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On small AM stations I've heard of a priest or minister doing a religious program on weekends, and then afterwards acting as a normal DJ on the station, playing secular pop music.
And when 1430 WNSW in Newark, NJ had an Adult Standards music format from 1999 to 2001, they had Jewish programming in the evenings. Today they are a full-time Catholic station, carrying "Relevant Radio".
And when 1430 WNSW in Newark, NJ had an Adult Standards music format from 1999 to 2001, they had Jewish programming in the evenings. Today they are a full-time Catholic station, carrying "Relevant Radio".
And that was when the station was a major Top 40 player with jocks like Joe Finan and Specs Howard.
We had that at my first station. Guy who was once a full-time employee left radio full-time and also started a ministry that had him doing a combo of Christian music, preaching, prayer and whatever else. It ran 9-10:35 at which time he ran the board for ABC's "Issues and Answers" and an hour of the regular A/C format
WERE's founding owner (and former Cleveland mayor) Ray T. Miller was a practicing Catholic, which is most likely how it wound up on the station.
Now WERE airs some brokered religion shows and the syndicated Rev. Al Sharpton, which is repeated too often every day.
That is true. Mr. Miller live down the block from me on Wellington in Cleveland Heights, and occasionally I subbed for a friend who delivered the Plain Dealer and several times I met him when doing collections.
On one occasion, I mentioned that I part-timed at WCUY and WJMO, but he did not seem interested in making conversation with a 13-year-old. Of course, by then WERE was being slaughtered by WHK so he had more on his mind than the brat who threw his paper into the shrubs sometimes.
To be fair, he did own WLEC in Sandusky and KFAC in Los Angeles and tried to get a construction permit for channel 19 (the second of three failed attempts between 1953 and 1978) so his priorities were likely elsewhere.
Has there been any update on the transmitter site work? Reception quality is still pretty much about the same as it's been.
Not a peep in the recently published and delivered newsletter.
Maybe the best update plan would be to turn in the license.
So many Cleveland AM stations don't even cover Cuyahoga County. If they are not allowed to increase their power, then they should probably shut down and sell their property.
Remember, nearly all the significant stations in Cleveland (850, 1100, 1220, 1260, 1300, 1420, 1490) were licensed, if not in the 30's, in the late 40's to very early 50s, when the urban area did not extend beyond University Heights to the East and Garfield Heights to the South and Rocky River to the West.
1490 only served the Eastern part of Cleveland and the Heights, as it was originally just 250 watts.
None of the stations can improve beyond current values. The last one to upgrade significantly was 850, and still it is restricted at night to the East (Boston and others) and severely to the West (Denver).
Why? The station covers the city of licence just fine. It could be made to sound a little better and louder, though, compared to the station just to the right of it on the dial (WJMO 1300).
It's still better than 50 killerwatt WHKW 1220, which I find perplexing.
Now WERE 1490 is 800 day and 1,000 night. Covers everything from the east side and all the way down into Independence and Parma. I'm surprised at how much that thing blasts.
Unfortunately, the city of license is only about 1/3 the size it was in the 1950s.
1220 is a waste of watts IMO. I wish Salem would sell it.
A shame that the legendary WERE call letters have been moved to a station with such s puny signal.
But 1260 still covers a whole lot of the suburbs that former Clevelanders moved out to. That still seems like a lot of people,
I dunno....
Maybe the best update plan would be to turn in the license.
I respectfully disagree. There are some good programs aired by EWTN radio and the Ave Maria Radio Network as heard over most EWTN radio stations. The best, for me, is the afternoon drive show "Kresta In The Afternoon", (M-F 4pm - 6pm) hosted by Al Kresta. He talks about Religious items, but also delves into current event topics. Listeners get a different perspective on topics that you just don't hear anywhere else. By having what stations they have, they are trying to build something that can get bigger. Some months ago, on "Catholic Answers Live!" (M-F 6pm - 8pm) one of the hosts who answers listeners questions admitted that Catholic Radio is well behind Protestant's use of the medium. They want to work their way to a more powerful (as in outreach and radio watts-power). So, signing off, selling or turning in licenses is not in the cards.
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