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Site of the Week 11/25/2022: Las Vegas, Away From the NAB Show

Scott Fybush by Scott Fybush
November 25, 2022
in Free Content, Nevada, Tower Site of the Week
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Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH

Outside iHeart
Outside iHeart

When we made it back to the NAB Show in April for the first time in three years, we didn’t actually expect to see many broadcast facilities around Las Vegas – the local broadcast engineers always get very busy at NAB time, and some buildings still aren’t fully open to visitors.

But once we’re in town, we run in to people we know, and next thing you know we’re headed to downtown Las Vegas to see a new facility that opened during the pandemic.

Around the country, iHeart has been downsizing many of its studio and office buildings as leases expire, and so it went here: instead of the anonymous office park just west of the 15 freeway where its stations were located, the company signed a 15-year deal for a second-floor space overlooking the Fremont Street entertainment district downtown.

There used to be a country bar here, which might explain the escalators leading up and down from the front door out to the pedestrian streetside entrance. Upstairs, it’s very similar to other new iHeart facilities: a big open office area with a few private conference rooms and offices off to one side, and a performance space off to the other side.

iHeart escalator
iHeart escalator
iHeart offices
iHeart offices

The performance space has a nice view out to Fremont Street, plus an outdoor balcony with a great view looking west to the covered Fremont Street Experience, zipline and all.

(Oddly, there is as yet almost no outdoor signage promoting iHeart’s presence here; you’d think they’d want more visibility for the company and its local brands.)

iHeart performance space
iHeart performance space
iHeart performance space
iHeart performance space

Behind the performance space, we find the typical iHeart studio configuration these days: a row of small voicetracking rooms and a few larger Wheatstone-equipped studios, none of them permanently locked to any one station.

Looking out on Fremont
Looking out on Fremont
iHeart studio hallway
iHeart studio hallway

Instead, the local cluster – classic rock “Mountain” KYMT (93.1), country “Bull” KWNR (95.5), soft AC “Sunny” KSNE (106.5) and hip-hop “Real 103.9” (KYMT-HD2) – shares use of the studios, which can be configured for any station with a press of a button.

KYMT studio
KYMT studio
KSNE studio
KYMT studio

Behind the studios, there’s a nice, tidy rack room – and a door that leads right out to the parking garage off Fremont.

Where to next? A more traditional studio facility a few miles to the south. We’ve visited Nevada Public Radio in the past, but we wanted to catch up on some studio renovations in the building on the campus of the College of Southern Nevada.

iHeart rack room
iHeart rack room
KNPR performance studio
KNPR performance studio

The bright paint that used to decorate the walls here is all gone, replaced by colorful murals that cleverly mix vintage Vegas scenes with branding for news-talk KNPR (88.9) and its classical sister station KCNV (89.7).

KNPR talk control
KNPR talk control

The studios themselves have been completely gutted and rebuilt with new furniture and Axia consoles.

At one corner, the daily “State of Nevada” talk show has its own studio-control room complex, with more Vegas murals and a spacious control room boasting lots of space for producers and engineers to do their work.

KNPR talk studio
KNPR talk studio

Across the hall in the core of the building, studio walls have been moved around, replacing what had been a large KCNV studio with a new control room-studio complex that’s used for hosting Morning Edition and All Things Considered and, on this April day, the station’s pledge drive.

KNPR control room
KNPR control room

A large space at the opposite corner from the talk studio is still a combination performance space/conference room, but it too has been renovated with murals and new paint and flooring.

Vegas being Vegas, there’s always more to see. When we get back next spring for NAB, we’ll catch you up on some AMs on the move as land prices have outpaced the value of the stations that sit on them.

SPRING IS HERE…

And if you don’t have your Tower Site Calendar, now’s the time!

If you’ve been waiting for the price to come down, it’s now 30 percent off!

This year’s cover is a beauty — the 100,000-watt transmitter of the Voice Of America in Marathon, right in the heart of the Florida Keys. Both the towers and the landscape are gorgeous.

And did you see? Tower Site of the Week is back, featuring this VOA site as it faces an uncertain future. 

Other months feature some of our favorite images from years past, including some Canadian stations and several stations celebrating their centennials (buy the calendar to find out which ones!).

We still have a few of our own calendars left – as well as a handful of Radio Historian Calendars – and we are still shipping regularly.

The proceeds from the calendar help sustain the reporting that we do on the broadcast industry here at Fybush Media, so your purchases matter a lot to us here – and if that matters to you, now’s the time to show that support with an order of the Tower Site Calendar. (And we have the Broadcast Historian’s Calendar for 2025, too. Why not order both?) 

Visit the Fybush Media Store and place your order now for the new calendar, get a great discount on previous calendars, and check out our selection of books and videos, too! 

 

And don’t miss a big batch of Las Vegas IDs next Wednesday, over at our sister site, TopHour.com!

Next week: Lake Ontario’s north shore

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