From: roberts@triton.unm.edu (Robert Smathers)
Subject: My Albuquerque paper has a writeup about KGAY -- summary follows.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 08:21:16 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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 Rick Nathanson, the Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal's media
 writer, wrote up a column about KGAY and I thought I would, in my
 own words, sum up what was in that column.
 
 It is from the Wednesday January 6, 1992 edition of the
 Albuquerque Journal and headlined "Colorado Site of First
 Gay-Lesbian Radio Station".
 
 From Denver, Colorado comes a 24 hour, satellite radio station
 that is owned and operated by gays, lesbians, and bisexuals
 called KGAY.
 
 It can be received with a C-band satellite system (and I'll post
 the locations at the end of this post).
 
 KGAY is available to nearly 4 million home dish owners in the
 Continental U.S., Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, Canada and the
 Carribean.
 
 KGAY is trying to get their programming played on AM radio
 stations and on cable systems.
 
 According to Dan Radcliff, program director at KGAY, he said the
 response has been positive since the November 28 launch of the
 station.  They have gotten good press from the major press in the
 U.S. as well as from radio networks in Australia, Germany, and
 Japan.
 
 KGAY began broadcasting shortly after Colorado voters approved a
 state constitutional amendment that denied gays and lesbians
 civil rights protection.
 
 Clay Henderson, the President and General Manager of KGAY,
 dreamed up the idea for this station when he was house-sitting in
 a remote island in Washington State.  He was only able to get
 entertainment by a satellite dish.  He discovered satellite radio
 and decided to put together a network to be distributed by
 satellite radio.
 
 Henderson had previously been involved in profit and non-profit
 gay and lesbian radio broadcasting.
 
 Henderson moved to Colorado because he knew it was the business
 center of the international cable television industry and he knew
 that would allow KGAY to be closer to sites for signal
 distribution.
 
 (this following paragraph is taken word for word what Nathanson
 wrote):
 
 Of the 1,200 phone calls received at the station, a small
 percentage was negative, he acknowledged.  "It was pretty
 juvenile stuff, like people asking, `Hey! is this K-Fag?'  None
 of the calls was life-threatening, but some were meaner than
 others."
 
 (back to my own words summary)
 
 Radcliff says the network is two years ahead of schedule as far
 as signing up cable systems and AM radio stations.  The first AM
 radio station affiliate was KXRE-AM in Colorado Springs.
 
 Locations for KGAY on Satellite Radio:
 
 KGAY can be heard on satellite radio in two places... Galaxy 5/6
 (scrambled CNN's location) on the audio subcarriers 6.30 and 6.48
 MHz and on Galaxy 6/17 on audio subcarrier 8.30.
 
 Robert

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