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Bloomberg 1200 format change soon

Trashing listeners of conservative talk radio is of course fair game... If he really was talking about 1430, I'm sure the protesters would already be in front of his house!

1430 is now "Rumba 1430" with a spanish music format of some kind. I won't dare try to describe what that format is, as I know it will be wrong.
 
Poor Rush Limbaugh. He was getting $50 million a year for 8 years to be on 590 stations.His new contract is said to be for much lower than that.He must be struggling to make ends meet, that college dropout.

CNNMoney, Aug of 2016:
"On his radio show Tuesday afternoon, Limbaugh revealed the length of the deal: "Four more years." But there's no word on the value of the contract. That's a big change from 2008, when Limbaugh signed an eight-year deal worth about $400 million -- huge dollar figures that were trumpeted at the time."
 
johnster said:
They can't simulcast because it's illegal. If you listened carefully you would have noticed Bloomberg wasn't either.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/at...C-92-361A1.pdf

D. Simulcasting
59. Apparent uncertainty emerges from some partles'
pleadings regarding our rules governing the simulcasting
of programming as a result of the increased ownership
permitted within a market under Our new local ownership
limits. We will take this opportunity to clarify our
simulcasting rules. Simulcasting remains unlimited for stations
in different services. For stations in the same service
whose principal community contours overlap such that
the overlap area constitutes more than 50 percent of either
station's principal community contour area. simulcasting
may not exceed 25 percent of either station's daily broadcast
time. These rules apply both to stations commonly
owned and to those separately owned but time brokered.
Our rules will be clarified where necessary.
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How's that again???
 
iHR: Execs just got bonuses.

iHeartRestructuring. iHeartBankruptcy.

Yeah the switch yesterday was at 9 as I guess they wanted to debut with poli. talk not sports talk (even if mixed with other topics)
 
jlehmann said:
1430 is now "Rumba 1430" with a spanish music format of some kind. I won't dare try to describe what that format is, as I know it will be wrong.
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Real simple. The format is Spanish Language CHR, East Coast flavor. Top 40. Big songs, a few recurrents and some power gold.
 
jlehmann said:
I think he’s completely the opposite of what you interpreted. WXKS is 1200, so I think he’s saying the IQ drop was going from Bloomberg to conservative talk...
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My bad. I can't get used to WXKS being on 1200 and WKOK being on that dreadful 1430 facility.
 
nowradioguy said:
How's that again???
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Stations on the same band (AMs or FMs) can't suimulcast more than 25% of the time if their signals have significant overlap in the primary service areas of each other. If two AMs or two FMs simulcast, but they cover very separate areas of a market, even if there is some fringe overlap, they are legal.
 
Talk 1200 is replaying the news from Wednesday from 1430 - heard the news earlier and just heard it again....it's priceless because at the end of the news the newsreader says his name and then 1430.......Reed Martin....for 1430....I guess 1200 doesn't have a local newsreader yet so they will continue replaying the news from February, I wonder how long this will go on.
 
When I ran that "dreadful" facility 20 years ago, we consistently had a 2.5 rating all be very 35+, the station had good billings not mention helping Kiss 108 bring their CPP down when the AM was bonused in. We carried UMASS sports and BC Hockey. They were very few infomercials and the audience was very loyal.
 
He just did it again seconds ago..same newscast? Mentioned something about Sox playing Pirates and that was on Wed
("First news at:59" Reed Martin..now into Fox TOH cast)
Boston's Classic News!
 
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>>two AMs or two FMs simulcast, but they cover very separate areas of a market, even if there is some fringe overlap, they are legal.

Was wondering about WSHA and WSHK,one is 102.1Hampton NH and the other on 105.3 in Kittery ME, not too far apary
 
Talk 1200 weather forecast at noontime today.....Gorgeous day today, 58 degrees.......not sure what planet this is happening on but I can tell you it most definitely isn't happening in Massachusetts here on planet Earth. :) :) :)
 
Heard same thing then I switched to sister station on 1030 which has today's news, weather, and traffic.
#ExcellenceInBankruptcy
 
john garrett said:
When I ran that "dreadful" facility 20 years ago, we consistently had a 2.5 rating
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Remember that the last 20 years has seen an exponential growth in man made interference. Things that were not yet invented (LED bulbs) and things that have multiplied many times over (wall warts and CPUs) all decrease the usable coverage of an AM station.

Back in the 1990's, a signal of less than 5 mV/m would be usable in most instances... even 2 mV/m might have been usable. Today, even the ITU has said that a minimum of 10 mV/m is needed for a station to be listenable in urban areas with a population of 20,000 or more.

Today, about 7 years after the ITU issued that finding, I believe we are approaching the point where 15 mV/m may be needed. For example, I know of many locations in LA where KFI has a 25 mV/m signal and is unlistenable due to noise. One of them was my home, where the solar equipment, the LED bulbs and the computers made it impossible to listen to any AM indoors.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Remember that the last 20 years has seen an exponential growth in man made interference. Things that were not yet invented (LED bulbs) and things that have multiplied many times over (wall warts and CPUs) all decrease the usable coverage of an AM station.
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The assisted living facility my father lives a few miles west of Boston in has no AM reception inside whatsoever. Just electronic noise on AM. It even covers up all the 50,000 watt Boston AM boomers, and it's in the prime of their directional patterns, not their null directions. The room has windows, but that doesn't help. I don't know if it's the lighting, the Comcast router box they use for his phone and cable TV (he has no computer), or other factors within the building, but no AM at all. FM reception is OK, so it's not a problem, if he occasionally listens to the radio it's to classical music on FM.
 
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