

[FMSteve]

Seems a little premature on all parties involved since KXOT has the CP in hand for a vastly larger audience from Gold, which is a sweet site higher than Cougar but lower than Tiger.

So apparently PRC defaulted on their loan and the bankers took it back in receivership. KUOW was just acting as a babysitter on a month-to-month basis. Perhaps KUOW (PSPR) can now renegotiate with a much more....how should I say....a much more "motivated" party. Maybe, just maybe, KUOW will get a better deal since now the station is essentially (or will be soon) in foreclosure.

[Bongwater]

Curiously, they don't mention that KEXP was simulcasted on the signal originally when they took it from Bates.

Precisely. That's why their calls are KXOT (EXperience Of Tacoma