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Beasley buys CP for 106.1, to // WRCA

Thank God! We don't need the Chinese Communist Party polluting the airwaves in Boston. With this simulcast, millions more ethnic listeners will be able to hear the best in their country's programming.
 
blackgold said:
Thank God! We don't need the Chinese Communist Party polluting the airwaves in Boston. With this simulcast, millions more ethnic listeners will be able to hear the best in their country's programming.
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Chinese "ethic" is bad

All other "ethnics" = good?

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Can I safely assume WRCA AM & FM will end up as an Urban AC when the deal is done? Maybe Radio One could even throw in the WILD call letters.

You don't spend $600k to simulcast brokered programming on FM.
 
encarta95 said:
Can I safely assume WRCA AM & FM will end up as an Urban AC when the deal is done? Maybe Radio One could even throw in the WILD call letters.

You don't spend $600k to simulcast brokered programming on FM.
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Remember, you don't want to do anything that affects HOT 96.9.....or takes any audience away.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Excellent point!
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Oooh, that is a good catch.

When I think urban AC these days, I guess I'm really thinking about Radio One's "Old School" stations -- which are pretty much all 70's-90's R&B with a few currents mixed in (Maxwell's "Lake by the Ocean" comes to mind). Musically, there wouldn't be overlap with Hot at all. With numbers, it's got to pull from somewhere, and that probably is WROR and WBQT. So if not... does it become Boston's long-awaited Spanish FM? CCM?
 
How much experience do they have with news/talk?
Not that I necessarily think that they should. :rolleyes:
 
MRBIboredop said:
None that I know of, and it is expensive to staff...... I am told Beasley, although a good company to work for, is tight with the dollar when it comes to compensating talent.

I don't see them paying a dozen people when they can pay 4
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They owned one of the first FM News/Talkers in the Country - WWDB 96.5 FM in Philly. They blew it up 16 years ago the day before the Presidential Election. They became 80's formatted 96-5 The Point. Then they evolved to HOT AC. Then they blew it up and went hip-hop first as WILD 96.5 and then after Clear Channel gave them a C&D - WIRED 96.5. They evolved the station and today CBS owns it and it's AMP 96.5
 
Not everything on WRCA is ethnic. Just before midnight I heard a show on called "Boston Country Oldies" hosted by Michael Burns and Stu Fink. (The show is also on WNBP and WCAP). I guess Stu Fink is WRCA's GM too as I heard an announcement to get more information about buying time on WRCA by calling General Manager Stu Fink. Then after "Boston Country Oldies" a Gospel Music show came on.
 
Wimmmex said:
On an out of town secondary AM signal (Waltham)...and a 99 watt FM Translator?
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The COL for WRCA was changed from Waltham to Watertown in 2007 when the transmitter was moved from Waltham to the Oak Hill section of Newton on the site with WXKS (AM) and WUNR.

The power was raised from 5000 watts to 25,000 watts days, 17,000 watts nights, giving it a good signal in Boston's urban neighborhoods and most of the immediate Boston metro within Route 128.
 
Interesting triplex at WUNR/WRCA/WXKS: three stations using the same towers licensed to 3 different cities
 
I remember hearing that WNBP picked up Boston Country Oldies. The show ran for years on WKLB. Then the Bull debuted and accented "hot new country".
Promos said, "now you have a country station of your own and your parents still have theirs". iHeart was trying to paint Greater's station as being for older folks.
Suddenly KLB started saying "Boston's #1 for hot new country"--and the Burns/Fink country oldies show was cancelled! So they tooki their show elsewhere...
and Bittner's WJIB and its other stations launched Sun morning country oldies.
 
correct, not everything is ethnic, for those of you that are in my super secret FB group, you might have seen Crystal Johnson contributing to the discussions, she does " Crystal's Time Machine" on WRCA on a brokered basis. She just renewed her contract for another year.

FYI I asked Bob Bittner in the same discussion how the translator project was going, the said there was a FCC directive that another local translator ( in Milford iirc but don't quote me) had to be operational before he can throw the switch....
 
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