Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 6

KOB-FM Starts Broadcasts Today RCA VICTOR Fully Automated Station To Use Maximum Power Rollaround Stereo 101-Foot Tower Shielded Against Winds and Frost KOB-FM's new antenna high above the city of Albuquerque atop Sandia Crest will be one of the highest and therefore most effectively powerful FM broad tempo sound in the morning to jazz and light-classical se lections in the evening." casting facilities in the world, AH music will originate Its elevation of 10,678 teet from stereo tapes obtained MJWUJJ AV -1 TBI rimyrwrr n'bw i wf i A ill vv from International Good Mu sic, one of the larg est suppliers of stereophonic tapes in the world. KOB Radio and Television, New Mexico's first and largest broadcasting corporation, announced today it will begin broadcast operations August 14 from a new facility, KOB-FM. Robert Pettingell, General Manager of KOB-AM and KOB-FM, said the new station will broadcast in full stereo on 93.3 mc with full permissible power from 10,678 foot high Sandia Crest. The new station, New Mexico's most powerful FM broadcast facility, will oper puts it even with the world's highest television towers; Albuquerque's commercial and educational channels. Since FM radio coverage is based on "line of sight" transmission, KOB-FM's elevation permits it to utilize most ef-l fectively the maximum power imuJjlilHill Ik I inch Ice cover during the cold winter months.

The antenna was engineered and supplied by the Radio Corporation of America and all automation equipment and stereophonic tapes were purchased from International Good Music, Inc. of Belling-ham, Washington. The new FM station has been constructed at a cost of more than eighty thousand dollars. Pettingell announced that a authorized by the Federal new commercial format will Communications Commission. be inaugurated by the station.

"TEA CART" STEREO ON EASY-ROLLING CASTERS The one hundred and one foot high tower was positioned Radio time on KOB-FM has ate from 6:30 a.m. to been sold on the basis of six with a base construction de NO DOWN PAYMENT signed to protect it in the face a.m. daily and will serve a coverage area of 150 miles announcements per hour with time offered exclusively to one advertiser in each busi of 150 mile per hour winds. ComplfKt Radio and Record Listening Enjoyment en Wheel. AM-FM-FMSTEREO Radio Studiomatic 4 Soeed Chanaer S2.75 In addition to its wind re KOB Is Pioneer In IV.M.

Radio-TV The history of KOB alway a pioneer in Southwestern broadcasting read3 like a history of electronic media New Mexico. KOB Radio was first heard in 1920, when it was called sistance, the tower was de signed to withstand a two PER WK. Complete Lint of RCA VICTOR AM-FM Radios and Stereo 101-foot tower atop Sandia Crest beams in every direction from the Crest. The station will be "completely automated," Pettingell said. All programming will be transmitted from fully integrated RCA and IGM eouioment.

with a minimum KOB-FM signal 150 miles all directions. UJ THI MOST TRUSTED NAME IN ELECTRONICS Views, Comments Sought on KOB-F ic programming material relayed to a transmitter via microwave results in a repro through hourly newscasts featuring NBC News and local and regional news coverage by the award-winning KOB News Department. Your Dollar Buys MORE at YONEMOTO BROS. John Hyatt, Program Direc 5XD. The station received the KOB call letters and license ness category (i.e., one bank, one auto dealer, one department store, "The decision to institute an FM station was made in order to offer a full spectrum of broadcast activities," Mr.

Pettingell said. KOB Radio and Television have established a reputation throughout the West as one of the best equipped news and entertainment media in the area. All three KOB operations are owned by Hubbard Broad duction of lower sound quali in April of 1922. The station's present fre ty," Mr. Pettingell said.

Included in the new sta COMPANY of "talk." i "KOB-FM will feature modern, stereophonic music performed by the top recording artists of the day," Mr. Pettingell said. "Programming varied throughout the day, ranging from a bright, up-i APPLIANCE 8725 4th'Sf. NW tor of the new KOB-FM station, today asked that listeners write their views and comments on the facility's operation "so that we'll know exactly what our listeners want to hear on KOB- 898-2511 quency of 770 kc was granted in 1941. That same year, pow tion'a coverage area will be TV Engineers Will Also Watch KOB-FM Engineers manning the transmitter high atop Crest will also assume tech er was increased to 50.000 Free, Easy Parking Open Evenings 'til 8 watts.

FM." In September of 1948, tele nical responsibility for KOB- Of specific interest will be listener reaction to the musical every New Mexico community from Gallup past Santa Rosa, from Truth or Consequences to Red River. Executives of the new station include JohnHyatt, Program Director; Andrew San-dersier, Sales Manager; William Tucker, News Supervi FM. KOB-FM's new 100-foot tow Droeramine offered by the sta SERVING ALBUQUERQUE tion. Quality of reception and er is located almost directly type of equipment the listeners northwest of the present KOB SINCE 1945 television tower, iederal Communications Commission regu SELECTION CONVENIENCE SERVICE are using to receive ine station's signal. Also of direct value to KOB-FM will be where in New Mexico the listener is receiving the sor; Kex Munger, News di vision transmission by KOB-TV began, the first TV facility between St.

Louis, Missouii and the West Coast. KOB was purchased by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. in 1957. The addition of an FM facility is part of a major expansion project which i n-cludes new color equipment for KOB-TV, AM radio remote facilities and additional studio and office space at. 'A.

3 casting, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The new station will go on the air officially at 6:30 a.m. Monday, August 14 after a test period during which it broadcasted intermittently. KOB-FM will become the first radio station originating its programs from Sandia Crest.

"The decision to program from the transmitter atop the mountain stems from the fact that stereophon- lations require that engineers are always on duty at a transmitter site. WITH rector, F. A. Bibeau, Chief Engineer and Randa Toppino, station. Promotion Director.

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