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WMLB 1690 AM Ready to Resume Again?

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1030khz

Today (Thursday, May 7, 2020) WMLB 1690 AM switched from the continuous loop of testing announcements and the same music loop to regular station announcements every other song (no mention of "testing") and a larger variety of music played. This was interspersed with old public service interviews conducted with Jeff Davis (former PD for 1160) with various local individuals that are leading groups in the area such as Georgia State Patrol recruiting and Veterans Affairs Jobs in the Atlanta area among other guests.

What is going on? Is WMLB coming back? Last gasp before being sold? Last gasp before being dismantled?

- Harry S.
Buford, GA
 
1030khz said:
Today (Thursday, May 7, 2020) WMLB 1690 AM switched from the continuous loop of testing announcements and the same music loop to regular station announcements every other song (no mention of "testing") and a larger variety of music played. This was interspersed with old public service interviews conducted with Jeff Davis (former PD for 1160) with various local individuals that are leading groups in the area such as Georgia State Patrol recruiting and Veterans Affairs Jobs in the Atlanta area among other guests.

What is going on? Is WMLB coming back? Last gasp before being sold? Last gasp before being dismantled?

- Harry S.
Buford, GA
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WMLB shares a tower with WAFS 1190 and WNIV 970, in the Cheshire Bridge tower gulch in the Ptree Creek floodplain. So, unless Salem goes along there's nothing besides a studio, STL, and a transmitter. The tower for WGKA 920 and the 4-tower array for WQXI 790 are next door.

Before that, WMLB was piggybacking on one of the 3 WWSZ 1420 (the old WAVO) towers. That's the source of their Avondale Estates city of license.
 
jabba17 said:
WMLB shares a tower with WAFS 1190 and WNIV 970, in the Cheshire Bridge tower gulch in the Ptree Creek floodplain. So, unless Salem goes along there's nothing besides a studio, STL, and a transmitter. The tower for WGKA 920 and the 4-tower array for WQXI 790 are next door.

Before that, WMLB was piggybacking on one of the 3 WWSZ 1420 (the old WAVO) towers. That's the source of their Avondale Estates city of license.
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True but between their current triplexing on the WAFS/WNIV tower and WWSZ duplex, WMLB did have a standalone tower down the street on Cheshire Bridge Rd off of Liddell Drive at the end of the Lindridge-Martin Manor dead end. The WMLB tower and shack was where now stands a large tank of some sorts. You can still see the tower in the old 2007 version of Google street view.

- Harry S.
Buford, GA
 
1030khz said:
BTW, the 'Resumption of Operations' letter for WMLB has appeared on the FCC website under the Correspondence folder...

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/corrp_list.pl?Facility_id=87118

It is dated May 4, 2020.

WMLB is back for now according to the FCC. Though when I checked this morning (Friday, May 8, 2020), WMLB was just broadcasting white noise at full power. Let's see how long this will last.

- Harry S.
Buford, GA
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Throw it on 102.1...
 
WMLB lic was up 04-04-2020

1030khz said:
Today (Thursday, May 7, 2020) WMLB 1690 AM switched from the continuous loop of testing announcements and the same music loop to regular station announcements every other song (no mention of "testing") and a larger variety of music played. This was interspersed with old public service interviews conducted with Jeff Davis (former PD for 1160) with various local individuals that are leading groups in the area such as Georgia State Patrol recruiting and Veterans Affairs Jobs in the Atlanta area among other guests.

What is going on? Is WMLB coming back? Last gasp before being sold? Last gasp before being dismantled?

- Harry S.
Buford, GA
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so they may be looking for a buyer !
 
1030khz said:
Today (Thursday, May 7, 2020) WMLB 1690 AM switched from the continuous loop of testing announcements and the same music loop to regular station announcements every other song (no mention of "testing") and a larger variety of music played. This was interspersed with old public service interviews conducted with Jeff Davis (former PD for 1160) with various local individuals that are leading groups in the area such as Georgia State Patrol recruiting and Veterans Affairs Jobs in the Atlanta area among other guests.

What is going on? Is WMLB coming back? Last gasp before being sold? Last gasp before being dismantled?

- Harry S.
Buford, GA
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I discovered them on the air today (and they're still on in the evening) playing the old interviews and oldies music with their periodic station IDs.
 
crazerphp said:
I discovered them on the air today (and they're still on in the evening) playing the old interviews and oldies music with their periodic station IDs.
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I just spoke with Jeff Davis. He said that the station is just on for testing, and they'll be on for a couple more weeks, and that's it. Sorry to hear that.
 
WMLB requested silent

WMLB 1620 10 Kw day 5 Kw nights has requested being silent again while they seek a buyer for the station,source FCC.gov.Any one want an AM broadcasting station?
 
alleo said:
WMLB 1620 10 Kw day 5 Kw nights has requested being silent again while they seek a buyer for the station,source FCC.gov.Any one want an AM broadcasting station?
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1690, 10kw 1kw night

you have horrible typing (ive seen your other posts) bad spelling, horrible grammar, run on sentences and you cant even get easy facts correct and youre a broadcast engineer? SCARY
 
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Anyone want to:

To buy an AM radio station? I would but I don't have were near the money they would be asking
 
alleo said:
To buy an AM radio station? I would but lack the money
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dude, youre barking up the wrong tree in the wrong place with that question... noone here has the money, but many have good ideas how to waste other peoples money
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
dude, youre barking up the wrong tree in the wrong place with that question... noone here has the money, but many have good ideas how to waste other peoples money
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And anyone who might have the money is not going to buy a radio station today. We don't know how the recovery will be for radio after the virus has a cure. Some folks I have spoken with are fearful that some advertisers will never return because, in general, most radio stations have done so little during this problem time.

A couple of times I tire-kicked some stations here in the Palm Springs market as well as some in AZ. But even before the recent events, I had a fear that advertisers were going to buy radio less and less. I was, though, about to go into a partnership for a station in Bolivia when the Coronavirus hit and now I have no idea if that will even progress...
 
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WMLB is airing a 24/7 Oldies format. No word if Joe Weber sold the station. They do station IDs nowhere near :00.

The product is decent and the 10kw signal better than I remember.

Anybody know who's paying the bills?
 
It was back then the first radio station on the am band past 1600 Khz,I hope it will go on.And that is an accomplishment to hybrid three am station on one tower.In the Google earth pic you can see some tower section stacked on the ground near the tower of WMLB am. I'd guess that was the downed tower of past WGKAs.and ?WKLS am.
 
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