** U S A. Interest in KGOW, 1560, seemed to vanish after its night on the world
stage, running 50 kW as H. Ike was passing thru metro Houston. Perhaps everyone
assumed it would immediately go back to 100+ watts at night. However, 5 nights
later, UT Sept 18 at 0520, I found it again dominating the channel, but hardly
with emergency programming relaying KPRC-2. Caught my ear with an amusing song,
``Go Away, Ike``, then adstring, including a local phone number, 713-666-1101
for geothermal air conditioning from Indoor Comfort Specialists,
http://1560ac.com --- with a website like that I was beginning to wonder if
this too was a parody, but it really worx, forwarding to
http://www.indoorcomfortspecialist.com/ --- I assume this allows the sponsor
and the station to track how many heard the ad on 1560. By clicking on it here
you will help to skew those findings.
Then something about the Astros playing away. 0523 finally non-ID as ``1560 The
Game``, and promo for John Granado Program on ``1560 The Train``, yuk2. In fact
this and previous items were run twice in a row. At 0526 resumed current show
which was a ``September 15 recap``, why? Trying to decide whether something was
spelled jenkum or jenkem, and story about one of the hosts being hit in the
face with a bag of dog urine and crap at some club. At this point I had had
enough, sure anyway that it was really KGOW. While it did not overpower all the
QRM on 1560, it certainly dominated even on a long-wire not aimed toward
Houston. When running daytime facilities at night because of an emergency,
isn`t it supposed to be non-commercial and with axual emergency info? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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