c...@islandnet.com wrote:
Hint:
"2010" and "all-digital"
Irony: It is in the middle of nowhere...
Their listener spread must be staggering... hundreds of square miles, if not
thousands...
and to abandon their AM Monaural signal for IBOC --
would leave all the trappers, hunters, joe-six-packs, and vice-presidential
wannabees
without a viable media alternative.
Not if KYUK supplies them with radios, it wouldn't.
Here's my back-of-the-envelope-over-lunch math: at 50 cents/kWh, and
assuming 50% efficiency on the analog transmitter, it's costing them $10
to power the 10 kW transmitter for every hour they're on the air. That's
$87,600 in annual power bills, which is a sizable chunk of change for a
small station like KYUK.
If they can get a PTFP grant to pay for a new digital transmitter (as
they very likely can), they could knock their power bills down to maybe
10% of what they're paying now - a savings of close to $80,000 a year.
That would go a long way toward buying inexpensive radios (which do
exist, and are available at serious bulk discounts to stations) for the
1190 households that exist in Bethel, and the 4226 total households in
the Bethel Census Area.
That's the theory, anyway...
s
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