KORC (FM)

KORC (92.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Burns, Oregon, USA. The station, which began broadcasting in 1997, is currently owned by Harney County Radio, LLC. KORC and sister station KBNH are the only commercial radio stations with Burns as their community of license.^[2]

Programming

KORC broadcasts an adult contemporary format. ^[3]

History

This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on March 25, 1996.^[4] The new station was assigned the call letters KQHC by the FCC on May 10, 1996.^[1] KQHC received its license to cover from the FCC on February 10, 1998.^[5]

As part of a personal financial reorganization, KQHC owner Stanley M. Swol filed an application with the FCC in October 2003 to transfer the broadcast license for KQHC to SS Radio, LLC, a new limited liability company wholly owned by Stanley M. Swol. The license transfer was approved by the FCC on November 10, 2003, and the transaction was consummated on same day.^[6]

One year later, in November 2004, Swol's SS Radio, LLC, reached an agreement to sell this station and AM sister station KZZR to Leslie Ann Carson's Action Radio, LLC, for a reported cash sale price of $72,500.^[7] The deal was approved by the FCC on March 11, 2005, and the transaction was consummated on April 18, 2005.^[8] At the time of the sale, KZZR broadcast a country music format.^[7]

In August 2007, Action Radio, LLC, agreed to sell both KQHC and KZZR to B&H Radio, Inc., a company owned in equal share by Trevor Carson and Toni Carson, a married couple. The station combo sold for $67,000 in cash plus the assumption of certain debts for a total reported sale price of $209,700.98. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 1, 2007, and the transaction was consummated on the same day.^[9]

In May 2010, B&H Radio, Inc, agreed to sell both KZZR and KQHC to Harney County Radio, LLC for a reported $245,000. Harney County Radio, LLC is wholly owned by Joan M. & Leighton M. Reed-Nickerson who also own KORV (93.5) Lakeview, OR through Lake County Radio, LLC..^[10] The new owners had the FCC change the station's call sign to KORC-FM on July 16, 2010.^[1]

FCC actions

The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of apparent liability in August 2007 against Action Radio LLC, the licensee of both KQHC and KZZR at that time, stating that Action Radio would be assessed an $8,000 fine for "failing to ensure the operational readiness" of both stations' Emergency Alert System equipment.^[11][12] The FCC requires all broadcast stations to install and maintain EAS decoders and encoders at their control points, to keep logs of all received and transmitted EAS messages, and to run weekly tests of the equipment. At the time of the inspection, the equipment was non-functional and neither station had run a required EAS test in more than a year. However, in March 2008, noting that Action Radio's compliance record was otherwise clean and that, having sold the radio stations in October 2007, the company no longer controlled any licensed broadcast stations and had no assets so the FCC "cancelled" the fine but admonished Action Radio for its "willful and repeated violations" of FCC rules.^[12]

At the time of the transfer to Harney County Radio, LLC the FCC granted a construction permit to increase the power of KORC-FM to 10,000 watts at 274 meters HAAT.

References

External links

• KORC official website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KORC
• Radio-Locator information on KORC
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KORC
• FCC construction permit