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WILD sold

raccoonradio said:
Current owner had paid $888,000 for the station four years ago
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and they assumed a very large bill due to Vertical Bridge for the diplex on the tower behind the old KISS108 studio next to Wellington Station.

IIRC it was several million dollars past due.

With 1430 moving onto the 590 tower at Wellington Circle, and 1090 moving off the stick too, I bet that tower does not last long before it comes down.
 
Now they have to find a tower to use - maybe one of Langer's silent stations? WILD doesn't exactly sound "pious" - so the call letters may go away after 60+ years.
 
650 is in Ashland and 1240 on the Cape but WZBR 1460 has a stick just south of Readville/Hyde Park.Possible with a different power?
By the way radio-locator at least gives an address of 100 Mt Wayte Ave Framingham for WSRO 650.
Pretty sure that was the address for what was
then WKOX 1200...back in the days that they had Talking Trivia I went there (had night shift hours) when show ended at 6 am and Morgan, etc went with us to a place for breakfast, the Fox Trot on Framingham/Natick line
 
channel99 said:
Now they have to find a tower to use - maybe one of Langer's silent stations? WILD doesn't exactly sound "pious" - so the call letters may go away after 60+ years.
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Unless they are going to be able to take the current equipment including the combiner from the current tower, I think you are going to find doing a di-plex is going to be prohibitively expensive

Bittner's 740 tower perhaps?

WROL's 950 tower in Saugus?


WNTN 1550 over near the Fresh Pond Rotary?
 
MRBIboredop said:
Unless they are going to be able to take the current equipment including the combiner from the current tower, I think you are going to find doing a di-plex is going to be prohibitively expensive

Bittner's 740 tower perhaps?

WROL's 950 tower in Saugus?


WNTN 1550 over near the Fresh Pond Rotary?
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they get transmission equipment, minus the towers and combining equipment(transmitter, audio processor, barix box, XDS Recv'r, Broadcast tools switcher, EAS Box, 2 radios), a phone and some tools.. thats it. no studio equipment
 
MRBIboredop said:
Unless they are going to be able to take the current equipment including the combiner from the current tower, I think you are going to find doing a di-plex is going to be prohibitively expensive

Bittner's 740 tower perhaps?

WROL's 950 tower in Saugus?

WNTN 1550 over near the Fresh Pond Rotary?
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WNTN's tower is within Bittner's WJIB 740 tower, so they're essentially the same site.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Unless they are going to be able to take the current equipment including the combiner from the current tower, I think you are going to find doing a di-plex is going to be prohibitively expensive
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A combiner is designed for a specific tower wavelength and for the specific frequency of the other station sharing the tower. While a few components of the old combiner might be usable, they are going to have to redesign and rebuild the combiner.... something that can cost as much as a transmitter for just a single tower system.
 
raccoonradio said:
650 is in Ashland and 1240 on the Cape but WZBR 1460 has a stick just south of Readville/Hyde Park.Possible with a different power?
By the way radio-locator at least gives an address of 100 Mt Wayte Ave Framingham for WSRO 650.
Pretty sure that was the address for what was
then WKOX 1200...back in the days that they had Talking Trivia I went there (had night shift hours) when show ended at 6 am and Morgan, etc went with us to a place for breakfast, the Fox Trot on Framingham/Natick line
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Maybe Langer would allow temporary use of the 1460 tower exclusively if it could be made to work at 1090. November 3 isn't far away.

Morgan ran Talking Trivia for a while from the old WUNR 1600 shack at the end of Saw Mill Brook Pkwy in Newton before the rebuild that added 1200 and 1330. He offered a prize a few times to any listener who could find him...
 
channel99 said:
Maybe Langer would allow temporary use of the 1460 tower exclusively if it could be made to work at 1090. November 3 isn't far away.

Morgan ran Talking Trivia for a while from the old WUNR 1600 shack at the end of Saw Mill Brook Pkwy in Newton before the rebuild that added 1200 and 1330. He offered a prize a few times to any listener who could find him...
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you could get WILD back on in a weekend with a 10 watt highway radio station type transmitter and a whip antenna.. file an sta, say you lost your site.. broadcast ipod music for 3 days, turn it back off and youre good
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
you could get WILD back on in a weekend with a 10 watt highway radio station type transmitter and a whip antenna.. file an sta, say you lost your site.. broadcast ipod music for 3 days, turn it back off and youre good
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The use of a long-wire antenna strung between two posts or even two trees or a short vertical hung on the side of a building have been easily granted by the FCC. There are many relatively cheap and simple ways to show an interest in preserving a license.

Diplexing can't be done quickly as it requires the custom construction of a combiner than takes quite a while to do, and probably even longer in the current pandemic environment.
 
channel99 said:
Maybe Langer would allow temporary use of the 1460 tower exclusively if it could be made to work at 1090. November 3 isn't far away.
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Langer's WZBR, Dedham (TX just over the line in Hyde Park, Boston) was on 1410, not 1460, which is Ed Perry's WBMS, Brockton.

I don't know whether Langer ever built an actual tower for 1410 WZBR. It was using a whip antenna when it came on when moved to Hyde Park.

But, it did also have a directional 98.1 FM translator in Medford at the Malden line that covered some suburbs north of Boston, however the last I heard it, the stereo audio was completely out of phase, causing major cancellation in mono.
 
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Trying to remember when it was that I joined Morgan, etc, for a post show breakfast. He was on WMRE which went dark in Jan. of 1987. WKOX moved from 1190 to 1200 in 1985. Maybe Morgan was doing his show later in 87
on 1200.I recall driving to Framingham in the wee hours then met him for breakfast. By early 88 I was no longer on the graveyard shift at
work so it was 87 sometime.

I recorded at least part of Morgan's last show on WMRE, on cassette.Bob Katzen did a show on WMRE as did Morgan's sidekick "the Flicker",
also Marcia Masters who was later on WRCA 1330 then passed on, and Paul Benzaquin.

Caller:"So you won't be doing your show anymore?"
Morgan:"It's not just me.The whole station's gone.I'm just here along for the ride."
Caller:"So no more Paul Benzaquin too?"
Morgan:"Yes."
 
DavidEduardo said:
Diplexing can't be done quickly as it requires the custom construction of a combiner than takes quite a while to do, and probably even longer in the current pandemic environment.
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In the Metro Boston area, tower real estate is at a premium, you would NEVER get a new tower site established as the purchase or lease of the land would be multiples of what the license is worth.

That is one of the reasons WXKS AM 1430 was just given away by Ocean State Trust/ The Evil Empire, and he group that got it has a connection to Salem so a move to Salem's 590 tower a mile away is a no brainer

It was what killed WMEX before Ed Perry bought the license for 100k and found a site to diplex from.

WLYN and WESX are on a tower in the middle of what used to be a junk yard, friends of mine bought the junk yard and spent over 3 million dollars to remediate it, you can bet that there will be a condo project on it at some point as that is what they do, build housing. WESX lost their tower location at Endicott College requiring the move.

When I was with WLYN circa 2006, the VP of Engineering came up and was talking with us about building out a new site, I told him there was no place in the area where we would cover our C.O.L. at night that could be purchased for reasonable money, and 14 years later they are still on that tower in Lynn.

The only time I heard of someone filing for a C.P. to move to a newly constructed site, an application that was pulled back within a month, was WROL trying to move from that old TV tower on the Lynn Marsh Rd just south of the RESCO trash incinerator to a spot in back of Kappy's on RT 1 North a couple of miles away. At least a decade has passed since that filing and withdrawing the application, and they are still on a tower that looks like it is one good King's Tide away from falling into the Rumney Marsh.
 
MRBIboredop said:
WLYN and WESX are on a tower in the middle of what used to be a junk yard, friends of mine bought the junk yard and spent over 3 million dollars to remediate it, you can bet that there will be a condo project on it at some point as that is what they do, build housing. WESX lost their tower location at Endicott College requiring the move.
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It was 1570 that lost it's location at Endicott College in Beverly. I believe WESX was in Marblehead.
 
DavidEduardo said:
The use of a long-wire antenna strung between two posts or even two trees or a short vertical hung on the side of a building have been easily granted by the FCC. There are many relatively cheap and simple ways to show an interest in preserving a license.

Diplexing can't be done quickly as it requires the custom construction of a combiner than takes quite a while to do, and probably even longer in the current pandemic environment.
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I know several stations that are on longwire with mutiple STAs for years. With land increasingly expensive and difficult to find (and declines in revenue). The fcc has been more tolerant in allowing them rather than a station losing the permit.

There are also seveal companies that design free standing base antennas that have a small footprint. I haven't do any reseach, but they are out there.
 
MRBIboredop said:
In the Metro Boston area, tower real estate is at a premium, you would NEVER get a new tower site established as the purchase or lease of the land would be multiples of what the license is worth.

That is one of the reasons WXKS AM 1430 was just given away by Ocean State Trust/ The Evil Empire, and the group that got it has a connection to Salem so a move to Salem's 590 tower a mile away is a no brainer.
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I assume 1430 could still run 5kW ND from the 590 site in the daytime, but what will it run for a night signal? I’m guessing that the two-tower 590 directional array won’t be correct for the 1kW directional night pattern that 1430 was running at night from its longtime two towers down the road that it will be moving from. Will it just use one 590 tower and run a very low power ND night signal?
 
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