Whod / wbmh / wrjx sta?

[rfburns]

Can anyone in the Jackson / Grove Hill area confirm that WHOD / WBMH / WRJX are off the air? I see that the owner filed an STA to take all 3 stations silent recently.

RFB

 

[tomservo]

They are off the air due to financial reasons, best I can gather.

 

[Voicetrack of Reason]

This trio of stations were purchased not long ago with a small down payment and a 400K+ promissory note.

 

[FreeAlabamaMedia]

This trio of stations were purchased not long ago with a small down payment and a 400K+ promissory note.

IIRC these stations have been listed as a package on one or two broadcast brokerage websites (described as 'suburban Mobile market') for years with a $1 million asking price. So for years, in my head : All I gotta come up with is a cool million and I'm a local media mogul!

This Kyser group, presumably experienced with radio and with some real knowledge of the business gained outside of messageboards...it procured capital and a deal to own them all for half a million and is having problems. I now know I'd have never stood a chance LOL

 

[tomservo]

Those stations are about as "suburban Mobile market" as they are "suburban Beruit market".

 

[FreeAlabamaMedia]

Those stations are about as "suburban Mobile market" as they are "suburban Beruit market".

LOL. I think this is before translator sales really popped off, so the potential of moving stations into a bigger market was still the thing (though they smartly never hinted of any such scenario in any broker description I remember seeing).

 

[Groove1670]

A move to Mobile would of been impossible. We tried to upgrade WCSN in the 90's and there is no space available. Possibly a class downgrade on 94.5 might work. but unlikely.

 

[Poledo]

Ya think some evil engineering genius could draw up a plan to move WBMH(106.1), WBZR(105.9), WKNU106.3), WNSP(105.5), WCSY(105.7) & WRRX(106.1) around the dial with a goal of making one of them a C2 for Mobile or Pensacola or a C1 dual market signal?

And there has to be a way to move WHOD south as a class A, increasing its potential audience while significantly decreasing their signal footprint. Maybe even move it to one of those harmonic frequencies?

 

[Groove1670]

Ya think some evil engineering genius could draw up a plan to move WBMH(106.1), WBZR(105.9), WKNU106.3), WNSP(105.5), WCSY(105.7) & WRRX(106.1) around the dial with a goal of making one of them a C2 for Mobile or Pensacola or a C1 dual market signal?

And there has to be a way to move WHOD south as a class A, increasing its potential audience while significantly decreasing their signal footprint. Maybe even move it to one of those harmonic frequencies?

Not going to happen. The expense and logistics is impossible. The dial is cluttered. WHOD will always be a big signal broadcasting to deer, horses, and small human population.

 

[rfburns]

Well... now we know. Owner filed Chapter 7.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...ext=25&appn=101773673&formid=316&fac_num=8605

RFB

 

[FreeAlabamaMedia]

Mighty strange getting hearing occasionally listenable blurbs of sports talk from WJOX 94.5 Birmingham this far down south.

I'm surprised there hasn't been any sort of arrangement to at least WBMH 106.1 on the air for local Jackson and Grove Hill businesses--though I suppose when you're chapter 7 broke, you aren't trying to pay for much of anything you don't have to. This is the longest I figure 94.5 & 106.1 has ever been down, assuming storm damage or major technical problems.

 

[tomservo]

I've been listening here and there hoping to hear WJOX but no dice so far. I remember years and years ago hearing WQEN clearly in the Walmart parking lot in Foley, overnight when they replayed Rick & Bubba (before they got all high and mighty and moved to the big city!)

So far all I've heard on 94.5 is WFLF out of Panama City.