KOGO HD Day & Night

KOGO-AM 600 Begins ‘All Digital’ Broadcast

Station heard from Ensenada to north of Santa Barbara

Last weekend, AM stations could extend their digital broadcast day beyond local sunset. Locally, KOGO-AM is presently the only AM station with HDRadio. Scott Rice, Clear Channel San Diego’s Chief Operator, Staff Engineer, and Station Historian writes about the latest milestone for AM 600: “The greatest station in the history of broadcasting, AM 600 KOGO, is now HD all the time,” Scott said.

“The FCC approved night time HD and it became law (on) September 15th. KOGO of course has been on the cutting edge of broadcast technology since the very beginning in 1925 on the top of the U.S. Grant Hotel with the brand new Western Electric studios and transmitter. KOGO was the first commercial broadcast station in San Diego (as 1220 KFVW), KOGO was the first network affiliate in San Diego (NBC).”

Scott also researched that “KOGO-FM (94.1) was the first FM station in San Diego, KOGO was the first to broadcast in AM Stereo (the Kahn System), and now of course KOGO has become the first AM-HD (IBOC) in San Diego.”

IBOC is “In Band, On Channel” as the standard for HDRadio for U.S. radio stations.

Scott Fybush who has a passion for photographing transmitter sites, says that KOGO is also home to “KSON-FM 97.3 atop one tower and KLNV 106.5 atop the other.” KOGO’s AM design has the 5kw hugging the Pacific Coast. (Click on the map for a larger picture of the KOGO coverage pattern.)

Also noted: For the seventh consecutive year Scott Fybush presents, the Tower Site Calendar. It is ready to grace the walls of your office, rack room or transmitter shack - and Scott promises that the 2008 edition is better than ever!

Tower Site Calendar 2008 features 14 full-color, high-quality images of transmitter sites from coast (WGAN Portland) to coast (KAST Astoria, our cover model).

Visit Fybush.com for ordering information. Order by October 1 to assure 2007 prices.

(KOGO tower photo courtesy of Scott Fybush, All Rights Reserved and used with permission.)

(KOGO radio coverage map Radio-Locator.com. KOGO antenna aerial map from Google Earth.)

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