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Sad that a legacy signal will (likely) be powered down on a single tower elsewhere. Emmis has one year to figure it out, correct?
 
I saw the story this morning about Jake Query co-hosting mornings on The Fan and it reminded me about 1070.

It's been now three full months since the AM went off the air. There hasn't been any filings made or plans announced for 1070's future. By law, a license is canceled if it is off the air for 12 consecutive months.

Emmis had been talking for quite a long time about selling that land prior to 1070 being turned off. If there was an actual plan, wouldn't we have heard something about it by now?

Diplexing one AM with another AM has a lead time for equipment. While I'm sure they can throw together a long wire, save-the-license-STA at the last minute, that also doesn't really seem like Emmis' style.
 
Ryan Williams said:
I saw the story this morning about Jake Query co-hosting mornings on The Fan and it reminded me about 1070.

It's been now three full months since the AM went off the air. There hasn't been any filings made or plans announced for 1070's future. By law, a license is canceled if it is off the air for 12 consecutive months.

Emmis had been talking for quite a long time about selling that land prior to 1070 being turned off. If there was an actual plan, wouldn't we have heard something about it by now?

Diplexing one AM with another AM has a lead time for equipment. While I'm sure they can throw together a long wire, save-the-license-STA at the last minute, that also doesn't really seem like Emmis' style.
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The property has been razed (except for the transmitter building), and the developers are closing in on it.

Emmis has made it clear that the translators are the main priority, not the AM. Toward the end, 1070 was off the marketing. The only time 1070 was mentioned was for the ID.

Sorry to say, I think 1070 is gone. I hope I am wrong, we will see.
 
Ryan Williams said:
I saw the story this morning about Jake Query co-hosting mornings on The Fan and it reminded me about 1070.

It's been now three full months since the AM went off the air. There hasn't been any filings made or plans announced for 1070's future. By law, a license is canceled if it is off the air for 12 consecutive months.

Emmis had been talking for quite a long time about selling that land prior to 1070 being turned off. If there was an actual plan, wouldn't we have heard something about it by now?

Diplexing one AM with another AM has a lead time for equipment. While I'm sure they can throw together a long wire, save-the-license-STA at the last minute, that also doesn't really seem like Emmis' style.
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Dismantling the site began the very next morning. No time was wasted at all.
 
ThePowerCow said:
The loss of the AM didn't seem to do any damage to the ratings.
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Right?! 12+ ratings are back above 5 since September, and not far from the high water mark set in April (5.9).

Seems like a fairly ominous indicator for the future of AM radio that you can move a 50kw AM format to an FM HD2 and a couple of 250w translators and basically hold steady in the ratings.
 
I'm pretty sure "The Fan" is the highest ranked HD sub-channel/translator station in the country.

I wonder what the breakdown of 107.5 and 93.5 are. You have to imagine 107.5 is carrying most of the water.

Also makes me wonder how much better The Fan could be doing if it was on say a signal like 97.1... or even 100.9.
 
A better signal probably wouldn't help that much. A 5 share makes WIBC-HD2 one of the highest rated sports radio stations in the country. It's well behind The Sports Hub in Boston, and roughly tied with WIP-FM in Philly.

One thing that makes Indy unique is lack of competition. The only local sports talk in the market is on WIBC-HD2, and of course their former competition (1260) now has a 4 hour break in the afternoon for right-wing talk.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
One thing that makes Indy unique is lack of competition. The only local sports talk in the market is on WIBC-HD2, and of course their former competition (1260) now has a 4 hour break in the afternoon for right-wing talk.
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That's a good point. Now that Rush is gone, they really should stop breaking the format to clear Clay and Buck.

I do disagree about there not being substantial upside in upgrading The Fan to a better signal though. I mean it is an eight county market and the two translators combined cover part of four counties with a 60 dBu signal. The usable signal is more like 50-60% of Marion and a smaller portion of Hamilton, Boone, and Hendricks.
 
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Ryan Williams said:
I do disagree about there not being substantial upside in upgrading The Fan to a better signal though. I mean it is an eight county market and the two translators combined cover part of four counties with a 60 dBu signal. The usable signal is more like 50-60% of Marion and a smaller portion of Hamilton, Boone, and Hendricks.
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How much money is outside the northern suburbs of Indy, where 1070 never had much of a signal at night? Is the north side still where the money is?

I doubt, based on my experience growing up in Bloomington, that Emmis really cares about anything south of I-70 (major cities being Bloomington and Columbus) even today. Maybe they can get 93.1-HD2, but that would be about it.
 
KeithE4 said:
How much money is outside the northern suburbs of Indy, where 1070 never had much of a signal at night? Is the north side still where the money is?

I doubt, based on my experience growing up in Bloomington, that Emmis really cares about anything south of I-70 (major cities being Bloomington and Columbus) even today. Maybe they can get 93.1-HD2, but that would be about it.
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There’s still online
 
Neither Bloomington nor Columbus is part of the Indy market. I've never tried, but I would not imagine WIBC-HD2 is listenable down that far out.

The 107.5 translator has decent coverage of the wealthy northern suburbs of Carmel, Fishers, Brownsburg, etc. Neither translator does much in the southern suburbs like Greenwood and Franklin.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Neither Bloomington nor Columbus is part of the Indy market. I've never tried, but I would not imagine WIBC-HD2 is listenable down that far out.
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That's right, but Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, and Hancock Counties are in the market and neither translator has any meaningful coverage in any of them. None are super populous, but between them there is probably 350,000 people that have no meaningful OTA signal to The Fan other than 93.1 HD-2.

There is probably another couple hundred thousand people in southern Marion who also don't have a good signal plus those in the far east and northern Hamilton, etc.

Anyway... there is substantial upside to The Fan being on a full power signal even if the ratings from the translators are already very impressive right now.
 
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